get a tama camco pedal. it was my first and it is still going 16 years later - admittedly i have had a few dw 5000 pedals in there, too. but it is pretty responsive, rugged and there are two on ebay right now for under $40.

hmmm... i have three jensen vintage mod 50 watts in my 8x10. the rest are definitely 100 watt speakers. i noticed when i went to replace them and realized how much heavier the ones i were taking out were than the ones i was putting in. haven't blown anything up yet, though i'm sure it's not an ideal...

anyone know how big this venue is? seriously everyone i know in the northeast is going to this i think. stoked. never seen neurosis live. kicking myself for missing them at cb's all those times.

i feel like a lot of people try this and it usually sounds like it is missing a bass player. i have seen the following effectively fill out the bottom end for bands with only guitar and bass instrumentation: - tuning down/playing a baritone guitar - putting the guitar signal through a crossover arou...

if you're competing with a 4x12 & 100 watt head guitar rig, a v4 is not gonna cut it if you're playing clean or a little dirty. if it's full on distorted, a v4 will serve you well. hell, i saw a band with a concert lead thru an 8x10 on bass and with the distortion cranked, it worked well. that b...

for crunching guitars, i almost always use a 421. typically with another mic, but even on it's own, in the right place, it usually does what i want. ribbons can be awesome but mine (an m500) usually sounds too harsh on trebly amps. i use E609s sometimes, but they seem a bit dull to me, usually - som...

yeah, i saw one of those once. definitely not fig 8. i am pretty sure they are hypercardioid

yeah, i ended up mail ordering mine from australia a few years ago. is it possible the beyer stuff just isn't so well distributed over here? i had the same problem finding m69s a few years ago. but i just bought a ton on ebay.

ok, so i need to solder 1/4" balanced connectors to these cables i purchased recently. i honestly have no idea which cable gets soldered to which in terms of hot, cold and ground, going to tip, ring, sleeve. i know which is which on the cable and i think i know which is which on the TRS jack, b...

i've been told that if you can find the footswitch, you get a lot more gain out of the distortion channel. a friend of mine has it and he seems to get more crunch than i do.