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_Sounds like the kind of bullshit that people like Monster Cable want everyone to believe.

Ha! Is anybody interested in buying my BBE Sonic Maximizer? It aligns the frequency-time-phase-ratios coming to your ears, which sounds exactly like pulling a blanket off your speakers.

Would there be a difference in signal quality if I'm using a 50' snake as opposed to a 100' snake for recording? I'd probably be sending phantom power through the snake as well. It seems like shorter would be better, although the problems with long mic lines were probably worked out a long time ago....

A friend made me a sixties MP3 compilation to listen to in the car, and every third song has got mono drums panned to one side--Day Tripper, Kinks, lots of stuff. If they put the drums on one side only, wouldn't that make it hard to cut the record? I keep reading about how bass info must be in-phas...

Wesley Willis.

Lily Slap wrote:He explained stuff about the size of the cones not being able to handle the high output and that I would need bigger monitors with bigger cones to handle it all.

Har! Another brilliant way to sell more expensive sh*t.

Conceptually, my music is more live-performance based rather than multitracked I don't claim to be an authority, but... :wink: Seems like multitrack recorders tempt us into close-micing instruments, multiple takes, and overuse of effects, which probably won't give your music the same reward as a go...

ditto on the RVG remark. Sitting in on any Coltrane session would be ecstasy. and you'd probably come away with new ideas on mic placement. Did that guy close-mic anything? Then how about Disco Volante , or any Mr. Bungle record for that matter. Totally amazing composition, performing, and productio...

Anybody else notice that a lot of people who once listened to a lot of rock radio have gone over to hip hop? Seems like commercial hip hop is still an evolving, changing thing. And the artists 'personalities' come through in the music. Ha! And about guitar solos in rock music these days. The last on...

I opened up a drum machine that I got from India... Wait, let me get this straight. You knowingly bought a drum machine from a company that builds in India? I can see buying an Indian-made tabla or a sitar. But a drum machine? Seriously, did this thing come loaded with non-traditional (non-Western)...

Is it tube or solid state? I can't speak for the BA-146A in particular, but I own a different 60's RCA piece, the BA-43 preamp with BA-41 FET limiter. Discrete solid state design. Not only does the preamp sound great, the limiter amazes me. It does the seemingly impossible by enforcing a hard limit ...

KWVA Eugene OR Ha! I loved KWVA when I lived in Eugene. They had awesome specialty shows. Most of the freeform shows were by student DJ's, but the specialty shows were by adult vinyl addicts. A good combination. I still dig up my old KWVA mix tapes for enjoyment... I blame KWVA for giving me the co...

This may be slightly off topic, but I noticed one manufacturer's strategy to defeat reverse-engineering: Grind the part numbers off of components! I opened up a drum machine that I got from India, and these guys had meticulously ground away any identifying features from all of the semiconductors ins...

Tonight at the college radio station we did our weekly live music broadcast. It was a great scene. The band, Ethan Durelle (waco, tx), rocked well and started jumping around... Three cameras from the student TV station were there taping the show. We don't have a sound stage, so it's in a room that's...

? Do not offer an opinion unless asked directly !!!!!!!! This struck me. Is this a generality in the business, i.e. do you see creative input from an intern as out-of-place? I think this this rule would be the hardest to stick to. How long do internships last before one gets promoted or at least tr...

I recently got a friend started on circuit-bending, and he's been through three kiddie-keyboards and a walkman now, finding some interesting glitch sounds along the way. Then I bought this $2 digital answering machine and found that if you short out the data lines to the RAM chip, all kinds of garbl...