Recent content by RideTheCrash

I picked up a used bass last week and was a little careless in my quick check. It's not a huge deal but I was curious if a non functioning tone knob would result in the bass sounding like the tone knob was rolled down to zero all the time? I usually keep tone knobs at 10 and it is a short scale...

I only solder every now and then so bear with me -- I've had this old Strat kicking around for years and the volume knob has been awful since I got it (well used at that point). I replaced the pickup selector 4 years ago and managed to not mess it up too much. The knob tended to cut in and out...

I'm trying to replicate the swirling treble tape delay used on the Farfisa on top of the Hammond at the end of Pink Floyd's "Cirrus Minor". I know they would have used a Binson but I've tried a few VST's and I feel like I haven't come close. The song sounds like it's 100% wet, effect only but...

I feel absolutely ridiculous asking this, having played drums for so many years I feel like I should better understand my theory. I'm trying to record some basic Travis picking patterns for A Song For A Winter's Night by Gordon Lightfoot and I'm getting in the habit of using a metronome when I...

I've been out of the game for a while but I recently helped a friend who wanted to set up a simple recording setup. He bought a 2i2 with an AT2020. He is running into Reaper and my (stupid) question is, how do we route a track he has already recorded back to the headphone jack on the 2i2? Or is...

I've had a second hand Fender Kingston acoustic-electric for two years now. I know Fender isn't well regarded for their acoustics but I really like mine. Last night I was playing and I noticed the saddle fell out and hit the floor...and then noticed the strip of the bridge between the sound hole...

I had a Behringer 802a sitting around unused for a while, but I now use it for mic preamps into a power amp for jamming in a basement. It has FX send and returns, but I haven't fiddled with mixers in a long now so my memory is rusty -- I have a Holy Grail reverb pedal I would like to run into...

I think I may have exploded my Epiphone Valve Junior head... I am restoring an old Farfisa Fast 4 organ, so I have it in various pieces (for cleaning purposes) and it's missing some inside brackets to hold up the top part with the voice rocker tabs that also has the power switch. I was using...

I've been using a Delta 1010lt and a large, old soundboard for most of my recordings over the past couple of years. I'm now looking at something more portable as I have a lot less room and time to work with these days. I'm looking at Firepod's and MOTU 2408's and notice they both have firewire...

My wife bought an old Kenwood KA 7300 amp for our stereo after I used a really old late 70s-early 80s silverfaced Hitachi stereo amp for a couple of years that used to be my dad's. It had an issue where one channel would start cutting out so after a while my wife picked this Kenwood up where she...

Hey guys. My wife recently acquired the guitar I learned how to play on (my buddy was selling it off I guess) for super cheap. I think the last time I saw it was 4-5 years ago, but it was in worse shape. Pretty beat up as usual, but the intonation and action were worse than a $2 Wal Mart guitar...

Since moving over to Reaper, what is a good -- free -- high pass VST plugin? I haven't had any luck locating one.

About a year ago or so somebody (possibly from this forum?) had an article on some tracks they were mixing and were going through some example MP3s of before and after stuff. I believe for the bass they cranked a tube amp for overdrive on the bass, but also split the signal to a direct box and...

I just want to absolutely clarify this. That Sandra software tells me: Memory slots: 4 Max. installable gigs of RAM: 4 gig Max. Module Size: 1 gig The motherboard supports DDR and DD2. Two slots are for DDR and two for DDR2. I'm assuming the max. module size means each slot can only handle 1...

My brother has a little Fender Frontman bass amp that he's had for a few years. The design for the input jack was originally soldered onto the PCB and it broke off (poor design) and it was re-wired with a separate wire to the PCB to fix that problem. The nut that held the jack in place was...