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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: The bottom of the snare
- Replies: 64
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Re: The bottom of the snare
Just flip the snare over, and you have everything covered! Easy peasy.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1491
Re: I'm not a piano technician
Would a modern tuner with a mic help with that? I think a fair number of modern tuners would be mostly OK, though really you want something that's rather high resolution. Real professional piano tuning software goes in the the hundreds of dollars! I wish the guy behind the AP Tuner app was still pr...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1491
Re: I'm not a piano technician
I should mention that while you don't need golden ears to tune a piano, you do still need to be a bit of a weirdo to get through the whole thing. That top octave is a *very* tough neighborhood. And if you've got a professional technician coming in to tune your higher quality piano... definitely keep...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1491
Re: I'm not a piano technician
So the piano I started with was a 1973 Wurlitzer spinet. Not a great piano by any standard, and as a spinet it had the added bonus of being hard to work on. I did get it to where it sounded pretty good in the midrange (where all the money is anyway), and it stayed in tune pretty well too. But it had...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1491
Re: I'm not a piano technician
Sources - youtube, of course. Also books, I have the venerable book by Arthur Reblitz about repairing and tuning pianos, also Mario Igrec's much more recent "Pianos Inside Out". And of course old-fashioned message boards, like the Piano Tuner's Guild websit http://www.ptg.org which has a great forum...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1491
I'm not a piano technician
...but I've been actually doing some of that stuff lately, and I thought it might be interesting and useful to share. I suppose it started when I got that "basket case" Wurlie from another TOMB member a while back, but it didn't really kick in until several years ago when I was talking to a real pia...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
- Replies: 5340
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Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....
these are meant more for permanent installation in a Muzak system I think. Well yeah, I'd imagine so. That's the whole Radio Design Labs thing, odd little problem solvers. Need a mic preamp to feed the bingo announcements into the organ speaker? They've got you covered! Need to mix a stereo thing d...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
- Replies: 5340
- Views: 2737249
Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....
It’s funny, I think I remember reading a review of the Redcloud in tape op and thinking, “what would I ever need 8 little attenuators for?” First mod I did after building that Hamptone JFET preamp was adding output attenuation. While it's nice to get pretty decent preamps in almost anything these d...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
- Replies: 5340
- Views: 2737249
Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....
When we were in Williamsburg with Brad's Calrec console we couldn't use our stands so we bought a set of the Primacoustic Recoil Stabilizers. They worked. The have foam and steel. They are quite heavy. They worked really well. I *knew* I was getting something wrong. The Recoil Stabilizer does have ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Hotel Earth studio 1 build diary
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2663
Re: Hotel Earth studio 1 build diary
Wow, super cool! That looks like a big project, even if it isn't a "big" studio.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
- Replies: 5340
- Views: 2737249
Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....
I didn't try to take the ISO-Puck Minis apart. Height was a consideration when I looked at some of the products. The ISO-Puck Minis were the lowest profile of the products that I looked at. So the eternal question here is whether you want your monitor rigidly attached to the Core of the Planet, or ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Size Matters!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 972
Re: Size Matters!
I've seen some people stack their screens vertically to better fit the space. And probably it wouldn't be super difficult to turn a widescreen 90 degrees and tell your operating system to match that. Probably wouldn't work for older folks like me with the progressive glasses, though. Looking up at a...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: 1073's... Real deal or one of the many clones?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 95321
Re: 1073's... Real deal or one of the many clones?
I love those old Silvertone amps. Have you seen that new pedal that supposedly does the sound? https://jackson.audio/products/1484 Hey, that's interesting. I did rebuild a 1484 a few years ago, and it was ridiculous how many resistors (nearly all of them) had drifted quite a lot. Cheap little carbo...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: How Do I Test A D.I. Box?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1288
Re: How Do I Test A D.I. Box?
With a PCB instead of point-to-point wiring, the weight of the transformer can cause damaged if dropped. I'd take a *very* close look at all the solder joints and especially around the transformer. Maybe even touch them all up with a little fresh solder.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: How Do I Test A D.I. Box?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1288
Re: How Do I Test A D.I. Box?
A really simple method is the "circuit disturbance test". You plug the DI into a mic input, crank up the gain a bit (be careful of your speakers/ears, a limiter would be a good idea) and probe the signal path with a metal tool from the mic jack inwards. You should get a "pop" every time you touch th...