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The OP's original premise is 100% spot-on, but for the wrong reasons. Home recording usually is a bust because of the natural prevalence of the Division of Labor. The studios are where the pros work, and pros know how to record. An amateur in a state of the art studio still sounds like a...

To save my life, I can't get the sort of sound I want for a project. Baritone male vocal, semi-spoken-word, almost slam-poetry vocal over music. Immediacy and intimacy in vocals in recorded music is one of the go/no-go issues for me and always has been. You know the sound: As if someone is...

A lot of people are building their own kits since the little piezo triggers are under a buck now. If you have a brain box to accept the triggers and send the MIDI output, like the one that comes with the iON, that's all you need to have an improvised set. Personally, I avoid buying off eBay...

I have the earlier version with their Alesis SR16 control box modified for trigger inputs and relabeled iON. I think they may have downgraded the native samples, but that's not an issue for use as a MIDI controller. It IS awful, but it will work for triggering EZDrummer. These sets go for...

OK, I've been trying to fill out a set of half-decent cymbals for some time. It used to be I couldn't find used cymbals at anything but near-new prices on Craigslist and got discouraged. Suddenly, stuff is being not only listed at less than half of what it was a couple of years ago, but it's...

There are millions, many free. Look in this for samples.

Yeah, he says no problems. Sounded good to me. Another guy's got a no probs 20" A Custom for $100. Is that as good a deal as it sounds?

No serial number...that started in '94-'95.

OK, it's a pre-'95 Zildjian (no serial #) marked 'MEDIUM THIN CRASH 16"/40cm'...any way of further identifying it? Guy selling it says he thinks it's a Zildjian A and wants $60:

If this was a real tube preamp running at real plate voltages and you wanted it for real studio work, I'd say go with a Blackburn Mullard or Amperex "Globe" (same tube, essentially) if you could find a deal. New tube, a selected Sovtek 12AX7LPS, hands down. Because they're longplate, they're...

They're not. On the other hand, it does a brand like Nady (and a number of others) no good to sell junk with generic Chinese 87¢ plastic elements of rock-bottom quality in superficially attractive cases as though they were real microphones at hysterically inflated MSRPs. :rolleyes: That does...

In fairness, I honestly don't think Behringer makes any microphone that compares for sheer cheap wretchedness to much of the low-end Nady stuff. It's just atrocious. Like this thing:

I've never had problems with B-stock/Refurb. What they are exactly and what the terms mean varies widely, even at the same retailer. Where you see a lot of these are when there's been a bad production run of the product and tons have come back from the dealers or are recalled unshipped...

Well, they are DI boxes and that's the specific purpose for which both Tech21 and Behringer market them. If they're no good for that, well... Actually, the BDI21 works very well as a tone-shaping DI for bass and does an excellent job of putting some upper-mids life into flatwound-strung...

I would be surprised if the Tech21 wasn't much quieter. Even at unity gain the GDI21 has a pretty dreadful hiss level, though I suspect that this may vary a bit from one unit to the next as the components aren't really high grade and would be subject to a lot of inconsistency. That said, the...

I've seen 'em for $25 on CraigsList here. The J-Station is pretty much obsolete for a lot of reasons. It was my first modeler, and I still have it. What it had was unsurpassed computer editing software (J-Edit) which is essential for organized and rational modeler programming. It could do...

Actually, it's not that close and leaves out some crucial ingredients, such as the TLC2262 OpAmp used in the SansAmp. The *DI21 series are too inexpensive to be made with the higher-quality OpAmps. Both are pretty much nothing but glorified dirtboxes in any case. While I agree with most...

Man, how many more thousand times does this subject have to come up before there's any new input? :rolleyes: Noting that the OP is limited to analog (why?), I won't go into great detail about why the future for recording is software, not hardware, modeling other than to point out the obvious...

Click the link for the specs, though they're incomplete...and this is slightly different from the one on the Mapex site in that it's maple/cherry. I think this is some promotional item. :rolleyes:

This? or this? Essentially the same price. I've been picking up some snares for recording samples when I see them on long sale. I was pretty disappointed with the Yamaha Kabuto I bought and suspect it was just a promotional junker with a goosed-up phony MSRP. Same with these, or are they...