Dr Tony Balls wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:00 am In the 80s at some point Gibson bought Steinberger guitars and threw together some stuff that was all 80's with Steinberger Floyd Rose-alike trems

Looks awesome! The metal in those trems was shitty and the posts all bent forward, making the guitars unplayable, and not just in the epiphone models; the Gibson ones too. Gibson had a bunch of goofy-looking models from 1988 that were immediately discontinued when the problem was discovered. There's a guy in Germany who makes replacement parts out of better metal for those '80s trems.

Gibsons don't usually do much for me, but that one has me sprung!

Per the underrated studio items thread, the humble EV N/D468 - a mic I bought to use on toms and only ever have used on toms. Did some guitar tracking today and used it on an amp, and paired with an M160 it sounds really great there too. I'll definitely grab a few more if they come up cheap again.

Ok, Behringer has a $200 Grampian-styled spring reverb coming out. I’ve never bothered with any of the other junk they’ve produced but this one I might have to get.

Kniferide wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:20 am

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:55 am Warm Audio is making their version of a Tube Tech compressor now.

https://vintageking.com/blog/2023/10/wa ... linkin.bio

I think it is fine when companies clone stuff that isn't being made anymore like that Ampex style box they make but this is Behringer style rip off land. It would be cool if they just cloned RCA and Gates comps and stuff like that that isn't getable.

I love you.

R2R Electric's vintage parts effects are expensive, if not interesting.

It's fun if you have the spare cash, but is it worth it? Asked, knowing it's all subjective.

Anyway, they look amazing, nearly a talk me out of it vibe:

https://www.r2relectric.com/products

mdc wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:48 pm Per the underrated studio items thread, the humble EV N/D468

I have one of those. It's a weird mic. I'll put it up and think it sounds OK but it eventually gets switched out and I like anything else a little better. I agree it is way better on guitar than toms where I think it is kinda useless. I've used it on the batter side of kick drums when there is no front hole. Works there ok and is easy to get in place on a little table top stand next to the kick pedal. I've thought about getting a second one but I have a weird relationship with the one I have. I love the swivel head and it is a great mic to place on a snare, but I usually don't like the sound so much. Something weird in the high mids.

Kniferide wrote:

mdc wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:48 pm Per the underrated studio items thread, the humble EV N/D468

I have one of those. It's a weird mic. I'll put it up and think it sounds OK but it eventually gets switched out and I like anything else a little better. I agree it is way better on guitar than toms where I think it is kinda useless. I've used it on the batter side of kick drums when there is no front hole. Works there ok and is easy to get in place on a little table top stand next to the kick pedal. I've thought about getting a second one but I have a weird relationship with the one I have. I love the swivel head and it is a great mic to place on a snare, but I usually don't like the sound so much. Something weird in the high mids.

I've tried it on a few other things since posting that - I like it on snare, I still like it on toms, It's good on some electric guitars but not super interesting on others, I can imagine it would pair nicely on a bass cab with something like an M380 (haven't tried that though...). It sounded really good when I tried it in the 'droom' mic position per moses schndeider - though I just used a mono mic not a stereo pair like he does.

I put on a couple NBA games and finished up 4-channels of Helios mic pres last night. Still need to get the front panels made, but at least they all seem to work when I checked them out at home. They're based on two '2128' amp cards in a row with a gain in the first stage, a trim control in the middle, and a discrete buffer on the output (helios apparently never used balanced outputs on anything, so there's only a transformer on the input).

As far as DIY pres go, these are pretty affordable - not a lot of parts, only one transformer, pots instead of stepped gain switches. Probably about $150CAD in materials per channel (plus whatever the panels end up costing I guess...).

We have one of the new Eventide Omnipressors in, it sounds great, behaves just like the old school one. It has a blend control which I love. I use it this way a lot for parallel compression of acoustic instruments and vocals. There's a pretty good video with the theory of operation on YouTube