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"I’ll just get an external phantom unit if I go with the mb-20 or similar" Be wary of some of these. I bought one some years ago and it could barely put out 2mA before the voltage began to droop. I do recall a unit that was powered from a USB port being quite good. The other thing I would...

I don't like their rip off tactics either, my old firm, Blackstar have had amps "cloned" and there is little one can do on a "global" scale unless you have virtually unlimited legal resources. But, to use a pleasanter phrase, "paying homage to" shall we say, has been going on in the electronics...

I tremble in my boots to cross qwertys with the redoubtable Mr Sweetbeats but I would like to put in a slight defense regarding Behringer mixers? My comments are directed to two such devices. The Xenyz 802 but mainly the Xenyx 1202. For sure, the build quality is not up to A&H and the...

Yeah* I am not REMOTELY any kind of guitar payer (but I can do yer wiring and tune one for you!) but in over ten years on audio forums, this question..."how do I get a good e guitar sound?" has been around for ever. I have gleaned a few "truths" in that time, many of which have been covered...

Super! Can I just mention something I may have said in the past? Digital multimeters are great things, for a silly amount of money you can get a superbly accurate* instrument with wide ranging capabilities. But, unless you pay a quite a serious amount, well over $100, all these meters suffer a...

Ah, it was the "A" variant that took spook juice and pulled about 4-5mA according to that link. "Rugby" eh? Caused me a lot of grief decades ago from their stupendously powerful transmitter! Dave.

Thank you Sweetbeats, if I understand your last post correctly you mean that 'tape jockeys' who are on intimate, day to day terms with their machines CAN line up with the machines* meters? I am quite sure that is the case now I think about it. My experience of course was almost all "one offs"...

WELL MATEY! We'll be the judge of that!! Not me of course, mutton. But seriously, post a clip. Dave.

Well! Stapp me vitals! Here's me thinking that low sensitivity vocal capacitor mics were a very recent invention? They certain do not seem at all common being overshadowed by the all conquering SM858. Such mics, having a much smoother, flatter frequency response should make feedback control...

I have as I said, done a great many line ups and bias settings, mostly on cassette (where a 3 head machine was a HUGE luxury!) but a few OR machines. The various makes all had one thing in common in their service manuals...the internal meters* were NEVER referred to except to set them to the...

Not a lot but thanks Rob! I don't know how that Ryzen CPU compares to an i5 gen 10? My Lenovo has a 2 core i7 620M in it and I just ran the 28 track demo in Samplitude Pro X6 through my MOTU M4 without a glitch. Took 54% of the CPU mind! Son's T430 is I think about the same and he has never...

Rob, your post is both timely and encouraging for me! I am just about to pull the trigger on a refurbered laptop for my son. I don't want him to be stuck with his 14" Lenovo win10 machine for the future. I have pretty much settled on a Dell Lattitude i5 gen 10* 512G SSD and 16G ram. 1 year...

Regarding "bias", it has been at least a couple of decades since I was setting that (mainly for cassette machines) and had the luxury of a Ferrograph test set to boot! One critical measurement IIRC, at the root of all others was the distortion at some specified recorded flux level. 3% THD was...

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Now then! I watch quite few antiques shows and in the auction rooms (and shops) there are always shedloads of guitars kicking around though very rarely is one the subject. I would bet anyone with a bit of experience could find a gem for little money at such sales? Things like violins and saxes...

The metal post machines for steel strings all seem to have a chrome finish which tells me the base metal is brass? You don't usually chrome plate steel? Nevertheless a chrome finish is going to be very hard, at least as hard as the string so there will be little chance of damage (think...

I am starting to wonder if the chap usually lives under "A Rickety Bridge" ?!! Dave.

Don't want to teach grannies...but you are winding a good bit of string on the winding post BEFORE popping it through the hole? The tight machines might actually be binding in the holes in the headstock, mine were and I just ran a handy size bigger drill through them but you could use...

Always worth with any recording setup to periodically do a "silent" recording? Have mics/ instruments setup as normal and gains similarly then run for 20 seconds or so keeping as quiet as possible. Run the resultant clip through something like Right Mark Analyser ( 44.1kHz, 16 bits) You will...

Just picked up my charity shop nylon strung "classical" which I have not touched for 2 weeks, still in tune. I replaced the machines a year ago as they were tight, inconsistent and had a lot of backlash. All that makes tuning a guitar heavy going. A decent set of machines is about £20. The...