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Long Distance Music Collaboration and a Reason Why
Read more: Long Distance Music Collaboration and a Reason WhyThere 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 this? What am I going to record? I’m not in a band. Covid has everyone isolated. As our Japanese Exchange…
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Cool Guitar Amp Build – Mojotone 18Watt TMB
Read more: Cool Guitar Amp Build – Mojotone 18Watt TMBEditor’s Note: Since building this kit, the DIY shop has turned attention to microphone mods and rebuilds. As a bonus, my mics sound wonderful on amps like this! Click here to visit the mic mod service page. 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…
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Successful Collaborating With Multiple DAWs
Read more: Successful Collaborating With Multiple DAWsOccasionally 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 – especially if working in different DAWS. In these strange days of distance and isolation, collaboration across time, space and DAWs…
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CAPI VP312 Preamp Build (and HP Filter Switch Mod)
Read more: CAPI VP312 Preamp Build (and HP Filter Switch Mod)CAPI is another source for Professional DIY audio kits. They make a bunch of 500 series and rack device kits. It is not by accident that [c]API look very similar to vintage products by API but CAPI has no affiliation with API. I’ve built most of the components in my 500 rack as kits. As I started down that road, I also got myself pretty deep into microphone mods. While you’re here, check out our…
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Hairball Audio Lola Mic Preamp Build: Adding Another Color
Read more: Hairball Audio Lola Mic Preamp Build: Adding Another ColorEditor’s Note: Since publishing this post, I have been doing mic mods and builds using my own components rather than kits from mic-parts. As awesome as mic parts is, I’m much more excited about my own products these days. Please see my mic mod shop for more information or contact me with any questions. 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…
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Another Microphone (re)Build – MXL910
Read more: Another Microphone (re)Build – MXL910Editor’s Note: Since writing this article, I have been doing mic mods and builds with my own components instead of mic-parts kits. Mic-parts makes awesome stuff, but I am much more excited about my own discrete board designs and capsules. Please see my mic mod shop for more info and contact me if you have any questions. Now, please enjoy the article! After building a couple of microphone-parts.com MXL990 kits last week, I did some…
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Timmy May “Headed Down To Merlefest” Session
Read more: Timmy May “Headed Down To Merlefest” SessionMy 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 the new Sound Skulptor MP573 Preamp Kit that I built a few weeks ago. I used it on the Mando…