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Not a Whammy pedal.

Those didn't exist until what, 89? 90?

Use a Fender or Rickenbacker bass with FLATWOUND strings. And tell the guitar player to leave all his pedals at home!

You could also hire Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye and Joe Osborn to play on your record....

I've been using a pair of them for about 5 years. I've found that they are kinda hyped in the high mids. The dynamics are pretty good at low listening levels but the internal amps start to compress when playing loud. So you get done with your tracking and crank it up, and it sounds so exciting, and ...

I did this once, replaced the lead vocal with an isolated vocal track from the Doobie Bros' "Long train running" I picked up somewhere. Everything was fine for the first few seconds and then everyone fell over laughing.

jgimbel wrote:I got a DD-6 as a "welcome to the band" gift from a guy I play with now and then.

Is this some kind of protocol I've never heard about? Most I've ever gotten (or given, for that matter) is maybe a Coors Light

Try removing the foam windscreen and using a pop filter instead - this has really opened the mic up for me.

Check out this 60s short film about how wire is manufactured: http://www.youtube.com/user/industryfilmarchive#p/u/39/nfQtjimsjMI Pretty gritty industrial process; I wonder how the modern "oxygen free" stuff gets made. Or maybe the vintage wire is better because the shop foreman boils his tea on the ...

EV 666 for $3

Kyser guitar humidifier
http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-KEY-SKLHA

TC Electronic polytuner
http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i- ... YTUNE-LIST

Or you could always give people the gift that keeps on giving:
http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-SHU-SM57LC-LIST

If it makes you feel better you can spend $45 on "audiophile" fuses

http://www.revolutionpower.com/o/HiFi-Tuning/

+1 on the Weber Alnico Signiatures I put a pair of Weber Alnico Sig 12s in a 60s open back 2x12 Vox extension cabinet and it is by far the best sounding cabinet I've ever owned. I use it with a 65 Bassman head and a Hiwatt 50. The Webers are also very light, which will be a plus when you stick 4 of ...

Maybe get some pieces of 2' square masonite and make some ghetto wooden triangle versions of the RPG Skyline Diffuser by stackign up various levels of triangles and gluing them together?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/4 ... sor_2.html

I like using a capo on a doubled guitar and playing the same chords as the main guitar but with different voicings. Like capo up 3 frets and your cowboy chord A Major shape is really a C, and if it's doubling a non-capo'd guitar that is playing a C it sounds huge

Well now we can to add Neve to the list of 500 series manufacturers:

http://www.ams-neve.com/Products/Outboa ... 073LB.aspx


A Neve API device kinda seems like the cat slept with the dog but I'm interested in seeing what it sounds like.

I saw an ad for a $300 jar of little rocks that you were supposed to place in your listening room to improve the sound of your system. For fun, I emailed the manufacturer a bunch of gibberish questions and got appropriately gibberish answers back. The guy was also selling audiophile-grade outlet cov...