Recent content by cephus

I am doing a theater gig. One song, they needed some "thunder" and I crank up the reverb on this old crap peavey classic I am using and bump it until it goes "KERANG!" What is the risk of damage? This amp is the old SS pre and tube power amp. Where is going to be the point of failure? I...

I had a friend who needed a pick me up a while back. Three months later I recorded this as a response. I think she's picked up by now. http://www.soundclick.com/brettmitchell The song is called get up. There are a few mistakes. I think the vocals might be a little low. I actually will...

I am a barroom guitar monkey and do some recording. I use synthetic drums mostly, but I prefer an acoustic snare. I have a 14" metal premier snare and I am planning to get some heads. I play simple roots music. I do use brushes more than a little. I was planning on getting a coated head for...

I am cleaning out my "office" and unearthed an Alesis DM5 and a Yamaha TMX. I have recorded a little with the DM5 and I kind of like the big, fake bass drum sounds. I have never plugged in the Yamaha. If I try it out, my wife, who's upstairs will know I am no longer cleaning. Should I just...

I saw a story about this on CNN (I'm pretty square I guess). Have you seen this auto-tune the news thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0OzxvClwoU There are 8 of them I think and a couple more from the same guy. I think they are really funny, but I was wondering how it is accomplished...

This is admittedly a stupid question. In CEP, I have a masterpiece with 20+ tracks. But track 8 was a bass track I ended up not using. I have removed the block, but track 8 is still sitting there right in the middle taking up display space. Can you remove a track's "row" from CEP? Can you...

I haven't been around in a while. I know there are a few luthiers that hang out and I am in a bit of a pickle. I have a Gallagher doc watson that I bought used. This guitar has had a rough life, but it play(ed) great and is loud as a cannon. A few weeks ago, I went away for the weekend and...

I bought this thing and have recorded several gigs. I have been trying to get them to sound at least a little better. they sound flat, so I use EQ to add some sizzle. They are also heavy in the low mids so I pulled some of those out. I normalize to 98% using CEP. What I would like to...

Maybe I have been wrong all along. I have always kept digital recordings as WAVs and only rendering them to MP3 for emailing and iPods, etc. The thinking was that since a WAV file is so much bigger than the MP3s, I assumed that the quality was higher. There was less data compression and...

I have a sort of shitty yamaha acoustic. I have had a few occasions lately where my life would have been easier if had a pickup. I already have a decent fishman preamp, so I was thinking of something like this...

There is one of those $25000 fender relic EVH guitars in the samash in columbus, OH. I looked at it closely, but it was in a glass case. Their relicing process is pretty impressive. The neck pocket is way bigger than the neck. The pocket is strat-shaped, but the neck looked tele shaped. The...

Are all lead-position stock strat pickups hotter than the middle and rhythm? Are they all the same pickup just in different positions? THe reason I ask is because I've had the stock lead position 62 RI (~1988-ish) pickup in the middle position of my jambolin for a long time. I have been...

I played one of these last wednesday night. I don't think I ever played a doubleneck before. Maybe when I was a teenager. Anyway, I remember seeing this guitar in all the magazine ads when I first started playing and it was kind of neat to actually see and play one. I played it on the break...

Maybe moreso that EC? I just watched VH1 Classic albums "Over-nite sensation". I've had it DVRd for a couple weeks and just got to see it. I haven't paid a whole lot of attention to zappa since CDs came out. Even less since MP3s. Everything I ever listened to was vinyl or cassettes of...

I am playing a show this week with several performances in the worst room I have ever played in as far as the acoustics. This entire huge room is stone and brick and glass and the ceiling is at least 40 feet high. No carpet anywhere. I have to play very quietly of course because the room...