That would be a great subject for a post, to go into detail about impedance mismatches with tube amps, and what's maybe okay and what's maybe not. For example, when I talked to Laney's tech support, and asked them what they thought of me hooking up a nominally-6-ohm cab in parallel with the interna...

I know that my local Kinko's prefers to work with .pdf format, as have most publications I've dealt with (magazine and newsprint). I use Photoshop 7.0 for my graphics, and it does almost everything I want. The only thing PS won't do that I'd use Illustrator for is curved text effects. And 99% of wha...

I don't think it has anything to do with the octive harmonics.... more to do with the distance to the hole. And relative string length... the 12th fret is the center of the unfretted strings. Also, you'll see a lot of tips pointing you toward the neck/body joint, usually in the 12 to 14 fret area. ...

Ive never heard the Mackies; perhaps this is true. The JBLs have fine high end reproduction. You should make an effort to listen to them both if you can. The JBL's are pretty good, and there isn't a whole lot of difference between them and the Mackies. I have heard them both, used them both in mult...

Rodabod wrote:Yes, but this is for bands that you really liked.

I just bathed in gasoline, did all the work for ya. Flame away. What you got?

I'd like to know what happened to:

The Toadies
The New Radicals

(my apologies for not listing obscure bands... I'm a newbie)

I'd look at the MXL models... maybe a bit noisy compared to some of the competition, but they have a pleasing sound. A friend of mine has used one of their budget large-D condensers for years and swears by it. I have a pair of Rode NT1-A's, and they are pretty harsh. They sound great for close-micin...

I have a Sovtek Mig 50 that I play thru either a Marshall 4x10 cab loaded with Celestions or a vertical Peavey 2x12 cab with an Eminence Swamp Thang in the sealed bottom and an Eminence Governor in the open-backed top. I push it with a pair of Keeley-modded TS-9's, a Russian Big Muff RI, and a Shann...

So in short, you don't want the guitar or bass to sound so good. Rather than get an amp/amps that will do guitar and/or bass well, what you actually want is a PA. It sounds like that's what he wants. Re-reading his first post: "The instruments I'd be running are an analog synth, acoustic guitar, vi...

Distorted guitar is already "compressed". Especially if you put it thru a pedal too. I usually dont touch them as it doesnt do much unless you have an 1176 and you are changing the tone of the track. Now if the dirstorion is just slightly crunchy (a mildly distorted Fender or AC30) then you have ro...