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Somebody's gotta say it. Look at the Peavey bass equipment. Friend of mine got the Firebass 800 head and it is solid as a rock. Peavey gear tends to have unreasonably low resale value, you can get a lot of amp for your $$$. Ask your amp tech if he sees them often, mine doesn't. They don't break. For...

There are a couple of things you can try. Roll the tone controls all the way back so the highs are attenuated. If the feedback stops, slowly turn the tone knob back to where you had it and see what happens. Try tapping on the pickup as you slowly turn it up, use a pencil or chopstick. If it is the s...

A basic tone control for a guitar consists of a capacitor bleeding high frequencies to ground through a variable resistor (pot).

Cheap enough to build one with switchable caps in it until you find the one that works.

Not ideal but certainly ghetto.

+1 on the tube suggestions. I retubed an HHB Radius 40 and transformed it into something pretty damn nice. You can change the gain of the first stage, lower it with a 5751 or 12AT7 and raise it with a Sylvania 7025 (Sylvania tubes were pretty high gain for some reason, not uncommon to find them at 1...

I have not tried these and am not affiliated but here are a couple of places for tube guitar amp kits. Every studio needs at least one tube guitar amp, right?

http://www.torresengineering.com/maktubam.html

http://taweber.powweb.com/store/kits.htm

If I find others I will add.

Freakmagnet, can you elaborate? To some extent, I will try. The Band by The Band - done on the cheap in a converted poolhouse, a masterpiece of DIY in all respects. Moonlight Over Vermont - Johnny Smith - State of the art for the early 1950's and still sounds fresh and clean today. Eddy Arnold's gr...

The Band by The Band - done on the cheap in a converted poolhouse, a masterpiece of DIY in all respects. Moonlight Over Vermont - Johnny Smith Eddy Arnold's greatest hits. Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town by Emmylou Harris Duke Ellington and His All...

I have had great luck using EMG pickups, the active ones.

I run a Firewire cable from the internal drive to a MOTU 896 what????? For those who require precise language to understand, I run a firewire cable out of port on my computer, which is connecting the system software and DAW on my internal drive to a MOTU 896. and daisy-chain the external drive to t...

By the way, I blame the drummer. ( thank goodness one in three can play with dynamics and they mostly get smarter with age :-) Drummers are LOUD, tis true. I blame the entire esthetic of the "Coolness of Loudness". You really have to dig to find a drum kit that is not built to be as loud as possibl...

Here is how I have my recording system set up. I use a Mac but you should be able to do something like this on a PC. I have my internal drive partitioned into two drives. One has all my other computer stuff, like internet and graphics software etc. The other has just an OS with only the system fonts...

I use one of three basses - a Musima made in East Germany that looks like a Hofner Senator and has great old German flat wound strings on it, or a Larrivee solid body bass with EMG pickups and Rotosound Nylon Wrap strings or this sick P-bass monster that I built a neck for with a solid brass fretboa...

Google is your friend!! http://www.folkswaggin.com/Hammond/frameview.htm http://www.pigboatrecording.com/hammond.html http://www.myplanet.net/x77dude/moving.html http://www.keyboardpartner.de/hammond/t-mod-skill5.htm I don't think it takes any special skills, just common sense and planning. If you a...

Both of these hardwoods can be all over the map density wise. A hard rock maple grown in Canada will be very dense, a Western maple grown in Oregon with full exposure may be quite light and soft. Same is true for birch. Given similar growth environments, these are both dense hardwoods, birch is some...

Just for fun, try putting the stack in the corner of the room with the 15 on the bottom and facing into the corner. This can help couple the room, turning it into an extension of the cabinet. Then you can really push air out of the building!