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So the Blue Spark seems to be a hit this year... Anybody wanna discus this one? It seems to be a nice low noise mic with an EQ curve switch of some sort... Post up inquiring minds want to hear thoughts :D

So my wife and I are working on a new album and we're really trying to step up our production a bit... We play acoustic music and track live. I play acoustic guitar and mandolin and might be playing some dobro on this record also. The wife plays Ukulele and Cello as well as acoustic guitar...

So I have been a longtime listener to The Project Studio Network podcast, which has been on hiatus for something close to 2 years and I sort of forgot that I had entered to win a Nady RSM 4 ribbon mic... Well I got word today that I somehow am the winner! Anyway the mic is a Joly Modded edition...

So after knocking around on an acoustic for almost all of my live shows now for the last 5 years I am thinking about picking up a new guitar... Problem is of course money being that I lack it. So my options seem to be to just make due for a while till money changes or I figure something else...

So I was reading in the last issue of TapeOp and article about making reverb units from such things as slinkies and something that looks like a cookie sheet... Anybody trying the stuff in there? it just looks like it might kind of fun to try... Anybody with me?

So here we go again eh :D I will start by saying what I wanna do first. My wife and I play acoustic folk music and track live in our studio, our signal chain is as follows: FirePod-iMac-Logic or REAPER or whatever we happen to buy in the next 6 months. Currently I sing into an Oktava 219 and...

First a disclaimer that this is a copy and paste from my blog over at wordpress.com I have been working with computer based music creation/production since the age of 16 I was using Audacity and Gold Wave before moving to Cool Edit and finally moving to Mac OS X and there I learned to use...

So I guess this story started in 2007 when I decided to upgrade my monitors to something a little nicer... I saved up some money and headed to Guitar Center on black friday for the "sale" and looked around... Sure enough Blue Sky EXO monitors like I had been fooling around on in their "studio"...

So after more than a few years of mixing and listening with my trusty little M Audio monitors I have my first issue... They make a loud low freq buzz and the woofer blows out like I driving it with a load of [C]rap music run as full blast! I turn them off and the woofer releases again, but...

So I have been using my MXL 960 for a while and when I first got it I was not all that impressed when it was plugged into my firepod... So I removed the cheep tube and put in a NOS GE 12ax7 that took some of the hiss out of it, made the bass warmer... I removed the inner two layers of mesh...

So I started a thread in the DIY forum about making my own dynamic mics and didn't really get a whole lot of info out of it... So I thought maybe putting some stuff up here would help get more info ;) I built this mic: The capsule was taken from a broken CB Radio and the body is a discarded...

So I have been fooling around with making some contact mics and things like that around the house, having a lot of fun with it all... I am wondering what it would take to make some decent dynamic mics and where to buy parts... It seems like I would need a good sounding capsule and some sort of...

So I have a new recording project coming up with an acoustic guitar player and a cellist, and I need to make more than one set of headphones work on my firepod, so I guess it's time to spend some time and money getting a gadget to enable that sort of rig, anybody wanna sell me an HP4? I also am...

So my father in law picked up a Fender Super Champ XD for his lap steel guitar, and really loves it! (of course I helped him pick it out) And the word around here is that I could be getting one for Christmas from "The gear fairy" I guess I am wondering though if there would be something more...

I am going through my gear and weeding out the stuff that I'm not using any more... So far I have found a lot of broken headphones and the sort... This my first GOOD sound card up for grabs I believe I paid something like $179 for it, and last I checked they were $200 now.... I am asking $100...

So I found an older one in a pawnshop today that had a tag asking $99.00 after some bull crap I managed to talk em down a good bit before walking out.... Turned out that nobody who shops there knows what one even is or something.... Anyway what can I expect out of one if I buy it?

Hey guys So with little money on hand in the studio fund... Or more to the point no money to spend in the bank.... What are some decent cheap amps to look around at? I think I am gonna have about $50 to spend at the most...

Well I have been playing acoustic full time now and needed money so I sold the one guitar that was not paying the bills and that was my Saga Strat.... I never really missed that guitar though since it pretty well sucked other than playing really well... Now that I am married the shows are...

I bought a new tube for my mic as a birthday gift to myself and while this is not the greatest case of use, I used the 960 in front of me about 2 feet out, into a PreSonus Firepod running into iMovie and then cleaned up with a little bit of Stillwell Major Tom compression in Garage Band. Tube...

I got this unit from my broke bass playing brother few years ago, might have made one or two recordings on it, then got a DAW and never looked back.... The thing still works great, and is of course a classic piece of gear. Comes with power supply and manual if I can find it. I see them...