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This may be a moot point, as the OP said he was recording on Saturday and it's Sunday night as I write, but for future reference... I record with drum machines all the time. I'm a nut job and I work the machine really hard before I start tracking, so I usually record the drums' stereo out to two tra...

+1 One slow day, I had my assistant pop open an ART Tube MP Studio Pre - you know, the $29.99 model at Musicians Friend - and test about 40 12A*7 tubes I've collected over the years, and she wrote down her evaluations. She was just plugging a condenser mic directly in and listening with headphones, ...

Sure, a Dobro or resonator could work, although they can get REALLY bang-on-a-can annoying when you strum them hard. But for softer stuff, textural stuff - yeah! Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits: "Romeo and Juliet." Fingerpicked dobro, and not only does he rip my friggin' heart out with that song, he hand...

Gibson J-45 or similar, like an Epiphone Texan. Mahogany is probably the most honkin' midrange wood. Low frets help keep it dark. Likewise a wood saddle. Otherwise, just keep your ears open, especially to old low-budget Stellas, Harmonys, etc. Oh, and old strings help. Old flat-wounds on an old Harm...

And buy four or ten or whatever, and write down the size, like 10 x 32 x 2", and start a little drawer of mic stand parts. Label it "Mic Stand Parts" with a black fine-point Sharpie on one of those white labels you can buy at OfficeMax or Staples, and coat each machine screw with a light layer of ma...

Hey, I'm finding this thread to be all kinds of fun! AudioHipster, you're a breath of fresh air for me. You clearly have a lot of "beginner's enthusiasm," and I look forward to your ability to learn computer-screen English over time. I appreciate that you upgraded your spelling from Abby to Abbey in...

Seems a drop or two of hot glue would be a better and more permanent solution. And you've tried this? If not, you go ahead and put a big hot dollop of gunk right on that circuit board. Permanent, indeed! As for me, I want to be able to open and close the housing from time to time, and I might want ...

Just in time for the holidays! I've been using an MXL 990 and 991 quite a bit over the past couple months, and both suffer from a resonant metallic ringy noise when handled. (I've tried the big-rubber-band-around-the-body thing; this noise remained and was not coming from any external part of the mi...

I mean, can you arrange the machine to do what a drummer might do on a simple rock song where it's floor tom and snare on the verse and then ride and snare on the chorus? Any decent drum machine is capable of building songs by putting patterns together. I usually create about eight or ten patterns ...

+1 on the Alesis HR16. I had one for a bazillion years and literally beat it to death, to where the pad sensors would no longer respond. Took it apart, cleaned the pads with tech spray regularly, and over the years it s-l-o-w-l-y gave up the ghost. I LOVED that machine. So two-three years ago I boug...

Y'know, I kinda like it - rough edges and all. Mostly, I'd just pull some of the more blatant touches back a little. Keep that tambourine hard right, but soften it a bit, maybe down 3dB and roll off the highs a bit. I kinda like the too-big slide and the radio-plus-echo vocal part, although you coul...

It totally kicks, totally hangs together. It remains very clear and focused in spite of a very busy group of instruments. I hear everything in its place, driving the song forward. Great dropouts, electronica touches... I can't say I pinpoint any specific band that you sound like. It just sounds cont...

Sounds pleasant enough. An accurate recording.

Hey crew - Here's another recording of the R44/144 in action: http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=67016 . Or you can go directly to my web site - the song is "Peligro Extrano (Stranger Danger)" and it's on the main page of my web site: www.TheCoyote.org. The lead guitar is mic'd with an M...

Edited in response to JSKEARNEY's thoughtful editing, which then made my resopnse look pretty non sequitur-ish. Thanks for the compliment. And when a girl asks for my Scofield-meets-King Crimson instrumental for her iPod, I think maybe I'm on to something. Now, any more comments, criticisms, contro...