Recent content by JohnWatkins

I bought one to have as a bench amp and plugged it into a G12-H75 that lives in an otherwise empty Mark IV combo. I was shocked at the sound quality. It would be not bad at $300. For a hundred bucks it's nothing short of a miracle. No hum, buzz, or any of that. I replaced the tubes with...

It's never too hot for lacquer. The hotter the better.

The "desk" could be serving one of several purposes; 1) it can have built-in converters, so it IS the audio interface and just has firewire out to the computer 2) it is a controller that doesn't actually pass any audio, but rather just manipulates in-the-box mixing 3) (and this is the one I...

You can do this six different ways with the Presonus (at least). Easiest would be music to Sub1/2, vocals to Sub3/4. You could take a digital out to your recorder, or record to a laptop via firewire, or run audio out of the Mains to your recorder. The Presonus is a great mixer. Sounds...

It's a keyboard for sure. I think you could get pretty close to that if you take a cheesy electric piano (percussive, bordering on clav) type sound, like from a DX7, and gave it a little overdrive and some chorus. It's like the guitar sound from Heaven by the Cure applied to a keyboard.

I KNEW you weren't listening to my stuff.... :D

Ryobi is the Behringer of power tools. My buddy has a Ryobi drill which I affectionately refer to as his "Lady Norelco".

Right. That's what I said.

Good studio speakers reveal many things that everyday speakers do not, especially with good studio D/A conversion.

I have. The Avalon imparts a bell-like musicality to some sources that is really obvious and very musical, like the different between a guitar string ringing out and a piano string ringing out. However, that added roundness, or sweetness does not survive the transition to mp3 or to consumer...

The preamps are (in order): Presonus StudioLive channel Universal Audio LA-610 ART MPA Avalon VT737

Maybe this will help the OP. Maybe not. I did a little preamp shootout a while back to satisfy my own curiosity, and I've tried to attach it below. It's four preamps in random order; three outboard and one built into my mixer. The outboards have a street price of $300, $1,500, and $2,500...

Thanks for the nice comments. I'm going to try to leave Stone In Love alone at this point, because the amount of time I spend on mixes is already bordering on mental illness. The song I tried your suggestion on was another Benatar tune that this girl really wanted to do, so that'll be up on my...

Fishmed, I took your advice as a jumping off point for the next song I'm mixing with this same vocalist and it worked pretty well. I can certainly get away with a lot less automation and I was surprised to find that it didn't sound overly compressed even though I was hitting the 1176 pretty...

I used an Oxford EQ to notch it at 1khz and again at 2.8khz, the Cubase EQ to roll off the highs a half db from like 6k and up, put an LA-2A plug on it, then ran it through an outboard 1176, a JDK compressor and a JDK EQ (don't recall the settings), then printed that to a new track and tweaked...