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"Miccing a guitar amp is best" Arguable but there is one big omission in that statement. THE most important thing is the speaker. Guitar speaker response is characterized (as much as the very large number of them can be) by a lack of bass below about 100Hz, a peak somewhere around 3-5kHz, maybe...

I am gratified and humbled OMG that you take SUCH notice of my ramblings! That reply was written in response to a statement about the effects of loading on guitar pickups. My reply was therefore made with the assumption that the person involved was familiar with the "physics"? The "H" stands...

Total DVD numpty here! I have a short, 14.6M clip from my garden burned to DVD-R. I have copied it to my desktop (W10) but when I try to send it as an attachment the file "splits up" to several parts. How can I send the whole lot please? I did find that I can send just 'VTS_01_1(1)' and that...

"You could use a clipper to get rid of spikes from clicks and pops, although I'd recommend using REAPER over Audacity if you want to go down that road." I have used Samplitude in the past to edit out clicks from daughter's punk 45s. You can expand the track ad.inf. in the 'X' direction, cut out...

Hello whippersnapper Bob! (I am 79) Yes, Audacity is fine for your purpose but since it will cost you nothing but time do try Reaper? Re MP3/WAV, I would always record to a 'linear" format initially and archive it, warts and all, storage is SO cheap now. I may be wrong but I think MP3 can...

"With a DI into a Scarlett You are essentially double loading the input" Yes, for an active DI the Z will drop to 500k. But this only has the full effect when the guitar's VC is set to maximum. Back it off even a dB or so and the things get much more complex. Then a fair middle ground for pup...

The confusing bit! All cables have capacitance which has a falling impedance with frequency, thus it "shunts" higher frequencies* away from the input. But, the degree of "shunting" depends on the value of the capacitance (in pico Farads as a rule) and the source resistance of the device feeding...

I tried to order the 103 yesterday from AliExpress and got a fair way thorough the process when it threw up a little black box with some Chinese characters in it and I could go no further. At no point did it say they won't ship to UK. I'll perhaps have another go later and post a screenshot of...

Well, physics innit! When you link a passive DI to an amp as well as using the XLR output, you are loading the guitar with an extra 1meg (no excuse for an amp not to be) so the input Z is necessarily reduced. Best case without link ~200k results in about 160K. I doubt anyone could hear that...

The HAs are cheap enough that you could run the "clean feed" from the Scarlet close to the drummer then let him have the cans amp locally and set his own level. I understand the F'rite's software can do a sub mix for foldback? I have a few ideas of how I would wire up a small studio, many...

I have no idea how pro studios would do this but I doubt they would rely on "flakey" (IMHO) BlueTh!" Apart from anything else you might struggle to get enough level for a drummer from battery powered cans? There is of course the problem of "entanglement". I would solve that by having the...

Well, he couldn't. Sacked on the spot! Dave.

Just thought I would jump on the coat tails of this thread! I am researching a refurbished laptop for my son in France. He presently has a Lenovo T430 W10 but I want to future proof him with a decent W11 machine around November time*. So far, for my budget of around £600 I have found a 15.6"...

"It might help if you learn some VERY BASIC electronic terminology. Balanced vs unbalanced connections, types of connectors (RCA vs XLR vs 1/4" jack), signal levels and impedances." For SURE! I used to say this very often when posting in forums up to about 2 years ago when it was obvious...

No NEED but could help. The Solo has an input Z of 1 meg as indeed one would expect. A cheapo passive DI box will be no higher than 200k and could be as low as 100k (depends on the traff and the mic pre) That low impednace is going to cause some "tone suck" i.e. loss of high frequencies. In any...

Now, I am NO guitarist! I am also deaf past 2kHz (that TWO folks!) but yes, that was not nice. Even I was getting the harsh "fizz". What people with good hearing made of it GAKnows! A few things I have been told by a talented son, You can't distort full chords. The music theory bods here will...

I agreed with the logic of going with the vinyl copy because, as they say in the article, that is the mix the fans will know and love. A fresh mix from master tapes would be technically better but would always be some OTHER persons idea of how it all should go. Plus I seem to recall that not...

IF you are going to mix down to mono don't do it on headphones and ideally use a single speaker with the two channels properly summed. A phantom image from "stereo" speakers is not quite the same thing. Dave.

Unless you want to sell it and make a profit I would not bother to repair that damage. Take off any loose material and give the area a LIGHT rub down with fine wire wool dampened with a little meths ( the de-greasing fluid NOT drugs!) Dry with kitchen cloth and give a light spray of clear...

Maybe before my time taking the mag Rob? (Feb? 2005) Their most enlightening tests was on mic pre amps where several pres ranging in about a 10:1 price point were used on a MIDI controlled acoustic grand with the same microphones. The clips were published blind and readers invited to 'match'...