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Coal to Diamond: Upgrading a Sterling Audio ST55 into my new Go-To Mic

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In my feed on Reverb.com I have several watches set up that alert me when certain items become available at a certain price. One of those watches was for a Sterling Audio ST55 Microphone for less than $80. One day, I had an email from reverb saying I had new items in my feed. And …

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Long Distance Music Collaboration and a Reason Why

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There I was surveying my wonderful recording studio which I had been doing numerous upgrades to of late. I had the coolest mic and mic preamp collection I could ever hope for. My console layout looks and works great. I have these amazing Focal monitors. The rooms sound amazing. But why? Why bother with all …

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Cool Guitar Amp Build – Mojotone 18Watt TMB

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I’ve had my eye on this Mojotone Amp Kit for a while. I normally do my guitar parts with various modeling gizmos and plugins and I don’t play live with anyone at the moment. So spending 900 bucks on a guitar amp seemed like a bit of a splurge (especially when I also want to …

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Successful Collaborating With Multiple DAWs

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Occasionally I find myself collaborating with other studios by sharing files and projects back and forth. I recently had the pleasure of contributing some vocal and instrument tracks to an album by an Artist from my hometown in upstate NY. There is almost always some trial and error involved in the process of transferring – …

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CAPI VP312 Preamp Build (and Cool Mod)

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CAPI is another source for Professional DIY audio kits. They make a bunch of 500 series and rack devices. It is not by accident that they look very similar to vintage products by API. CAPI has no affiliation with API but they offer faithful reproductions of the originals. This project is also featured in our …

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Hairball Audio Lola Mic Preamp Build: Adding Another Cool Color

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My eight space 500 series rack has had only one module in it until now. It was the Sound Skulptor MP573 Mic Preamp kit I built several months ago. My ultimate plan is to get a second one of those and a pair of something else. After a lot of consideration, I decided that the …

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Another Cool Microphone Build

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After building a couple of microphone-parts.com MXL990 kits last week, I did some shoot-outs between them and against other mics in my collection. I discovered that one of my existing mics had a problem. First, some background… Before I found out about mic-parts, I had a few microphones from a company called Michael Joly Engineering …

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Awesome DIY Microphones

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Continuing with the DIY tradition started with my MP573 Preamp, I decided to try my hand at building some microphone kits. Microphone-Parts makes all sorts of mod kits and separate parts for upgrading or building microphones. For a little bit of an up-sell price, you can get hand-matched pairs of capsules so I thought this …

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Timmy May “Headed Down To Merlefest” Session

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My first bluegrass project since the old days in NY with the Susquehanna Hat Co. Timmy played Guitar, and Mando. Jamie Lawton from the Fastnet Pub Band played fiddle. And I got to be sideman on bass, a little electric guitar and some background vocals. This was the first session where I got to use …

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