The Gotoh vintage style tuners fit exactly and preserve the look but but tune much more precisely. Please don't go hacking up your guitar. Grovers nowadays are nothing special anyway.
We got a Tama Stagestar for the music room and it's a decent starter set for the price and has a small footprint. Not too loud either. The cymbals are junk but a couple of used Sabian Manhattans did the trick.
I had an i5 and it doesn't have much in common with the sm-57. Big, loose bass response, brittle highs, lot's of handling noise. Maybe that's why the price has dropped so much.
Most pros use baking soda and superglue. Rub a little baking soda into the slot and hit it with superglue. That combination does something chemically to really harden up.
There was a lot of talk about this one a few weeks ago. Surely some of you guys just bought one? How close do they get to the classic ribbon sound? Self-noise?
Monitors are Yorkvilles though I'm thinking about the RP5s. Should I put foam on the wall behind them?
Those IKEA mounts look pretty cool, Parts Express has a few options as well.
I'm really tight for space and wonder if there would be much difference in my current situation of having monitors on a small table right against a wall or getting them off the table onto wall brackets to free up some room???