Recent content by Mr songwriter

I normally run my DSL50 head through a 1 x 12" cab (which has one 8 ohm Celestion 70/80 in it) and though I've only had it for a couple of months, I'm pretty used to the way it sounds with all the usual settings that I use, anyway, the other day I decided to put it through the speaker in my...

See title. I recently bought an M-Audio 192 soundcard, which has two pairs of ¼" TRS analogue outputs, but until I get hold of some proper studio monitors with balanced inputs, I am running them through a normal pair of PC speakers with the standard 3.5mm jack. I've tried connecting it in...

..Or is there actually something wrong with the CD? - I'd heard this album (presumably a different pressing of it?) a few years ago and liked it, so when I saw it for only £4 the other day I bought it. It has been quite a while since I heard it but I was pretty shocked by the amount of...

I can get the 2496 for about £50 and the 192 for about £95. I've been using a 2496 in another PC for about a year now and I'm reasonably happy with it, now I need a soundcard for another PC and I'm wondering whether the 192 is worth the extra £45. As far as I can see, the main advantages of the...

I'm thinking of buying a mic preamp to amplify an SM57 and an AKG D112 that are being used to mike up a bass and a guitar amp, I realise that with the sort of budget I'm on, I'm not exactly going to be getting super high-end quality, but I would like something that is going to be audibly better...

See title of thread. I've often seen or heard people say that 'soandso's guitars are all made by Samick' or 'There's not a lot of difference between the Korean made budget guitars - they're all made by the same enormous company' but I haven't had much luck with Googling to find out exactly which...

This is a $200 or so keyboard with some reasonably nice piano and organ voices on it that I'm trying to record with using my M-Audio 2496 soundcard, the only audio out it has is a "Phones/output" jack on the back, but despite trying many things (including putting it directly into the soundcard...

I've got a Laney LC30 combo and the stock speaker is very nice for cleans, but not so nice for the OD channel - I tried running the Laney through a cheapo 2 x 12" cab and the OD channel sounded a lot better, though the cleans weren't as nice, so I was wondering if there's a footswitch available...

....and is it common for timing variations to be added to the click track to change the feel of different parts? I've been playing in bands since before click tracks etc became popular but since I've started recording on my PC, I've started to listen out for these kind of things a bit more and...

I read a comment somewhere that certain guitar amps (I'm pretty sure they were talking about valve amps) have circuits in them that are tuned to resonate at frequencies that will make the guitar sound good, presumably, if this is the case, they would be designed to work best with a standard...

...or particle board or other cheapo materials, I've seen comments on here and elsewhere to the effect that certain budget guitars are made from these kind of materials, so as I'm looking for a cheapish guitar to do mods on (pickups and possibly bridge) I'd like to know if there are any strat...

If so, do you know if there is a user group or forum for it? and if not, would anyone be interested in swopping sequence files they've made for it? (the USEQ.DR8 files) I do realise that you can use get SMF's on the net and use them on it, but sometimes you have to tweak those files a bit make...

OK, I'm running Windows XP on a PC that is well in excess of the minimum spec, I've used quite a few different USB devices on this PC before (cameras, scanners, graphics pad etc) with no probs, I also followed the instructions on the USB driver CD to a T, but when I go into USB:SMF import mode...

...Not sure if I'm posting in exactly the right forum here, but I've been looking at Electronic Drum kits and this one seems surprisingly cheap for what you get, does anyone know if there's a catch? http://www.zzounds.com/a--2676837/item--IONIED01

I know the recommended way to set the intonation on a guitar is to compare the 12th fret harmonic with the fretted 12th fret note on any given string, but for some reason I've never really found it easy to compare a fretted note with a harmonic, so I do it the following way, which seems to work...