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I have a Dean 12-string acoustic "Exotica". Maple body construction with beautiful, highly figured top. Also has built in preamp/EQ/tuner. XLR output jack as well as standard 1/4". Good action, loud. I'm just not a 12-string guy. Would trade for the right: Epi Les Paul Banjo 70's or 80's...

I was curious what others use as reference material for setting up monitors, comparing professional results with your own, etc. One commonly used disc is Donald Fagen's "Nightfly", which I'll admit is one fine sounding album. Nightfly was engineered by Roger Nichols, who also has worked for...

careful what you wish for Nice piece, Frederic. I would add some suggestions from experience: Test the waters before investing - both to see what's out there and what's in you. Engineering and producing for others is vastly different from working on your own stuff. Babysitter; mediator...

So I got the binding glued in. Tell you what: five minutes never goes by quite as fast as when you're using 5 minute epoxy. It was just getting to the point of unworkable when I finished up. Next big excitement: sanding; scraping; spraying. Repeat. And of course I have a lava lamp. Roll up a...

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I wanted some sort of acoustic travel guitar. The Backpacker, while having a decent neck and playability, was just too thin sounding. Not that every good acoustic has to be a cannon; I have a D-28 copy I made that I always keep in Nashville tuning and it sounds great?in the mix. And that?s...

Money is such a troublesome thing (with the exception of a thick wad of cash in my pocket...that has yet to be a problem). I have a couple of items that I don't use and are in excellent shape. Would like to swap for something I'd actually use. 1) Glyph GT050Q Professional external HD. 7200 RPM...

Only one amp out there worth shee-yut: Pignose.

Anyone play or own a Baby Taylor? Mahogany or Spruce? I'm looking for a short-scale acoustic. I love the tone of my Gibson Hummingbird, which has a relatively short scale (24-3/4) and just like the feel of the shorter scale. Also have an Epi Elitist LP in Honeyburst - a really sweet...

Ozzy said it well: "I've been a bad, bad boy No use sayin' sorry It's something that I enjoy"

It's a Langevin preamp with limiter & para EQ, so basically a limited-function channel strip. Langevin is Manley's solid-state line. I specifically wanted a pre with a ton of clean headroom and no coloration, which is why I went solid state rather than tube. For tube pre's, I've had great luck...

Sweet, huh? Chose the color myself - it cheers me up. But I'm colorblind and sometimes make brutal (alleged) mistakes when choosing my ensemble for the day. Hard to go wrong sticking with jeans & t-shirt. I remember once, tho, picking my girlfriend Natalie up on my motorcycle back in the...

They are a fabulous bargain (the VLA II/second gen is the one I can attest to). Especially when Sweetwater owes you a favor and sells you one for 1/2 price: $150! Yup, a nice bit of warmth from the (stock) tubes...but more importantly, the compression is transparent and very unobtrusive...

Good morning all. My wife and I got a small windfall a few weeks ago, and my wife, long used to my chronic G.A.S., allowed me a new microphone to add to my small but growing collection - A BLUE Baby Bottle large diaphragm condenser, to add to: Rode NTK (tube) and NT-1; Shure SM57; Rode M1 (love...

Anyone who shops at Wal-Mart, by that logic. Should be called China-Mart. But aren't the business owners who continue to send business to China to increase their profits just as guilty if not more so? Even traditionally US made - and still expensive - things are now made offshore. I saw a $200...

I use Norton anti-virus, with Windows XP and it's being pretty insistent about telling me I need to download and install Service pack 3. I have SP 2 installed on my Creation Station and run SONAR with an Alesis MasterControl. My concern is this: After battling for years with a Tascam FW-1884...

Langevin is the trade name for solid-state devices built by Manley Labs, makers (right here in the USA!) of high end preamps and signal processors. So much of my other equipment - mikes, pres, etc - is tube-driven, that I wanted one clean solid-state device that had a lot of headroom. Well, I...

Good morning. A couple of questions: What is the best power-up sequence for my DAW? The heart and brains of the system is a Sweetwater desktop creation station and Alesis firewire MasterControl. My instinct is to power up, in order: peripherals (Langevin DVC preamp; ART TPS preamp; V-drums; Rode...

I guess so...except I don't like the sound of the 58. If I liked the 58, I would buy one before considering $2-300 or more for a condenser. Even for vocals, I prefer the response curve of the 57.

You know what? You're not the first person I've heard that from. Also have heard about problems with excessive sibilance. Still, there must be a noticeable difference between a $200 SM86 (Shure), a $325 S1 (Rode) and a $700 KSM9 (Shure) or KMS105 (Neumann). Plus, I've heard that Neumann mikes...