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How decent is "pretty decent?" What brand/model are the cymbals? What are the dimensions of your room? I personally would not be grabbing a 58 as a room mic, but use what's around, worse stuff has made it to major label releases. $150 an OH gets you into useable Chinese stuff: I use Studio...

To the best of my knowledge, that's a video standard.

Usually tuned B-e. I've been havin a headache for years trying to get around mine, recently occurred to me to try AEADGBE. I'll give it a whirl, might need a bigger bass string, which barely fits through the tuner now... harumph.

That's awesome! She's finally going to see daddy again! It'll be a tearful Springer episode, sans flying chairs.

Bunk. Artists have had to pay for their materials since the beginning of time. Innumerable great paintings by masters are painted on used canvases, either wiped, or painted straight over older works. If you can't be bothered to pay for your art, you are not committed to it. Besides, we are...

What are the E-G? I keep meaning to try that.

Granted, but as you say, the effect is always there to a degree. OTOH, even the cheapest 35" scale basses have very strong B strings, a Modulus with a sweet spot pickup configuration plays like a keyboard.

I find a 34" scale is insufficient to put enough tension on a B sting such that it will play nice with the other four, you may be more sensitive to this, could be something else. You could try mis-matching, eg. get a set of .100s, and using a .120 or .125 for the B.

I've never blended them, but if I get a singer that goes between singing sections and shoutier sections, I can get away with one pass recording by setting up a dynamic mic close for the yelling, and a condensor a few inches back for the singing.

Thanks, but rehearsals tend to start about 9pm due to schedule conflicts, and due to the population density around here, the neighbors won't be having it.

The next time I see you complain about the size of your "small" space, I'm going to rupture something from giving you the finger so hard. (<-pays $400/mo for a 12'x13' room)

Re: Muttley's last post. I was rethinking my answer, and re-reading the OP, and you're spot-on. I was posting from work, and hastily made a couple of unsupported assumption. OTOH/IMO, It's a bolt-on, worst thing that could happen is he screws it up, and takes it to a tech who tells him to...

What else do you want for your personal enjoyment, that you are unwilling to pay for, that you should be able to take without the owner's permission? Why exactly should your financial status have anything to do with whether someone else is allowed to sell their work?

Yup. If the neck sights straight, and fretting the first and last fret does not reveal a gap between the string and the fret tops, it's possible all that it needs is a shim. Lots of perfectly good vintage guitars have been found with improvised crap tossed in the neck pockets as shims, the...

There is a distinct possibility the guitars were recorded with too much gain, too much mid scoop, and possibly too dark. You're using software sims, do you have the naked DI? can you still fiddle with the settings, or do you own these tracks as recorded? I have found I can get some throatiness...

Good word-of-mouth from RS, but I'm happy with the slope on run of the mill CTS pots. The caps in the Stew-Mac kit are pure meh, I've had good results fiddling with paper-in-oils of varying values, although a 0.15 Orange Drop won out in the neck position of my Traditional Pro. With P90's, I'd...

To be fair, the Norlin era was not a shining example of Gibson's work. Shallow carves, the aforementioned pancake body, abandoning the Standard, introduction of the Nashville bridge, 14lb behemoths, etc etc etc. That said, the fit and finish on the typical Norlin offering is heads and shoulders...

Aforementioned OCD is a good place to start. I'd suggest the Zvex Distortron. As the name implies, it's technically a distortion pedal, based off the front side of a Box of Rock, but it can be dialed down into OD territory, which is where I use mine. It is super versatile tonewise, and has a...

Tons of good choices already, I'd add the Bogner Alchemist, and the Jet City stuff. Actually, play your cards right on the used market, you could get a little Jet City for the bedroom, and the Bogner 1x12 for the loud stuff.

At the silly prices Norlin stuff is going for, you could sell it, replace it with a more recent Standard with buckers, swap em out for something from the premium boutique winders, and go out to dinner every night for a week. You could probably get a '58 RI or a plaintop R0 or a G0, if you're...