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The first issue of tapeop i bought because of the cover feature on Warren Defever of His Name Is Alive, who used a wire recorder (Webster portable?) for an album of folk/mining songs. When we moved to Maine in 2001, I bought a floor model wire recorder from a yard sale, whose guts (old tube model) w...

"Listen the snow..." is amazing, but I could list pretty much the whole g500 catalog. It's funny, both Dean & Neil Young, I feel like chops people complain about sometimes. The whole 1 note, spacious, noise approach. That said, I think Thurston Moore called "Today" his favorite guitar album of 1988,...

The solo on Charlie Chesterman's "Question Mark", played by Andy Pastore, always slays me. And I was there. The band had never played the song before (Charlie showed it to them in the studio) and the take that got used was the first one (later ones were more accurate but didn't have the manic energ...

mmm...coal keeps you warm...

vintage mxr effects tend to have disintegrating foam issues, too. what a drag.

not sure how the pricing would shake out, but redco are awesome for quality, pricing & customer service. check their "build your own cable" page.

i thought that as well, but seems like i read about people using the cinemag version. definitely post and let us know how you like the lundahl. did you order from K&K? it'd be interesting to hear before & after audio clips if you had time, too. thanks! the regular size transformers apparently won't ...

I know, it's an illness. i'm sure it'll be usable out of the box, but you can't disregard as much input that this mod has received. no sense reinventing the wheel, right? i think the point is most of the people here don't have a ton of cash to work with, and are trying to be inventive with how they ...

ok, i also got a couple of these for xmas, warning my wife that i'm probably going to have to tear into them. haven't had a chance to check for the ubiquitous ribbon sag, but wondered if anyone has experience with either the lundahl or cinemag transformers for this mic in particular. i know the ribb...

+1 on the aeron. saves your body if you're sitting all day. i got one new, locally for $525-ish. You could probably do better on craigslist or ebay.

i assisted at a local studio here in portland maine for a couple of years, all volunteer work. even though i tend to do things now in a pretty scrappy/diy fashion, learning the proper way to do stuff is pretty invaluable in my opinion. mic technique alone is pretty tough to learn from a book/trial a...

This really made the holiday season for me. AWESOME!

my band honey clouds were talking about recording a couple of practices to possibly put out a 4 or 5 song ep demo type recording. last saturday night we did the first batch (from about 8pm until 2:30am), and ended up with 10 songs we were pretty happy with. granted, they're super sloppy, but i think...

really enjoying these today.

alright, i'll take another stab at it. thanks!