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Back in 2006 I had surgery on my fretboard hand that caused me to not play guitar and I thought I was done for good. I still wanted to play something and I had a lap steel guitar the was given to me that I did not play so I thought I would give it a go. I was able to hold the bar so I started...

That's a great video. I play lap steel, which is a whole other animal, and I would love to play pedal steel as well but I just can't justify the time investment considering how much use I would actually get out of it. Your video is good reinforcement for that!

I know people (including my wife) who only like songs with vocals and put high priority on the meaning of the lyrics. I know other people who prefer instrumentals. Others could care less either way and I even know one person who doesn't like music at all (no music, how can that even be possible!)

Here's another suggestion, buy another one and use both for when you need the extra power. A few years ago I bought a 15 watt Fender amp that I really liked so I bought a second one so that I could play in stereo and I found that using both together is a lot louder. Having two amps has other...

My basement music room is similar but a bit bigger at 15x20. I finished 2 rooms that are about the same size and used 2x4 studs for the walls and covered with 1/4" paneling. the difference between the two is that I used r19 pink insulation for the ceiling and walls in the music room to cut down...

Haha, I also have MDRV6's that I bought in the early 90's and I replaced the pads years ago with actual Beyerdynamic pads and they are excellent!

My room is not properly treated but because of all of the "stuff" in the room there is not much noticeable reflection. That said I hear the room when I'm recording more than when I'm mixing. Just my assumption, but I think it has to do with the mic picking up whatever reflections are bouncing...

That's my problem, I do not have a great sounding room so omni's don't sound good unless it's really close and at close distances I have other mic's that sound better.

That's what my boost is for ???

You can have the gain anywhere you want but I set my levels to work with my guitar volume when all pedals are off.

I currently have six pedals on my board, not including the passive volume pedal, and those six all have level controls. There are three distortion type pedals, a boost and two multi effects pedals. I play though a variety of amps and the level of every pedal needs to be set for each of the amps...

No but I have been using them more for recording other things lately. At one time I know I tried using SDC's on vocals but I need to try again with different mic positions, etc.

I see what you did there.

Yeah I thought the same thing when I watched the video and Gibson is the same. There are a ton of guitars going out somewhere and when you think of all of the manufacturers mass producing guitars it's mind boggling. I was also surprised at how much hand work still goes into each build.

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Yup, one message, ha! The OP may have read the responses and not replied. Nice.

Thanks for that detailed response. I will try it but sounds like I'll end up sticking to a dedicated de-esser for that task.

In the other thread one of the posters mentioned using an MBC as a de-esser. I have used de-esser plugins and/or EQ to tame esses but I would like to explore using an MBC but how does that work? I assume I would create a band for the offending frequency range but what settings would tame them...

I think it mostly comes from lack of understanding and the fact that a MBC is more complicated to use than a standard compressor. OK, maybe I'm just talking about myself. In all honesty it took me a good while to get the hang of using a standard compressor and even when I thought I had it down...

Nice score snowman. If you want info go to steelguitarforum.com. The guys there know everything. If you want to test it you can plug it into the instrument input on an interface or mixer if you don't have an amp.