Recent content by dudelysses

I'm thinking about getting a Mexi strat and then replacing the stock pickups with some vintage sounding ones. So far I am leaning towards the DIMarzio Area 58s - at least for the neck and middle positions. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also I would like a vintage humbuckery sounding pickup...

I am looking into getting one of these (probably the Alphatrack) because I am sick of having to use my mouse all the time for mixing, etc. Just wondering if anyone has used them and ALSO if they would work with cubase SE. I have a funny feeling they might not work on cubase earlier than 3...

I need to get some sort of noise suppressor for my strat; the neck pickup hums a lot. Just wondering what would be the best for $200 or less. I am trying to decide between the Boss NS-2, the MXR Smart Gate and the Electro-harmonix Hum Debugger. Any opinions on these pedals? Any other...

Since I started recording I have been D/I'ing my guitar, because I thought that it would make little difference whether I put it directly in or if I mic'ed it. Apparently I was very wrong. So now I want to record via mic, but I need to isolate the amp from the drums, and for the closest area...

http://cgi.ebay.ca/4xShure-SM57-LC-Vocal-Studio-Live-Standard-Microphone_W0QQitemZ270100638766QQcategoryZ41465QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem How are they selling these mics for so cheap? they go for over $100 in Canada. Do they have these deals a lot on ebay?

I am wondering what to do about recording a couple of guitars. Right now I am just running them through the amps and then through the preamps on the mixer. I would like to buy a couple sm57s and mic them up, but we just recently got headphones/headphone amp because when we were monitoring...