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A few weeks ago I played a solo show. I wanted to record it and I wanted it to sound as good as possible. The FOH sound was only two mics: my vocal/harp mic and a mic on my amp. I ran the "Tape out" of the FOH board into the "sub in" of the mixer section of an old portastudio. I ran to room mics...

One of my favorite songwriters (one half of two gallants) is putting out a solo record. Here is a video preview of the recording process. A nice 2" 24track is shown and (from what I can tell) the whole record was done to tape. Thought you might find it interesting...

Hello all. I was recording a live show of mine and after many problems (and eventually after the show) i discovered that the left channel of my 122 is shot. In my DAW with my 122 set to play back just the source (i.e. direct monitoring) there is a very audible noise from the left channel. I...

I'm stuck in the military with no real space (and no real security of being in one place too long) so this is all pretty hypothetical for now . . . . But I've seen plans for buildings like this (and this company even sells kits) and I thought it'd be a pretty bad-ass little studio...

I've been wondering about this for a long time now. And now that I've decided to finally become "a man" and buy some tools and get into woodworking (partly out of neccesity and partly out of fun) I thought I'd ask the question. So here it is . . . . If corners are what cause standing waves and...

I was searching for some woodworking projects and stumbled onto this. I thought about posting it in the DIY thread, but I thought you all might appreciate it more than that forum would. http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/woodworking/4329745 I think it's really cool.

Putting a portastudio back together and having screws leftover!!!!!! LOL But it powers up and works, so I'm ok. Just thought I'd shar cause I know you all have been waiting with bated breath to hear from me!! LOL Have a good day/night

I'm playing a show next week and want to do a cool little video of the event. I'm going to record the audio seperately. Because of the limited routing of the in house system I will use the tape out from their mixer into a small mixer (probably a eurorack . . .but no behri bashing please, I know...

I am planning my next session. I don't have a leslie, but I have an old hammond (L103) If I were to record the organs speaker with a mic, could I/should I run that signal through my AC15 to get a decent tremelo? I record to tape if that affects your thoughts? I wish there was a way to access...

I have read many reviews of this book and would really enjoy going through it. However, I also hear that he uses an IC in most of the projects that is "no longer available." Does anyone know a.) if this is true and . . . b.) if so, is there another book that would present the same types of...

Is there any benefit to having a floating bridge? They seem like a bit of a PITA so there must be some reasoning. Any thoughts?

I just came across this video. it's a good source to see the difference in sound you can get just by changing mic position. I'm not endorsing the player, the gear, or the guys who made the clip. It's just for info purposes.

Another thread sort of spun out of control on this topic, so I thought I would start one here. I think many young artists come into recording (home or otherwise) with the notion that you cut some tracks, and put them on CD baby, Amazon, iTunes, etc and you start rolling in the dough. Many...

So I had some ideas while looking at the innards of my 488. It seems like it should be possible to mod some things to gain the ability to record all eight tracks at once. Does anyone know if this is possible? If yes, how? If no, why not? (Out of curiosity.) You guys all rock. My two piece is...

I was at practice the other day. I'm running a DeArmond full hollowbody into a vox ac15cc1. I noticed that any time I played an open G chord i got feedback. But that was the only chord that would feedback automatically. I mean, I could coax it to feedback with other chords, but the G was...

If I were to raise $1500 to spend on the following; tracking deck (8 or 16 track), mixing deck, and mixer for tracking and mixing, what would you recomend? If I could spend just $1000 that'd be great, but I know it probably wont be possible. I know it's all subjective and prices vary, I'm just...

So today was quite the enlightening day for me. I went to my local music shop to pick up some finger-picks. I prefer my nails, but my wife hates it, so I figured Id give finger-picks a second go. I was trying them out and was frustrated that they kept getting caught on the string. The guy at the...

I have been searching for a hollowbody for ages. I don't have the money to buy a new gretsch or anything. I gave up on it. I went in to trade out my cheap acoustic and strat for a decent acoustic. The store finally had a used hollowbody that they were considering a trade for but passed because...

I'm trying to sell my strat to fund a hollowbody. I had an interested buyer. He asked if it was made in America. I told him, no, the parts were made in America but it was assembled in Mexico. (This is true of all Fender MIM stuff from what I am told.) He was not interested, not even in hearing...

I already asked one question about recording next months live show. My next question is this; Since the mixer they are using has no real bussing capabilities. If I put some "room mics" out to catch ambience would this cause feeback since theyll be playing back through the speakers? Thanks guys.