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It'd be worthwhile recapping the power supply on gear this old.
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PORNSTARS VIXEN

I've run into this, too. Frankly, many people see the cost of having someone do work for them, and decide they're better off buying the stuff themselves. It's a fact of life. Only a couple years later, I hear stuff like "This stuff is just a bitch to figure out!!!" and "I just can't seem to get good...

If you can't hear him, because he insists upon listening at VERY LOUD volumes, that's his fault, not yours. As the engineer in charge of that session, I take anything that doesn't go right as my fault. But it's kind of weird recording someone who works for your boss who technically is your boss. I ...

The Grace 101 is really nice if you like transparent & clean.
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MOTORCYCLE TIRES

I think of mids as centered around 600 or 700 Hz, and ranging from 400 to 2KHz or so.
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Launch Box

If I wanted to do something I hate for money, I'd go apply at Walmart for a cashier job. If I can't stand the music, I won't be able to do justice to my clients' art, no matter how positive my attitude. Plus, hearing the same terrible songs 500 or 600 times during the course of tracking / mixing and...

The most important thing I've ever learned is that in 100 years me and everyone who ever knew me will be dead and forgotten, so there is no point in getting too upset about the small stuff...
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MERCEDES-BENZ G-CLASS HISTORY

Similar to the square wave, wherever the sine voltage is changing faster than the slew rate would allow it to change, the voltage rise would be slowed down, compared to what it would have done had there been an adequate slew rate. In terms of audio fidelity measurements, this would show up as an inc...

Interesting. I'm not sure however that I understand slew rate limiting as you described it. I have never heard the term "slew rate limiting" before, but I have heard the term "slew rate distortion." >>> Yep, same thing, different words. I do not know if they are the same thing. Here's what I do kno...

Now, back to your original question: The best way to see what the analog and the digital recorders do with slew rate is to record a high quality 1 KHz square wave with peak levels at -20, -10 and 0 dB FS. The recorded digital signal can be examined by zooming in on the waveform. The tape signal can ...

Point taken, Brad. Maybe some of this has already been pointed out in this discussion, but I'll kick in my 2 cents.. Some of this might seem pendantic or obvious, but it's good to start with a firm foundation. The slew rate of a sine wave = 2 * pi * f * Vpk The unit is typically in Volts per uSecond...

I record and mix records all the time. I really like my job. I have learned over the years what tool to use for a given result I am hoping to achieve. I stacked up many, many of these "response/outcome" type scenarios as to inform my choices. Every single one of these choices has been based on expe...

I heard when Keith Richards nearly got electrocuted, his strings pretty much melted/exploded, I assume your friend had his guitar plugged into a powered-up amp, the stray bendy bouncy string could have bumped into another amp's chassis, if one of these amps had a 2-prong cord and a failed "death ca...

What you're doing, perhaps without knowing it, is making an audiophile record. There's a niche industry out there of musicians, studios, and labels, who make uncompressed records with the dynamics preserved that they market to people like me with high-end stereos. I repeat, what you're attempting t...

Frankly, your symptoms sound to me like you have some bad capacitors. If it's really a 1970s amp, it'll be due for a re-capping anyway. And the parts are amazingly cheap lately - - me & a friend just recapped an Allen & Heath 16 channel board, and the parts (about 300 capacitors of various values) r...