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I'm contemplating upgrading my hi-hats. Currently, my kit has a mixture of various cymbals, but the majority of them are Pulse 357s (custom made for Musician's Friend with the Paiste M63 brass alloy). They've been described as being basically the same as the Paiste 302 series, so that should...

Has anyone tried using two figure-8 ribbons in an X-Y (Blumlein) configuration for drum overheads? How about in a M-S configuration? Any tips/thoughts? I'm sure the room acoustics are much more important than with cardoid SDCs, but beyond a high ceiling, what else should I worry about? I'm...

So at this point, my studio is torn down. I can't get two pieces of S/PDIF gear to lock to each other. System is a quad G5 running Mac OS X 10.4.6 (was running 10.4.3 until about halfway through today's debugging session from hell). M-Audio FireWire 1814 Presonus FirePod If I set the FirePod...

Got a FirePod, so I no longer need this mixer. For sale: Mackie CR1604 mixer OTTO-1604 (mix automation board/control box) RotoPod (rotates the jacks, custom modded to hold the OttoMix jack in place) OTTO board recently calibrated to level out the main outputs. (That was good for a...

If I were planning to replace the transformer in my Nady RSM-2 with one with less HF roll-off, what transformer would folks suggest? I particularly liked the Shinybox Lundahl samples, so I'm looking for something with that sort of sound, but which Lundahl transformer? LL2911, maybe? Ideas?

I have a pair of old audio input transformers that I'd like to use in a tube preamp I'm building, but I've been running into problems connecting them. They are designed to be mounted with four screws, about an inch apart, and have seven pins in the middle. The pins are not arranged like a tube...

I'm selling a never-used copy of Cubase SX 1.0, complete with dongle. I bought it through a cross-promotion with my employer a few years ago. I opened the box, saw the dongle inside, closed the box, and it has been sitting on my shelf ever since. :o This is a good way to try Cubase SX and...

Our church does gigs every few months with a small choir and a live band. The band plays loudly enough that the singers can't hear themselves without the monitors, and we can't seem to get the singers hot enough in the monitor mix for them to sing comfortably without massive feedback. So I'm...

I have this bizarre urge to rip a mic apart and hack in a new capsule, say a Peluso CEK-89. Does the capsule in most phantom powered mics typically run at 48v? Is there any trick to doing such a substitution, or is it largely just a matter of swapping the wires (assuming the original capsule...

Now that my quad G5 is set up, I'm selling my (late 2003) PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz on eBay. Short version of the specs: Dual 2GHz PPC970 1.5GB RAM 250GB HD 4x Superdrive (DVD-R) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5857634306

So I just moved to a new G5 and Antares seems to want me to spend more money to buy a &@(&#$^&*#@$ iLok for the "privilege" of continuing to use their software. From a philosophical point of view, I am fundamentally opposed to hardware copy protection, and I do not knowingly purchase software...

I'd thought about doing this a long time ago, but my new graphics card forced the issue. It's an NVidia 7800 GT (with a fan), sitting in my new PowerMac G5 quad. Everything else in the machine is quiet as a mouse. *sigh* The temptation to unplug the GPU fan is substantial, but I like my...

I needed to build a custom patch panel with 16 Neutrik XLR/TRS connectors and a connector for headphones. Step 1: buy stuff 16 x Neutrik XLRF/TRS panel-mount connectors. 1 x 1/4" stereo connector. 1 x roll of 500 feet of cable. 1 x chassis punch Step 2: hook stuff up By the time I actually...

I keep getting annoyed by the cheap throne that came with my set. It squeaks at the slightest motion. I've added some felt in certain places to reduce it, but it still sometimes squeaks annoyingly. Every throne I find in web store searches either has nearly zero customer comments or has a...

So I have some hardware on order, and the company threw in a free AT2020, and now I'm trying to decide what to do with it---mod it, use it as-is, sell it on eBay, blunt object, nail insertion, etc. Does anyone have any thoughts as to how that mic would complement my current collection? My...

I'm considering building a tube preamp (non-starved plate). Here's the schematic I'm basing it on: http://www.tubecad.com/october99/page15.html The design is kind of nice in that I can use a common 110/220V transformer with center taps ($12) and a full wave bridge to get a close...

The one thing that's been bugging me a lot is this: I have all these microphones. With the exception of a few cheap dynamics and condensers, most either: A. Use a special oversized mic clip (VP88) B. Use a special undersized mic clip (my old stereo mic) C. Use a special shock mount (Studio...

Five commandments: 1. Write eight lines at a time. 2. Humor is good and pleasing in my sight. 3. Spanking is bad. Thou shalt not spank before me. 4. It's a 12-bar blues style for which the rhyme scheme is: A B C B D E F E*. 5. The final line (*) in every octuplet shall be "so...

I'm looking for a splash cymbal that better complements my crashes, a set of Pulse 357s.... I'm not sure quite how to describe it beyond that they have a fairly full sound... meaty, I guess.... Right now, I have this awful Pearl 10" splash that sounds like a pie pan. The decay is completely...

My mic setup: Nady DM-90 kick mic, a pair of Nady CM-90 overheads, and a $10-ish AKG dynamic for a snare mic, from the top. On the whole, I like the sound. I'm doing a little mid-range boost on the overheads to bring out the toms (and gating and EQing the heck out of the snare mic, but I don't...