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If I'm hearing you guys write, there's 2 *different* kinds of distortion from printing hot. 1) from overloading the electronics on that channel on your tape deck (this is what i guess I was getting---my snare went "pfffft" 2) the elusive cool tape saturation Now-----to bypass #1 and get to #2 I must...

Thanks ChocChickenPie. That sounds like a great launching point for a couple of afternoons of fun experimenting. Thanks for the explanations. (and by the way, if speaking of chickenpotpies----if anyone is ever in Fresno(central calif.) you must go to The Chicken Pie Shop----diner style out of the ea...

ok, i get the triangle..sort of....and i get the clue 'knee high'----sorry to sound like i'm being picky...but i really would like to understand this shape and maybe give it a try. A triangle is a flat shape...righ? unlike a pyramid....help me. i'm not picturing this thing in real space. Is the tria...

Ok, so i'm doing some test recordings of some drums--trying to get the right mic in the right position...all that good stuff, when I remember, the good folks on the TapeOp message board sometimes talking about really pushing tape past it's limits. I hear some people writing about how they just pin t...

DWELLE------what part of the SJ Valley are you in?? Is this the man from Ragin Records? INVERSEROOM--- yes, Clara Rockmore.....DID rock. She died not too long ago. If you know her from her album, it's amazing...she recorded that thing as an older lady with her long-time accompaniest sister on piano....

When not recording my own music in the home studio or chasing my young kids around the house (hey , bring back that compressor!), or walking our extremely dumb(but cute)(no, these ones could NOT wrap cable) bassett hounds around the block, ....i'm off to try and earn money as a music teacher at the ...

1)I'm not alone. 2) There's many ways to get something done----and all of them are o.k. ways to get the job done. (i.e. 'how do you mic an acoustic guitar?', etc.) 3) My choices are as 'official' as anyone elses---as long as it sounds good. and as usual, a BIG thanks to y'all for teaching me these a...

Hello TapeOp friends, Here's a link to my webpage. If you press on the bit that says "music" it'll have a couple of mp3 links. The "sonic garden" page has a couple of the most recent things I have posted, and the "mp3.com" one has some older things. I record my own music in my own home studio using ...