Recent content by Caddy65

Just awful IMHO.

I believe that the Martin Retro (monel) would be the closest to what you are looking for. They are made to be very close to what Martin’s first steel strings were.

You could have rendered it and opened it up in Audacity where it is simple to change tempo without changing pitch. I do that often to fine tune tempos.

Does seem that if there is no 3.5 input that there would be Bluetooth. At the very least you can put your music on a usb stick. Works great for me. Most car radios can index large numbers of songs on one usb stick. Mine can index up to 15,000 songs on a single stick.

I am 75 years old and have been playing guitar since 1957. I began recording in about 1959 (Christmas gift) with a Voice Of Music 1/4" stereo reel to reel recorder. It was the first to be able to do sound on sound. You could play and record on one of the stereo tracks and then play and record on...

Actually I do have a meter, a $500 Fluke meter I used for work until I retired. I have rewired nearly all my guitars and have checked the circuits and all connections on these two guitars. They are fine. I have also checked the outlets for polarity and ground those are also fine. I have tried...

I'm not using any USB port, interface, or the computer. I have checked the outlets. They are fine. If it was that it should affect all the guitars or the amp, which it doesn't.

Yes, I am micing the amp. The amp and the Tascam are not connected in any way. They are even on different circuits. It is a fairly new amp that has a ground. It is a Fender Vibro Champ XD. I have tried moving the cables around to separate them, to no avail. This would be easier to figure out...

The Tascam is using 9 volt adapter (from Tascam). It runs only a very short time on batteries. If it was that it seems it would affect all my guitars, not just a couple.

I am getting some hum when recording. It only happens with a few of my twelve guitars. The odd part is that it is the worst with two of my three humbucker guitars (the other humbucker guitar is quiet), and to lesser extent with a P-90 guitar. It doesn't seem to be the guitars themselves, as they...

I have the same unit. It is not a hard or tedious process to get the individual tracks to you computer. Just export each track, hook up the usb cable and copy the tracks to the computer, import into your DAW. I have been doing that for a couple years now. Works fine. A lot better than being tied...

May be 'cheap' guitars, but they play and sound great. I have many guitars during my 54 years of playing but that one is still one of my favorites.

I have an Epi Special worn black with P-90's. Intonates perfectly. Actually, got it used at a pawn shop and it was already right on.

I have a Tascam DP-008 that works great for just that. Sure is nicer to lay down basic tracks on the sofa than at the computer. Also great for quickly putting down song ideas with the built in condenser mics, as it sits on the coffee table. I then export the tracks and mix and finish them in the...

I use sets with wound third strings on nearly all my guitars, solves a lot of problems and that string sounds much better than with the unwound third. That largest unwound string sounds strange anyway.