Recent content by ecc83

When we were A/B testing amps we switched a speaker between amps hundreds of times with a simple footswitch, even with them at full chat! Never a problem. Mind you, these, you must be aware were amps of good design and with good quality transformers. Certain other brands might no be so...

"Reaper has been suggested a lot. My good friend recommended Garage Band because it's so easy to use, especially the more modern versions. I'm wondering just two things. How Much easier is it than Reaper?" You can have both! I am no musician but my son is and he has become very slick with...

Of course, forgive my ignorance, as you say, I suggest what I know but as a tech I have misgivings about the engineering common sense of a company that drops things like headphone sockets on phones! Also I have never been in the financial position to splash out on something I don't know and...

I know nothing of macs, never even touched one! I have however dabbled with Windows PCs since XP days and have been following forums for well over 15 years. In that time I have had I think 5 or 6 interfaces and several tower computers and laptops. Never in all that time has any interface or OS...

Push the boat a tad further and get the M4. Those 2 extra line ins and outs are very handy, a wee mixer and you have 4 mic channels. Dave.

The Lenovo E590 W11 laptop I have bought for my son does not have a removable battery. That worried me a bit but, I found a YT procedure for replacing it and it does not look too arduous a task? You have to 'tell' the machine you are going to remove the battery first and then it all shuts down...

Can I assume you are using two mics on the guitar in the (now "classic") configuration of one pointed at about the neck/body join and one pointed at the lower bout? Then you will balanced the two tracks to get the sound mix quality you desire and render to mono? The same idea does not apply to...

Well! I WAS going to wax lyrical about how my son runs Samplitude Pro X3, Reaper and Cakewalk on a pretty basic Lenovo T430 and does very well with it! But then you went and spoiled it all by saying you are getting a mac! I wish you all the luck in the world friend. Dave.

In that case, record the track with the guitar in the "null" position then video the guy miming to the track. Unless there are legal/contractual reasons why that can't be done. Pretty standard practice in the film work? Post dubbing because the location is just too noisy or the sound is...

Well, hang on! How bad is it? Post a clip* of guitar at -20 dBFS average oriented for minimum hum then damp the stings for say 20 seconds. If your noise floor is better than -70dBFS I would say you are doing pretty well. If significantly worse than neg 70 then you need to investigate noise gates...

ISO transformers? Do you mean balanced mains supplies? Probably not so bad when it is about 55V above earth but over here such gear constitutes a big hazard to service personnel who may not realized that even though a mains fuse has popped, one side it still at 115V ref earth. In fact it is...

The fact is friend, guitars and their amplifiers have ALWAYS* been noisy Bs! The amps themselves were often not that well designed for low noise and as ' rock n roll' moved into ever more high gain, distorted sounds this got worse. But, noisy as a 100W amp was, once you hit the strings the...

https://www.screwfix.com/p/masterplug-13a-fused-hard-wired-active-in-line-rcd/389kg That ^ is ideal fitted in your main diss feed because you can't do a gig and forget it! Dave.

In my opinion the bridge and thus the strings of a guitar should always be bonded to the jack earth/ground sleeve. That way, hand on or off should make no difference to hum...IF IT DOES! You have another grounding issue in the amp setup! Rob is absolutely right to call anyone who deliberately...

I would. love to see the schematic. "Mute circuits"? Yes SB, I have had problems with both bipolar mute transistors and FETs in the past. Might be good to find a mute rail. This is a fault that really needs an oscilloscope. Feed in 1kHz and go about with a probe. You could use a digital meter...