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Just bought my bandmate's Ampeg SVT-II head, as he's moving away and will probably be playing mainly jazz in the future, so he's going to get something with a different sound. He let it go for $575 with a road case. It's got 300 all-tube watts, and it sounds fat as all hell. Now I need to...

The bass player in one of the bands I'm in is moving away pretty soon, and he's reluctantly decided to sell his Ampeg SVT head. He said he'd be willing to let it go to me for $550. Having heard the thing every practice for about 2 1/2 years now, I know the thing is in nice shape and sounds...

OK, I've been doing this home recording stuff for a little while now, and I feel that I've got the basics more or less down (mostly thanks to advice picked up here). For example, my first move in any recording situation is to use a 57 on guitar amps, toms, and snares. I almost always use...

I went to the music store just to browse around, and a sign caught my eye. "Modified Gibson Les Paul Studio with ATA flight case on consignment - $400". I took a closer look, and somebody had modified the neck so it was skinnier. I asked the salesman what the hell happened to this guitar, and...

I'm going to be doing a recording of my friend's jazz quartet soon (2 saxes, bass & drums). I've only done rock before, but I'm looking forward to doing this. Am I correct in thinking that the best first step in recording a small jazz group is to put up a pair of condensers and then add mics...

My band, Genital Hercules, does a lot of cover songs in concert. Most of these are obscure songs that we feel deserve the light of day or oddball things like the Price is Right theme or Madonna songs. We do this song called 'Tits' by Sparks, which is a great and unfortunately obscure band...

Anybody know of any good ones? When I record my band's CD, we probably won't want a huge run--maybe 300 copies at the most. Does anybody know of a good service to work through for this? We'd want some packaging, too--probably a two panel insert with full color.

Lately my PC has started hanging for a while at bootup at the stage where it says "detecting IDE drives". There are some funny squeaky noises, and eventually there's a spinning-up sound and a click, and then the drives are displayed like normal. Sometimes the spinning-up doesn't happen until...

Hey all, I've been so busy finishing up my last semester of school that I've barely had time to record anything, much less come here. But here's something I got recorded at the end of January. It's a bit overcompressed, as I'm still learning how to use Ozone well. Nonetheless, I sort of like...

God damn. This album sounds so good.

OK, can anybody tell me what kind of demonic curse would cause my Strat-knockoff's electronics to make LESS noise when the ground wire is NOT connected? Seriously! I still can't find the problem in the damn thing. When I wire it up as normal, I get a hum that gets louder if you touch the...

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I have a Peavey Predator (Strat copy) that has a problem that I can't resolve. It started as a hum manifesting itself intermittently while playing--the hum would cut out the signal coming from the pickups, and if I banged on the knobs with my hand it would usually go back to normal. Now it...

The time has come for me to learn how to mix vocals better. I'm having trouble with vocals getting in the way of the music--I want both to be heard. What EQ steps should I take?

I'm working on an EP for a punk band called Back Door Betty. The singer and drummer from my own band Genital Hercules are in this band. Here's a partial rough mix of a tune we're working on. There's going to be another guitar on here, but the other guitar player hasn't come in yet. It has...

OK, I'm entertaining the idea of moving from my Boss ME-30 + various stompboxes to a rack unit (plus my wah, of course). A used Digitech 2112 looks to be a good deal. However, it's not near me, and I can't try it out. The singer in my band does have a Digitech 2101, which he's loaning me so I...

The bass player in my band has a terrible time with blisters on his pickin' hand. I don't know how much he practices outside of band practice, but he says that no matter how much he plays he doesn't build up calluses there or something, and he always winds up with nasty ugly blisters after...

The bass player in one of my bands has a really nice Ampeg 600 watt tube head. I've heard him and the drummer make declarations like "of course, 600 watts of tube power is equivalent to 1200 watts of solid state power". Now, I'm aware that, say, a 30 watt class A tube system (like a Vox AC30)...

Most people here are saying thin cymbals crack easier. I would be inclined to agree, except I have a friend who's been drumming for 15 years or so, and has broken a hell of a lot of cymbals. He claims that thin cymbals will last longer because they vibrate more freely, and don't absorb so much...

I got the parts in the mail today: AthlonXP 1500+ (1.33 GHz), Thermaltake Volcano 6, Abit KG7 (AMD760 chipset), 512 MB of PC2100 RAM, and some nice thermal compound to bond those components. I'm putting it in my old case and using my old power supply, drives, and cards. The old setup was a 700...