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i have a firepod that i run with mac osx tiger. it works wonderfully. i have my monitors plugged into the firepod and i can use it as my traditional soundcard. this works out really well since i'm on a powerbook. so if i want to listen to some music on something better than laptop speakers i can...

you have nothing against overseas gear and i have nothing against CNC machined products. in fact the CNC neck and body are far more accurate than a hand cut piece of wood. when certain companies claim to make hand built guitars i think that means that the guitars are assembled by hand. it...

i disagree completely. for one, it depends on what kind of sound you want. i got an amazing overdrive tone out of my fender 79 princeton by using a tubescreamer and a blues driver. i think it would have taken me a long time to get a sound even close to that out of an amp modeller. i mic'ed it...

the biggest difference i've found between the epiphones and gibsons is durability. i've played a lot of epi's that felt alright brand new, they even sounded good. however, given a few years they seem to fall apart. i'm 6 years strong on my LP studio. it still feels great. however, i have friends...

i read somewhere that the new v76t is transformer coupled like the v77. so now i guess the question is mainly about the diaphram thickness. and of course that the v76 uses a 12at7 instead of the 6072/12ay7 in the v77. i guess a tube change is a simple mod. so once again the question remains...

i suggest running out of the preamp out of the firepod into the compressor and then back into the preamp in for each of the first 2 channels. granted you only get 2 channels of compression like this but it works. its not as nice as inserts on every channel like the tascam. i typically like to...

buck, i'd take that whole website with a grain of salt just from this quote. "When playing live, after the guitar goes through the amp and the amp goes through the microphones, then the PA, and the PA blasts the room at unreasonably loud volumes, you really can't hear the difference between one...

for your concerns about reamping: use a y-splitter, send one signal via DI to your motu and the other signal into your amp. the impedance is high enough going into the DI and motu that it should not affect the signal to the amp. still mic up the amp and record both feeds (direct and mic'ed)...

i have a Rode NT1-a and i like it alot. its a little bright. but i think it comes through pretty clear. it has worked well on my vocals and acoustic guitars. i've also used it on kick drum, upright piano, and guitar amps. i think its a really nice mic and its built well. i also have the mxl v67g...

i haven't used the dd20 yet. but i used a dd6 for a while and didn't like it. the tap tempo is horrendous. its near impossible to use live. the dd5 with an external tap pedal would work much better. so i sold the dd6 on ebay and bought a line6 dl4. now that is one increadible delay pedal. its...

well, here's my pedal board setup sennheiser ew172 wireless -> boss compressor -> boss tu-2 tuner -> boss blues driver -> ibanez ts9 tubescreamer -> boss chorus -> dunlop wah -> line6 dl4 delay -> morley volume -> boss rc20 loop station so i've got a lot of stuff on there. i pick and choose my...

if you went the USB route you can just buy a midi controller. i have the m-audio radium49 and i works great. it works fine with reason and cubase. its nice to not need any other hardware too. i can just take my powerbook and midi controller anywhere i want

i played around with a bunch of acoustic amps before i bought mine. the problem i had with most of them was that they were too bright. they couldn't recreate the sound i got from my guitars. this was especially true about the Fender Acoustasonics. They almost sounded the same as playing though a...

i started on a us122. its ok. it worked fine for me to learn on. usb has its problems. but if you're just learning it'll be fine. it does have phantom power and inserts on each channel. i've recently upgraded to a presonus firepod so i'm giving the tascam to a friend of mine.

most likely a simple ground loop problem. a power conditioner may help. you should probably run a power conditioner regardless of this noise problem.

the best part about reamping is being able to change the sound of the amp later without having to play the whole song over again. if you need the distortion to "get into" the song you should try using the pass thru on your DI. something you could try is running your guitar into the sansamp DI...

iPod vs. everything else ok, well we're all musicians of some sort here so i hope we can understand this. All mp3 players use lossy compression schemes for the audio. That means the mp3s will never sound as good as your CD. They've gone through a lot to make the algorithms quite good for...

the idea behind the new ES system is pretty good. they are using 3 small magnets suspended in fluid to pick up the vibration of the guitar top (soundboard). Pick ups like this have been used on piano soundboards before. The problem however is that the magnets aren't strong enough to get a strong...

Telecasters with S1 switching: the purpose of the S1 switch is to change the wiring of the pickups in a tele from parallel to series. with the pickups in series their resistances are added together. however, in parallel the reciprocal of the resistance is the sum of the reciprocals of each...

fender princeton reverb. absolutely beautiful tone. 12 watts. absolutely amazing and perfect for the studio. breaks up really nicely too.