Recent content by MrBongo

faders are control units. Analog faders are adjustable resistors with an additional amplification stage that can do, say, +10dB. Since dBu and dBV have the same logarithmic factors, the values would be the same. In a DAW you have dBFS (Full Scale), where 0dBFS is the maximum. This is shown on...

either it breaks or gets out of tune over the fretboard by more than 2c. Last week my very first guitar string broke while playing. We moved to a new rehearsal space in January, it´s damn cold during the week, might be temperature change. The usual string change interval lies somewhere in...

didn´t watch the video, but I can see a woodblock in the thumbnail already. I don´t use one, that´s why I go for one string at a time :) it´s not really re-adjusting the springs. More like "5 turns loose before the process, 5 turns back afterwards". That´s necessary to: - not raise the tuning...

- open the clamping blocks - tune down strings 1-2 half steps - loosen spring tension a bit, so the bridge raises slightly - change strings one at a time - raise pitch to 1-2 steps below the tuning i´m going for - press the strings into form = create proper witness points at the bridge and nut -...

people strongly tend to look at the brand printed on the kit, so if you plan on getting a house kit for bands to record on, don´t go any lower than upper class. Even if the cheaper ones are just as good, you will have discussions sooner or later. Same for cymbals: ideally you would have to get...

Kalium Strings. They last for ages. My guitars got Floyd Rose trems, so I really avoid changing strings

i once made an IR of my cab. To do this, I used a sine sweep, like most people do. The result has the exact same 130Hz C bump that I get when playing. I assume it´s the closed cab´s resonance peak, which naturally comes up when the Q factor of the speaker+enclosure system is rather high (stiff...

a sine wave that quickly lowers in frequency

oh c´mon, that´s all midi :err:

there´s usually more than just one speaker resonance in distorted guitar recordings. Notch ´em out and be good. They are always present, just at different frequencies for each combination of speaker and mic position. Also, be sure that it´s not your monitors, they can have speaker resonance as...

Thank you! Exactly what I´m thinking for years as well. I can only guess what your original guitar tone sounded like. "Dude, that´s not the sound we had, do another one." - "NO!" I need several hours of work to make your MIDI drums any usable. "Dude, we don´t have any money, can we pay in...

with pleasure :) the kick is way, waaay too soft. Look at kick and snare, when they have the same impact, they have just the right balance. On a kitchen radio or laptop speakers, there would be no kick and lots of snaredrum. But: depending on the sound of the entire mix, whatever you want to...

i had an Aquarian Superkick 1 on the kick for years until i quit drumming, it has a built-in felt ring. I guess there´s a difference between a felt strip and a felt ring, as the ring allows a more consistent movement in the drumhead itself, means cleaner overtones. Haven´t done any comparison...

for me there´s a preset master chain, preset room reverbs and plates, track templates for common stuff like drums including parallel compression ... each of them needs a little tweaking on most sessions, still that saves half an hour easily

Bass around the kick. A good mix of both can have impact on kickdrum hits and a nice and comfortable low-end from the bass. Impact requires breaks though, which many people tend to forget