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My band is practicing and will be recording in a room that has a number of problems. I'm hoping you guys can help me to fix at least some of them. The room is a garage that was converted into a bedroom by our bass player's brother-in-law. It is an old house and the garage is seperate from the...

Hey, I've been thinking about a this project for a while now. I wanted to build a box that's 4' wide by 4' tall. The depth is something I was going to ask you guys to advise me on. At the back of the box I was going to put insolation. Now, on the front of the box I planned to have a a...

I'm just running the four track (Yahama MT-100) through an old Tascam M-30 mixer. I'm taking the singnal from that onto a friends computer, which just has a Sound Blaster Live. I'm recording it all on there with cool edit. So really I don't have much in the way of options past things that...

I just really liked the idea of doing it that way, because I have 1 track of vocals, 1 track or guitar, 1 track of bass and 1 track of drums. I didn't really think it was a good idea to take the voice or drums off center, so I went for the guitar and bass. It really seemed to open up the sound...

I'm mixing some recordings I did on a four track with a band I was in a few years ago. There is only one track of bass, and one of guitar. I've been listening to a recording like this that sounds pretty good with the guitar and bass panned hard in each direction. Is this wise? Any thoughts...

I have an old Guild, it's the model shaped after the SG. It has a tune-o-matic type bridge. I was working last night on getting the inotation just right, but it wasn't quite getting there. All the strings are perfect up to the 7th fret, but only half of them are still perfect at the 12th...

time Really what it's going to come down to is spending a lot of time moving the mics up and down and side to side looking for the best sound. I doubt there could be a set rule, since each drum set is so different. You have to deal with the way it's set up. Things like how high/ low the...

If you're trying to get 100 soungs on a CD, unless you're in some crazy thrash band there's really only one solution. If you're willing to play it only on your computer through Winamp, you can burn a CD of MP3's. My friend put 8 of his CDs on one disk this way. You can invest in a CD player...

I think Elbenj is really on the right track here. I remember being in a band when I was younger and hating when studio people tried to get us to record one instrument at a time. I think there is something to say for recording a band live, there's something that's missing if you don't have...

I'm looking to master a project that I did a long time ago on a four track down to reel to reel 1/4" tape. I was looking on the AMS website and noticed that in the photo of the tape I wanted to by, Ampex 456 on a 7" reel had a large hole, not one that would fit the small peg with an x shape...

I'm in the market for a good bass drum mic, but I'm on a budget, so I'll mainly just need something that works. I've been looking through the catalogs and I find a few bass drum mics for about $140, and then some three piece drum mic kits for the same amount. How much quality will I be missing...

I almost forgot. The auction is at http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1249997013 Hopefully one of you guys win. ~james

I just found 7 of those EV RE 15 mics on ebay. They're at right about $100 as of now, and they end at just before 10 pacific time tonight (Monday 7/4). I don't have the cash, but I thought I'd pass the tip along to all of you. ~james

hey, Someone gave me a bunch of old recording equipment from (I'm guessing) the late 60's/ early 70's. In the bunch was a couple old AKAI mics. It says AKAI M-7 on the front. I want to remove the old cloth covered 1/4" plug and hook it up to a XLR. Is this possible? Do any of you have...

E-bay is a total seller's market. My girlfriend sells old tee shirts that we buy for a dollar or two at thrift stores for about $10 each. You can always count on two people losing their grasp on reality and bidding insane amounts on your item. This is a real bummer for a buyer, because it's...

E-bay is a total seller's market. My girlfriend sells old tee shirts that we buy for a dollar or two at thrift stores for about $10 each. You can always count on two people losing their grasp on reality and bidding insane amounts on your item. This is a real bummer for a buyer, because it's...

Here's the deal. I have finally put all my equipment together in a way that sort of works as a control room here in my bedroom. I have my trusty (and free) TEAC 80-8, my TASCAM M-30 and my really really primative monitoring system all hooked up. Now I've become really really sure of the fact...

Thanks a lot John! I took a trip to the good old home depot and found that my best option is probably going to be to make these puppies about 2 feet wide, 16 inches tall and a foot deep. As you say, the depth makes it go for the lower frequencies and I'm planning on making some of those tube...

I noticed on john's site that a helmholtz resonator can be made using a piece of pegboard. I work at a retail chain and I was told to throw out a display made mostly of pegboard, needless to say I remembered John's hemlholtz article and put that piece of pegboard in my car. Now, I need some...

I record on to a (please don't hurt me) 1/2" reel to reel 8 track record. Right now I'm mixing down to 1/4" tape, and occasionally a mini disk player that a friend owns. What I'm looking for is a set up to mix my stuff down to my computer so that I can make a CD of the mix (when I get a CD...