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Hey I resemble that remark! I work a 12 1/2 hour shift at Intel in a Clean room. Sometimes I have to "hold it" for 5 hours. At times I wish I had a diaper on. Dom :D (Making computer chips so that all you home recorders can surf the web and turn music into "0's and 1's") :o

I know you're all gonna say "slave labor" or "sweat shops".... But I just purchased a $39.00 (closeout) Rogue Dreadnaught guitar from Musicians Friend. And it sounds amazing. I lowered the action just a tad by filing down the saddle plastic insert, and put on new phosphor bronze strings and...

I have an Ibanez Tube Screamer and I love it, but I am looking for a pedal that will leave the signal totally clean, until I hit it harder (like a threshold setting) and then slightly distort like a tube amp just starting to break up. The least amount of distortion on my Tube screamer still...

I have just completed recording my 5th annual Beaverton High School Compilation CD. and one thing I have found that is common to most Newbies is their inabillity or refusal to record to a click track. The metronome is your friend! Learn to play along with a consistent tempo, rather than...

Hmmm? i second deepwater about the wow factor. the last guy i recorded, i told him if he wasnt singing about god and jesus, he'd get laid more cause he had a "pussy get'n voice". the mic i used on him is $100 Hmmm? If he was singing about God and Jesus, he might not get "laid" as you call it...

By "Home" recording equipment, I assume you mean... NON-PROFESSIONAL? Wax cylinder and acetate disk cutters were never really offered to the general public as "Home recorders" The market for "home recording" began in the 1950's on 1/4" reel to reel. These were monophonic machines with...

It Depend's On... A. If it's one of my songs* I have already mixed it a thousand times in my mind, and it takes only one or two takes to get a good master (30 minutes max) B. If it is for a client (paying customer) then they usually get concerned about the co$t after an hour and it "sounds...

Answers... Can one (or more) of you experts answer a few questions that will (I hope) get me in a modern mode of thinking, regarding capturing analog data. I am an old analog guy, resurrecting old tapes and recapturing the material to digital. My application is purely for home use, and jamming...

1/4" mono! Wollensack I don't know the year of manufacture but it had to be late 1940's early 1950's. My grade school teacher used it to record our 3rd grade play. "THE EMPORER'S NEW CLOTHES" I played a lead role as one of the taylors, and sang "INCH WORM". Dom

Stereo Return? I just re-read your post... If you want a stereo guitar signal coming back from your effects unit, you would be better off using an "aux" send to the unit and two cables (stereo) back into the mixer. This way any instrument that you send out the aux will return as stereo (If the...

It's a stereo to two mono cables It's basicly a stereo splitter adapter... The tip of the stereo jack goes to the tip of one mono jack (left)*gray The ring of the stereo jack goes to the tip of the other mono jack (right)*red This allows a "send" and "return" *gray and red respectively...

g string? I must add that the "B" string is also a very common tuning headache. This is often noticed when playing open chords and comparing the "E" chord to the "D" chord. The 2nd string fretted at the 3rd fret sounds sharp making the chord out of tune. The guitar's intonation (Bridge) must be...

Keep listening and you will hear subtle stereo effects Quite the often the only stereo effect you will notice is room sound, especially in a live recording. In some early stereo records instruments were completly panned left or right, or the stereo image was artificially created using delay...

Louie Louie It was "Louie Louie" with my thumb on the low "e" because my $20.00 Stella had no truss rod and the neck was bowed. The action was so bad the guitar eventually became a wall-hanging decoration. Dom :eek:

I have been playing stringed instruments for over 40 years now, and one thing continues to surprise me, is that many otherwise great players don't know how to re-string and tune a guitar! :confused: 1. Just two or three winds around the tuning peg are plenty! (NOT 10 winds all over-lapping and...

Tube screamer or POD... Just plug in your favorite effects pedals (distortion, delay, chorus etc) and go direct into input 1 or 2 or both for stereo. The on board preamps are very good. and the EQ is very musical. Dom :p

To pan or not to pan? Basicly if you are more than 6 feet away from a drum set the sound will be mostly mono with the possible exception of room sounds. I have made the mistake of panning the drums too wide and it sounds fake! To hear a wide stereo field you would have to be sitting right in...

How to sound like A CHOIR? 1.Record a simple not "too syncopated" melody vocal track 2. Repeat step 1 on several other tracks. 3. Adjust playback speed faster or slower and sing along in this new key (This will effectively change the timbre of your voice) You could become a chipmunk or a giant...

Nope..... :rolleyes: I suppose you could try a Kick drum mike, but all it will do is not reproduce the higher frequencies as much? Dom :confused:

Sm57, Sm58, Maybe not the best, but the Industry Standards Nearly every engineer, producer and live sound tech is happy to have a few of these in his bag of tricks. Dom