Recent content by Thaddeus

First speaker enclosure in process... solid oak.

Hey, I want an Auratone clone for checking my mixes when they sum to mono but I don't have 250 bucks to spend. I thought I'd pick up a decent midrange biased single speaker and build my own little grotbox. Anybody else done this? What speaker would you recommend for it? Most of the 5" car...

Hi, I have a bunch of analog stuff in my rack that I fool around with my signal, before going in to the Steinberg USB interface. I'm fond of analog gauges as a rule, they tell me trending and state in ways blinky lights don't. Is there anything (cheap) I can pop inline that will give me a...

Hi, I went and got a power conditioner to cut down on any noise that might be generated last year. It has a voltmeter. In summer, it reads 118 to 120 volts, usually 118. Now that it's winter, It's reading 122 or 123. I have a surge arrestor, then the power conditioner, then my gear. Is there...

Hi, My signal chain is constructed as follows: Microphones to Yamaha mixing board that has 48V and pre-amps Thence through dbx compressor/gate Thence through BBE sound enhancer (usually by-passed) Thence through Graphic EQ Thence into DAW (Sonar X3) via a Steinberg USB interface.. At each...

Hi, Right now all my gear is strung together with XLR patch cables. Problem is, I want to put in a patch bay unit, and the affordable ones are 1/4 TPS. Since both are a balanced line, is there a functional difference one can hear? Is one superior to the other, since we are talking cables less...

Here's my little space. I just bought a steel & glass desk at Menard's for 79 bucks today, it's a lot nicer than the dresser everything was stacked on top of before. The knobs on the EQ got all kerfluffled while everything was moving, so ignore them. I know where they belong, just haven't...

Hi, Newbie here. I just picked up an Alesis SR18 and got it pumping stuff into my mixing board. I'm wondering if there's any way to pan different elements of the canned drum lines to try and give an auditory impression of drum placement. E.g., if I assign the left output channel to one mixer...