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  1. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    Let's parse this out. Recording the finger picking acoustic requires a large dynamic range. Forgetting compression (which can come later) think of your recording in terms of "average" rather than peak. Peaks can be dialed back, but if your losing the "meat" of your picking, you will be hard...
  2. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    I think @Dusty Ol' Bones is spot on. We have not only lost the OP's question, but have descended into a very bad, ugly place. It would be nice if we were to reset, back off the ad hominem attacks, and answer Dusty's question. We can start another thread where we can all beat the crap out of...
  3. Old Music Guy

    Sittin on the dock of the bay cover

    Nice! A tad too fast and too busy. Slow it down, play it straight and put it in the pocket.
  4. Old Music Guy

    Repairing a hissy, crackly VHT Special 6 Ultra

    That's the best thing you possibly could have done. Make it "SEP", someone else's problem.
  5. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    I really have lost touch with OP's question in the original post. It's a basic question. Maybe it would make more sense to look at it backwards. It should be quite easy to mix guitar and vocals AFTER they have been recorded. If they have both been recorded at the same level, and on different...
  6. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    Gut punch, but well deserved. I think, personally, I spend more time worrying about niggling little details that completely drain me of the only thing I really need, and that's creativity. Thanks @Dusty Ol' Bones for the reality check.
  7. Old Music Guy

    Treble bleed circuit

    Just for giggles I just checked the treble roll off on my Epi P90 LP, and a Firefly SG with SD Pearly Gates pups, and noticed the same thing. the next question is do you approach linear pots the same way as log pots?
  8. Old Music Guy

    Treble bleed circuit

    That's a very interesting question. I never really paid any attention to it till now. And now I wonder. My Tele loses its high end when I back off the volume, especially the neck pup. My Strats, which have Seymours, suffer the same. I think it's a good way to go. PITA to do the wiring, but...
  9. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    Yeah, it could. I think if you take into account the latency. i.e. phase shift, at the end of the day, it would significantly reduce the noise. It is being used in automotive applications already. I can't cite anything, but I do remember that noise cancellation tech in the cockpit of an auto...
  10. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    Balanced Line - Wiki "Many explanations of balanced lines assume symmetric signals (i.e. signals equal in magnitude but of opposite polarity) but this can lead to confusion of the two concepts—signal symmetry and balanced lines are quite independent of each other." -G. Ballou, Handbook for Sound...
  11. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    What might be an interesting experiment, and this pretty much how noise-cancelling headphones work. 1. Set up a mic and record a few minutes of just ambient room noise. 2. Record your guitar and singing on separate tracks. 3. Invert the phase on the room recording. 4. Mix them all together on...
  12. Old Music Guy

    Simple question: How many dB to record at?

    What Rob said
  13. Old Music Guy

    Wouldn't It Be Nice...Design Idea

    I think that's for the cables only. True, at 10A @ 230V. Yet still enough for a 3kW fan.
  14. Old Music Guy

    Wouldn't It Be Nice...Design Idea

  15. Old Music Guy

    Wouldn't It Be Nice...Design Idea

    Nice amp!
  16. Old Music Guy

    Wouldn't It Be Nice...Design Idea

    Wouldn't it be nice if amp manufacturers would include an AC outlet on the back of practice amps so you could just plug your pedal board there rather that plug it in to a separate outlet?
  17. Old Music Guy

    When the going gets tough

    Shania Twain. Nothing simple about her.
  18. Old Music Guy

    If you're whistling on a recording, please turn in your mics & headphones...

    I can't whistle. But when I die, I am going to tell Otis Redding what you said, and ask him to haunt you for eternity. :spank:
  19. Old Music Guy

    Is there a 'typical' eq and FX setting for a male vocal?

    You are wise beyond your education.
  20. Old Music Guy

    Is there a 'typical' eq and FX setting for a male vocal?

    Hmmm. "it DON'T". Rather than get into a row about condensers and capacitors, I would much prefer your opinion on your grammar.
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