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I'm replacing all the electrics in an Epiphone Les Paul Custom. It's a great guitar with a great neck, but the electrics, including the pickups, are substandard. I use it for clean, with distortion very rarely. For the single coil sound, I just use an American Tele, so I'm not looking for single...

I've decided I need a quad noise gate, and I'm just starting the research. As near as I can tell, a pair of Drawmers is pretty much the top of the line, but not currently budget compatible. I need to gate the hum out of a couple of guitar amps, and I figure 4 channels will make it possible to...

Hi guys! Well, we've more or less made the decision to upgrade to a Digi 002 (the mixer, not the rack version), and it obviously wants a pretty kickass system (dual processor, 512mb ram, etc.). Well, a Mac would be nice, but I don't think we can swing a G5. I'm fairly computer ignorant...

If any of you have experience with higher end Epiphone Les Paul Customs, I recently picked one up as part of a guitar trade. Gold covers, typical of humbuckers. Now I also have a cheap Epiphone SG knockoff in which I have mounted the reissue classic 57 humbuckers from an SG Supreme, which I...

Sorry about posting this on this forum, but when I tried the marketing and publicity forum, the nice server wants me to download the great nonexistent file I'm sure y'all have run into. Well, anyway, I've said for a long time I would do this when the time was right, and it is now. I've got...

I'm getting a Digi 002 soon, and have decided to pair it up with a dedicated Mac. Now, we've got a list of minimum system requirements. My wife is the IT manager of a Fortune 500 company, so we know we can weasel good prices, that's not really the issue. However, we don't want to get more (or...

I just started using an old Roberts open reel, made by Akai, mostly for pulling archived material off a bunch of ancient tapes. One thing that is missing is the caps that hold the reels in place on the spindles. I've got it jury rigged right now, but does anyone know where I might be able to...

Well, we're starting to plot out the next upgrade, the last for a while I bet. Most of the items are already set, but I'm torn on a main vocal mic addition. I'd like to keep it at or under $2000. I'm looking for versatility and a good complement to the existing cabinet. Yeah, I know any vocal...

Yo guys! I think I could use a little tech support here. I just came into possession of a Roberts 1725- 8L III. First, does anyone have any idea where I can track down owner's or repair manuals for this antique? What I know is this- It was made by Akai for the American market. It's...

Well, after 16 hours of manual dumping, we finally have managed to export the raw tracks of a 13 song CD from a VS1824CD to Pro Tools. Woo Hoo. What a royal pain in the ass! We had to use the metronome in my Korg PXR4 to put a click track on track 1, then track copy it to all the other tracks...

I'm considerinf a Decca Tree to record a full orchestra. My omni options are limited. I have a pair of C-4's, B.L.U.E. Kiwi, AKG C414B-ULS, and a SP C-3. Do all three mics need to be the same, or would the C-4's work with the 414? Also, the Decca Tree seems like a violation of the 3:1 rule. I...

My God! On New Year's Eve, I get to record 2 full orchestras at Mechanic's Hall in Worcester Mass.! Your basic 35 million dollar facility, orchestras from Europe pay thousands to record there. I also get to jack into their patch bay and their built in mic clusters from hell! I could use their...

I've been enjoying the "short list of gear not to buy". How about a list of gear that almost nobody mentions, but is cheap and works? Everybody's got some favorites. Now I'm not talking about, say Shure SM57, which almost everybody knows is cheap and works. Here are a few of mine: AKG...

Oops, I posted this in the mixing/mastering forum. Let's try again- We've posted up several more of the house mixes. As before- these are rough house mixes of Sahara-dry raw tracks. No panning, EQ, FX/reverb, compression, except on electric guitar. That would be the mixing engineer's job. We...

I'm starting to plan the next studio upgrade, which is the back end. I'm contemplating a dedicated hard disc recorder such as Alesis HD24. What I need to figure out is what kind of console to go through, and how to export those tracks in a format that can be understood by a Pro Tools based...

Can one of the advanced gear heads here describe the principles of operation of a crystal mic in terms this ignorant peon has some chance to understand? Also, are they still made, and what, if any, recording applications do they have? Are there any multipolar versions? The ones I've seen are...

Well, the next song is up, but I'm getting various amounts of skipping. It seems to occur at different points during each playback, so I think it's not a problem with my upload. Anybody have insight into this problem? We're a little new to this MP3 thing, so it could be something we're doing...

We're sort of posting up pieces of the house mono mix. We'll probably link to our web site tomorrow and put up another. Somebody wanted to hear what I think NTK is good for. Well, here it is- into Joemeek twinQ. The backing vocals on both girls were done with Oktava MK319 into the Joemeek...

Well, we're almost there. I've seen a lot of side banter, but no real thread for this question. We've almost got the raw tracks done, and assuming I like the first pass on a couple of songs, looks like Littledog will be doing the mixing. So- I'm going to need a mastering house. Like every...

OK- Now it's time to take a poke at Richie. God knows I've been brutal on those rare occasions when I had something to say. Understand this. The cut is not *mixed*. It is a mono house mix. There is absolutely no panning, no EQ, no reverb, no compression. I could easily make this stuff sound...