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I am also interested in this product. It's funny for me because I was a classic Mackie hater until I started working live sound with a Mackie board and amps - they really are alright if you use them with some thought (i.e. subtractive eq, using the busses to submix, etc.) I guess mostly though I kno...

Hiya Scodiddly - I second that call for the phantom circuit, if you would be so kind as to share it! After reading this thread I broke out my Tapeop omni that I built a year ago. I had shelved it because I thought it too noisy, but running it through my recently made Hamptone JFET it was quite quite...

I saw and met The Campbell Brothers, another sacred steel band, and they were pretty damn good, actually touching an Allman Brothers vibe. The show I saw had a "traditional" pedal steel player from the country music idiom sitting in and clearly they had a different approach to the instrument - which...

PT - Try what you have. I used a Audix D6 (Kick) 57 (Snare) AKG C3000 (OH)and Studio Projects B1 (tom side). It worked great. There is no reason in the world to not try dynamics in all positions if that is all you have - in fact I am using a modified version of this for a practice reference setup fo...

I use CEP as well and love it - my system for "real" recordings is Otari 5050 8 track - Echo Layla (8 in, 8 out) - CEP.

Great stories! I moonlight as a soundman at a very decent small-medium club that does quite a bit of different music including touring acts like Bobby Bare, John Doe. Soundpeople like these make me seem a sterling pro by comparason, I talk to all the bands when they first come in, get their tech nee...

I worked quite a bit with an engineer that was deaf in one ear. Like Les, he had a weird blow-to-the-head type of injury. I lierally found out when he was sitching his cans back and forth on his head to check the stereo mix. He was and probably still is a first rate engineer.

I guess tha dog days have arrived!

I was considering Mudcloth's idea myself some time back but then just built a few Canare star quad/neutrik extenders - they have been bulletproof and cost me about $7-10 each to build.

I have a basic Weller that came with the pointy tip and the chisel tip - 35 watt - cost $25 or so. It works great for most things including the HJFP I built.

I kinda like it. I imagine they were being hassled to write another "insert lame hit song name here" and instead of trying to do so they just did the same one again! Anarchists and visionaries I say.

Of course I have somehow avoided ever hearing them before so....My opinion value < shite.

Red -

Last time I mixed OOTB I sent four stereo pairs from my 8-out Layla - that way I could avail myself of the internal panning and such. That mix ended up significantly better that the ITB version. Just use them like sub groups in a live sound setting.

I built the Jfet and love it - but I am going to run against the grain a bit here: This is a bit of a daunting first project, with a hight parts count. First off - read up about audio electronics - check your local library for books. Buy a simpler project like a stomp box to start with - most people...

Back to the pres question - where I work FOH we use a crappo Mackie 32*4 board. I'd go as far as to say that the pres aren't even the worst part of it - it's the damn mix bus. If you push it AT ALL it is raspy as hell. By the time the nice pre gets into the mix bus...

arggghhh!

h - I've been vacationing in Italy for 3 weeks and haven't thought about the session much (imagine that!) Let's see - bass (overdub both direct through the jfet pre and micing an Ampeg SB-12: DI - really nice and solid, no "sqidgyness" like a passive DI, great detail, good low end, by comparaison a ...