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its a pretty grainy photo, are we sure its not stretched out horizontally through some fluke of the interwebz

I looked it up and I don't think MA was picky about amplification like Ed was. He was using Peaveys at one point. Anything will work. A lot of the album tone is post-production, they had great mix engineers. As an engineer I highly doubt that all that album bass tone was amp tone. I always strive to get an impression of righteous live bass tone that tucks into the space available on a recording, but its all context. Solo it and its nothing like the amp sounded when I miked it up. In the space aloted for bass? Its a great impression of that feel and vibe though. Even ob live stuff, I'm unacraid to compress and EQ the shit out of bass tracks, and I usually cut amp(s) as well as DI if I'm the tracking engineer and use EVERYTHING (because if I engineered it the phase is pretty on point) and I filter, and compress, EQ and finesse it into a single sound.

I'm assuming that when you play your Fender Player II Precision unplugged, you already sound a lot like Michael Anthony, right? Because if you don't, amplifying that performance with the Rumble 25 isn't going to make you sound more like MA.

I decided not to touch this one, but THIS! If you're style isn't VH bass, then lsiten and lsiten and start by channeling Anthony's connection to the instrument and the groove, VH is still groove music and you gotta get your timing and accents right in relation to kick before shooting for a sound. The sound on the recording, even a live one, is not the sound on stage, ever. This is msot true of bass where often a DI is involved for extended low end and gobs of post-processing happens to keep every string in the pocket in that restricted vinyl space (the good records were ixed for vinyl). There's limited bandwidth and headroom on a recording, not so much an issue in a giant venue with an oversized PA. But the performance is the performance.

hi, you said to call you Grady, so I called you Grady... I'm a recording engineer, I can follow instructions

looks like a schecter 3&3 headstock shape to me

Grady!

why isn't this thread locked now that we have the add item request system for low gearIQ users?

there's a music production and synths board

what synth?

they mainly care about notability first.

notability or professionality, professionality being music as a sole or at least primary livelihood... notability goes without saying

EDIT: I get frustrated and quit after a few artists who have submitted themselves, I can tell; see, we're not an EPK resource for your hopes of a career, trust me you won't have one, its way rougher than when I was out there and it was rough then. EB won't help you. Get a million dollar investor or go home in this environment. I don't want to clutter the site any further. I wish you all the luck in the world, but we're not here to make you look legit, and looking legit without money is just getting your hopes up. I don't mean you specifically, I don't know you, I'm just using the royal YOU

PEOPLE! DO NOT SUBMIT YOURSELF, JUST NO! get yourself submitted by a stranger, then you can have some pride in your achievement of having at least a couple fans or at least someone curious in your original sound. Isn't that better because its genuine?

everything is my fault, or maybe all mods' faults, personally I get busy and approve artists in fits of activity between work and family stuff... but this is a labor of love, no one is making their living from it, so we try our best but cannot dedicate time to it regularly, it'll always have bottlenecks

personally, and tis is where it becomes my fault, I don't approve artists quickly that I have no personal knowledge of, I have to set time asside to research the value of adding such and such bedroom producer (for example)... I tend to bias towards performing bands/artists because they're easy to verify if I'm ignorant of their work, you can find stuff about their performances and as we've been saying sinc ethe 90s, if you're not gigging you're not relevant

that's me, sorry kidz, too old to change

That's why I only play Labellas.

no rodents involved

AH! Rats are playing guitar now! It used to be you played an Sg a Rat and an AC30, now the rats play you!

yall are way pickier than I am

I love the rat with my ac30s! the new rat is fine, the vintage rat guys are deluding themselves, they sound the same in the band, the rat is killer, always was and always will be. I'm not a pedal guy though, this is my only guitar demo on youtube, I really work the amps and the guitar for tone...this is a modest ac4hw but using one of my ac30s as the cabinet.... it sounds a little boxy still from the single ended output but its got ballz anyway

https://youtu.be/Qi6UYNoCYoU?si=5nKkisquJvZozDV7

the best effect is great tube amp tone and knowing how to juice your pickups! Although a roland space echo or echoplex is nice to have too... or maybe some pitch shifting digitech toys

and also the amp I built which is gained up pete townshend hiwatt with some jimmy page hiwatt elements:

https://soundcloud.com/james-marchione-1/jim-watt-mk1-demo-solo-and-band?si=a9255588a5594160bb5dc03f521176c2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

I like the brit high current circuits beat of all, so much zing.

This is such an abuse of power that I don't even know where to start. Or if I even want to start.

what makes it more ridiculous is that Leo F and George Fullerton who invented the shape and would be most entitled to some sort of copyright or trademark haven't been with fender since the 70s and are also pretty dead at this late period of guitar history. if anyone had the right to charge rent on a guitar shape it was those 2, not a bunch of shareholders who've never run a band saw! but there ta go, enjoy your late stage capitalism... get ready to pay rent on everything until it collapses into murderous anarchy... or something

I didn't know where to start but I knew where to end.

I'm a pedal reverb hater as you can tell. YMMV... but I own a collection of insanely high-end (and cheap but amazing) studio reverbs from various eras so I'm hella fussy. I even own modern synths with better onboard reverb (including shimmer and sub verb stuff) than anything digitec. I guess I didn't hate the obscura, I think I hated the polara... but again YMMV. I also tend to run my tube mps into clipping so effecty reverb needs to hold up to the grime well. I usually don't use reverb live, delay? sure, no reverb.

the polara and obscura are junk, great door stops, don't waste your money, kid.. and preamp reverb is crap anyway... you want reverberation? turn up

I recorded a soul/funk band and their guitarist used the bass synth wah for some parts (back when it was new) through a JC120, it was quite a sound compared with even a vintage mutron II (which I really prefer on clav, maybe rhodes, but is still a hella coool guitar effect, but mutron never made a bad pedal), but required different microphones to really capture it as opposed to what sounded good for his core prince-style tone, and this was a farily live in the studio thing. I wound up taking a DI off the bass synth wah and taking it straight into the desk on its own channel and we decided later whether to re-amp or tweak the DI and we muted the amp typically for those parts and would see if the live amp could blend in for the other parts with a phase adjust or we'd mute the main guitar. I'm pretty sure it was meant for a bass so that's why it was such a pill to capture, but it was cool; not a synth or a wah, but kinda part sub octave fuzz and envelope follower. It required some gymnastics to get it to sound right to everyone like it sounded in the tracking room... which was cool.

Maybe the closest vintage chain would be a mutrton octave divider or an mxr blue box and an envelope filter II, not sure in what order. Impressive cheapie. Should I get a fiithy robot? I was interested by the bsw's use on guitar, it was nutty, but amazing and perfect for the band's style.

I edited this post a bunch because I was typing it while worling on a mix and was distracted and messed it all up first try. Posted before I took a break. Fixed now. SORRY

whoa, but which name do we preference? when I was a kid I knew him by his proper name, but he's been the king in my adult years

dunno, I remember when the CODE came out but I enver saw one anywhere so I assume almost no one uses one! subtle or not... they're so frickin' expensive, then again I love paint stripping sounds

oh man, check THIS out! WANT.. too bad its way out of reach financially, looks like the ultimate CODE8. You can even customize the filters if you don't want the stock moog/obi/jup/cs80! Insanely cool.

my understanding was the midimoog was the first batch and after a lawsuit they changed the name to midimini, not a lawsuit from Bob, he had to sue to get his own name back!

I heard the same, BUT when they had to change the name, that is supposedly also when they switched to clone circuit boards instead of actual Moog guts.

Fake news?

It's not as tidy as all that from what I've been told by fellow studio electronics owners, but that's roughly accurate.

oh jeez! that would have been fantastic, did you have an AC/DC budget??

not at all, it was just lucky the place had them, otherwise I worked at a place in the August that had 1 u67. it wasn't particularly well maintained but it sounded amazing anyway. I've only done 1 big budget OP and it was a miserable experience. the budget was not spent wisely.

I'm not sure youd be able to fit 47s in an xy!!!

I'm not either, that's why I said wrong answers only! although I've gotten 87s into a near coincident xy so why not?

my understanding was the midimoog was the first batch and after a lawsuit they changed the name to midimini, not a lawsuit from Bob, he had to sue to get his own name back!

a midi mini is a racked mini moog anyway, they did prophet 5s and pre-midi oberheims too, I once owned a SE midified obie SEM

spaced pair, in a Glyn Johns style :) I know there's a few engineers that use Tube U67 for overheads, but I don't have those, so I used some 47 fets

Oh come on, I've only gotten to use matched 67s on one occassion!!! And I've been aorund. I like glyn johns in smaller rooms myself, but not fet47s, I like figure 8 for that to make the room sound bigger... I wanted joke answers though!

fet47s as a spaced pair or xy and why? only wrong

was that like... 40, 50 years ago? you sound like the most boomer to ever boomer

I'm an Xer. I inherited this attitude! but that response was an example of why I shouldn't drink on a weeknight and if I do I shouldn't drunk post.

dude, just... dude

when I was a teenager we just turned shit up, sometimes for more we used distortion, primitive crap like a ts9 or ds1, but rockin' was about a blitzkrieg of enveloping loudness and your amp releasing its inner rock, no fiddling around with lots of controls. Marshall all controls up and liquefying all the pigeons in the vicinity. Vox AC30 at 10, BF fender boosted out front at 10! F anyone who wants contrlled rock guitar. F livenation and ticketmaster and lame-o bar owners!

no wonder rock is dead, the idea is to offend people, forget the gadgets, get a marshall and gun it up, man, make music your parents don't like... or that your grandparents don't like even though they live a few states away, cuz they can hear you from there and wish you were never born

a couple things:

make sure to discharge the filter caps before you tool around. If your amps have standbys turn the power off and leave the standby on for a little to bleed the high tension off the filters into outlet ground, okay? No sense getting electrocuted, power tube voltages are lethal and are stored in the power section for days if not bled down the ground line. You can use aligator clips but its a pain, most standby amps should be designed to bleed high tension in standby in a minute or two. For my voxes and other non-standby tube-rectified amps I discharge by waiting days and days LOL, get your multimeter out

I forget how that later fender pull boost is wired but that's an easy job, you should have no problem putting a non switching 1meg pot there, I think its 1meg, I forget, might be 500k. It'll simplify the wiring and therefore reduce noise too!

If I recall correctly a Dumble fet pre needs to run off the 6v heater current, which is completely unregulated. I can't remember if Howard did some regulation with a small solid state voltage regulator... you could also use a high voltage power mosfet at preamp tube voltages 200-300v. I forget what Dumble did. Not a huge fan of his sound. You will be underwhelmed, I assure you. Build a trainwreck instead.

Hiwatts are nothing like Fenders and Marshalls, part of the sound is in the phase inverter and driver stage. There's a gain stage, a volume control, a gain stage, then a tonestack and master followed by 1 more gain stage and then a cathode follower. The Cathode follower lower the impedance into the phase inverter but Dave Reeves also tapped off of it to produe a fixed bias current to the cathodes of the long tailed phase inverter and its also DC couple versus AC coupled, more like a Macintosh hifi amp. All other long tailed pair driven AB guitar amps are cathode biased and AC coupled PIs. Its the most unique thing in a hiwatt and is a huge part of the sound. They varied that topology over the years but the gilmour sound is what I described above. And I've built a hiwatt. What a learning experience. The power supply is also incredibly well-designed fora guitar amp. Personally I could care less about gilmour and love balls out hiwatt tone, gun that mofo, it's so hard to break her up but when she growls its superlative.

you would know better than me, my friend... this is outside my technical knowledge and I always imagine bad actors when I have computer problems because I'm super paranoid! I'm an analog technocrat, I have just enough computer skills to enjoy HD audio.

I was getting 500 errors for a little while thursday but by the time I was about to post everything righted itself and I couldn't reproduce any of the errors. I'm east coast. Whatever's going on started globally or at least in the whole united states, but its persisting on the west coast. Your bad gateway errors are way beyond the hour of 500 errors I experienced. I wonder if we're being hacked.

that's all reasonable and correct but death is still too good for that guy

ok

just kidding

ah the dw7, half an ax7 and half an au7 in one bottle finally revived by JJ... but the au7 is pretty weak for a guitar preamp, spectacular hifi and mic pre tube and great in tube op amps though, there's impedance stuff going on with it, the ax7 is best replaced by an ay7 or 7025 for lower gain, the at7 and au7 are much different apart from the drastically lower gain potential... the dw7 is an ideal concertina phase inverter though, the ax7 is a nice powerful driver stage and an au7 is the perfect inverter on paper when linearity is desired from a concertina. anything under 80 watts would benefit from a redesign for a dw7 in a concertina, it does need some redesign too versus the common ax7 concertina... the 7199 commonly used in ampegs is a badass for bigger concertina amps, its like an ef86 as driver with half an au7 as the PI, also seen in the dynaco hifi amps and dynaco based sunn instrument amps, although they also used a 6an8 which is also a great tube, similar but inferior in spec to the 7199... but the dw7 cannot be used for a paraphase inverter or the most common phase inverter, the long tailed pair... but it was born to concertina... and murder the world!!! as a concertina PI... obviously

I went off on a tangent, by all means try the DW7, but don't be surprised if the fender side goes anemic... did you check the schematic to make sure they line up right? You could plug her in and find the au7 is on the marshall side if you don't check the wiring. even if it's right you might not be impressed, the au7 just interacts with a guitar differently, there's science to it but I can't remember it anymore. Its not just the gai n though, although you could stick a HUGE cathode bypass cap on her to really get crazy gain levels for an au7 and then kill the useless bass with a smaller coupling cap.

EDIT: you could go on the fender channel and remove the cathode bypass cap on the first fender channel specific stage and also alter the bias via the plate and cathode resistors for less gain... if you want some upper mid zing put a really small cathode bypass cap in, like 1 nanoferrad like in hiwatts and some SLO100 stages. I favor this approach, it adds lots of zingy harmonics at edge of breakup and you can use larger blocking caps if you want due to the shelving nature of the small bypass. You can also put your cathode bypass into a pot and vary the amount of upper end gain boost (or high frequency miller capacitance reduction) and make it a kind of tone/presence control. I did that in my jimwatt mk1 and mk2 amps on V3b and labeled it presence, the other side of the pot had a reverse bright cap that bled highs to ground so in the middle it had high shelving mixed with low pass, it shaped the tone more than the very limited range treble and ball controls I created, but I do amps for myself and just want a tine a tweak when I change guitars. In your case you could ear tune it with a trim pot and then measure the 2 outer legs of the pot and approximate it with standard resistor vales as a divider to create a cool frequency dependent gain reduction.

I'm terrible telling you to hack your amps!

he passed a rev5 off on you as 4? what a creep

I have a 50, a 30 and a 20. I've been tempted by the JX10, the JX8p didn't do it for me, I like the 3p/mks30 sound better, it does less but it's just nicer to my ear and I had them side by side. I feel like the voice stacking in the 10 might be the ticket, and it comes in a rack, the mks70 I think, super JX? I would get an mks-10 too for the cheese of those early japanese piano attempts. I really like the wonky ensoniq synth piano too, perfect piano is a classic.

If you end up with a Voyager RME, why would you also want/need a minimoog-style SE rack mount as well?

I know the Voyager is in many ways a very different flavor than an OG minimoog, but it can still do most any minimoog-type thing you'd want it to do, no?

synth lust? I f@rking love synthesizers! I have multiple arps too... I've been shopping for a fixerupper pro1 as well, because why not? I don't know where I'd put it, but I want one. I don't know why, because the prophet600 is dead similar only poly, but I want one. I get this way every 5 years.

I kinds want a jupiter6 too, totally different roland flavor from my juno6 and mks racks. If I had the scratch I would have an mks80 superjupiter. I wish roland would reissue the mks series.

this is interesting and probably explains why I find the voyager to sound so much like my se1 from the 90s

I get more envelopes than Mike gets on his voyager at 1 less rack space (but my shit is made deep and his is shallow so maybe that's it), and I can't remember if his pulse is continuously variable, I don't think it is... I remembered this review or a similar one from another rag and then got this in google while I was procrastinating today, because it made me want a se1 when it was new and I was getting into electronic music and I eventually bought one. Initially I settled for the bass station, the first affordable analog mono to hit the market in the 90s, the SE1 was not affordable new. I thought I was missing out but I have a bass station 1 again lol (got the rack, I've had a bass station keyboard and 2 racks, I don't think I got a super bass station rack but I had a BS2 and still have a rack and a circuit monostation and of course a summit, which uses the CMOS filter, which is from the wasp and OSCar filter), but both good, both very good... I also bought a realistic MG1 by moog just based on the moog pedigree in the 90s from Barracks Trading Post on Street Road right above the philly line so it had 1% lower sales tax and then sold it when it broke down, someone took it for parts on ebay when ebay was new

but if I buy up Mike's voyager rack I'll probably sell the SE1 and go for a later version, maybe this relatively new SE V30, that FM man! W00F!

HAHAHA

in highschool they called me punkrock mcguyver... my friend Paul from DC has professor punk but he's an archivist and almost a literature professor so it's not that punk actually

could we, like, automate the plugin alternatives that are manufacturer endorsed or created?

EDIT: I just wanna stop kids from getting electrocuted, man... I was electrocuted as a kid and I don't recommend it, that's why I learned all this tech stuff

to be fair, if money and space weren't a constraint I would never sell ANYTHING. If I liked it enough to buy it I would like to keep it, I just can't. If I kept everything I would be even more broke and also have nowhere to sit.