Recent content by guitar junkie

So the Blue Spark seems to be a hit this year... Anybody wanna discus this one? It seems to be a nice low noise mic with an EQ curve switch of some sort... Post up inquiring minds want to hear thoughts :D

So my wife and I are working on a new album and we're really trying to step up our production a bit... We play acoustic music and track live. I play acoustic guitar and mandolin and might be playing some dobro on this record also. The wife plays Ukulele and Cello as well as acoustic guitar...

So I have been a longtime listener to The Project Studio Network podcast, which has been on hiatus for something close to 2 years and I sort of forgot that I had entered to win a Nady RSM 4 ribbon mic... Well I got word today that I somehow am the winner! Anyway the mic is a Joly Modded edition...

So after knocking around on an acoustic for almost all of my live shows now for the last 5 years I am thinking about picking up a new guitar... Problem is of course money being that I lack it. So my options seem to be to just make due for a while till money changes or I figure something else...

So I was reading in the last issue of TapeOp and article about making reverb units from such things as slinkies and something that looks like a cookie sheet... Anybody trying the stuff in there? it just looks like it might kind of fun to try... Anybody with me?

So here we go again eh :D I will start by saying what I wanna do first. My wife and I play acoustic folk music and track live in our studio, our signal chain is as follows: FirePod-iMac-Logic or REAPER or whatever we happen to buy in the next 6 months. Currently I sing into an Oktava 219 and...

First a disclaimer that this is a copy and paste from my blog over at wordpress.com I have been working with computer based music creation/production since the age of 16 I was using Audacity and Gold Wave before moving to Cool Edit and finally moving to Mac OS X and there I learned to use...

So I guess this story started in 2007 when I decided to upgrade my monitors to something a little nicer... I saved up some money and headed to Guitar Center on black friday for the "sale" and looked around... Sure enough Blue Sky EXO monitors like I had been fooling around on in their "studio"...

So after more than a few years of mixing and listening with my trusty little M Audio monitors I have my first issue... They make a loud low freq buzz and the woofer blows out like I driving it with a load of [C]rap music run as full blast! I turn them off and the woofer releases again, but...

So I have been using my MXL 960 for a while and when I first got it I was not all that impressed when it was plugged into my firepod... So I removed the cheep tube and put in a NOS GE 12ax7 that took some of the hiss out of it, made the bass warmer... I removed the inner two layers of mesh...

So I started a thread in the DIY forum about making my own dynamic mics and didn't really get a whole lot of info out of it... So I thought maybe putting some stuff up here would help get more info ;) I built this mic: The capsule was taken from a broken CB Radio and the body is a discarded...

So I have been fooling around with making some contact mics and things like that around the house, having a lot of fun with it all... I am wondering what it would take to make some decent dynamic mics and where to buy parts... It seems like I would need a good sounding capsule and some sort of...

So I have a new recording project coming up with an acoustic guitar player and a cellist, and I need to make more than one set of headphones work on my firepod, so I guess it's time to spend some time and money getting a gadget to enable that sort of rig, anybody wanna sell me an HP4? I also am...

So my father in law picked up a Fender Super Champ XD for his lap steel guitar, and really loves it! (of course I helped him pick it out) And the word around here is that I could be getting one for Christmas from "The gear fairy" I guess I am wondering though if there would be something more...

I am going through my gear and weeding out the stuff that I'm not using any more... So far I have found a lot of broken headphones and the sort... This my first GOOD sound card up for grabs I believe I paid something like $179 for it, and last I checked they were $200 now.... I am asking $100...