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Well, on Saturday, I'm going to be doing something the wrong way, and I have very little experience with it, so anybody's input may give me useful ideas. It's a live studio recording of a 4 piece band in a very small room. The band is acoustic guitar/vocalist, electric lead, electric bass, and a...

Well, as some of you may recall, I picked up a Baby Bottle in a mic trade that went rather awry. It originally belonged to Big Kenny, then passed into the hands of Sonarman (not to be confused with Sonusman). He traded it to me for an AKG C2000B and a Studio Projects C-3. It was advertised as...

Holy cow. When I made my first album last year, I asked a friend of mine who is a pro to do the photography, and she refused to let us pay her, except film and developing, but she said "I have a favor to ask you- I have this friend Kath who sings, and I always wanted a decent recording of her...

Looks like I've been living right! I was tracking my friend Wendy on Sunday. She's a poet and a professor, a specialist in Old English and Middle English. Her dad died recently. He was a classical and jazz musician, and her mother and Wendy want to give me his whole mic collection, over 40 mics...

I'm looking into buying an electric piano for the studio. It will be used only for recording, should have both midi and digital/analog output capabilities, and fully weighted keys. It really only needs to be *a piano*, simulating the sound of the real thing as much as possible, we don't need a...

As some of you may have read on this board, I recently negotiated a mic deal with Sonarman, trading a well cared for Studio Projects C-3 and an AKG C2000B for a B.L.U.E. Baby Bottle supposedly in good condition. My mics were shipped, received, and checked out fine. Well, I received the Baby...

Well we have more or less completed the upgrade. Before- I had an ugly little room. Now- I have an ugly little room with a boatload of gear! We have just completed shots of the new work station, and upgraded mic cabinet and guitar collection. Time for the Pro Tools learning curve. Here's the...

I bought my first electric back in 1972, an old Gibson hollow body. I'm not even sure of the model. Body like an ES335, no center block, one dog-ear P-90, sunburst, with the finish checking from hell. The tuners were shot, so I put some Grovers on it. I had to replace the first 7 frets, worn...

I just put a deposit on a new Epiphone Casino with dogear P-90's. My experience with prior Epiphones is that the Koreans build some very good axes, but the pickups have always been substandard, and I replace them as a matter of course. Now I know Seymour Duncan makes some replacements, about $75...

I'm not sure what the deal is, but out of the blue, my local Guitar Center seems to have gotten a shipment of Oktava mics. I think they have about 7 or 8 MC012's and 3 or four MK319's. I think I can get the 012's for $60 apiece, and the 319's for $99. I don't know if this is happening elsewhere...

Well, I've just made the transition to a Digi002 and the computer from hell, and the learning curve begins in earnest now. My first impression is that evrybody who knows anything about anything seems to think that T-Racks sucks big time as an EQ plugin. I'm looking at suggestions for cheap...

Woo Hoo! Just got in the Music XPC C2 to talk to Digi002. Formatting complete, plug ins loaded, firmware upgraded to bleeding edge. Dual hard drives, 3 gig pentium IV, only one silence fan, units talking to each other. Amplitube, Reason,T-rack all functional. Aside from the annoyance of pulling...

I have a Carver PM125 power amp, which while small, meets the studio's needs. I don't use it to drive my monitors, which are active. I use it with POD Pro, VAMP Bass Pro, and VAMP-2 to drive a Marshall 1X12 cab with a Celestion vintage 30 or an Ampeg 1X10 bass extension cab for a variety of...

Well, my brother, who is estranged from the family, wherabouts unknown, used to be a kickass bass player. I used to mess with his Les Paul studio bass when he wasn't around, so I figured it would be cool to have a bass in the studio. Unfortunately as we are in the final stages of a studio...

Well, I had actually placed the order for a pair of Schoeps CMC 64's, and Macmidimusic called me back and told me Schoeps had raised the price without telling them. From $2165 to $2500. I even offered to split the difference at $2300, but no way. So I cancelled the order. That puts them out of...

Well, the upgrade's almost complete. I just got the Digi002. The computer from hell is not in house yet, so I'm playing around with the Digi002 as a standalone mixer, which I intend to use as the front end of a kickass remote recording rig. Here's the plan- 2 KM184's into an Avalon AD2022 into...

I just got booked for a series of live performances as a solo gig (cool- real money!), and it's been a while, I've been concentrating on recording. Now it's time to promote the album a wee bit. I'm using a Fender PD-250 Passport, with a Taylor 710CE/Fishman stereo blender, a Telecaster with or...

I recently aquired a tele which I like very much. Problem- I get audible crackle when I touch the strings, especially with the pick. This is much more pronounced when the neck pickup is engaged. None of my guitars with humbuckers do this. The cable is a Monster heavy duty keyboard cable, and I...

Well I just sniped an Audio Logic (DOD by any other name) quad noise gate for $56, and it seems to be in good working order. It has no manual of course. My experience with gating is limited to the gate in my Korg PXR-4 Pandora (which is a very useful tool, BTW). I understand threshold expressed...

I've been looking around for something thats not so easy to find. A good micro bass extension cab. All it needs to do is be appropriate for practice, be 8 ohms, and handle about 50-60 watts in a 1X10 or 1X12 configuration. In other words, a practice amp without the amp. I intend to drive it with...