Thanks a lot.

Unbelievable. I take it back to the shop Sound Control (I imagine the US equivalent is Guitar Centre) and explain that it now has another unrelated fault. The engineer plugs it in and it is not making that disgusting noise anymore. They look at me like i'm a total dick; very humiliating. I ask them ...

Dylan wrote:
*The high-end sheen you speak of is probably the mp3 quality. The digital compression tends to over-emphasize the treble and computer glitchy noises will also contribute.

Nah, Geisha's stuff really does sound that horrible.

further to my other thread regarding lo-fi recording we have decided to record straight to a stereo 1/4 inch r2r... using a combination of mics including 4 x sm57s, an intercom mic (to mic the vocal amp), and 3 other mics we have yet to get hold of. i heard this on the web: m).mp3 this mp3 have som...

it makes a new and dreadful hissing noise. When the amp is turned on it makes very little self-noise, but once you plug in a lead, it sounds like a Whitehouse record, even with the volume control fully down so no guitar sound comes through. This noise is unaffected by the volume pot. This sounds li...

I've just had a guitar amp returned from whence it came, supposedly repaired. It's a Vox Cambridge 30 twin reverb, a transistor amp. The opto coupler went on it, because the parts are crap, and I had it replaced with a Mesa part instead. Apparently, this is a common problem with these carelessly con...

awesome. I couldn't have hoped for a better response to my request. Thanks everyone, much appreciated.

Does anyone know much about this, circa Everybody Knows this is Nowhere?
Bizarre absence of info on Guitar Geek.

I saw them in Bristol recently, it was a much anticipated gig for me. The previous show was cancelled because someone threatened to bomb the venue if the promoter went ahead with it, such is the strength of feeling they still evoke. This time, the old bill came round earlier to plead with the promot...

My Dad pronounces 'fuck' as 'fack', because he is from old-skool Clapham, South London.