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The avalon U5 is not tube, but yes.. It is amazing. An old portaflex would be my first choice, but it will be pricier than a cool old bogen or heathkit or RCA or scott tube amp with a 1/4" mic input. Those sound SO good for bass. I actually prefer the heathkit I have to most of the other amps we ha...

Just a thought, but if this is purely for recording, you could always get a tube DI like the Avalon U5 . I haven't auditioned one myself, though I know other people around here have. That means you don't need to muck about with mics, or worry about bleed, or any of that, and it's a useful thing to h...

the brill bedroom wrote:If I was married to Toni Haliday, you'd never see me leaving the house to go anywhere.

Please do not get me started.

He always struck me as one of those 'flavour of the month' guys, like Alan Moulder was a few years before him. That said, I like Definitely Maybe because of its flaws. A great raw sounding rock n roll record. Once they started doing that amplified busking thing with cheese-ass string quartet arrang...

Revealing my sad metal roots. Martin Birch on Iron Maidens efforts, pans one guitar right, one left, as the guitrarists swap from playing rythmn to lead with each other within a song, it sounds very odd. Personally annoys the crap out of me, but there you go. I wonder what he does now they have 3 gu...

i am in the same boat as you, except i have a modded 68 bassman with 4 6l6s (~70-100 watts). I think it is loud enough, but the speaker/cab is really key. I would at least spring for a bass cab that matches the ohms/wattage as closely as possible. 4x10? 2x12? 1x15? whatever. avatars are well though...

Regarding my Monacor SpringRev Unit: Might there be a way to silence its hiss? You speak of hotspots in a room and stuff like that, I'll try for that. But might it be possible to change some simple part in it for silence ? Are you sure it's hiss and not hum? It seems weird that something without ta...

Hi, I am basically a guitar player, but I'll start play bass in a band. I don't have a real bass amp, but lot of gtrs amps. I'm wondering which of those 2 would be the best and/or louder: a Traynor Bassmaster 68 (45w) in a standard marshall 4x12 cab (300w?), or a Fender TwinReverb 100w (2x12) combo...

what about trying to get the audio off a disc that has a hole in it? It appears to have melted? You should be able to get the stuff recorded before the hole, but the stuff after may be difficult, I have a disk that lost the silvering around the edges (who says these thing last forever!), and I can ...

I've heard of a service where a machine is used to remove like, .5mm of the plastic of the disc and then it's re-coated with an adhesive film sorta thing. Never seen it done on anything though. The theory goes that if you've got a lot of small surface scratches, removing the plastic re-exposes the ...

Spring Reverbs aren't generally driven that hard, maybe line level would work, then again maybe it will sound really wrong. I've never had cause to play with a guitar amps spring reverb. Cinch is RCA or Phono jacks yes? A couple of adapters and hook it in, see how it works, for gods sake make sure ...

I'll put my neck on the line with a: maybe it'll work. Spring Reverbs aren't generally driven that hard, maybe line level would work, then again maybe it will sound really wrong. I've never had cause to play with a guitar amps spring reverb. Cinch is RCA or Phono jacks yes? A couple of adapters and ...

I had great luck using a tape-op omni pointing at the corner right over the players shoulder at about the same angle as the didge. OK. I'll bite, whats a tape op omni? The omni mod they had with the filling in the holes in your capsule? Or something more special. Joel and others, thanks for the tip...

I've hunted through the forum, haven't seen anyone answer this before, and my back issues are kind of sparse. What would be the best way to mic a didgeridoo? It's not the feature instrument of the mix, it's being used as more of a background drone, though in some instances we 'bring it to the fore'....

Well I signed up for Tape Op, after discovering they had done an interview with Ryan. I should get round to ordering that back issue. That console of his is shiny.