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Lonesome Bulldog wrote:Is this a joke? Guy claims AKG d112 works better BACKWARDS I can barely tell the difference in those crappy sound samples.I hear the difference.Close micing is weird (for me), the kick never sounds like a kick when listening just to the close mic. Snare mic doesn't sound like snare either.The only mic (in my very limited experience) that make the kick sound like a kick when close mic'ed is a Beyer M380.For me, the actual sound of the kick and snare is brought by the overheads and room mics, the close mics are just enforcing them.The D112 is great for helping the kick cut through the rest of the drums or the rest of the other instruments and it sounds pretty good combined with the rest of the drums mics.While the rear of the D112 make the kick sound more like a kick*, it won't help it cut through and enforce the overall kick sound like the front of the mic will.*I assume that, but I can't really tell because I didn't hear this kick drum myself nor there's a recording of the kick being mic'ed from a distance.

eliya wrote:Lonesome Bulldog wrote:Is this a joke? Guy claims AKG d112 works better BACKWARDS I can barely tell the difference in those crappy sound samples.I hear the difference.Close micing is weird (for me), the kick never sounds like a kick when listening just to the close mic. Snare mic doesn't sound like snare either.The only mic (in my very limited experience) that make the kick sound like a kick when close mic'ed is a Beyer M380.For me, the actual sound of the kick and snare is brought by the overheads and room mics, the close mics are just "enforcing" them.The D112 is great for helping the kick cut through the rest of the drums or the rest of the other instruments and it sounds pretty good combined with the rest of the drums mics.While the rear of the D112 make the kick sound more like a kick*, it won't help it cut through and enforce the overall kick sound like the front of the mic will.*I assume that, but I can't really tell because I didn't hear this kick drum myself nor there's a recording of the kick being mic'ed from a distance.Guess I need new computer speakers. I heard a volume diff but not much else.

Is this a joke? Guy claims AKG d112 works better BACKWARDS I can barely tell the difference in those crappy sound samples.

SecondEdition wrote:zom-zom wrote:SecondEdition wrote:Anyone know if JMF/Dean Markley Spectra heads actually exist? I see combos but no heads or cabs.I don't know if you're asking about Dean Markley heads or Spectra, but I did have a Dean Markley tube head around '85. It sounded great. Rack mount.I'd thought that Dean Markley had bought out the JMF Electronics Spectra amps. Was there a different company called Spectra that made amps?Yes there were definitely a few JMF Spectra heads available (I think I remember seeing cabs and monitors, etc as well). There's a couple solid state ones for sale at Daddys.com here. JMF was the original manufacturer of the "Spectra" series of amps (Spectra was one of the models), and then I believe Dean Markely bought JMF out in 1984 or 1985. Dean Markely continued to name their amps "Spectra". I had a solid state JMF combo; worked pretty well.

i coulda sworn I heard a difference. placebo effect, I guess. Anyway, the YGM-4 is a perfectly kick ass little amp into a 2 x 12. I want to make the tremelo circuit another gain stage, and maybe add a midrange control. Volume wise, it is perfect, for many times when the Reverb Master is too loud.

MF Nightmen wrote:SecondEdition wrote:zom-zom wrote:SecondEdition wrote:Anyone know if JMF/Dean Markley Spectra heads actually exist? I see combos but no heads or cabs.I don't know if you're asking about Dean Markley heads or Spectra, but I did have a Dean Markley tube head around '85. It sounded great. Rack mount.I'd thought that Dean Markley had bought out the JMF Electronics Spectra amps. Was there a different company called Spectra that made amps?Yes there were definitely a few JMF Spectra heads available (I think I remember seeing cabs and monitors, etc as well). There's a couple solid state ones for sale at Daddys.com here. JMF was the original manufacturer of the "Spectra" series of amps (Spectra was one of the models), and then I believe Dean Markely bought JMF out in 1984 or 1985. Dean Markely continued to name their amps "Spectra". I had a solid state JMF combo; worked pretty well.Cool! I was wondering about that.The reason I asked was because of the apparent Slint connection. I really do like that guitar tone. Yikes, I feel weird admitting that.Another question for all of you is: Are the Japanese Jaguars and Jazzmasters really any better than the American ones? I know they're always sold cheaper (something I deeply appreciate), but the sale line often is that the build quality is "far superior to the US models" or something like that. Do the pickups sound the same? (For the record, if I was to get one of them I'd probably get the Jaguar.)Also, do vintage MXR Distortion + units sound different than reissues?

tarandfeathers wrote:Here's mine: the A820 and A827 have a reverse record function, but there's no second erase head on the take-up side of the record head. If you want to record something backwards, do you have to use blank tape or manually/spot erase the section to be recorded on before you start?You don't NEED an erase head, it simply does a better job of erasing than recording silence does. When you're tracking backward, your still taping over the track; noise where you're making noise, silence where there's not. I hesitate to give a number, but I bet it's still 60dB down before you hear a difference between using the erase head and simply recording silence.Ben

Lonesome Bulldog wrote:Is this a joke? Guy claims AKG d112 works better BACKWARDS I can barely tell the difference in those crappy sound samples.Guy also thought that the SM-57 track sounded more or less the same as the front of D-112 track. Wtf? I mean, I guess it did, above 200 Hz or so.

Lonesome Bulldog wrote:I can barely tell the difference in those crappy sound samples.Not enough difference to post on your blog about.The first was a little more thuddy (Cardboard) sounding and the second had a slightly crisper (less congested) sound. Both sounded farther away than I would expect a close mic to sound.Doesn't matter because both samples sounded weak and mostly unusable as far as a kick sound goes.He is crazy.

SecondEdition wrote:I should probably just give in and sign up for eBay one of these days.It's a slippery slope dogg, a slippery slope. Especially with the severe case of inert G.A.S. you got these days.