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kslight wrote: Always a fan of the 388, but I'm not sure if I'd want to stand mine that way for weight and patching concerns?but I use mine all the time.
It?s not in use at the moment, but I don?t mind looking at it, so it?s there on a solid oak shelf with steel brackets and 2? of folded over non-skid matting. I have used it in tilted-stand positioning before for tracking and transferring, mixing is another story.
I?m sure we?ve had this exchange before somewhere, and The thing hardly needs my little recommendation, but It is one of my most favoritest pieces ever. Bought it new coming off a summer gig on an oiltanker. Skipped the cassette portastudio and practice amp stage straight to a Tascam 388 and a Mesa-Boogie studio pre. Friends comment on early recordings..?How did you get your voice to sound like that?? Boogie-pre voice gigantification of course. It?s my tube mic pre, keyboard, drum machine biggifier, Hell, it even sounds great on guitars. Rolled it down airport stairs in Japan, fell out of a rack in an earthquake, survived newbie switching around of tubes, it?s a keeper.MoreSpaceEcho wrote:shedshine, how do you like your mesa studio preamp?
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I cobbled together a little connection cable using an old MIDI cable to rca.floid wrote:Shedshrine, that Gavotte looks pretty similar to the one I've got, a Jubilate. they're nice little radios, too nice for me to think too hard about hacking mine into an amp...
The midi connector will fit onto the reel to reel DIN input.
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probably we have! i had one in my teenage metal years, totally perfect for bedroom metal, of which i was the king. i stupidly sold it in my wayward 20s. picked another one up a few years ago, and now it's totally perfect for late night ambient excursions.shedshrine wrote:I?m sure we?ve had this exchange before somewhere
i've only used it for guitar and the occasional rhodes or distorted bass, but ima follow your lead and try running a bunch of other stuff through it. what outputs do you use? i've only ever used the recording ones. can you run the effects loop at line level? mine freaks out, so i leave it on instrument level...
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Total trial and error. When i first got it I was running the effects send through a Korg A3 rack unit. On the pre, the recording outs have a more finished sound, the mains more blown out, but you can run those outs in turn through something else. Honestly, I just patch stuff in and switch the low/line level back and forth, mess with input gain, or stick other stuff in the chain till something sounds cool.
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The Tube vacuums cleaned the space more warmly, and their motors had a more pleasant distortion.vvv wrote:Izzat connected to the apocryphal "Suck" knob?
But seriously, before alla this digital and even solid-state nonsense, back when we walked in the snow to our gigs, Eureka vacuum cleaners were tube powered, y'know.
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We're having a pretty brutal winter here. Ther predicted high today is 2? with a windchill of -15?.shedshrine wrote:Man, and I thought I had it rough what with a bracing 56 degree morning, and having to whip out a library card to scrape of a 16th of an inch of frost off the front windshield. Yeah, it was that bad.
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