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None of the boxes you mentioned are really designed to add anything, barring maybe the UA. For the price of a 1073 equivalent, you could buy a silverface Fender Super Reverb, jack your Voyager into it and mike with an SM57. Four ten in. speakers will get you some nice bloom. Add an eight-ohm 2X10 ba...

I predict you'll buy three-four things and end up with the Joemeek.

Two drummers sharing one drumkit is like you sharing your girlfriend. Good luck with that... Pffft; they're drums, we hit them. (the sound is more about the heads and the tuning than the shells) In this application the determining factor is durability; drummers that are picky about their sound can ...

Just got mine today. (I'm in the Midwest) Does it hit newsstands first? My friend on the left coast has been referring to it for, like, a week.

I myself have taken pictures of mountains and they are very forgettable. I bet it was because I was in a moving vehicle with a bunch of musicians. Yeah, I was thinking that I took a bit of an issue with your profs comments about the amazing scenery that Ansel Adams photographed...implying that anyo...

junkshop FTW

Harry wrote:when I think of old school dub I think of Space echo

Or DOD's PDS 8000 Echo+Plus 8-Second delay, anybody want mine?

Years ago, I had a clarinet student who was "rhythmically challenged." We startred out with tapping her foot to a metronome. When she could do that, I started asking her simple questions (like "what did you eat for breakfast") while she kept tapping. When she could answer questions and keep the foo...

Sorry to be a PITA about this, but vari mu actually means "variable gain" and refers to the amplifier stage in the compressor/leveling amp and how that unit would produce a gain change by varying the gain of the amplifier based on any number of detector schemes. vari mu compressors exhibit a variab...

Try not to crash.

PZM on the wall behind the drummer-right at ass level gives you a good balance of kick and snare, higher up gets more cymbal, not as good if you're going to use an LMC-1 or other 'crap it up' compressor for flava.

Joel is exactly right. Vari-Mu means the compression ratio is not a constant, but level dependent, as in the classic Teletronix LA2A and some others. (LA for leveling amp, natch) However, some modern vari-mu designs offer more control, and are not, strictly speaking, leveling amps, or not only level...

Keely has a mod for the DL-4.

Yeah, the Sufjan Stevens TO article mentioned that one of his records was all SM57, but seriously, that mic can surprise you when connected to a really good preamp, like you'd use for a ribbon. I expect I could make a pretty decent record using nothing else; might try it one day, but I'd sure miss h...

If the question is, "Why can't we get that sound today?", I'd suggest it's down to three factors: (leaving aside the music and arrangement) the gear the technique the musicians Most of the gear those records were made with/on still exists, so we can toss that out as the determining factor as soon as...