Recent content by Mark Fairfax-Harwood

I have a number of world class Metal session drummers, using my studio's all the time, I will ask about and see who wants to take on more work. Devilment in the rehearsal studio, I bet he would do it well.

Have you tried out the zvex box of metal it's got an effective gate, if your amp gain is kept to a minimum it should work out well.:Smokin:

I spent a fair amount of time and effort fiddling with Gian Pyres's 5150 and a big box of NOS tubes, from what I remember the best pre amp tubes where mil spec Mullard CV4004's and the best output tube's without bias mod where a set of Mesa badged 6L6's that came with a mesa dual rec Paul...

I used them in the eighties and got well used to them but its not a speaker I would want to get to know that well today, if starting at day one I would probably get into a deep and meaningful relationship with a pair of adam S2X or something of that ilk. Knowing your monitors is very very...

I put Nos Mullard EL34's in the power amp and Mullard CV4004's in the pre. It sounded bloody fantastic, sold it finally though and went back all carcassy with an old JCM 800 and a Metal Zone 2 pedal. But then I am very very old.:rock:

In order to get a DSL to sound any good in comparison to a JCM 800 you need to change a load of parts, I bought a broken one and went right through it, the biggest improvement was to get Sowter transformers to make a very large custom output transformer based on an old Hiwatt partridge...

What's your stance on Didgidesigns policies? and to me HD3 seems really quite unrestricted whereas LE seems quite restricted. Its digidesigns policy to do both ends of the market. If you have enough A to D and DSP you can hook up loads of hardware outboard stuff and therefore overcome many of...

SM 57's sound very much like SM57's in my experience. The fact that different input impedances change the sound of microphones is a given. thats why you need a range of different mic pre amps to broaden your palette, its also why you should have loads of different microphones. By all means...

Panic over chaps! The culprit has been caught and is cooperating with police: :p

Yup! it took ages to perfect the design of the all mesa boogie magnet label just down the road at Great Blakenham. The speakers all come in 40' containers from Szechwan province China now the Foxhall Rd plant is closed.:waah:

We have customers ranging from the pro user endorsers Like Adrian Earlandson and Marthus from Cradle to the guys on a budget using redshots all the guys who know how to set sensitivity and lockout seem to get the same results with either here. Only problem is you need to retune the kick each...

But then we drifted on until we got into the likes of the grindcore blast trick "turning up the snare trigger sensitivity till just by rattleing 1 stck up and down between the rim and skin and carefully setting a lock out time, a steady one handed roll is available".:Puke::ill:

I find this all a bit depressing, I have found that the whole industry is suffering from the home recording boom, For instance bands obtaining bookings based on my-space popularity based on material they have spent years cobbling together on home studios. They turn up without an amp between...

I spose it might have been designed for musicians!. Just give it a splat with a Smart C2, you'll be fine however faffing incompetent the drummer is.:Smokin:

Its got quite a lot to do with it actually!:Smokin: