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In another thread you were talking about an Avalon 737. Is that in the chain too?

As to what the issue is with your system, nobody can really guess unless you want to tell us what the entire chain is. What microphone? What preamp? What interface? What kind of computer? What operating system? What recording software? Did you download and install the correct drivers? The...

You seem to be confusing a lot of different things that aren't necessarily related. +4 dBu is the nominal signal level for professional audio recording and sound reinforcement systems. Within this category there are many different types of signal. This is the specification for line level, and...

I wonder how an attenuator would react with the 15C. I picked up a Bugera PS1 Power Soak this weekend that seems to work quite well. The speaker excursion is no doubt part of the sound, but Marshalls in general seem to hit their stride when cranked. The Bugera allows me to open up my SV20 but...

Oh dear. It seems we're confusing the shit out of him. Dude, keep it all at +4. Unless it's your MP3 player. Sounds like you have a broken cable or something.

If you're not sure about compression, look at volume automation first. I'm not sure what you're recording on, but pretty much any DAW will allow you to draw volume envelopes.

Who is saying that? Honestly there are a number of reasons why a specific room might be better than another. The physical size, shape and construction of any room has a huge effect on how the room might produce standing waves and comb filtering artifacts. It's a big deal if you're recording...

Processing can often be a double edged sword. If it frames the performance in the right way it can add focus or the right texture, ambience or whatever. It's very easy to overdo it, which can make things muddy real quick. If you hear a tone in your head that could be made to happen with a gentle...

You might be able to automate (ride) the levels with a volume envelope depending on what needs to have more focus at whatever time. I'm getting the impression that the countermelodic stuff when there's 3 guitars is getting buried by the rhythm guitar. I'm also wondering what it might sound like...

It might be worth noting that listening with headphones makes it mechanically impossible to hear a bunch of phase related information. Having a good monitoring chain in a good sounding acoustic space is key. Here's a couple of links for those inclined. Understanding Audio Phase | Universal...

Actually if you take a mono track in your DAW and copy it and then flip the polarity (180 degrees out of phase) on one track and then sum the 2 tracks together at equal levels they will cancel each other out. Silence. What happens when you use 2 microphones on a source (A/B stereo mic...

Yes and no. It means different things to different people. Are your feet comfortable? If you royally screw up and select the wrong preamp for your MIDI guitar tracks you can still score groupies. It becomes exponentially more difficult with substandard footwear. Their standards, not yours.

I'm not sure that Dave actually plays anything, but he's an EE that built guitar amps for a living. I digress. Apologies! It seems like you're looking for validation that if you have a certain piece of gear that it will give you a specific type of sound. You are correct. What the user...

Maybe art isn't always confined to a dot matrix.

Of possible interest to note: Leo Fender was cheap. He designed and built some legendary equipment, but when people go back to look at the recipe it seems like what was originally in those amps was sort of based on what was at hand. 20% tolerance components. A variety of different transformers...

I agree with the other points made so far. Parametric EQ is great for being flexible enough to do whatever you need it to. You can adjust the Q or bandwidth for the task. Narrow bandwidth can be helpful for surgical things where you're basically correcting problems. Wide bandwidth is usually...

Tricky subject for sure, and very few people have been doing valid research on it these days. Fletcher-Munson kind of stuff is hard to call subjective. There's this guy: PowerPoint Presentations from recent (or not so recent) meetings. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but JJ's...

At a guess, I think a Plexi style pedal might help to get you closer. There are quite a few. The Marshall Guv'nor is one of the earliest ones, and they're reasonably affordable. There's just a certain combination of compression, harmonics and high end spank that gives Marshalls a distinctive...

+1 The idea is to use the preamp to boost the mic signal to line level. The number you end up using is sort of irrelevant until you know the level of the mic signal. With the output trim on zero you might need 50 or 60 dB's if you're using a dynamic mic with very low sensitivity like a ribbon...