Message Board

Round up a handful of poets, and let them ramble while you play cool backing music.

Hey, it worked for the Red Hot Chili Peppers!!! Don't you want to be a mega-star?

I'd disagree on using the foam mute in this case... the bass on the Kravitz tune has a bit brighter sound than you'd get. More like tired old roundwounds and a player who damps real good.

Poke around some organ websites for repair info. And years ago Keyboard Magazine put the Hammond on the cover and had some tech advice included. You won't get to the key contacts by taking things apart... if you get that far, you'll probably never get the damn thing back together. Instead, look for ...

Probably more likely a P-bass. I'd expect a P-bass to get that sound much more easily than a J-bass, anyway.

...but seriously...

I really like broken gear. I get to dig in, figure out the problem, fix it, and spend a few minutes playing with it before giving it back. Then I usually get money in return... can't forget that part of the process.

I get excited over function generators. that's right, test oscillators. I have seven of the things. I wanted to form a band with just test oscillators once... we'd wear lab coats, thick glasses, and sit at a long bench playing tunes on the oscillators. I had a bunch of ideas for how to make it a re...

"too common"... probably there's a reason that Boss pedals are popular?

K&M, if you can afford them. They'll last a lot longer, ultimately saving money.

Helped a friend recently buy his first bass... and we settled on a Cort Actionbass for about $220. Yeah, it's not a name you'd brag about, but the bass is quite good. In general cheapo electric guitars are basses are really good these days. They've pretty much figured out the manufacturing to make q...

I can't tell them apart... which one do I shoot???

I'll take that "most pathetic New Year's Eve" trophy this year... Spent most of the day and all of the night driving back from Colorado. I think we were in the middle of Iowa when midnight actually hit.

http://recording.org/users/kev/BLA2a.htm
http://www.ricswanson.com/la2a.html

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopi ... asonic+mic

I'm hoping to build the LA2a one of these days. Parts are pretty expensive, though. Short term I've built some of the TapeOp mics, and next up is the more recent TapeOp J-FET mic pres.

BTW,

The meter can only tell whether the electricity can get from "here" to "there". If you wanted electricity to be able to go between those two points, then you've got "continuity". If you didn't want electricity to be able to do that, then you've got a "short".

The store-bought cable is correct, YOUR cable was out of phase. Don't be confused by the word "short" from your meter. When you're using a continuity setting on the meter to test a cable you want it to beep (and show a "short") when connecting matching pins (pin 1 to pin 1 should beep, pin 2 to pin ...