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I mix with sansamps all the time, just like you describe. They are made well for what they are and they *sound good*. I tried doing this with a pod, several pods actually, and those things just blow a cow. They are cool for what they are cool for, no doubt, but I wouldnt put mixing on the list of th...

C'mon baby, can you do more than dance?

[pelvic thrust out of time with the beat]

YEAH!

dave

If you know the sound of a 1272 and you build the N72 kit correctly, it would be pretty difficult I think, for anyone to be dissatisfied with the end result. Its that good. I use the rolls boards in just about everythign I rack up. Be careful before you go DIY something like an API 312 or a Langevin...

Yes, you can monitor the repro head during recording.

Yes, there is like, delay. The delay time depends on the speed of the tape and the distance between the record and play head. This is how you get that slap back tape delay sound, this is what your space echo and echoplex is doing.

dave

I love it when the plan comes together.

dave

for an upright, try a sanken COS11 taped to the body of the bass beneath the neck combined with another mic of choice in front of the bass for air. people usually combine electric bass with a DI, so the mic choice on the cab usually is more for color behind the DI, if thats the way you are going. I ...

yes, but was the asian chick a battlestar gallactica fan?

"the silent voice of Po-Town" would be a great signature...

dave

I have been meaning to write this up as an article for tapeop for eons but dont have the time to feed myself... If you need to make a bunch of pads, a really easy way to do it is to buy a blank single rack panel punched for XLR connectors. Middle atlantic makes them and they are about $30. You can u...

bummer, so I cant call you the "voice of Po-town" then, huh? when I was in college I did a radio show with a partner and he could never shut me up. Who wants to hear someone rant about soundgarden for 10 minutes. In the end, I guess he was right, but it wass a fun show. No suprise that Im not in rad...

holy shit dave, talk about remembering some useless stuff!!! I dont even remember those things. I want to make a fan webpage for the actor that was inside the Moffet suit on battlestar gallactica. Remember, the robot dog thing that made that filtered gear grinding sound when it walked? some poor mid...

man, a class A neve, you get that tchad blake low end just by turning the thing on... I think a lot of people mixing on neve's probably take great care to remove the bottom end pile up that tchad blake puts under the microscope. One of the big mysteries I have about rock music is why people love mix...

Larry-

the people at the EQ message board laugh at you aligning an MCI because they are all holier than though with their new fangled computer rigs.

we should go spam their board with a collage of tape machine maintainence...

dave

more than meets the eye.

dave

I swear to god, I think KXLU is one of the top ten reasons I want to move to LA.

Dave, what was your radio name?

your listening to New York Dave bringing you the solution to the Po-Town blues...

dave

I dont have any theory to offer, but in the case of something famous like a neve 1073 or a neve 1272, the output transistor drives the audio into the output transformer and in those designs can saturate the transformer. It is that transformer saturation which is the source of the characteristic colo...