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Thanks for the tip, Shed! Really enjoyed the Charlie Hayden doc.

You can use any off the shelf headphone amp. You just have to wire your own feed cable so that hot signal is applied to the tip and sleave of the jack going into the headphone amp (so it ends up in both ears). Your feed will be mono but I've never had an issue with that when tracking. You mean hot ...

Why would I buy a physical CD from bandcamp when I can just download the files? I don't think there's very many people who care about the physical CD packaging the way people do with vinyl, which makes sense. If I'm buying vinyl I want the thing, if I'm buying a cd I just want the information that'...

I record a two-hour program every week for broadcast on the local community radio station. I have turntable, CD, cassette, and reel-to-reel available in the studio. CD and digital files from HDD or USB thumb drive are the most convenient. Vinyl continually pleases me; I enjoy it despite the backgrou...

A.David.MacKinnon wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 31, 2019 12:52 pm

I see you’re in Montreal. The Long and McQuade rental department is a huge resource for getting lots of mic options for little cash.

Also check out Studio Economik for rentals.

Without seeing it I can only speculate, but if you don't want to swap your guts into a new frame what about a repair using an epoxy like JBWeld? The basket on the 414 is very important for RFI suppression so make sure electrical continuity is maintained...

Normally I would but it's 3 small solder points on a jack - not rocket science! Exactly. No Biggie. But if you are not familiar with prepping and soldering small gauge stranded wire, buy a spool of 24AWG at you local electronics store and practice on it until you are comfortable enough to tackle He...

Snarl 12/8 wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:59 am

...And apologies for my adblocker too.

I tend to turn off my adblocker for forums / websites that I frequent and get a lot of good info from - they need the ad revenue and I need the forum, so its sort of quid pro quo.

markjazzbassist wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:40 am

if you click the "remember me" or whatever it is, you're always logged on. i turn off my computer many times and am always somehow still logged in here. just a thought.

That only works if you don't clear cookies and history after each browsing session, as I do (yes, I wear a tin foil hat too)

.flac or .wav files here - just say no to mp3 :twisted: I record mostly classical music and I really don't like the sound of mp3 (although a lot of my younger clients ask for delivery in that format). I usually burn a test CD and run that around to the car, the living room stereo and the stereo on t...

My daughter is a singer and actor who maintains a website for professional reasons. Her domain name and web hosting cost about $30/year; she is in the musicians' union (AFM) and gets a pretty good deal from them. Her site is just a basic Wordpress template that somebody initially helped her tweak. S...

The most common fault with older tapes is 'dropout'. This is caused when a bit of the oxide layer is damaged by humidity, abrasion, stretching, or other mechanical damage. It might only last for a second, but it ruins your take. When you are recording 8 tracks on 1/4", as with the Fostex, a very sma...

I second the ART SLA 1 - great sound, great bang for buck, would have no issue with loads down to 4 ohms. I have three and have never had an issue with them,

Most problems on the Tascam 32/34/38 tape decks is where the various cards seat in the motherboard. If re-seating the cards doesn't do the trick, you might even have to resolder the connectors - apparently there were quality problems with the flow soldering of the PCBs on these models occasionally. ...

I find most open-back cans more comfortable for long listening sessions - an old pair of AKG K240 DF are my go-to endurance cans. I also have the ATH-M50, which I use on location recording sessions because of the isolation they provide...they are not as comfortable but the sessions tend to be shorte...