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I don't understand how Marshall can still be so popular when there are so many better options for much less money. Almost all the ones I've tried/heard sound like a cat being kicked down a flight of stairs.

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"It's incontheevable!" :) I meant it as an aesthetic adjective more than a technical term. The effect is difficult to describe, but I can assure you it is very real and not all that subtle. I did several a/b mixdowns with and without when I first got it.

I think you're over-thinking it. It's all about listening, finding overlaps, and making subtle adjustments to get a little closer to ideal. Using a lot of EQ can lead to phase problems and sound unnatural. If you need 10db of anything, go back and re-record the track.

Yes, it's mixed down to eight channels. Everybody breaks it down differently, and I'm still trying different things to see what works best, but it goes something like; 1/2 drums 3/4 guitars/keys 5/6 backing vox/fx/percussion 7 lead vocal 8 bass The D-box conveniently has a pan control for...

Sorry. It's a basement so 7' with a 6.5' section right down the middle about 3' wide where the cold air return runs down the center of the house.

Yeah, I guess I didn't think that one through very well.

I'm using the Dangerous D-box. Your average, every day Mackie type mixer will not give the desired effect (I tried). You need either a summing amplifier specifically built for this purpose, or one of the high-end consoles that they seek to emulate/replace. Whether it's worth the price is...

I do my own. Sometimes acoustic, sometimes electronic depending on time constraints and the material. It'd be nice to have someone a little better at times, but the fact that I have to do it myself makes me a little better each time, which is at least partly what it's all about.

Maybe you could hook up a basic supply (like a wall wart) just to test the board for damage, then build or repair the audio-quality one if viable.

It's intended to sum your parts in the analog realm with much more headroom than is available in your DAW and record them back in as a stereo pair, or "print track". There are believers and non-believers. I made the leap of faith a couple of months ago and I won't be going back. The...

Well, if the budget is somewhere around $100-$150 as it seems from your post, I would not tackle anything DIY unless you are a serious scavenger and don't mind taking a potentially serious chunk of time to get it done. I mean, one rack chassis and a semi-decent transformer and your budget is...

Roughly 16' x 22' with the desk centered on a 16' wall. To the left and right of the desk there are amps in the corner with angled, 3' x 4" x 3" thick, non-backed Ruxol above them. On the opposite wall, one corner is a wide entrance to the room, and the other corner has a sump closet (so two...

If the current setup is causing you to stop, reboot, worry about saving your work every 5 seconds, etc. then maybe an upgrade would improve your sound just by virtue of allowing you relax, let the creativity flow and focus on music instead of technical problems. Something to be said for that.

Thanks for the insights. The amps are basically furniture as I do almost all of my guitar tracking through the Fractal. I'm thinking more about effect on the room for mixing. Like most hobbyists, I track and mix in the same room.

Most manufacturers shorten the first fret distance by a few thousandths to pre-intonate the nut, so there's a good chance your other guitars have compensated nuts also, just not in an obvious way. Remember that any intonation adjustment is action/string-tension/tuning specific, so if you've got...

In two corners of my music room I have half-stack guitar amps with an angled absorption panel above them reaching to the ceiling. I am sure that some bass passes right through these amps to the corner behind, but is it enough to care about? Is it being diffused before it gets there by the...

Gotcha. Sorry for any confusion.

The outboard preamp would be redundant to the one in your interface, so it's not a "need", but as you become more experienced it might be a "want". Asking if you should have a rack is like asking if you should put up a shelf; when you need one, it'll be obvious to you.

There's also a difference between "sounding weird" and "ice pick through your temple that blocks out everything else like a dark brown cloud of crap". The latter is what you're scanning for.