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Nice playing, btw.

Here’s someone who has definitely mastered channeling the feel and tone of the original artist

At the risk of being a bad guy……Here it comes. You’re wasting your time with fiddling with tone knobs and mic placement. No amount of ‘eq fixes’ will fix the lack of confidence that comes through in your recordings. You need to work on your playing. There have been plenty of of suggestions...

Sounds like the middle pickup is out of phase with the humbuckers. As to the 3 wire humbucker….. it used to be that splitting a pickup used 4 wires. Two were soldered together and when they touched ground it shorted out one coil giving you a single coil sound. 3 wire is the same thing, it’s...

Can’t help with vocals but great job on the tune so far.

I don’t think the new tape would be sticky. You have a clean tape path? Here’s a wild guess but who knows….. Might need new belts? As the belts heat up they start slipping. After it cools down they work for a bit until they heat up again. Belts do stretch out and heat has an effect on them...

I bet it’s sticky shed.

I think there’s some users of this machine on this forum. Came across this video might be useful.

The playing is a bit rough, but your tone is better than some previous clips you put up. So, there is improvement!

People starting a thread, especially those asking for help, and NOT contributing to their own thread is disrespectful in my opinion. But on the flip side, member responses may help others. So it’s not a total waste.

I’ve always had better luck recording with a smaller body acoustic.

One can get too carried away. You end up putting a magnifying glass on just your guitar sound. The important thing is how it fits and sounds in the mix. I’ve heard many isolated guitar tones that on their own sound like garbage, but in the mix sound great.

I still have one in my rack. I like it.

2 and 4 are my personal favorite strat positions. Number 4 was Rory Gallagher’d favorite position. :thumbs up:

@famous beagle 15minutes with a soldering iron will tell you more than all the posts on this thread. :D

Great tune.

I have a strat with a Duncan hot rails. I reversed the hot rails. No more out of phase. But it was in position 4. Is your out of phase in position 2?

Then it would be just like a normal vintage strat with no hum canceling in positions 2 and 4.

Yes. Reverse wind is to create the noise cancellation when in the number two position. Reverse polarity creates the out of phase which is giving you your thin sound. It’s not so obvious when paired up with a humbucker, but sounds horrible with single coils (my opinion. Some may like that sound)

For me a patchbay is invaluable. I’m running 16 tracks of tape, 2 interfaces, one 8 channel and one 16 channel. Cable runs are real short, and being able to plug in and out, where and what I want without going to the back of the mixer is priceless. But this thread isn’t about me and how I use...