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I have two separate 1x12 guitar cabinets (both have a single speaker input) that I’d like to run with my Mesa Mini Rectifier. What’s the best was to accomplish this? Both cabinets have an 8 ohm Vintage 30 speaker. I’m wondering if I could use my Morley ABY in this scenario. The Mesa has two...

I don’t see many posted about speaker enclosures or guitar cabinets in these forums….seems strange to me because it has such a profound impact on tone. I just had a custom 1 X 12 cabinet built recently and it’s had a pretty big impact on my tone. It surprised me. I would have done this sooner...

Imagine you are a guitarist-songwriter and you need a drummer to record drum tracks on a song that you’re working on. Would you be comfortable getting the drummer to do the tracks in a studio and then sending you the wave files without ever having played with the guy in person? I did this one...

Does anyone have an idea of the size of the “home-recording” market in the US? I get the feeling it’s growing fast. I suppose I could look at the sales of the major players in the audio software market (Cubase, Logic, Cakewalk, etc)….maybe the number of audio interfaces sold, but I don’t think...

We all buy CDs and have different ways of looking at our purchases. My question to you is would you be disappointed to get a 5 song CD in a full color professionally packaged CD jacket as opposed to a jewel box with a color insert? With the jacket there is no way to add lyrical content, but...

Is there any consensus on whether it's better to capture a mix with a stand alone system (CDR or another computer) rather than to use the audio mixdown features in a software package. I use Cubase SX 3 for example....24 bit 48k. I need to mix a project and I'm debating whether to invest in a...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just receive my new amp yesterday. Plugged it in and the tone is incredible....as long as I am touching a piece of metal on my guitar (input jack, bridge, strings ect). If I take my hand off of the guitar, I get...

Can the Mytek Stereo 96 unit be used as two "unlinked" individual channels feeding two different mono tracks...or does it always work as a stereo unit? I'm wondering if I can use it as my main AD converter. I don't see a "link" switch like on the Lucid AD9624.

I know that Cubase SX 2.0 projects can be imported into Nuendo, but can the inverse be done? I'm mixing a project that was recorded in Cubase SX 2.0 and the studio will import into Nuendo for mixdown. We may add some tracks as well and I would like to be able to import those Nuendo projects...

I sent an email to RODE asking about which tubes I could use in my NTK. Nothing's wrong with the current tube, but I read recently about possible improvements in the sound quaility by trying dofferent tubes, so I asked the manufacturer about it. Below is the reponse I received. I thought some...

Is there any difference between the standard SX3 and the educational version in terms of functionality...or is the only difference in the price?

Does anyone know how I would setup and outboard piece of gear like this to work with Cubase? Isn't it now possible to use outboard gear with Cubase SX3? ...maybe I should have posted this in the Cubase forum....I have a problem with double posting though. I bugs the shit out of me when other...

I'll give them a listen over the next few days and post my thoughts a little later if anyone's interested. First thing...they are much bigger than I thought they'd be....and they're heavy sumsabitches. By the way, for you folks in mainland Europe, I know a distributor in Germany that might...

This is a really interesting article about black CDs and audio duplication that I came across while looking for a CD replication company. I thought I'd pass it along because I've never heard any of this before…. The guy is obviously borderline obsessive compulsive (no offense Gary). I DID...

I’m looking at the Groove Tubes Soul-o Single as a small studio recording amp. They offer a 10” version and a 12” version. I will not be able to audition them side by side and was just wondering what your thought were on different speaker sizes in terms of tone and character in a combo or...