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Recommendations? Traditional guitar amps just don't use tweeters. Tweeters don't do a thing for electric guitars - but they're nice for acoustics. You could use two amps. Or, you could mic the amp. Or, you could get yourself a small PA speaker and rig a foot switch to connect and disconnect it. The ...

We bassists obsess needlessly about gear just as more as you guitarists do. And, just as with guitars, you will spend the most money on the last 5-10% of whatever it is you desire. But all basses don't sound the same, and they definitely are not created equal. So, my answer is that you shouldn't get...

Back to using it for a violin... Even if a large speaker can reproduce a relatively high frequency, "beaming" is a problem. You will hear the high frequency fine on axis but it will disappear off axis. The larger the speaker, the more pronounced the beaming becomes. If you're going to mic the amp, i...

If the VT-22 would "Undoubtedly sound better," that means you have no doubt. Therefore, you should get it. And you can sell me that nasty Twin Reverb, cheap. "because of the age?" Why would age matter? The VT-22 is a great amp. Ungodly loud (louder than the Twin) and ungodly heavy. But I would think...

Well, guitar-speaker connoisseurs say that there is a sonic difference between AlNiCo- and ceramic-magnet drivers, so there may well be a difference to the neos too. I don't know. I agree with the Professor that other factors of the driver's design have more effect on its sound than the type of magn...

A point about right vs. wrong in Bluegrass. When Steve Earle cut his Bluegrass record, I recall a radio interview he did. A caller pointed out that to them Steve had added nothing to the tradition of Bluegrass. That he had injected none of what they seemed to figure were Steve Earle elements. Steve...

I'm at work, so I couldn't listen to the music on your website. I infer that you want your next recording project to sound something like your last one, and that you liked the RCA mic on your singer. RCA what? 77? 44? The AEA R84 and R44 mics, respectively, will do those great. Why not rent one? The...

They're both great dynamic microphones. The difference which sonically jumps out at you is the M88's much greater proximity effect. Second, the M88 has higher output. Third, the RE20 is cardioid pattern, where the M88 is hypercardioid. The RE20 has what I would call a "thick" or "opaque" sound acros...

awesome...thanks for adding to my impression that bluegrassers are a bunch of uptight dillrods. Nothing wrong with my teacher or what he taught me. Just using it as an example of what bluegrassers are into. A rock guitar teacher might have told me to put some of myself into the song, or to express ...

Hmm. I sold my only SM57 yesterday. I don't envision a situation where I really need one.

I've enjoyed Bluegrass (listening and playing) since 1975, when I attended Bill Monroe's festival in Beanblossom, Indiana. I respectfully disagree with most of the opinions given here. The best Bluegrass is NOT perfect and precise. Of course, that statement invites the question, "What does 'best' me...

Wow, I feel bad for not menioning this earlier, but there is something really cool you can try because of the paricular medium on which you're recording... Part of the reason the horns from the 70s sound as ridiculously powerful as they do is that the engineers used the tape machine speeds to artif...

I'd say you're on the right track.

My approach would depend on the function of the horn parts themselves: Will any of them be soloing, or is a "horn section?" If it's "horn section," I might go for a room sound with a stereo pair.

If I were going to do this I would use my AEA R44CNE. It has incredible "reach" and two useable sides, so you just experiment with placement to get the mix right. I've recorded 7 people (playing and singing) at at time with it, with very nice results.

Yes, ribbon mics can tolerate a high SPL. Do it.