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Not necessarily. If you take a given string tuned to a given pitch and start loosening the tuning peg, as the pitch drops so will the relative high frequency content. There are a couple of competing mechanisms in play here, and I think tension wins. The heavier the string gauge, the higher the...

But many times the "sound" of a mic and its tested frequency response aren't that closely related.

Usually, a lighter gauge B string will just be more flabby because of the lower tension. I'd go with the heaviest B you can find.

Lots of compression and overdrive will do it. In my limited stable of guitars, humbuckers will do it while single coils won't.

I don't know. I know that Phil and Jerry both had their hands in Alembic, but I don't know that they did any actual design work. It wasn't until I traveled out west to see them that I gained an appreciation for the innovations in stage production that they were into. When they came east of...

I read an interview that David Ganz (the Dead archivist) did with the main engineer for Ultra Sound where the engineer described the system in some detail. IIRC, the speaker emulators were their own design. It was pretty amazing stuff - way ahead of its time.

I'm going to cautiously stick my toe in the boiling water here... :D I went to see the Grateful Dead in Las Vegas in 1994 or thereabouts. Ultra Sound was doing their sound, and other than the mains (the first big linear arrays I ever saw), the only speakers in the system or the backline were...

I don't know about cheap 35" basses, but whatever makes a diff to you. Like I said, on my Bongo it's very slight and easily corrected for and on my Epic I really don't need to. It's not a big deal at all. I don't ever see myself affording a Modulus, anyway.

One of your problems may be the Audio Buddy; IME it's not that great a preamp for micing electric guitar, especially if you are using a condenser mic (I couldn't tell from your description) and playing at high volume.

Well, yes and no. There is a difference among basses of the same scale, and regarding that issue with the B string, although all the 34" scale basses I have owned had it to some degree, some were worse than others. I owned a couple of Ibanez basses that were particularly bad in that respect, to...

Trust Wikipedia to get it wrong. Floating bridges (the tremelo variety) have been around since long before Steve Vai chopped his guitar, maybe even before he was born (I don't know how old he is). Any Strat that has the bridge strings tensioned so the the rest position of the block is not...

I have an early 70's ('73, I believe) LP Custom and there's not a thing in the world wrong with it.

While it is true that lethal voltages reside on nodes internal to tube amps, one doesn't risk coming in contact with them when changing tubes unless you somehow touch a hot pin while the tube is still deep enough in the socket to make contact. That would be hard to do and even harder to imagine...

Wiring a cable like this does nothing for ground loops. It's still a two conductor unbalanced high Z connection, and with an unbalanced connection whether or not you have a ground loop depends on how/if the components are grounded, not the connection between them. With a balanced connection...

I am skeptical about the vintage capacitor thing, especially in passive circuits, and if you have the tone(s) on your guitar set wide open, the cap(s) are essentially out of the circuit, anyway. But hearing is subjective; if you hear a difference and it's worth the money and trouble to you to...

Maybe yes, maybe no. I've done a bit of tube swapping and never really heard much of a difference, but that's just my limited and subjective experience. Also, what some will call a huge change will be less obvious for others. What amp(s) you are using, how you are using it/them, and what tubes...

If you hear a difference then it's real for you. :D

It's inherent of a hollow body guitar.

Body resonance. Sometimes turning at a different angle to your amp will alter the pitch.

I have an early 70's LP custom that I paid $350 for in 1976 and an early 60's Partscaster that I paid $600 for in 1979. I love them both, but I'd hate to think what I'd have to shell out for them today. Just like the Million Dollar SG, they are not for sale. :D I have a couple of basses that...