Equipment
I wrote this about 5 years ago, and just came across it a couple days back. I’ve got another mic preamp circuit I’m playing with, and figured I best go back through my old notes to avoid wheel re-invention. Why is it that the only decent preamps were made back in the 70′s… I’ve been [...]
I’ve been thinking a bit about the common pushbutton switch such as the Carling 110/316 series. They’ve been the standard effects pedal switch for years, albeit some outfits use cheaper knockoffs, likely to their peril. The nice thing about such switches is the great feedback they provide, even if one has a really thick boot [...]
I came across the following from tymkrs where they discussed harmonica microphones. There seemed to be some somewhat contradictory info on google, so I asked them for some clarification. In a matter of 20 minutes, they sent me a link on the internals which filled in a lot of the back story. A little bit [...]
Tdawn shared the following AES paper titled “Stop Counting Samples” on twitter, and it confirmed a whole multitude of things I’ve run into over the past few years. In a nutshell, digital audio is a vastly different animal than analog, especially post mastering, and if such is not considered, it will come back to bite, [...]
EMC made some interesting gear during the 70′s… and had something truly amazing, a lifetime guarantee! Of course being they went out of business prior to 1983 the lifetime part ended up being pretty short. The S300 Guitar Amp had the following specs: 125 Watts RMS 5 band EQ Reverb Portable.. yep, it only weighed [...]
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Many years ago, I had the opportunity to buy a Kustom Tuck and Roll Bass amp for a song, but being shy on cash, passed it up. On the other hand, it was the standard model, but had it been the red glitter one, I would have jumped a ton of hoops to make it [...]
I’ve been playing around with notation software a bit, and actually found Finale’s Notepad to be pretty cool… and then my pc did a crash and burn. As such, in the process of bringing it back to life, I found my backups of the programs was lacking in a huge way… thus time to go [...]
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Last Sunday, I get the music for the 10:45 service at 10:20, where upon I find out I have a bass solo for the postlude. As one who over the last kazillian years mostly ends up sight reading live performances, this was not a big deal… except there was a page turn right in the [...]
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Often times it would be nice to adjust the monitor mix on the fly… but alas, the monitor engineer can’t read minds, and I’ve never seen a on stage talkback microphone just to the monitor engineer. Of course a talkback mic isn’t much help if one is a vocalist either. The end result, levels are [...]
I’ve returned to live performance, albeit on a very small scale. Its been interesting to note how quickly most of the skills came back… but sadly hearing is not one of them. I fully believe hearing issue is not so much the loud music of my younger days, as much as it was a kazillion [...]
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