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I've been thinking about expanding my patchbay setup and in the process redoing a lot of the wiring in my studio with cables i will make myself. however, i have a couple important questions: 1. regarding the type of cable i buy - should i definitely buy bulk cable with braided copper...

yeah i'm looking for noticable distortion, not just nice and warm. "total garbage" might do the job. thanks for the help, i just wanted to make sure i wasn't going to wreck all my gear when experimenting with this.

here's my question - will sending a very hot signal into a tape machine end up frying its electronics? I am getting ready to do an all-analog recording of a band that likes a very lo-fi, blown out sound, and i'm expecting some serious tape compression to help me get that sound. i'll be doing...

i guess i'm thinking of using this mostly for vocals and drums, since with guitars i've got the amp distortion right there to fiddle around with, but i still like the idea of recording a distorted guitar through a distorted/overdriven preamp, just to make it extra raw sounding. a related...

i need some schooling about the different types of preamps and the gain staging within them. specifically, i want to buy a preamp that i can drive hard to get some distortion, but still control the output level into my computer/tape machine. should any preamp with two gain stages be able to do...

thanks for all the advice. just what i was hoping for.

sorry, i did say "slow droning guitar stuff", which i assumed would indicate something different than, you know, Metallica or Linkin Park or something by asking this question in the first place, i was hoping to benefit from other people's knowledge and experience and learn something. do you...

look i wasn't trying to be rude by pooh poohing these responses, but it sounded like none of the people responding had any experience actually doing this, so i'll take their warnings with a grain of salt. and like you said, 99.9% of the people here are used to american blues-based stuff, which...

so far the only advice i've gotten is "it will sound muddy" and "it's pointless". i realize it will sound muddy! and it's not pointless - 50 guitar tracks sounds a lot different than 3 or 4 guitar tracks. please tell me why you are all so set on stopping me from doing this? the very...

Glenn Branca and i'm asking questions on this forum to see if anyone has any helpful advice, not "that's ridiculous, don't do it".

because i like how it sounds. i just need a way to get it to mesh with the part before it, EQ wise. and so you know, this is a guitar-only drone type thing, i'm not putting 50 layers of guitar over a rock song with drums and bass and vocals etc. i really don't know why you're all so offended...

i'm not doing that many layers just to get the sound to be "full", i'm doing it so that the sound goes beyond sounding like guitars. a special effect.

So i have yet another question about guitar layering: i want to record a song that has between 50-100 simultaneous and (mostly) identical guitar tracks. relatively clean tone, slow droning stuff. i know i should be switching guitars/amps/mics/preamps as much as possible, but is there any...

cool. is there any way to know if it's not working properly? or is it the the kind of thing that will work fine for a minute until it breaks the motor or something terrible?

here's my situation - i have a 10.5" take up reel with the large center hole for use with a nab hub adapter, but the 10.5" RMGI tape i bought has a thin (i think it's called "cine"?) center hole, like most 7" reels, although it seems that the size of the area in the center of the reel that has...

thanks guys, i'll leave the other adjustments alone. anyway the deck is acting weird so i might end up needing to bring it in to a professional after all...

i haven't noticed the deck having any serious problems, mainly i just want to learn the process so i can KNOW there's nothing goofing up, instead of just assuming, and so i don't have to worry about paying someone else to do it down the road.

I just got a Revox B77 mk2 and i'm trying to figure out the whole alignment process. the first problem i've run into is this - the B77 service manual does not show how to adjust the wrap, zenith, or head height of the heads, only the azimuth. each head also has a different number of adjustment...

thanks for the help everyone. i think i have the whole process pretty much figured out now, i just wanted to make sure i didn't end up throwing down a bunch of cash for testing equipment i didn't absolutely need.

would it work to run the tones through the meter bridge on my Mackie 8 bus? or are those meters not accurate enough?