Recent content by ecc83

My stuff arrived a few hours ago but I have ****** up a bit. I had assumed the USB C hub would have a C to A adaptor. Not so, 3 now on order. FYI Anker 332. Dave.

Oh! Do tell! Dave.

That is not my experience in UK with Amazon Rich. I have ordered 3 items in the last 3 weeks and all have arrived within 4 days as promised and one came next day on a Sunday. I am presently waiting on a USB hub and card reader which are promised today and I am pretty confident. I don't have...

About a week ago I drove a few miles to visit "PC Supplies" on an industrial estate just outside my town. Really nice helpful guys and I wanted a USB hard drive, couple of ,memory sticks and some DVD-R media. All they had was one 32 G stick. The chap explained that they can't compete with...

I don't usually suggest this these days because cables are now so cheap and so good from online suppliers that it is not worth doing for small quantities but, making your own cables, en masse CAN get you a better product a bit cheaper but also sharpen up your soldering skills no end! You don't...

Don't know R D, he only ever gives me the barest amount of information (KIDS eh!??) but from other recordings I would say the mic was very roughly 1/2 to one mtr from his guitar. His flat in Le Havre seems fairly dead and I often add a bit of reverb but not in this case. Warts an'all this one...

Not sure where we are with this but Tim, you did mention a "possible loss of quality" if you need to re-record the Substack audio? I can tell you that Audacity can easily be configured to record the signal going through the internal sound card and is thus AS good quality as what you are hearing...

My son has just sent me this piece of Bach he has recorded with one of the cheapo 103s. Thanks again Rob. Dave.

"I’ll just get an external phantom unit if I go with the mb-20 or similar" Be wary of some of these. I bought one some years ago and it could barely put out 2mA before the voltage began to droop. I do recall a unit that was powered from a USB port being quite good. The other thing I would...

I don't like their rip off tactics either, my old firm, Blackstar have had amps "cloned" and there is little one can do on a "global" scale unless you have virtually unlimited legal resources. But, to use a pleasanter phrase, "paying homage to" shall we say, has been going on in the electronics...

I tremble in my boots to cross qwertys with the redoubtable Mr Sweetbeats but I would like to put in a slight defense regarding Behringer mixers? My comments are directed to two such devices. The Xenyz 802 but mainly the Xenyx 1202. For sure, the build quality is not up to A&H and the...

Yeah* I am not REMOTELY any kind of guitar payer (but I can do yer wiring and tune one for you!) but in over ten years on audio forums, this question..."how do I get a good e guitar sound?" has been around for ever. I have gleaned a few "truths" in that time, many of which have been covered...

Super! Can I just mention something I may have said in the past? Digital multimeters are great things, for a silly amount of money you can get a superbly accurate* instrument with wide ranging capabilities. But, unless you pay a quite a serious amount, well over $100, all these meters suffer a...

Ah, it was the "A" variant that took spook juice and pulled about 4-5mA according to that link. "Rugby" eh? Caused me a lot of grief decades ago from their stupendously powerful transmitter! Dave.

Thank you Sweetbeats, if I understand your last post correctly you mean that 'tape jockeys' who are on intimate, day to day terms with their machines CAN line up with the machines* meters? I am quite sure that is the case now I think about it. My experience of course was almost all "one offs"...