Recent content by sjjohnston

Language barriers abound: including the inability to recognize when someone is using an obvious rhetorical tautology. At least SD88 can (I think) identify a joke.

My post immediately above was written with no idea what a Phonic Paa3 is. Since posting it, I Googled it and looked quickly at the description. From the first post, I was assuming it was just an SPL meter, but it's not. It looks like it has a 1/3-octave graphic analysis display built right into...

One thing to consider (going back to the original question); If the crossover is at 80 dB, and your signal runs from 20 Hz to 20 kHz: There are 2 octaves in the subs and about 8 octaves in the main monitors. That would be about consistent with your original measurements if it's flat. Of...

If you define: - "better tone" to mean: the tone that fits better in the mix, and - "better pickups" to mean: pickups that produce "better tone", then: better pickups fit better in the mix. QED.

It is editing a parameter. Specifically, there is a global parameter called "dry defeat" that - when it's turned on - prevents you from altering the wet/dry mix in any patch, so that every patch is always 100% wet. Once you've got the dry defeat turned off, you should be able to control the...

Like (I think) Greg_L, I don't really understand what the OP is asking. The guitar (or bass) pickup affects the sound of the guitar (or bass). Depending on what you're changing, the effect could be so minor you don't notice it, or huge. It affects the sound of the instrument when you're...

I'd almost forgotten about the green CD pens, and somehow managed to miss hearing about "Mpingo discs" until now. Googling it yields some amusing stuff.

"Using as a controller," to me, means you're using it generate MIDI notes, which you're recording - as MIDI - in your DAW project. In which case saying the result "sounds awful," is a bit odd. Kind of like saying that when you use a different computer keyboard your grammar looks awful. But it...

Most significantly: this puts Sonar in the same corporate family as Tascam.

You probably have the "Dry Defeat" global setting turned on. [UTIL] [EDIT] 'til you see page 1 [D] to turn it off (display will tell you whether it's on or off) When the Dry Defeat is off, you can adjust the "Mix" parameter in the particular effect settings.

The 1/8-to-1/4 is not a good idea. The 1/4-inch jacks are in the middle of the XLRs, but they're not the same. Those are intended as line- or instrument-level inputs. I don't know anything about the "Giant Squid" microphone. One key question is: does it require power? If its main intended use...

DSL, so far as I know, runs over phone lines. How would a power conditioner stop voltage coming through the phone line into a DSL modem? It doesn't set up a magical dome of invincibility around your house, so far as I know. There are a number of possible problems, or threats of problems, one...

Why don't you just give them a line-level input? If the way you've got things set up makes it logistically daunting to reroute everything so you've got a line level signal going to them, you can take a speaker-level signal and attenuate it down to line level. There are boxes built to do exactly...

Just to further clarify: the "special power cables" I mentioned are just ... power cables. Two connectors, some wires and a jacket, nothing else. Here's the writeup from one site for the "Shunyata ZTRON Anaconda Power Cable" "The ZTRON Anaconda model represents Shunyata Research's reference...

There are many websites out there arguing that using special power cables will improve "soundstage," "musicality" and assorted other ill- or un-defined qualities. They may well be the same websites. As for frequency variation: does it matter any more? Turntables and tape decks (some of them...