gchiaren's forum posts 789

Thanks for explaining how to replicate the bug, that's helpful. Looking into it now...

That looks incredible!! If it had an aux in i'd buy it immediately.

Huh, great question. You are right to call out bad sources, that's what makes Equipboard what it is!

The user has made quite a few subs. https://equipboard.com/neptune1/submissions

I can get in touch with them and find out.

It is kinda goofy, my dude 😆

I have an attachment to that amp. I've had it a long time and it's a nice little pedal platform. That said it's probably mostly sentimental, what solid state clean channel isnt a nice pedal platform these days!

I need headphones bc I like to play late at night (often along to songs hence the mixer) and I like to crank it, and it would not fly in my household to do that out loud :)

I think I may bite the bullet and get something specifically made for this. We have a Yamaha THR10 in the Equipboard testing rig and I think it'll fit the bill. I might just have to get one for home.

It's getting weird. I went line-out into the mixer... no sound. Amp continued to sound fine, but sent nothing out of the line-out.

So then I put a random 1/4" plug into the headphone jack, and it muted the amp's speaker, and now suddenly the line-out is working.... but in mono and SUPER quiet. What the hell??

It's an Orange Crush 30R. Here's a link to the manual.

https://i.imgur.com/RiAZFXh.jpg

Interesting, thanks. You know, the amp does have a line-out in addition to the headphone-out. When I get home tonight I will try that into the mixer and see how it sounds.

Problem is the line-out doesnt mute the speaker, whereas the headphone-out does. I guess I can get around that by sticking any 1/4" plug into the headphone jack.

I'll report back...

I have a little solid state practice amp I like with a headphone out. I want to mix that output together with my computer and go out to my headphones, so I can jam along to some YouTube videos late at night.

I bought a couple inexpensive small format mixers to test out (ROLLS MX51s and ART Power Mix III). Thing is, both distort the output. Using a clean tone, anything past moderate pick attack produces some nasty clipping and distortion. I tried low volume on the amp and high volume on the mixer & vice versa, as well as moderate volume on both.

To rule out my headphones as the culprit, going directly to headphones from the amp's headphones output sounds good - no clipping. The headphones are Beyerdynamic DT-770 PRO 80ohm, for reference.

Again, BOTH the mixers are doing it. Are they shitty? Or am I doing something dumb?

https://i.imgur.com/3ohS6Gy.jpg

dude, you guys got no love for my favorites, AKG open backs

The fact that they're on the list means we got love for them :) Do you specifically like those K240 MKII?

...also, don't sleep on this deal

https://i.imgur.com/mSbSvpi.png

😆 😆 😆

Alright, so we've spend the last month testing various closed-back and open-back studio headphones in the Equipboard office and in our personal home studios. Here's some of the stash:

https://images.equipboard.com/blog_content/equipboard-best-studio-headphones-shootout-xl.jpeg

We broke out the list into closed-back and open-back headphones to keep the playing field more level. We narrowed it down to Giulio's pick, Michael's pick, best under $100/$200/$300, and more.

Curious what you guys think!

• Agree or disagree with us on anything?
• Any headphones you think are worthy of inclusion that we might have missed? Preferably currently available models and not unobtanium :)

Here's our new & improved guide to the the best studio headphones.

Ok done! https://equipboard.com/items/1976-guild-f112

you mean you tried to edit the item and its missing categories?

What used to be a Fuzz & Boost Effects Pedals category has now rightfully been split up into Fuzz and Boost. Those are pretty different effects, so we think this was the right move.

You can help! Unfortunately now there are numerous fuzz pedals mistakingly stuck in the boost category, so if you spot one feel free to edit the category and help out! :)

Yup same deal, add Andrew McMahon 1 and then let me know. I can move the submission to the correct artist after that's done.

Hello again! I confused two photos I was using for two different submissions. Both were of James Trussart Steel-O-Matics. This item should have this picture. Could you please fix this? Thank you!

Done. Thats a pretty guitar.

We call that a feature, not a bug ...

😬

In all seriousness, not sure why it did that, sorry! I found another image and it worked.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chiarenza! Here is Joe Williams' page.

Done!

I switched from the mobile site to the desktop site and it's working now. I'm not sure what's up with the mobile site. Google Chrome and Bing Browser had the same result with the mobile site. I'll just use the desktop site from now on.

You are totally right, I was able to replicate your issue. That was a nasty bug that creeped in on mobile. I JUST deployed a fix for it. It seems to be working on my end, but if you would be so kind as to test out a mobile search and verify that it's fixed, I would really appreciate it!!

Hi eyeseeofficial!

I fixed the typos for you.

Regarding Joe Williams, add it as Joe Williams 1 then let me know when you've done that and I can fix it on our end.

Regarding Alice Cooper, I was able to do some trickery and get around it :) https://equipboard.com/pros/alice-cooper

Done! https://equipboard.com/items/fairchild-660-compressor

Thanks man I'll try to fix as you suggested.

Hi all, happy 4th!

Do the strings on my Tele - particularly the high e - seem kind of off? I restrung her recently and does it seem like the high e is way too far on the edge of the fretboard?

https://i.imgur.com/nBcKPrY.jpg

If so, does it have something to do w these springs on the bridge?

https://i.imgur.com/rjgHvoS.jpg

That's pretty nice man. I get major Depeche Mode vibes... though I love DM so much I might try to hear them in everything :D

A little bit of World In My Eyes maybe? In the live version of Never Let Me Down Again they extend it and what you did here reminds me a lot of that.

Hey all,

We quietly released our new Gear Recommender. We got asked about this one a lot, so it was time to build it!

The way it works is you

1. choose a gear category you're interested in (like distortion pedals, synth plugins, headphones, etc)
2. choose some of your favorite artists, and
3. the tool crunches the numbers and comes back with gear recommendations based on what your chosen artists are using.

Think of it kind of like a buyer's guide but custom tailored to your tastes :)

We JUST released it so... if you manage to break it or have any criticism or suggestions to improve the tool we'd love to hear it (we'll take some praise too if you got it).

Give it a try! --> Gear Recommender

https://equipboard.com/items/fender-telecaster-deluxe--2

I thought the Deluxe always had the 2 Fender Wide Range humbuckers. Just want to make sure before I change it, since so many pros are shown using this one. Also need to merge some duplicates 😄

You can now submit gear to artists from the mobile site!

Screenshots for reference:

https://imgur.com/gallery/6MaTj7V

As always let us know if you have any feedback.

Yeah, totally legit. I like to take screenshots of those, upload them to Imgur and use that link as proof bc sometimes the brand page changes or gets taken down.

Agree with jim, there's def a lot of marketing sheen going on and surely there are endorsements that are 'for show' only, but it's hard to draw that line so as far as an "encyclopedic" entry it totally counts.

Even as endorsement deals change for a certain artist, it's kind of interesting to see that history.

Can we see pics of this bad boy?

Cool, I think it's this: https://equipboard.com/items/audioscope-third-of-octave-spectrum-analyzer-2813-e

You can get a pretty decent look at it here.

Can you share the link to the insta photo so we can see what item you're talking about?

Amp sounds great. Love it.

I think a boost pedal is traditionally made for what you want. You're definitely not wrong though; while I think an EQ pedal is conceptually made to sculpt your sound to sit better in a mix, you absolutely could use it to boost frequencies and stand out for a solo.

If your DOD is reliable and quiet, then I don't see why not. I love a good boost pedal myself, we reviewed several and it would be hard to go wrong with something like the MXR M-133 Micro Amp.

Do you have a URL of the pic? If not you can upload it to Imgur and give me the URL that way.

By beat-making you specifically mean laying down drums? Propellerhead Reason perhaps? I've used Redrum before it's pretty cool (3 min video).

Sorry it's just that lots of people use "make beats" today to refer to general music production :)

I haven't tried them, but I've heard of them. You should do a YouTube demo, there's not much out there demonstrating how The Green Thing sounds!

Hah, I figured of anyone, you might :)

Admittedly I'm a bit biased because I love the band Mutemath, but even if you never heard of them this is worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kVKVmL-XI

Makes me feel like this

https://i.imgur.com/Ds9rN0F.jpg

Hi all,

The holidays are approaching, and we're feeling generous. 😄

Our buds at Focusrite hooked us up with a Scarlett Solo 2nd Gen audio interface, and we're giving it away! All you gotta do is Retweet a Tweet. Seriously, that's it.

Details here: https://equipboard.com/posts/giveaway-focusrite-scarlett-solo

The Tweet to Retweet is here

I got ya :) https://equipboard.com/band/day-sounds

Cool, the artist name should now show up as Dave Evans