Recent content by EleKtriKaz

I thought it might be fun to see what everyone thinks a recording engineer's biggest tasks are. I know that the more I do this, the more my conception about what is important in the recording process changes. I'll go first: 1. Making the artist feel comfortable 2. Mic placement 3. Gain-staging...

Hey guys, I'm kind of a bind here. I bought an old Sennheiser MD421 U5 off of Ebay, it looked fine in the pictures, the guy said it worked perfectly. When I got it and tested it out, I found that it's distorting. Suprise suprise, the scumbag on Ebay won't respond to any of my emails. I sent the...

Hey guys, I'm hoping there are some Aarvark Q10 users out there who have the Mac OSX drivers for the Q10. I'm moving from a Windows XP based system to a G5. The company went out of business a while ago, and I can't find the drivers anywhere online. If anyone can help, it would be greatly...

Don't know if anyone has heard of these. I hadn't until just recently. A guy I've been working with uses them both in the studio and on location. These things are really nice sounding! Very, very transparent. Very unimpressive looking though. I always thought they were some cheap thing just...

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=32906&page=1&pp=30 Not sure if you guys have seen this yet. Discussions and reviews of Rupert Neve's new pre. Pretty interesting if you can get past all of the arguing and flaming. Seems a lot of people are digging them.

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=32906&page=1&pp=30 Not sure if you guys have seen this yet. Discussions and reviews of Rupert Neve's new pre. Pretty interesting if you can get past all of the arguing and flaming.

I like the practice I get from sequencing and making loops, so here's an electronic-based song I did. Not completely finished yet, but let me know what you think. www.myspace.com/aphodelus The drums were done in Fruity Loops The rest was done in Cubase with Edirol Hypercanvas, Native...

Hey guys just thought I'd post a little about the internship I'm doing at a local mastering house here in Phoenix. So far the guy has been mastering a bunch of old 1/4" analog reels from the '50s '60s, and '70s for a reissue thing. Which means I've been learning all the intricacies of analog...

Don't know if anyone has tried this, but a local producer told me about it and sounds amazing. Take a pair of SDCs, set them up in an XY position (90 degrees, coincident) on an acoustic guitar at the 12th fret. Then take that setup and turn it vertical, so instead of micing left and right...

I've got a pair of vintage Shure Unidyne 545 IIIs and an RNC on the way. Can't wait to try the Shures on electric guitar and drums very soon. And looking forward to hearing the RNC on everything...should be a nice complement to my RNP. Just thought I'd share.

I've had my RNP for a couple months now, and I thought I'd share my experience with it. First of all, my only bases for comparison are the pres in my Aardvark Q10. So far I have only gotten a chance to use the RNP on vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and as a bass DI. The bad: Upon...

Alright, I've taken stock of my mic locker and have come to the conclusion that I'm in need of a good dynamic. My current mics are as follows: Rode NTK (2) Shure SM81s Sennheiser MD421 U5 AT4033 I'm getting ready to gear up so that I can do drums easily, and I'd also like to have something...

I've always found this board to be very helpful, so I thought I would post this here before I went out looking for a web publishing bbs. I created a large site in Photoshop and Illustrator, so the whole site is basically layered images that have been cut into pieces. I then import the pieces of...

I know these were discussed a while back, but I don't think anyone here had actually tested one. Any new news on these? I'm still really curious.

I have a 2001 Gibson Les Paul Classic with the slim 1960s neck, and I love this guitar, but I really hate the pickups. They look great (their the black and white zebra ones) but they sound really shrill. It takes a lot of tweaking with the tone and volume knobs and at the amp to get them...