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  1. Scooter B

    Adding an external speaker out to vintage amp question.

    I have a 1960 Kalamazoo (Gibson) Model One 5 watt tube amp that has some pretty awesome tone and perfect for my home recording volume wise. All 100% class A desong with three tubes....the budget part of this Gibson line is the cabinet is made or particle board. The only weak spot is the...
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    Dean 12 stings?

    Just curious if anyone has tried out one of the Dean semi-hollow body 12 string electrics like the Sarasota or the Bocca? http://www.deanguitars.com/sarasota_12.htm I have not seen any at the local GC to try out. At their price point (under $500) they look nice in the photo's but I would...
  3. Scooter B

    Anyone ever hear of these pickups?

    Anone here ever hear of these pickups? www.Q-tuner.com They get into some metaphysical stuff about sound and psychology. I do believe there is a relationship to chords, rhythms, tones and scales to emotions but not that a specific pickup would be more emotionaly intune than another pickup...
  4. Scooter B

    Looking for used EV 635A's

    Okay I want to know who is running up the prices of these things on e-bay? Please stop. :mad: When I first read about them they were supposed to be very inexpensive used, extremely durable and pleasant for an omni dynamic mic. Prices were described as $20 -$35 used. Being I don't have any...
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    Newbie Question on best option from Roland 5050 to AW16G.

    I did a search on this and found two analogue options but most of the posts were 2002 and 2003 and I have a third digital option here. I am loving alot of the sounds of the 5050 through the headphones but as you know going straight into the 16G does not sound so good. Three options I see for...
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    Anyone using the new ART T8?

    This sounds like it could be usefull for me with signal routing... has anyone tried this product or heard anything. It is an 8 channel single rack space signal dustribution device with eight individual transformers. http://www.musiciansbuy.com/QUIKLOK_T8_KYBD_STAND_.html The part that sounds...
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    Online "Blue Book" prices for used gear.

    Okay I have spent over an hour searching this whole BBS because I found it here once before and bookmarked it...but that was before my hard drive died.... Anyway I know there was at least one site a guy maintained that tracked sale prices of used recording gear and musical instruments from...
  8. Scooter B

    Re Amping - where do you get your distortion?

    While I of course plan to do trials of different ways of doing this I was wondering when reamping all your electric guitars who had a preference for 1. Getting the guitar about as distorted and EQ'd as you want it on the way in and reamping that with a fairly "flat" setting on the amp versus -...
  9. Scooter B

    Taylor's new Neve designed "Expression System"

    Has anyone got to play with one of the new Taylors with the multi transducers and Neve designed preamp on board? I know for most things nothing is going to beat micing a good acoustic guitar in a good room through a good mic preamp but this could have some uses for recording mixed in with the...
  10. Scooter B

    Toslink to Digital RCA yes or no can do?

    Your mission is to help me connect a Roland SRV-3030D with digital RCA connectors to my Yamaha AW16G with Toslink connectors utilizing the digital aux in and out. In searching this forum I found one or two threads saying it can't be done and one or two more saying I just need a fifteen dollar...
  11. Scooter B

    Speaker sources for replacements?

    Besides Parts Express what are some good (price, quality and selection) speaker replacement sources? I have an old pair of Bose Interaudio (gag and 20 years old!) home speakers that I used to use in the garage with an old reciever/CD player that died. The woofer surrounds look a little worse...
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    Unique low frequency mic.

    I am attaching a frequency response graph for a "microphone" that peaks between 300Hz and 700Hz with a rapid drop off after 700Hz. For all intents and purposes it is a microphone but it was not designed for music recording applications. Can you guess what it was designed for? (One hint it is...
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    DierctX 8.1 not detected and Sonar

    I am trying to install a demo version of Sonar 2.0 that came with my AW16G. When installing I got a DirectX 8.1 not detected (and obviously required by Sonar 2.0). So I downloaded DirectX8.1 twice and installed it several times but I still get this message when I try to install the Sonar 2.0...
  14. Scooter B

    Free Software applications

    Disclaimer...I posted this at Studio Forums as well but have not gotten much response so I am going to try here as well. I am not so much a PC recorder at the moment and went with a Yamaha AW16G for my needs, budget and intermittent PC imcompatiblity issues. I do have FL Studio (hoping to...
  15. Scooter B

    What's the story with the reputation points?

    I just noticed this the other day...so what is the story behind the "Reputation Points"? Is this a popularity contest or are points awarded by Moderator's for good knowlegable friendly advice versus subtracted for BS Poser posts and general rude behavior? Just curious if I should be...
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    What ever happened to ADA?

    I was just downloading some manuals of used gear that I have bought and I cannot find anything but a few reviews of ADA gear. Then I realized I have not seen any advertising from them in quite a while... So I'm assuming they are out of business. I do have an old ADA S1000 digital delay -...
  17. Scooter B

    Anyone know what is up with the AW16G site?

    Jeffrey Dinsdale or anyone one else out there know what is up with the AW16G user forum? First my workplace internet filter adds "forums" to to the evil and banned things accessable via internet and for the last two days I can't get the site to come up at home either. I hope they are just down...
  18. Scooter B

    Green Hornet and Blue Bear advice on wiring up my AW16G

    Well I have finished six months of weekend recording desk building and I need to wire up my yet unused Yamaha AW16G (switching from 4-track cassette). I still get a little confused on the applications of normaled, 1/2 normaled and parallel patch bays. I primarily record in the bedroom and do...
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    Help with MIDI DR5 to FL Studio/ New to MIDI

    HELP! I have read an intorductory book on MIDI for musicans and done extensive searching here and elsewhere but I an't get this thing to work and perhaps I fail to understand how MIDI does and does not work. I have as my recorder a Yamaha AW16G. I like to program drums on my DR5 but the...
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    Used 2 inch Ampex 499 Gold for $2!

    I stopped by an estate sale in my neighborhood and saw 7 rolls of Ampex 499 2" tape. The guy moving out of the house is the father of a professional keyboard player I know who did local studio engineer work and plays in the Christian Band MERCY ME. Anyway they appeared to be one pass...
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