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i can sort of see where audio hawg is coming from having been in a similar situation myself a couple of years ago. you see i got this credit card on a whim. i literally filled out the forms for the thing just to see if i would get accepted because i was unsure of my credit standing at that time and ...

pretty classic question here! how should i, or should i overhead mic my drumset for this "session"? the room in my house that i'm using has a pretty low ceiling. and not just that. the ceiling starts to angle down diagonally about half way between the front and back. with the highest portion of the ...

i know this may sound ridiculous, and it very well may be, but i thought about doing
the same "mod" to this 18" pioneer speaker i have had forever.

would that be a little too pimped out?!

would this speaker if modded just kill any pre-amp connected to it!?

as far as the diode goes it's new. brand new. i.e. i got the thing in the
mail a couple of months ago where it stayed wrapped up in the box it
came in until right befor i did this mod.

yeah i have been having this problem for a while now at first i thought that the problem was with my studio projects vtb-1 mic pre as that was the only pre i seemed to be having this partic- ular problem with. my other pres sounded just fine right?! so i sent the vtb-1 pre back to studio projects wh...

here's the deal. for some reason i can not for the life of me get solder on this one diode that is a part of this mod that i'm working on. even though i have swabbed the diode with rubbing alcohol along with the resistor i am trying to connect to it, i can not get these parts to connect. i should sa...

simple alien, thanks for the input! that last post had me in a pretty loopy frame of mind after having spent the previous almost day and a half on the mod. great learning experience this mod, it's just that i have been spending a little too much time on the thing with my job being on hiatus til' nex...

simple alien thanks! i really very much appreciate the input you along with everyone else has given me. i really take next to nothing for granted with this pre mod. your advice to utilize a multi-meter on the phantom power circuit is so obvious that i somehow did not even think about it. not til' ye...

daily update: dynamics one. phantom power zero. for some reason now the phantom power does not seem to want to work. dynamics are great! i took a gander at the paia directions, stating info. on the phantom power side of the circuitry and there does not seem to be any obvious thing that i am doing wr...

oh yeah a few observations/surprises concerning my experience on these mods: with the second channel i.e. successful mod i found that pin four was connected to ground and not the ac side like the directions stated. vice versa for pin five. for me a bit ironic seeing how the badly wired channel sound...

mic pre mod update: the thing was sounding actually pretty descent after the second mod. still wrong but when both the tube blend and tube overdrive turned all the way down with the output on like seriously .5 the overall sound quality was pretty good. as in more detailed. cleaner lows and highs. wi...

okay. update of sorts. taking some of yous alls advice, along with a local friends here, i basically "unmodded" the pre in order to start all over again. this to better monitor my progress or lack thereof. well after replacing all of the caps and all cept' one (lost it) of the resistors, and reconn-...

brian,

as far as info. on this mod goes. i just basically googled it. that is propably the best way.
as in: "tape op mic pre mod matt newport". that should do it.

simple alien, will now try to locate this updated mod piece. it's just that i personally have had a pretty heinous time attempting to using the tapeop search engine. sorry if i came across as a lazy arse. any details specific to this update that you could tell me though? any ifo. appreciated!

thanks for the responses guys!

even though i wasn't sure there was an "update" to these mods i
would appreciate you making it available. i imagine brian would too.

any other responses!?

appreciated,
mark