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Admitedly I have a project studio and don't use them for clients, only for checking mixes. For this they are great. But since they are open back they are not the best for tracking IMHO. For tracking I give people something other than my reference phones I have actually had pretty good luck with the ...

I was wondering about the low ohm and a good driver...what do you use for an amp? I use a small vacuum tube headphone amp which is driven by a Neotek board. I can drive them straight off the Neotek but its not anywhere near as clean as with a seperate headphone amp. But there are a lot of good head...

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I have a pair of Grado 125's and think they are excellent. They do many things better than my Stax or AKG phones. I have never heard a pair that has accenuated high frequency. As far as I'm aware these are very balanced, even sounding phones. HOWEVER-they are also very revealing. If you are drving t...

I had one of the first NT1's and still have one of the early NTKs. The NT1 sounded very cool, albeit somewhat colored but nice. I have had a couple of the later NT1's in my project studio and they sounded different (cheaper would be a good word). So some of 'em were probably pretty good, some not. T...

I have to say I've had pretty good luck for the most part on e-bay however this situation strikes a chord- I have had several instances where I've won something for a little less than what it normally would go for. Then despite the fact that I've e-mailed the seller and let him know payment is comin...

Ampeg b25's seem to be totally underated for studio stuff.

One of the best bass tones I've ever heard in the last 30 years came out of a Peavy bass combo amp (1 15" speaker).

IF IT SOUNDS GOOD-USE IT! Don't worry about how much it costs. Even when you've got some of the good stuff some of the less expensive stuff still rocks. Don't let the gear snobs and wannabe's influence you-use yor ears.

I have one of the very first NTK's. And I have some other nice LDC's to compare it to (4060, Soundelux). It was pretty decent on male VOX to start with but not that great on other things. I replaced the tube with an NOS type and it really cleaned up the sound of the mic. It works so well on my vocal...

1/4' WORK JUST FINE AS LONG AS YOU USE HIGH QUALITY STUFF. Anything you get at Guit Center probably isn't going to cut it.

I think if you were to name a piece of equipment which best defines "tube sound" in the way a lot of people think of it, the 351 would be it. Colored transformers and coupling caps, circuit design which overloads fairly easily and gracefully, generating a lot of low even order harmonics. Very euphon...

There is a huge misperception about the "sound" of vacuum tube gear. In truth there is no one "tubey" sound. And a lot of the perception of that sound comes from gear where the tubes are worn down and capacitors are on their last leg, giving it a far more "warm and fuzzy" sound than it had to begin ...

There are lots of mics for $100 that might be a nice alternative to a '57 in some situations but I don't think there is anything you could universally call better. It seems like you can almost always get some kind of good results with a '57, even if it is not absolutely the best choice.

I have a couple of omni 654a's from the 60's that can sound real good on acoustic guitar, as room mics, and on some guitar amps. Very flat compared to a 635a (which I also like a lot). A friend of mine had them on a drum set with great results (beware though, there isn't much below 50 hz). Also a co...