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This is actually not hypothetical - I'm recording a jazz festival this weekend, and I can likely only spare one channel for the piano (a Steinway grand). The room is a church sanctuary, lots of stone, *very* live, and there'll be a bunch of other instruments, including drums, sax, horns...

If you're in or around Houston TX USA Jan 28-30, 2011, and you don't go to the 10th Annual Trinity Jazz Festival in Midtown at Main & Holman, then you're square. Tia Fuller (sax) is the headliner for Friday night, the 28th, and Nestor Torres (flute) is headlining on the night of Sat the 29th...

Had the drums for almost a year - still suck. But here's one limitation that I became aware of early on, and haven't noticed any progress on: I can't play additional kick drum kicks that are not on time with my hi hat hits - for instance, if I play quarter note high hat hits, my kick drum...

Sort of a vacuous post, but we could use some threads in this forum, so here goes: I played a Collings dreadnought at a store a few years ago, and ever since then, I've been subconsciously (and often consciously) fixated on getting one - they're not cheap, of course, and whenever I start to...

Here's some more texas ass whoopin' on the pipes: http://www.recursor.net/CosmosCascadeHarmonyTest.mp3 My son didn't write the song (Cosmo's Cascade), but did write the harmonies in the second half. Never mind the metronome in the beginning - you won't be able to hear it pretty soon...

My wife's grandfather is pushing 90 years old - he's been drumming since I guess the 1920's, and he's *still playing*. I'm not sure how often he plays at gigs, but he still gets out a lot and plays his kit at home. He played for USO during WWII, I believe. Anyway, I don't get over to see him...

My mom has been asking me to come and get this old pump organ thing that we always had when I was growing up - I'll post pics the next time I go out to see her, but it looks quite a bit like this one that was on wikipedia: It doesn't have the mirror on top, I guess. Anyway, when I was very...

Here's another pesky straw poll by a guitar player trying to find his drum-ass with both hands: What size toms (and snare, for that matter) do you normally use, and when you release the snare off your snare drum, where does its normally tuned pitch fall in relationship to the various tom...

I posted this instrumental song some time ago, but that was back when I only had midi drums. Here it is again with real drums! I'd appreciate any comments on the tracking / drum sound / mixing. As for the drum performance, realize I've only been playing since Christmas, so don't expect too...

I just got coil splitting tone pots in a SG copy that I have (actually my daughter's) and they work great. The problem is that the guitar has the traditional gibson-style tophat tone (and volume) knobs which are great for turning, but very difficult to grab and pull upward, which is what you...

Here is my son, a grade 3 and grade 2 juvenile piper, playing some music. he played a couple harmony parts for the first time so he'll prolly retrack, but I thought I should stop holding out you guys :D http://www.recursor.net/HornPipeSetFleshMarketClose.mp3 He wore the open headphones rather...

A few months ago, I got a Scottish marching drum for my son for his birthday (he's a bagpipe player and celtic music freak), and noticed it has kevlar heads. My son's band's drummer and my son are in the habit of replacing the snare on my kit with that marching drum, which is kind of strange -...

Just picked up a 1970's Ludwig Acrolite snare for $80 at a pawnshop - it's in really good shape, except that I noticed the snare was being held on with a shoelace on one side. Didn't think much about it until I went to clean it up and put new heads on it and maybe a new snare. The reason the...

I picked up a copy of Rod Gervais's book, and I've been reading (not the whole thing yet) - I see the part about double wall construction, and would love to go that route. I'm working with an addition on my house that dates back to the 1930s. It's got a pier and beam foundation (suboptimal, I...

I got my first bass amp ever yesterday - I'm a guitar player normally, but picked up a bass a few years ago to record with - I've been going direct and totally happy with the sound, but I found myself playing unplugged around the house more and more, and thought it would be nice to have a small...

I apologize in advance - and please know that I searched and searched long and hard and I still feel... the irresistible... urge... to... post... I have a not-big-enough room in my house reserved for my [single room control/tracking] studio (the political process is complete, and it's all I'm...

As the years have worn on, I've become cockier and cockier with regard to my perceived ability to fix broken microphones, and have even begun buying them broken, confident that I'll be able to fix them (the good news is that I usually can) - finally got my #$@ -> :spank: (any excuse to use the...

OK, so I'm in the process of experimenting with mic choice and placement on my new drum kit to try and reduce the number of idiotic questions I ask here, and I ran across a very pronounced issue I hadn't dealt with before. I'm placing a kick mic outside the drum and another dynamic inside...

I just had to say it - I've had Gibson P94s in my cheap SG clone guitar for a couple of years now (they did cost more than the guitar :o), and they continue to amaze me - I have them set up to humbuck when the toggle is in the center position. I use the toggle and the volume and tone knobs -...

Alright - my reluctance is overpowered by my postifisocity. Here goes: http://www.recursor.net/DrumTest-dry.mp3 and here it is in a sparse mix, with a little compression on the outbound bus http://www.recursor.net/DrumTest-mix.mp3 I would love comments, however fiercely critical, about the...