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    Group Buy Preamps ACMP-81, 84

    ACMP-81 $175 + $25 Ship to ConUS including paypal (1 available) ACMP-84 $175 + $25 Ship to ConUS including paypal (2 available) Well, the problem with group buys is my patience expires and I buy a bunch of new stuff while waiting for the group buy stuff to arrive. So now that they've finally...
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    Rattling Handles Marshall 1960B

    I have a Marshall 1960B cabinet that is rattling like crazy on certain resonant frequencies when palm muting. Farview helped me a while back with a tip to put weatherstripping around the edges. This definitely helps the back of the cabinet from vibrating, but the handles have started rattling...
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    Stand for Drum Monitor Mixer

    I'd like to set up a little mixer for the drummer to adjust his monitor mix. Is there a piece of hardware that can attach to a drum or mic stand or has its own independent stand that could hold a small mixer? I'm thinking a little mixer something like this...
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    SM7 Presence Boost - use it?

    A friend of mine picked up an SM7 to record his rock vocals. I dunno, maybe he could be described as Scott Weiland-ish in his range and timbre. He really doesn't have much audio production experience, and may want me to mix some of his music. I don't own an SM7 so I can't really offer him too...
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    Bass guitar DI clipping

    I have a friend whose recording chain for bass is as follows: Ric bass > Sansamp Bass Driver > Presonus Firebox He would like to record a parallel clean direct bass signal together with the effected Sansamp XLR output. The Sansamp has a parallel output that works for this, but it overloads...
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    Solid Guitar for Beginner

    I am giving lessons to a neighbor kid whose parents are ready to buy him his first electric guitar. They'd like me to give a recommendation but I have absolutely no idea about anything in the low end of the market. Any recommendations on a decent inexpensive beginner electric? The only...
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    Cracked? Sorry - dumb question

    I found an offer in the used market for Waves SSL bundle. The seller claims that the software is new from a going out of business sale, but says he has it in PC version only. No Mac. I use PC, but I have no interest in cracked software. Is the 'PC only' comment a sign that it's cracked...
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    VST Delay for Phase Adjustment

    Does anyone know of a simple delay plugin with a small range, say under 50ms, for adjusting a track and listening for phase relationships? Specifically, it would be used for sliding around a room mic track relative to the drum kit close mics to listen for the best phase relationship. The only...
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    Drums dynamic range

    Seems to me that the dynamic range of drums in digital recording is the primary cause of low average loudness for my (rock) music, as opposed to tape where you can just push it and it flattens everything to a degree. I like to keep dynamics to the music, but sometimes drum transients are just...
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    DI Box Thruput

    I want to be able to record a possible keeper amp track together with a DI track in case I choose to reamp later. I have an old passive DI box that does work for this, but the thru signal to the amp is noticably degraded. When I read descriptions of DI boxes, they all claim to deliver a...
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    Results of Ethan's Test Tone Test

    I just ran Ethan's test tones available at realtraps.com. I treated the room pretty heavily with bass traps but I'm not really sure how to interpret the results. I stopped short at 242Hz because the battery in my SPL meter died and I had to continue with a different project so the baseline...
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    Event 20/20s bass light?

    I've been mixing on passive Event 20/20 monitors powered by a Hafler TA1600 power amp in a room that's pretty heavily treated acoustically and my mixes always turn out very bass heavy and muddy. I really feel like I'm mixing blind down below 120 Hz or so. As a result I feel I'm...
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    Dumb trick - Drumagog to trigger kick gate

    I probably didn't invent this idea, but I just thought of it today and found it useful. I have been trying to figure out a good way to trigger the kick drum gate and this works pretty well if you want to use the real kick drum instead of a sample. The idea is simply to trigger a kick sample...
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    Peak limiting on drum transients

    I read an article in the latest Recording magazine wherein the author suggests recording drums to tape to take advantage of tape compression. He then transfers the drums to a DAW and finishes the mix. I'm a much better musician than engineer, but it seems like there is merit in this. I...
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    Earphones, In Ear Monitoring for Casual Listening

    Does anyone have any experience with a product like Shure E2 and E3? I'm looking for a general purpose in-ear earphone for airplane traveling and general use like exercise with an iPod. I definitely do not plan on mixing on them or anything. There's some possibility I could use them for...
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    Buzzing Marshall 1960A cabinet

    I have a Marshall JCM 900 1960A slant cabinet that just started resonating like crazy when I hit certain notes on the low E string. There is a loud sympathetic kind of buzz/tone that is much louder at the back of the cabinet than the front. It can barely be heard from the front of the cabinet...
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    Payment for TV music

    My partner and I currently have a theme song played on a weekly basis on a national cable television network. The network was prompt with their upfront payment, but collecting royalties has been difficult and we don't have representation besides ASCAP and really don't know what we're doing...
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    Guitar Repair in Chicagoland?

    Hope this is the right forum for this: Does anyone have a recommendation on an experienced guitar repair person or shop in Chicagoland? I have some vintage guitars that need some work and for some reason I don't trust the big box outlets. I want an expert. Many thanks.
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    BEWARE - iLok required for Waves Plugs

    I must preface this rant by saying that it is the first time I have ever complained in this form. It's really not in my character. I am completely furious at Waves. I bought the Native Power Pack from Guitar Center, where I was told that no hardware key was required. I realize that you...
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    SVT Bass Rig Recording

    (I apologize if this thread shows up more than once but I waited one hour and it didn't show up, so I resubmitted.]) I need to record an SVT Bass rig with one cabinet with eight 10" speakers and another cabinet with two 15" speakers. The genre is hard rock and the player uses a Rickenbacker...
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