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I still keep expecting your first post to start out with "...but I play one on TV." Ahh, so I'm not the only one. Was tempted to make some videos, but probably won't. At this point maybe it would be good if somebody did that whole ultra-long "back from the dead" type of rebuild series, and there is...

I'm a weirdo and should probably just be doing classical recording, because I like everything as clean as possible. When I got my first decent digital converter it was great, finally things just came out the same way they came in. That being said my own vocals now always go through a transformer pre...

I would add that after spending an hour plus tuning, I walk away with extremely fine pitch perception for a little while afterwards. Or so it seems, anyway.

So I've always heard about the idea of "stretch tuning," which I understand to be something along the line of, "once you make it out of the middle, ignore the tuner and train/ trust your ears, as harmonic truth and perfect equal temperament are both false trails." True? Or have I misunderstood? It'...

Just flip the snare over, and you have everything covered! Easy peasy.

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...

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...

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...

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...

...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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Wow, super cool! That looks like a big project, even if it isn't a "big" studio.

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 ...