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You could look for one of those Roland VS series digital recorders. They were pretty popular (how many???) years ago, probably wouldn't be hard to find one. Boss and Tascam and others probably made similar products.

I have a pair of AEA RPQ mic pre’s here, obviously designed for ribbons. But I notice that any dynamic mic seems to sound different through the AEA’s — more open, deeper, more detailed. Looking at their page the input impedance is 63k Ohm. Interesting.

I assume they are designed to sound the same, other than the pattern difference. Were they designed for mid/side recording? A friend of mine had an m130 and we compared it to my much older m160, and they sounded very much the same. If you like fig 8 patterns and have a room with a high ceiling, the ...

I asked this over on GS because it’s a bigger crowd, FWIW. But nobody’s got anything so far. I have a cheap ribbon — ART M-5. It’s blown. MIchael Joly has closed up his shop. Who else does cheap ribbon repairs? This mic cost a bit over $100 I think. Shiny box charges $125 it looks like. Who does the...

The way I read it, it may have been United Western (or Western Recorders, not sure when the name change happened).

Built by Bill Putnam, later became Ocean Way then Cello.

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If the artist really is thinking of early 60's folk recordings, maybe a stereo recording of guitar and vocal would be ideal.

I'd at least try mid-side, this might be a situation where it's a good idea. Depending on your room, probably.

Expect a long session, lots of record-listen-adjust?

I have two amps set up most of the time. A Fender Princeton and a Showman combo with 15" (and the yellow jacket EL84 adapters and 2 tubes not 4, so it's a 20-30 watt amp). I usually have a ribbon on the Princeton and an EV 408 on the Showman for different tones. Small room, and this setup gives me d...

I haven't done this, but I've seen people recommend getting several tiny mixers so everyone can do their own headphone mix from whatever outputs you give them. Isn't there a little Behringer mixer for like $30? But then you've got all the wiring to set up, and splitting off the submixes that make se...

I succumbed to this feeling and picked up an Advanced Audio U67-style mic. For my voice, in my compromised acoustic spaces, it never seemed to be what I needed. Sold that and picked up a Gefell UM70s. Not tube. But sounds very good on everything I put in front of it. My other mic splurge in the last...

I had a similar thing happen. 3-4" of water in the basement. During a heavy rain, the breaker for the sump pump flipped off for unknown reasons. There my have been some "vintage" ancient audio gear running off that circuit too. Anyway, with no sump pump the basement filled to the level the groundwat...

The acoustic guitar mic -- I don't know the vintage mics all that well, could be some weird early Schoeps Collette mic or Lomo or something, but I think the Shure KSM 141 is shaped kinda like that.

I got a tech 21 [*]“LIverpool” pedal basically for open mics with an electric guitar. Occasionally use it for late night got-to-record-a-part work. I have the S-works amp sim plugin too, I mostly use it to overdrive a recorded guitar part a little more, I rarely track a guitar into it. I feel like i...

I’ve read that “lean bass” thing about the UM70, and right now I’m using it close in my untreated living room. Sounds decent. The C38b is even across the spectrum, I think, not massive on the low end for sure, but not lean. I’d have to listen back to things I tracked a couple months ago. So maybe th...

Since I got an AEA R92 it has lived on a Princeton amp. That just works. Sometimes I'll pull the ribbon aside to do other duties, but its home is right on the grill of the Princeton.

I have a little basement studio that is currently disassembled as we wait (and wait and wait) for contractors to do some work that will keep the walls from collapsing. What audio work I do right now is with a crappy Tascam 2-channel interface, a mic or two and a laptop. Before the disassembly, I had...