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I've been recording my friend's band lately and I'm running no than 8-9 tracks. 4 drums, 2 rhythm guitars, 1 bass and a vocal or two. No plugins are running, rather I have them directly on the .wav file. I've found sometimes the song likes to randomly start making weird noises and screwing up...

How would you solder together a simple cable splitter? I basically need to make a single male RCA go to two separate female RCAs. Do the wires from each female RCA solder onto the single male RCA? I'm not sure if you can solder two sets of wires onto a single tip and sleeve for the male RCA...if...

The very, very rough mix: http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=4457 The situation: The only recordings I normally do are by myself and it's just me spending a lot of time trying to get the sound as best as I can with what I have. Some friends I played with in different bands at my...

Looking for a pair of MXL603's. Doesn't matter if they are matched or not.

I've owned this Farfisa console organ for maybe 2 years now? Something like that. Anyway, it's always been in good working order, with the except of some of the lower keys being quiet/dead. It's a double manual, and I tend to only use the upper anyway. Today I noticed the red power button is not...

I recorded a drummer today, and it had been a while since I recorded but I've still been sorting out my levels and dBVU and FS and all that stuff. I use a 1010lt and board outs from each channel are unbalanced I believe. So I'm unbalanced to unbalanced. The first two inputs are balanced, so I'm...

This is kind of a bizarre question. A friend wants me to try taking their voice and making it sound like Darth Vader. I have various wav files of him breathing, but I can't really get a good sound out of the voice. I haven't tried it on anything we want yet, just an old clip of him talking...

Hi guys, I was in a local thrift store the other day (not by choice), and I found they had this big old speaker column used as a PA speaker years ago. Now, I know I always stumble across old crap, but it was pretty cheap enough. I asked if it worked but the employee didn't know anything and ran...

This is in regards to the "recording volume" thread. I did a test today. I stuck a mic in front of a fairly constant signal and watched where it peaked. On my board's meters, I set it to peak at just about 0dB. On my card's software (Delta 1010lt), which has meters on it, it peaked around -18...

I have had these POS drums for about 4-5 years now, and they have their issues. Tiny splits in shells, stripped lugs. Pretty cheap. My cymbals and hardware are excellent though. Just the shells (lugs, rims too) that suck. Anyway, I decided to try to tune them yesterday. I took off my 12" tom...

I'm looking to buy some decent iso. headphones for tracking. Because of how I have to route cabling to my other room due to me sharing space with the rest of the house, I need a pretty long cord to go out to where the instruments are. My mic cables are all 50 feet. Anyway, when I buy the...

My friend has this (low end) Peavey guitar he's been using for a couple of years now. He still does events at our church using it, and it constantly dies on him and the drummer's dad has to come in and solder the jack back together. I was over at his place yesterday and I guess the guitar had...

Someone picked me up a soldering gun and I know that soldering irons are better for electronics. All I'll really be using it on is probably cables, but I'm not sure if it's worth taking back or not. It's labelled as a "Pistol Grip Soldering Iron" and doesn't look as a bulky as some other guns...

The knobs for my faders have seen better days. I want to buy some new ones, but they aren't made anymore. I've been directed to a few electronic supply sites, but none seem to carry any fader knobs. Yorkville says their new knobs wouldn't fit my old stem. I've been searching for a couple days...

I picked up this Farfisa console organ last year and I noticed that is lacked a grounding plug. It *was* a three prong plug, but some previous owner must of somehow taken it off. Should this be a big concern about damaging the organ? The organ also buzzes when the volume pedal is shifted up...

I posted a few weeks ago about my bass amp (Sonax 550-B from '73, nothing special). I got it back from somebody who had it for about 6 months because my brother left it down there at a practice and it's difficult to make a trip down there. Anyway, when I turned on the amp it would make a large...

My fiance picked up some cleaner when she went out today. I wrote down CAIG MCL, to see if Home Depot had any, but apparently the guy there said they didn't, but said this stuff is the same deal. It says "Switch & Contact Cleaner" and also "Use on all types of electrical switches, contacts and...

I want to buy some Caig MCL to lubricate my fader pots, but I have no idea who carries them. I don't think Radio Shack/Source does...does any major place?

I have an old early '70s Sonax bass amp made by Yorkville. I got it for free pretty much. When I got it, I put a new Eminence speaker in because the old one was blown. At one point I killed it, because I accidently unscrewed a screw in the back which held the grounding wire. My father in law...

If you've read my other thread in here on soldering, you'll know I am just starting out. This isn't something I'll be tackling anytime really soon, but I'd just like to know how I'd do it beforehand. I have two cheap snakes I use for going between my board and computer, and they suck. Cheap...