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Well that does make sense, I've only tried my cold iron on guitar wiring, which wasn't so great, but I imagine it would be good on a pcb. The fact that it's wireless is also a great advantage. I have no idea what wattage my iron is, I've burned through 3 cheapo rat shack irons over the past few year...

D'Goody!
How you been? You know who this is? Hint: I was lucky enough to scrub toilets on the Dr. John session.... Anyway, great review! Hope things are going well over at the clubhouse. Check out www.myspace.com/alexbarr if you want to hear my crazy music. Be good, Goody!

Somebody got me a cold-heat gun for my birthday not too long ago. It does work and it is in fact cool, but it's more of a jewelry thing. It can't solder to anything with too much mass or else the heat will dissipate too much and it just won't melt. It's like using a match to boil water - it's hot an...

I've also read that most gear is unbalanced inside and then stepped up to a balanced signal in the output stage. What's the truth/logic behind this? I'm just trying to get the least noise out of these pres (which is why I want to step them up to +4) and still have their warm sound. Well yes, just a...

Howdy! Anybody ever tried one of these? http://www.jlmaudio.com/microphones.htm It's 200 Australian dollars, which works out to about 150 USD. Pretty cheap if it's a good mic. Anyone ever used one or have any idea how it sounds? I expect something from JLM to be pretty high quality seeing as how the...

Well I spoke too soon... I just opened up my 319 and it's got Xenia and silver surplus-looking caps. So I guess I have an original, i's got an N in the SN too. But the logo looks a lot more like a silk-screen than an engraving. I tried every conceivable angle of light and I still couldn't see a shad...

Goddammit, me too! I paid my friend $150 for both the mic and a newish queen size bed when he was moving. I guess that's still a pretty good deal. Personally, I was always disappointed with this mic. It does add a unique color to the ol' locker and it's nice on acoustic and electric guitars sometime...

Caig Deoxit D-5!!!

That's what you want to use for pots, be very careful using other stuff because the wrong spray can do more harm than good.

My favorite guitar cab at the moment is an old 70's 3 way stereo speaker with a 12 inch sub and completely non-functioning tweeter and mid-driver. It happens to be a JBL 4311, but still, it's the kind of thing you'd expect to see by the curb on garbage day. Love it.

Good to know! I was always curious if there was a connection. Their frequency responses look pretty different so I imagine they have different capsules, though for their purpose I'd say they're in the same boat. As to the cash, I think I paid 75 for it and I saw it on ebay for 150, so not a whole lo...

Seriously?? No one?

I've been trying to figure this out for a long time. It seems like the differences in the amp sections have to do mostly with tone shaping and dynamics. I think the Bassman's eq controls operate at lower frequencies on the bass section of the amp than on the "normal" section. As for dynamics, I thin...

I picked one of these up at a studio yard sale: http://www.coutant.org/sm5b/ Anyone in here using one of these? From what I've googled, this is a very popular broadcast mic but nobody seems to use it for music and apparently it's never been mentioned on these boards. Personally, I like it. I use it ...

Look at a waveform on your DAW. Notice that all the waveforms, high and low ultimately get combined to a single waveform. The low frequencies are longer and the high frequencies are shorter. You can see this in the waveform, there's a wide low frequency going along with all the little high freq's ru...

Thanks for the thanks! I think I got mine with 6105 frets and bending is a breeze... But some people like wider frets, me, I like 'em tall and skinny (like me!) As to the tone of the rosewood neck... Well it's kind of hard to say since it's on a mahogany body. But I did put it on a regular strat bod...