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Over the years I've come to the conclusion the vocalist is in a bit of a jam without the instrumental soloist. There's a partnership there. Page/Plant, Gill/Franklin. If the spotlight shifts to the soloist, even for a brief fill or a verse& chorus, it creates a opportunity for the vocalist to ma...

Argh! Leaving Venice Friday night! En boca lupo!

I have a one-time gig coming up - 3 guitars, bass, drums, 3 keyboards thru amps. We'll have 3 or 4 vocal mics, and that'll be it for the PA. One vocal-only monitor. No soundman.The drums and amps should be able to fill the room sufficiently, and the vocals-only PA has always sounded good enough. I'v...

My first PSG. Had it for about two months now. Widely recommended by this forum. I may be hooked.
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The high power is for headroom to keep microtonal intervals clear and clean. They're more prone to break up and sound worse when they do. Ah, thanks. I thought there was a chance I would hear this answer from someone. The compromises required for common tunings can have beat frequencies well above ...

New to the instrument. I've always found this strong preference for 15" speakers very surprising. An E9 doesn't go as low in frequency as a six string does (83hz) and 15" among 6 stringers is unheard of. Is it really about lows? Or is it about the relatively reduced highs a 15" will a...

And it's important to add- if you have a tube amp with no standby switch, turn on power with the volume off. And wait a minute before playing. Half a minute. All tube amps need to warm up. As stated, standby mode is so that you can hear up the tubes before putting sound thru them. Cold tubes will pl...

If you use that passive splitter and go to two devices, you lose a good bit of signal, and not spectrally flat, frequency wise, starting at the high end. Will the loss be in the audio range? Maybe. You get two loads in parallel, for a much lower input impedance. A single booster before the volume pe...

Right, bringing in quiet notes is a challenge for a gate. Wonder if this would work better before or after the vol pedal. Since the vol pedal is essentially lowering loud notes and boosting quiet or fading notes, the levels after it are more consistent. I'd try that with a gate I have but it's a bit...

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BuffSplit?adpos=1o3&creative=55282474801&device=m&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=CjwKEAjw4s2wBRDSnr2jwZenlkgSJABvFcwQE1V2DxStN-8-TeBjxpzzUtcyxHsl7qjP_0GBelwf8hoCwTPw_wcB This, after the volume pedal. It will be a nice buffer too. It would effec...

The eminence ragin Cajun seems to be very popular as a replacement for stock fender speakers in their more recent tube amps. The 10" is highly recommended to the super champ xd. Haven't gotten around to it myself. Lotsa tempting 10" by eminence, celestion, jbl.

Magnetic field is an interesting answer. You were pretty close. It could also easily be acoustic if the PA is loud enough. You can shout into a guitar pickup at very close range, and some one sitting beside your loud amp on the other side of the room can hear it. I think the vibrations are enough to...

... The problem is that when you try to filter out certain frequencies, any notes in and around those frequencies would also be filtered out or reduced, so the chances are that it might affect some of the musical sounds, and not just the noise. Don't forget though, that once the gate opens, all fre...

There's a pedal guru named Jack Orman who believes the performance of the original 4558 can be beat by the TL072. Don't know about that, but I did replace the 4558s in my boss eq with 72s and got measurably less noise and no loss in performance at all.

Can't argue with that.

Right, that's what I mean. The enharmonic, unwanted ones. When your two notes are perfectly in tune these "undertones" aren't perceived as a problem. When two notes are a little out of tune there is a beat frequency. The beat frequency can slow to a stop, or increase into the audio range. ...

Is it accurate to say, one could tune these intermodulation tones away completely, but only for those strings at that fret with this one pedal/lever position. But you'd suffer for that tuning change. I'm a newb at this instrument, but tuning is a compromise averaged out over the whole neck and all p...

I'm interested in the 3 Up From The Top. Are they DVDs?

Here is an active mixer (on board buffer). Looks pretty good . There are input level controls on there somewhere. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=1131403&gclid=CjwKEAjw1f6vBRC7tLqO_aih5WISJAAE0CYw96AKTO37Ecv0xn9wz2GnpNsYjN6ZETvljeSBs0HmnBoCZ2Hw_wcB&is=REG&Q=&am...

The Radial Big Shot units I'm seeing online have a Select switch and a Both switch. I guess yours doesn't have the "both"? Look at this Morley product - selector or splitter or mixer - with volume controls, an actual mixer. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/morley-aby-mix-g...

- for those who don't have one, you have to have a pretty darn good capacitance meter to get accurate readings in the pf range. They're out there, but my voltmeters can't do it. - I think one would be better off with a signal generator and simply measuring the loss over a length of cable. There are ...

No buffers at the head of the chain? Or don't they count?

We just had a thread that has a lot of differing opinions http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... c&start=25
Myself - a milkcrate cut to a preferred angle with a jigsaw.

Been rolling my own pedals for a little over 2 years

Gotta get with that engraver -nice stuff![/img]

The formation of the band, right off the bat. This might not apply to bands that do covers/standards where you have the benefit of speaking in a universal language to each other, but after a very busy hard working band of mine folded years ago (original and weird music) a guy who had left an all-ori...