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The solder points look good, I think mostly the tines that make contact with the ring and tip have loosened up and are not always making contact the way they should. I definitely considered just getting in there and bending them back in, I was just considering if an upgrade to a better jack would b...

I believe that size is called "D" size.

I might consider just cleaning the jacks with Deoxit and resoldering the connections with fresh solder. That might be all you need.

Roger

That guitar part starts at 9:29, and it sounds like just someone panning the melody guitar about. I really cannot hear weirdness of the chorus too much, I do hear the flanging, which is what makes the guitar sounds like it is going a little behind your head. It is a psychoacoustic effect. Cool effe...

I think that a lot has changed all across the board (pardon the pun) in the last few years and that radio is way less of a concern for anyone. The loudness wars were originally a matter of trying to get your song to jump out of the speakers more than the last song. In my opinion, that not only led t...

Hello all. From time to time, I look around for info on the Bedini B.A.S.E. and Hughes SRS AK-100 stereo enhancers and I find little about them. I was wondering if anyone really knew the technical story about them and the circuit topology. I'm familiar with the Haas effect with short delays and I'm ...

Nick Sevilla wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:12 pm

Well, posting a pic of the actual connector, of your mic, would really help.

Cheers

I will do that when I'm back at the studio...

It ain't the same as the MC4M, which is the connector EV used. I have a similar mic lying around somewhere, and the connector is pretty oddball. Unlike any other mic I own. If I can figure out where the mic is, I'll take a look and see if I can help. I never got around to finding a connector for mi...

I would not be surprised if these were a variant of the EV mics of the same period. I have an EV 664 and it has this connector. I actually bought one of those off ebay and besides getting the gender wrong because I assumed , and you know what happens when you assume, it looked like the pin spacing ...

I recently bought a Lafayette 99-4593 mic and it came without a cable and I'd like to make one for it but I'm having trouble determining the type of connector I need. It has a 4-pin male Amphenol-style connector, but the barrel size and pin spacing seems a little unusual compared to another male con...

Yes, it has the Peerless transformer. I checked the terminal strips for continuity and those connections seem to be okay. I am recalling now that it wasn't passing audio the last time I used it when it was racked up in my last studio around 10 years ago. It was just suddenly dead, without being move...

Happy New Year all! I got an old green Altec 9473A Dual Band Limiter several years ago. It's a very cool piece, probably meant for broadcast audio, where it splits the signal at 250Hz and limits each split separately (if you choose). It has settings for different release times for each range and sel...

This one still makes me laugh... I had a session with a new client. I didn't really know this guy but I had heard a bit of his reputation in the rock scene as a partier who was associated with a few well-known junkies and drug users. Mind you, I was young and innocent at the time. (I'm still innocen...

Also as a side note, can everyone who's using the term "woofy" try and define it for me. I used to have a couple regular clients who used the term frequently when critiquing a mix, and I'm not sure I totally know what they mean. Just that we got it to go away. For me, woofy is too much low and low ...

I need to be talked off a ledge a little bit and given some perspective. I struggle nowadays with the amount of effect that is appropriate for lead vocals in certain genres that I mix and I need some guidance. Back story, I started recording in the late 80s/early 90s when it was the thing to put a t...

A.David.MacKinnon wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:33 am

I would expect a transformer would colour the sound (even slightly) which is the opposite of what you want from an in line booster

Very good point!

Maybe that's what I should do then! Make transformer-coupled boosters that DO color the sound! Hmmmmmm Head scratch emoji.

Roger