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- Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:28 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Multi-Effects Pedals
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5276
I regularly play two extremes of music on guitar: * A club-n-bar cover band that plays a lot of soul, blues, reggae, and classic rock (vintage guitar sounds, mostly) * Ambient, heavily effected loop-n-drone (stuff that barely sounds like a guitar) I use a Boss GT-8 for both. I also love me some tube...
- Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:30 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Drum machine recommendations, please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2490
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:32 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Drum machine recommendations, please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2490
Drum machine recommendations, please
I started out on an Alesis HR-16 back in the mid-to-late 80s. That unit s-l-o-w-l-y disintegrated by about 2000. So, like Goldilocks, I bought: * Alesis HR-18. Pads suck - no dynamic range. * Boss DR-880. Too slow to work with - menus within menus within menus, and the "save" step takes ten freakin'...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:30 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Lunchbox amps?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9586
Check out the newest Guitar Player magazine - Dec 2010, Dweezil Zappa on the cover. They review five little low-watt amps: Dr. Z Monza Egnater Tweaker Mesa/Boogie Transatlantic (Editors' Pick) Victoria Ivy League (Editors' Pick) 65 Amps Tupelo As to what constitutes a true Class A circuit vs. simply...
- Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:17 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: MXL 992 LDC bargain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2664
Good info, team. And speaking of mods, I am going to check the basket for that extra layer of spit-shield (and rip it out if it's there) and put a piece of foam in the body to eliminate that "tong-tong" sound when you tap it. Someday I'll get into swapping out the caps, or maybe just send them to Gu...
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:40 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: MXL 992 LDC bargain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2664
MXL 992 LDC bargain
Apparently the MXL 992 LDC is out of production. Musician's Friend just blew them out for $70 a pop in their Stupid Deal of the Day. I grabbed two. My apologies for not alerting y'all - I just didn't have the time. Check around - some other big box might be blowing them out, too. According to some r...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:52 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mod your cheap pickups
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7400
Oh boy oh boy oh boy. This is some of the most exciting stuff about pickups I've read in a long, long time. Re. Michael Joly's description of "string return" acoustic guitar pickups (a single Alnico magnet under the strings, the strings wired in series and fed into a current amp, best amplified acou...
- Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:32 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Me vs. A Wall of Marshall Stacks
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12739
Hey, I'm liking this. My only 2 cents: maybe add just a leeetle bit of room reverb to the voices, just a teeeny hint of ambience, and maybe an even teeensier bit of the same to the mix overall, just to put everything "in the same room." You know, just a hint and mostly in the midrange - no freaking ...
- Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:38 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: acousitc guitar live
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2821
Hey Josh - I'm glad I could help a bit, and hopefully focus your search. It seems the Cole Clark onboard preamp has a blender for the bridge/face pickups, no? That should give you some control, and along with the Feedback Buster, may be all you need. My own take is to avoid outboard preamps, compres...
- Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:30 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: acousitc guitar live
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2821
The qualities that make an acoustic guitar sound great acoustically are the qualities that make it sound terrible when amplified. A good acoustic guitar will be light and resonant at a wide range of frequencies. It will have a pliant top that will respond quickly to small fluctuations. I'll bet you...
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Guitar/outboard gear - a new classic.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6400
The Valn0tt is certainly this week's "go to" gear. Man, I had to change my underwear three times while watching that YouTube clip. I mean, the LOWS! But here's a piece of kit that has clients lined up at my studio, BEGGING to book time. "Please, Mister Baldwin. PLEASE let us record our potential Top...
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:54 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: what is your favorite locking tuner for the electric guitar?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2809
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:26 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: recommend gutiar stands and music stands
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5940
I have a quadrillion guitars and basses - ok, I have over twenty - and I'm often using them in batches of four/five/six at a time when I track. And my real estate is very limited - the studio is about 12 x 15. Here's what I use: * Wall hangers. I like that DIY http://www.instructables.com/id/Guitar-...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:42 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: cleaning out sound holes in acoustic guitars
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1485
Woah. Save your money, buddy. You sound like some guitar accessory sales guy's definition of a "bottom." Total respect, versuviusx, really. Don't get me wrong. But I have a problem with the selling of all this STUFF when cheap hardware store items do the same things for less money and less environme...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:43 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: NYC acoustic guitar repair
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2924
+1 for Mandolin Brothers Roger Sadowsky. Flip Scipio (former head of Mandolin Brothers). I don't know who's at the bench at Matt Umanov's shop, but I'll bet they're good. Likewise for Rudy's Music. Peekamoose. Evan Gluck at New York Guitar Repair. Google, pick up the phone, ask fellow guitarists, an...