Recent content by Adam P

Here is a mix I've been working on to acquaint myself with Logic Studio 8, which I purchased around the time my band started tracking some material in my home project studio. We play a punk-rock inspired 90s-ish alternative sort of music...not too into the uber-compressed and quantized stuff...

The other day I was playing my bass in the room of my house that I eventually would like to make into my "control room" (it is an upstairs bedroom). I was plugged into my SansAmp, which is powered by a wall wart power supply. The outlet it was plugged into is not grounded (my house is older)...

I've decided to sell my Allen & Heath System 8 board, as I've acquired a new console, making the A&H expendable (and my wife wants me to get rid of it as its taking up space). The System 8 is a 24 channel, 8 buss board with mic preamps on all 24 channels. Each channel has a three-band EQ with...

The other day when I was given a rackmount dual fan with no power supply. It has a Middle Atlantic sticker on it, and a bit of research reveals to me that it is a Middle Atlantic part number QFP-2. It had no power cable, however, and the Middle Atlantic part number for the power cable is...

I have a "lunchbox"-style rack unit with several digital delay and digital reverb units mounted in it, except unlike most lunchboxes which provide power to the units, this one is merely a frame, and each unit runs off its own wall wart power supply. I bought the whole thing used and it came...

I have a few pieces of Belden snake cable that I don't need so I'd like to get them off of my hands. I bought them from a studio in Nashville, so they are used, not new, but in good condition. I'm selling them because they're not long enough for me. I have two pieces at 29 feet apiece, two...

I was just looking at Orange's website because I'm going to try to convince my guitarist to check out an Orange 2x12 cabinet instead of another Marshall 4x12, and I noticed that they have some new products that seem like they could be useful in the studio. One is simple: a 1x12 cabinet with a...

My wife and I are on the verge of finishing the purchase of our first house. It has a finished basement that I've already claimed as a music room for my band to rehearse and whatnot, and I'll be using one of the bedrooms on the second floor as a office/computer/mixer room if all goes as...

i recently worked with some guys on a bit of mellower instrumental music. Here's a clip I cut from a longer song (the full track is 7 minutes long and somewhat repetitive, so I slimmed it down). It's about 1:20 in length. Have a listen...thanks! Clip

I am in the process of preparing to start wiring up some of my rack effects to a patchbay. I won the patchbay and a few hundred feet of Mogami 2534 quad cable on eBay, and I'm going to use 40 feet of the cable to make twenty two-foot TRS-TRS cables for connecting my rack gear to the bay, and...

Hey guys, Does anyone know what the piece of equipment you use to measure lengths of cable is called? You know, its got a drum in it that the cable turns as you pull it through, and a counter that reads off the length. I use one in the warehouse I work in, but I can't recall offhand what...

I currently run an Allen & Heath board with an Alesis HD24 recorder. The A&H's buss outs are set for +4 operation, as the HD24 calls for. I'm looking at picking up another recording device, maybe a Fostex R8 or Tascam Syncaset, that I believe operates at -10. What I'm wondering is if there's...

I have a couple of questions regarding this schematic from Jensen Transformers here (.pdf file). First, what is going on with the Black and White wires from the transformer? Second, what purpose does the resistor and capacitor across the secondary side (I think that's what its called?) of the...

I may have at my disposal several Cat5 patchbays. I was wondering if it would be possible to adapt them for audio use, using standard audio cable with Cat5 ends on the cables to make short patch cables. I know the Furman headphone amps use Cat5 cable to carry what I would presume are line...

I know this isn't really recording gear related, but I thought I might ask anyway. I have a JBL PowerBass sub with a 10" speaker (150w I believe) for my modest home theater system. It's worked wonderfully for me since I bought it in 2002, until just a few days ago. The other day it started...