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If you have a decent sounding preamp and a good squishy compressor, it may not be necessary to reamp your pedal steel. For whatever reason, pedal steel direct can sound great unlike most direct guitar sounds.

I might wait till the vocals are laid down to see if the tempo is suitable. I would assume it would be best to attempt speeding up a song thats been mixed to 2 tracks rather then 24+ tracks. If the band insists on speeding it up, I would do it before you begin overdubs rather than wait for the two ...

Does anyone have one of these they either want to sell or burn me a copy of? I use to have this until my folder of CDs got stolen. Anyway, If you have one, I would pay for either an actual or a CD burn of it with the xerox of the track info. No one is carrying this anymore. Not even Mix. PM me if yo...

Hook up your CD burner to one of the two track returns near the master section of your mackie and monitor as you mix that way. With that return engaged that is. This way you will be able to hear the distortion in real time as you mix and do something about it before you commit. Also, Mackie's dont h...

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I'm thinking about sending one of my recently broke 451s to Richard Land at Land Audio to fix. Anyone have experience with Land Audio? Any other recommendations for AKG mic repairs?
Let me know. Or PM me and let me know if that's more appropriate.

I would try one of the two mics you have under the auto harp in pretty close and the other over the instrument. Also, flip polarity and choose which sounds fuller with both mics up. The under mic should give you more tone and body. The top will give you the picky sound and blended should give you a ...

I use a dental pick. Radio Shack also sells cheap solder pens that comes with a hard plastic pointy tool just for that purpose.

It might be time to clean the tape head.

Here's a couple of helpful links.

http://www.aspen-media.com/loadcontent.asp?id=17

http://www.silentway.com/tips/equip/adat.html

I'm kind of dubious about using a laptop DAW for live multitracking. I've done it a few times and I couldn't help but cross my fingers the whole time that the lap doesn't crash or freeze or anything else bad no matter how robust the DAW was. So far I haven't lost anything but if it were me, I would ...

Oh one more thing. The vibrato should work without the foot switch. Basically if a foot switch is not connected, it is defaulted to ON so the only way to turn it off without the switch is to turn the intensity knob full counter clockwise.

Maggie's have a really wide price variance on ebay and in general. I think it's because the people that like em, REALLY like em and are fans for life. Like me. Conversely, there are still a bunch of guitarists that dont know anything about em. So it's a niche yet dedicated market I guess. I've seen ...

Not all spring reverbs are created equal too by the way. I've used furman, orban, peavey, sound workshops, demeter and the akg bx-10 and bx-20. They all sound different but all very useful if you like spring reverbs. The akgs are by far the most lush sounding. Almost plate like. Then the next would ...

Hey there. I sent you a reply PM but it wont send. It's still sitting in my outbox. Can you PM me with your email address?

Mic placement is trial and error until it sounds phase coherent but another thing you could try is flipping phase on either mic pre while monitoring to see if you get better results. I've done acoustic and vocals live a good number of times and have had better luck using condensers for both sources....

Could this be a clocking issue? Is the sound a TIC type sound?