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by dino
Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:22 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Electric Guitar Neck Shaving
Replies: 9
Views: 3424

Being a set neck guy myself, I have no personal experience in dealing with bolt-on's. My old friend and long time Fender owner, always removes the neck on a new instrument and places a shim between the body and the neck. He has done this to all his Fenders, including basses, and apparently it makes ...
by dino
Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:03 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Help recording acoustic guitar.
Replies: 33
Views: 10730

The first time I put a mike up in front of a parlor guitar, it all suddenly made sense. The prime directive of recording if you will. The one lesson the professionals on these hallowed pages have been preaching to us amateurs forever. If it doesn?t sound the way you want before you hit the red butto...
by dino
Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:03 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Small Analog 4-track
Replies: 26
Views: 8470

If you already have a mixer, you may want to look at a stand alone cassette recorder. I still toy around with my Tascam 234 Syncassette four track every now and then, if only to keep things loosened up. You can even use it to get some very cool tape saturation effects by rerecording back and forth b...
by dino
Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:24 am
Forum: People/Places/Things
Topic: Cool DC shops?
Replies: 5
Views: 1519

I'll second the nomination for Action Music. I purchased my LP from those guys. If you need luthier work, Matt Baker is a genuine good guy and the only person I trust with my instruments. Go there, buy something...



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by dino
Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:35 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Voiceover mic for the home studio
Replies: 26
Views: 7891

I love my Oktava's even though the two 319's I purchased six months apart, are for practical purposes, two different animals. One is certainly a bit brighter than the other. The darker of the two, along with an un-named crappy preamp, has become a favorite alternative in the VO booth. The best old s...
by dino
Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:16 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Voiceover mic for the home studio
Replies: 26
Views: 7891

Just the other day, I pulled out the one 416 we have here, and used it in place of the funky looking Sennheiser/Neumann dynamic the big boss made me buy to replace our trusty RE20. The 416 was obviously a completely different animal than a big dynamic, but on the young man I was recording, it really...
by dino
Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:27 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: where to get an old rca ribbon reconditioned?
Replies: 12
Views: 2296

A couple of decades ago, I joined a company just as they were getting rid of a bunch of old equipment. Before I had a chance to argue, the stuff was gone. I only managed to save the windscreen from one of the mics. Until today, I never knew what it was from. RCA BK5. Cool looking thing. Mystery solv...
by dino
Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:40 am
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: Ear fatigue/sensitivity to digital music
Replies: 36
Views: 11088

Having a friend with a record collection of over 12.000 has given me the opportunity compare vinyl to CD on quite a few recordings. As someone already noted, the highs are just different. There's just something nicer about the sound. I have a 20 year old cassette tape of a friends band. It was dubbe...
by dino
Fri May 26, 2006 11:13 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Micing the strings of an electric guitar...
Replies: 20
Views: 5615

I have miked my old Gibson thinline hollowbody many times, and mixed the output of the pickup (p90) for a faux acoustic sound. My friend wouldn?t believe it was what it was when I played the track for him. It?s obviously a whole different thing than recording my real acoustic of course (D41), but it...
by dino
Sat May 20, 2006 3:42 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Need Help Transferring 4-track tapes to digital files
Replies: 9
Views: 2575

I have a Tascam 234 standalone deck (No Mixer) that I just cleaned up for the same purpose. I would assume the track alignment is about the same on most of these things, but you never know. If you want, I would be happy to do your tapes when I do mine. No charge of course. PM me if you?re interested...
by dino
Fri May 19, 2006 4:58 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: CD?s (still) sound different than mixdown waves
Replies: 26
Views: 6029

That?s very interesting JV. Prior to getting this current DAW, a Music XPC-C2, with an LG burner, running Sonar 5 PE, I was getting the same anomolies using n-Track and a regular HP desktop, M-Audio 2496 and Delta 44, with a Mitsumi burner. My player software was either WMP or the old Winamp (Using ...
by dino
Thu May 18, 2006 5:01 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: CD?s (still) sound different than mixdown waves
Replies: 26
Views: 6029

So to review what you braniacs have taught me so far. Timing and clocking issues, the CD recorder, the media, and of course my perception could all be contributing factors to this phenomenon. Testing things myself would be limited to comparing the tracks, out of polarity, with each other. Leaving th...
by dino
Tue May 16, 2006 5:23 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: CD?s (still) sound different than mixdown waves
Replies: 26
Views: 6029

thanks folks .I'm trying to get my brain wrapped around this information. I'm using a fire wire interface so that would mean only one converter right? Unless the cd is being decoded and re-encoded before it goes down the FW to the interface. I don't believe that to be the case since there is no soun...
by dino
Tue May 16, 2006 10:09 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: CD?s (still) sound different than mixdown waves
Replies: 26
Views: 6029

CD?s (still) sound different than mixdown waves

Back a while ago, I asked about this on several forums. I really want to see what has happened since I last mentioned it. The significant difference between the sound of a mixed track (16441) played back from HD, and the CDR version has been something that still really, frustrates me about computer ...
by dino
Sun May 07, 2006 3:39 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Hold my hand through this.
Replies: 12
Views: 3257

Be a little obsessive about your measurements, and though it may seem obvious, work in a comfortable, well lit position. If your doing a lot of cables, you can end up screaming like a banshee when you try to stand up.. Your consistency will improve and you'll avoid a few nasty burns. Just repaired a...