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There, I said it - I haven't bought a CD (other than from an artist directly at a show) for ages and I've never bought a song on iTunes, but I haven't been making/downloading/listening to unlawful mp3s either - I simply don't have the urge to listen to music that is managed by record companies...

Loving my new (used) Premier kit - it came with 10" and 12" rack toms and a 14" floor tom. When tuned properly, they sound great and have a lower pitch than I expected, but nevertheless, I figured I needed a bigger floor tom, even though I probably didn't. Started combing ebay, and before you...

GAS hit hard today, and I bought 2 different 2 channel preamps - a Great River MP-2NV at GS (it's on its way) and, at a local pawn shop (for just over 1/10 of the price of the GR :) ) an Aphex 207. I've got the 207 now - it was dirty, so I cleaned it up - haven't tried it out yet. I opened it...

OK - I've got an amp head with a 4-8 ohm max load (as labeled next to the output), and I've got a cab that's 16 ohms. I also have a Marshall "Power Brake" attenuator that has a switchable impedance setting - 8 or 16 ohms. My question - if I set the Power Brake to 8 ohms (assume it's turned all...

I've been asking my drummer friends these questions and watching live and videotaped drummers to the extent possible, and getting different answers: 1) is your bottom hihat level with the floor or not? 2) when fully open, what's the [nearest] distance between your top and bottom hihat? 3)...

As an acute manifestation of the chronic fatigue and depression I suffer due to not having an AT-3060, I picked up an additional AT-3035 yesterday. So now I have a pair of 3035s and a pair of 4033s (and some other AT mics, but that's beside the point, because they do not include the 3060). I'm...

If you're new here, you probably have some questions about recording equipment - this post does not try to answer those questions, but rather attempts to establish a framework for reading, understanding, and interacting with the many people and voluminous information you'll find here and...

I just went into my favorite pawn shop - they had been selling a bunch of Realistic 33-922 dynamic mics (like this one: http://www.freedomguitar.com/description.php?II=15237&UID=2008123003380166.249.71.4 ) for $20 each,and they were down to one. They also had an Apex 435 sitting there for about...

Just got a late 1970s Ludwig Supraphonic - 5" x 14" - it was pretty well tuned when I got it. I replaced my Premier maple snare with it - wow - what a difference! I think I can get the Premier to sound better if I try and tune it like the Ludwig (and so maybe this was nothing more than a $190...

So I was having difficulties with my Premier snare (dentist-drill sounding ring) and decided to get a Supraphonic like Greg said in another thread. I found old used ones to be in surprisingly plentiful supply on ebay and at a local store (RR). One thing about many of these snares is that...

I newb-spoo all over the drum forum on a semi-regular basis - here's another one, apology in advance. The missus just called to say that she and the rest of the family have decided to get me a drum set for xmas, and that we should go pick it out tonight. She said that the budget is about $400...

http://www.recursor.net/Emmanuel-remix.mp3 (but see below for an updated link) I posted the original of this last year - on this version, I used just my older daughter's vox track (her friend also sang last year). My younger daughter and I added a jingling bell track. My older daughter can't...

If you use a compressor and reverb, say for a subtle effect, on the stereo output buss, which order do you put them in? (or does it depend on which reverb, which compressor, what the settings are, what the desired sound is, etc.?) btw, not that it matters for the question, but I'm using UAD...

If you're in or around Houston and you like jazz at all, you should come to the Trinity Jazz Festival at Trinity Episcopal Church at Main & Holman in the midtown neighborhood. The website is: http://www.trinityjazzfest.net/ We've got some good headliners - Kirk Whalum, Jason Marsalis -- follow...

The Houston Guitar Center on Westheimer is moving locations next week, and they've got some demo stuff on sale - I picked up a pair of Yamaha HS50M monitors that were demos, but in good shape (for $150 for the pair) - I wasn't hurting for new monitors, but I heard these are a good second set...

Alright - I've searched and searched, and found tons of great, completely contradictory information, and so I'm f***n posting. Please accept my heartfelt apology. I needed functional hats, and at the pawn shop yesterday were a pair of Zildjian K Custom Hybrid 13 1/4" hats, and they sold them...

I've been looking around for an 8 ohm cab loaded up with some fairly high wattage speakers to use with this old Yamaha G100 head I picked up (currently at the repair shop - it didn't work). Today, at a pawn shop, I saw a Randall RX120D head and cabinet - they sold it for $300 tax included (so...

all this talk of the Ranch Bowl - https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=281930 - made me remember my syrupy metal ballad remake project, so I dug it up. Since I dropped it last time, I've picked up better monitors and plugs (stock UAD and Stillwell compressor), as well as slightly...

We're considering making a cover of "City of New Orleans" - before I lay down the real tracks - please have a listen to this clip - just the chorus a couple of times. Knowing what works and what doesn't work will be good before we cut the full tracks. We used a new Baby Bottle for all the...

I picked up an old Yamaha G-100 amp head today for a little over $100 - I can't try it out yet, because it wants a 4 or 8 ohm cab, and I don't have one on hand. I'm hoping to get a lot of clean volume so my son can use it with a Tonelab for some gigging he's doing. It looks rugged and well...