Quite surprising how effective book shelves (preferably full height of the wall) loaded up with books etc can be at absorbing sound and reducing transmission. Attach a packing blanket etc to the back of the bookshelf before positioning it against the wall to gain some more absorption. It won't be 60...

DW bought the Camco casting moulds, so there are a lot of similarities, and certainly, back in the day, those Camco kick pedals were the benchmark for a lot of drummers. You can still buy parts to keep them alive (chains, bearings etc) so they can be a good workhorse still.For good solid contemporar...

japmn wrote:Brinkman wrote:japmn wrote:I tried the wood glue trick and it worked great. If you want to try it out but don't trust it, just get some nasty, ugly Barbara Streisand record from your local thrift store. Get the most gacky one you can find and smear wood glue all over it. When you peel it...

1949 tweed Supro: born in Chicago, working downunder.

There is no transformer per say in a Beyer 380, but a humbucking coil is wired in series with the dynamic capsule. See http://www.coutant.org/beyerpdf/m380.pdf for a schematic.Cheers

Gentle rubbing of the metal parts with quad 0 steel wool and eucalyptus oil usually does a good job of removing superficial rust. If you can't find eucalyptus oil at an economical price use an oil based product like WD40.

sleepkid wrote:They built it. It's blue.You can test it at their studio. Someone please do this.Nice, shiny floor. Enough thermal extraction fans? That looks like a bakehouse of a control room :=)

Nashua !

johnnyshape wrote:dontfeartheringo wrote:steve wrote:Pinstripes don't have oil in them. I... I had no idea.You learn something new every day.I was told they had oil in them at an Saturday-music-school percussion lesson which was something like twenty four years ago. It's obviously a popular and inte...

Towels etc damping toms and snare often kept things sounding VERY dry. Even cymbals often got the treatment, with cotton wool etc taped underneath. These tricks go back further than the 70's even.... sorry to all the purists who can't abide ANYTHING but heads and shells, but it's a recorded fact :=)...