Power tube pulling worked well for me. Also, if you only use the second channel you can pull the first preamp tube out of the V1 position, giving more gain to the second channel. I didn't like the sound of it much. You could also try swapping the phase inverter (last tube) with a 12AX7, say from the...

Power tube pulling worked well for me. Also, if you only use the second channel you can pull the first preamp tube out of the V1 position, giving more gain to the second channel. I didn't like the sound of it much. You could also try swapping the phase inverter (last tube) with a 12AX7, say from the...

Ha yeah just to clear up, its not a commercial studio just a few small private studios to do with my old college. I still get on well with the tutors, so free recording time! They've got some Mackie hard disk system in place so the revox was sitting in the corner reserved for tape echo. Thanks for t...

I had a lot of success with experimenting with different mics. Before i knew better I'd have a 57 on the snare and the hi hat bleed sounded so horrible and loud.
Since switching to a small diaphragm condenser the bleed is nice and crisp and alot less of a problem all of a sudden.

Is there any way to get a 1/4 tape machine up to a good standard without a test tape? There's a revox machine in the studio im about to do some mixing of my own band at. Seems to all work fine and they've assured me its had a service not too long ago but they have no test tape. They keep telling me ...

I've got a 100watt silverface twin, its great and i think its loudness is pretty exaggerated on this thread, unless your all pussies. I do run it with two of the power tubes pulled out most of the time but that only brings it down abit. Starts to distorts on about 5. With a band I usually have it on...

Has anyone tried the EVM in different cabs? I picked up the speaker a while ago and stuck in an empty cab with a small round port at the bottom and slightly to the side of the speaker.
It sounds good but im already wondering how different it would sound in the dietz design.

Cheers for the suggestions. Im in the same band as Edd and have gone through a few, I really like the John Hannon recordings I've found so far, seems like the best bet. Also Dropout looks good too. I can't find out anything about Hall Place, no website or myspace? Toerag would be great but aren't th...

The Sabbath stuff was done with light strings, mainly because of his plastic finger tips. ZZ Top reportedly used 8s, not that heavy but great guitar sounds. Same with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, not heavy at all but you can get thick guitar sounds without having really heavy gauge strings. I found the...

Sowley wrote:he sounded okay when he phoned the studio today.

now, someone post the video of him catching a bottle without looking.

Qui to record at Electrical!?