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I watched a video a while back where the guys that made the Roswellite ribbon mics (before selling the designs to Shure) had one of their ribbon motors on a table hooked up to a DC power source. (Again, not something that really happens in the real world unless the mic is wired incorrectly) When...

Ribbons and moving coil mics are different types of dynamic. There is a slight chance of damaging a ribbon if the ribbon motor sees phantom power, which is unlikely but possible I guess. Note that active ribbon mics need phantom. Passive types generally use a transformer between the output and...

For some guitar sounds the amp is an integral part of the sound of the instrument. If you're chugging you might be able to do that with an amp sim if you're monitoring the sound. Off a clean DI? No feel. If you have something like a Fender tweed or Marshall that's on the edge of breakup where...

Here's a video that I found with measurements for correct nut height as well as some other interesting stuff.

Unless it's obviously damaged in some way you might consider replacing the nut if it's not made from bone or Tusq for tone reasons. There is a way to check the relief of the nut with feeler gages. Stew Mac and others have some good videos on youtube. If it's too tall it will be difficult to fret...

The only flats I've played are the Thomastiks. They're expensive but they last for years. They actually have decent midrange. I wouldn't call them bright but they're definitely not boomy and tubby the way some flats can sound. They're also very low tension and will crap out if you dig in too...

No, the half rounds have a substantial flat portion. Didn't chew the board at all. I believe they were designed with fretless in mind.

Really? The JTM 45 was the first one, followed by in no specific order the JMP series of lead, bass and PA heads, plus the Marshall Major. People started modding their plexis to do various things differently so Marshall introduced the JMP 2203 and 2204 heads which were basically the plexi with...

Things I might try, in general: Avoid stainless rounds. Pure Nickel would probably be the softest option. Oil the fretboard if it's not laquered. Laquer the fretboard. I haven't used roundwounds on my fretless. The Thomastic flats on there now sound great. Better than the D'Addario half...

I'm certainly not an expert but I believe the "considered opinion" could change depending on who you're talking to. The JTM 45 began life as a Fender Bassman clone. I think a significant difference between Fender vs. Marshall sound in general has to do with negative feedback and midrange. I...

It surprised me a bit to listen to isolated bass tracks of Beatles music to find that often there's mild but quite noticeable overdrive happening. It's not that obvious in the full mix, but the bass sits well and plays nice with everything else. It's one of the things I like about the GK RB...

"Baking" is making the audio crunchy from either tracking too hot or compressing the life out of it to make it loud. It's added distortion that you can't get rid of if the tracks were printed or rendered that way. If you have tracks that were recorded a little bit too low, turning them up in...

Given 2 files of the same length in time and same bit depth, eg. 24/48 and 24/96, the one sampled at 96k will be twice the size of the one at 48k. Computer horsepower keeps improving, but once you mix a session with a lot of tracks and a lot of plugin processing going on, the 96k file has twice...

Any idea what sample rate you were using with the Line 6? I'm just asking because it seemed like you were at 96k with the Scarlett. Wondering if backing that down to 44.1 or 48 might have an effect on the static. 96k sampling makes huge files and chews resources a lot faster. Maybe the glitch is...

Basically, sort of. So we need this thing called "headroom" over the +4 analog average line level as a place for the peaks to sit. If you clip (distort) the analog side of your signal through your mic preamp or converters before it gets to digital, that distortion gets baked in. Even if the...

Yeah, the center scale on that fader is dBFS. Once you're in the computer it's not dBu or dBV anymore. dBFS means decibels, full scale. It's how we read digital signals after they're converted. Beyond zero there is nothing so all hell breaks loose and you get harsh digital clipping. (This is why...

Gain staging 101: If the 6i6 is like the unit I've seen, the ring around the preamp gain control is the clip indicator. It should light up green when there's signal and red when you clip. Are you seeing it turn red? If so, that means you're exceeding 0 dBFS. Reaper is showing you dBFS. It...

There's some kind of static thing happening. Other than that it sounds like a fairly clean guitar. What level is Reaper showing you on input?

20 Hz to 20 kHz is generally considered to be the range of human hearing. This is frequency range, not dynamic range. Means we can't hear frequencies lower than 20 cycles per second or higher than 20,000 cycles per second. To the best of my knowledge, the Avalon unit is a channel strip without...