They're super easy to DIY from home depot pine boards....

Had a few days off work and I was recording a song idea. Put my trusty and ancient RE20 in front of a bass cab and the sound was distorted. I did a lot of research and troubleshooting to no avail. Nothing is loose or rattling, I refoamed maybe 6 years ago, sounds fine on voice or other low SPL sources. After watching some repair videos I think I may have a collapsed diaphragm. I love this mic. It came from a place called Midwest Studios and that name is naively engraved on the mic body in cursive. I might bite the bullet and send it in to ElectroVoice. I know it's not cheap but it might be worth it to me. Any other suggestions before I send it off?

Tom Wanderer wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:27 am Had a few days off work and I was recording a song idea. Put my trusty and ancient RE20 in front of a bass cab and the sound was distorted. I did a lot of research and troubleshooting to no avail. Nothing is loose or rattling, I refoamed maybe 6 years ago, sounds fine on voice or other low SPL sources. After watching some repair videos I think I may have a collapsed diaphragm. I love this mic. It came from a place called Midwest Studios and that name is naively engraved on the mic body in cursive. I might bite the bullet and send it in to ElectroVoice. I know it's not cheap but it might be worth it to me. Any other suggestions before I send it off?

Mine is doing the same thing. I hear the diaphragm can become dis-glued from the little thing it sits on and there is a video of a dude fixing that issue on youtube.

this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FClhZX7wnAQ

Haven't had a chance to crack mine open to check it out. I have seen working RE20 motors on Ebay in the past for about $80-150ish if I remember but thats a crap shoot.

Kniferide wrote: Mine is doing the same thing. I hear the diaphragm can become dis-glued from the little thing it sits on and there is a video of a dude fixing that issue on youtube.

this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FClhZX7wnAQ

I watched that whole vid yesterday and took my mic partially apart. Under the phase plug you can see the diaphragm and beneath it is something that looks like a shirt button that he's calling the phase plate. The phase plate on his is completely loose and if you shake the mic you can hear it rattling. My phase plate is secure. In the first few minutes of the vid he describes the difference between an unglued phase plate and a collapsed diaphragm...and that there is no fix that he knows of for a collapsed diaphragm. In that case the diaphragm is just sitting on that phase plate and high SPL sources cause it to vibrate against it. Pretty sure that's the problem I'm dealing with. I sent an email to EV (or Bosch, rather) and I'll see what they get back to me with.

Any reason why a Yamaha E1010 delay would be so quiet?

I’ve tried on the insert channel of my midas board and I’ve tried running an out from my interface directly into the input and back out to my board for monitoring and its the same thing. Pretty quiet, have to keep input level pegged just to hear something.

If its helpful, here is the manual: https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/o ... E1010E.pdf

Here is some documentation for my board: http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/STARIN ... 0Short.pdf

Am I misunderstanding levels? I’ve tried a balanced trs insert y-cable to two ts in/out on the insert channel and I ran a trs cable from my interface i/o to the delay, and then another balanced cable out to a channel on my board

Edit: ok its the 10 ms mode that is too quiet. Service time!

tommy wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:23 am

Owen wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:13 am

tommy wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:26 am Fender also reissued it a year or two ago with the CuNiFe magnets. I have not compared prices.

Yeah this is where I am. I got skunked out of a REALLY good deal (like fucking stupid good) on a vintage 1974 Telecaster Custom. I know I am not going to find a deal that good anytime soon, which lead me to the Fender American Original's with the reissued CuNiFe. BUT they are charging more for the reissue than I could have paid for an original 74 and my brain hates that.

Fender sells the CuNiFe neck pickup for $200ish and I am trying to decide if I should just get a MiM custom and install that, or cough up more money on an American...or go the Warmoth route, or just be patient and wait.

Gotcha. I picked up a thinskin AVRI 72 Thinline recently where someone swapped out the pickups for the new Fender reissues but left in the 250K pots for some reason. One of these days I'm going to replace those pots with 1M.

I finally got around to replacing the pots and cap in the thinline. I went with 1M and a .022uf cap like they originally had. Boy oh boy did that change things. Maybe too much. The neck pickup NAILS the tone with those 1Meg pots. The bridge pickup is maybe too much. Kinda wishing I'd done 500K, but man that neck pickup sounds great. My advice: if you are stuck with 1V and 1T go for the compromise of 500K. If you have a Deluxe or Custom, use 1Meg for the neck.

Thanks Tommy. I’ve been wondering how those reissue pickups stacked up, and I knew you were familiar with the real ones.

I have a 12 string strat in pieces I need pickups for and thought those pickups would be a cool option. Even if they’re a little bright I’m sure they won’t be more ear piercing than a 12 string with roundwounds on a Strat bridge pickup

How often do yall record guitar in stereo?

I pretty much always have two to three different mics on the guitar, two close up and one backed off in the room, but they’re always mono, even if I spread them out in the stereo field later. I ask because my RME interface defaults everything to stereo and I am forever turning that stuff off

I only use stereo tracks when it's beneficial to ensure that the relationship between the two sides isn't altered at all: printing stereo effects like reverb, or a parallel compression drum bus thing, or if some stereo recording is being sampled.

Otherwise I see it as a self-imposed limitation. If I envision a stereo guitar performance on a pair of amps, I still want the ability to eq separately, change the balance, width, or even to abandon the entire stereo idea for the track if it's not accomplishing something exciting in the mix. Even on a stereo mic setup like an XY drum overhead thing, I might still want to duck one side a little for a ham fisted cymbal passage.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 2:58 pm How often do yall record guitar in stereo?

Exactly never times. At least not w/ electric guitar. Acoustic is a better fit for this.

This would frustrate the piss out of me. There's no options for default settings to change this?

I know getting tracks that were recorded in garage band used to always do this too - very surprising this would happen at the interface level though.