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It is always worth investing in a cheap component tester so that you can test the components that you remove and the components that you fit. You would have picked up the faulty 2N3441 that way. I'm also not a fan of changing components without good reason. The only components that need changing...

Of course the BBC aren't supposed to allow advertising so they always used to cover up manufacturers logos but I certainly noticed a very large Roland logo during the short time I was watching Glastonbury this year.

Some people called them check monitors. The timeline as I see it went 70s - Auratone 80s - AR18 90s - NS10 10s - Avantone (basically an Auratone copy) So we went full circle. However, lots of engineers take their own monitors that they know well to different studios or they just do all their...

Some of the Dolby S chips are known to be unreliable and spares just aren't available. Later examples of the Fostex G series machines suffer from the same problem when they started using the single Dolby chip rather than the 6 chip module.

Don't even think about trying to play Ampex tapes without baking because you will need to clean your heads every 30 seconds or so. A suitable dehydrator isn't expensive and it is just false economy to try to play the tape without baking. Here's the one that I use...

And don't even think about using these tapes for recording because baking only makes them usable for a couple of weeks or so. Don't use a conventional oven either. You need a low temperature oven like a laboratory oven or a food dehydrator. Baking times seem to be getting longer as tapes age so...

No-one seems to have mentioned Thimeo Stereotool - a complete broadcast processor in a VST.

I'm not sure how the noise reduction switching is done on the MS16 but on other machines I've serviced NR switching is done using FETs or electronic switches like the 4066 CMOS chip. Hopefully one of those has gone wrong because they are fairly easy to replace. Presumably the NR is done using a...

Do you leave your mics out when they aren't being used? If you do then it is a good idea to cover them with a freezer bag or something similar to prevent dust and dirt from collecting on the diaphragm. When you combine contamination with condensation or moisture you get problems like this.

My son learned to solder when he was 9 with unleaded solder (which I find more difficult to use than the old 60/40 stuff). 2 years later he is now building a synth and his soldering is neater than mine!

No idea - the nearest that I've used to Auratones are a similar sized pair of Dynatron speakers with single drivers. However, I've never got into working with "grot boxes" so the Dynatrons just sit there propping up other speakers. I'm using Tannoy Berkeleys - the little brother of the huge Ardens.

Oddly enough I was reading about the Sheffield Labs direct to disc albums the other day. They were around in the 1970s and Doug Sax was the cutting engineer while pianist Lincoln Mayorga was the producer. I don't think the article is online at the moment though.

The SMPTE code is independent of tempo. On the SBX-80 you have to set a start time and tempo for each song and also insert any tempo changes at the appropriate point. If you re-use the tape you can keep the old code and just change the start time and tempo on the SBX-80. One tip - make sure you...

The Reaper developers have been working on this and I believe that you can disable processing of silence in Reaper now.

As Sweetbeats says, that's going to be irrelevant if you are hooking the SBX80 up to up old Midi sequencers but it could be relevant if you ever get the gear to use your DAW as a sync slave to tape. You'll need a synchroniser with word clock output though and they are fairly rare. If you use the...

I'd agree with Rob - 4 inputs is just too limiting once you start getting into recording drums. An 8 input interfaces is the minimum but it would be worth getting one that is expandable because you will probably want even more inputs in due course. You are very unlikely to notice any sound...

The trick when using a synchroniser with the DAW as a slave is to split the DAW audio up into short segments so that each segment isn't really long enough to get noticeably out of sync. Alternatively, you use a synchroniser that can output word clock as well as position. There aren't many of...

I'd put a couple of panels on the ceiling above the drum kit as well as on the walls. However, make the panels removable if possible so that you can give yourself a more lively space when that would be appropriate.

As I said in the other place, it depends on the modelling algorithms. Sometimes they'll sound better at 96kHz. You just have to give it a try at both 96 and 44.1kHz and see which you prefer.

Probably worth doing a bit of research starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peckham and then Dennis Blackham http://www.skyemastering.com/thewholestory.html Between them they've produced some very decent cuts over the last 50 years. I've also had the chance to compare...