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I love this story, Corin, and you're so right. There are a lot of poseur tone snobs out there who will buy anything "boutique" whether is sounds good or not. Once in a while I have a mild urge to get a cabinetmaker friend of mine to put together a few "boutique" wooden amp cases. It's not that hard...

More specifically it usually means replacing all the aluminum electrolytic capacitors, since those tend to dry out after 20-30 years.

At the moment I typically use a couple of small condensers up by the hammers (a pair of Oktava MK012s, on a stereo bar and pointing past each other from the middle of the keyboard range) and then a Sennheiser MD-421 on the soundboard somewhere. Last time was through the largest hole in the metal "ha...

This is the sort of thing I'm pursuing these days:


(78 rpm just isn't fast enough for a Leslie-style tremolo, though. Back to the drawing board...)

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That link pretty much covers it, although back in the 80's in our home studio we found that a Radio Shack PZM was easily wedged into the top of the cabinet for the horn.

Make sure you've got the cloth cover on the bass rotor! It makes a huge difference in reducing wind noise.

Awesome list... I wish more companies were like Soundcraft in providing old manuals. Soundcraft has pretty much everything available, even down to a scanned-in copy of the crusty old manual for the 1S I first learned pro audio on.

I'll probably treat myself to a "real" acoustic guitar after all these years (though I've been told repeatedly that the old no-brand is due to pop apart any day now, it's been over a decade and my only beef is the action). I'm also planning on building some mic pres, some more TapeOp omnis, and hope...

Bottom line is you need to figure out what you really love doing, and then you'll know what you should be doing. I play a few instruments, and I like engineering... really I like digging into circuits and fixing things. So while it might seem like a PITA to be hired to "obsess over noise floors", th...

The capacitor voltages should be at least 25vdc for the electrolytics (the 10uF), and at least 50vdc for the 1uF caps becween the capsule and the transistors. 1/4 watt resistors are plenty big enough. As for capsule choice, you should still be able to order the 60AY until Feb 15. After that, dunno. ...

[Azola Bugbass w/ homemade piezo buffer | 69 P-bass] -> homemade "channel strip" preamp -> QSC power amp -> old EV 15" bass cabinet with the Stanley Clarke style aluminum trim and 3" HF driver.

leigh wrote:

Scodiddly wrote:I made two mics with the phantom power circuit, with 1/4" aluminum tubing (next time brass so I can solder a ground/shield wire?) into the smalled diecast aluminum box available

That sounds cool! Any digital pics around you could post?

Leigh

Uh oh... Got this email today: You have purchased the following part number(s) from Digi-Key within the last two years. The manufacturer has announced this part(s) will become obsolete. PANASONIC - ECG ? ?Description: MICROPHONE CARTRIDGE 6MM X 5MM ? ? ?Manufacturer Part No: WM-60AY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...

coniferouspine wrote:Yeah, the Zodiac has the crazy push button tone controls, and some of them even had a blinking light on the front that indicates the tremelo speed! Such technology!

At the risk of driving the prices of these amps up out of reach....

Some of the features seem silly, but these amps sound amazing.

Oh yeah... I tried to do that Linkwitz mod on one of the capsules. Cutting the trace was easy... but I couldn't manage to solder a wire onto the case for the third wire.

Anybody manage to do that mod?