Manufacturers must think modern engineers are stupid…

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This product from Fostex offends me

Great Snare Drum Microphone Placement comparison

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A good listen to the affects of the positioning on a snare

I also love the sound of the UFIPs

NOTHING sounds as good a centrifugaly forged casting

Modern Recording

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Shared From The Rukkus Room

This is a great illustration of where quality has gone. (and a good drawing of the actual gear helps). We the content creators, and broadcasters care about this long gone thing called fidelity and dynamic range, but we’re at the mercy of Apple right now. The compression is moot with even todays data transfer rates. If you’re releasing a record I must now suggest not making CDs and go right to HiFi uncompressed downloads, or Vinyl (or Both). CDs are just something I rip and shelf, I’d rather have LPs on my shelf and I have limited choices when it comes to portable music and it may as well be a 24bit 96k master. Not holding my breath for a 1bit portable player and 100gb/µs fiber to my door.

PS: I don’t take credit for this guys work, I just haven’t figured out how to shut off the watermark on individual pics: my bad

SPL doing it right

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Inputs and output markings right side up and upside down

For those big crimping jobs…

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Paladin Pneumatic Hand Tool Operator

This versatile machine was designed to work with all of our ratcheted or spring-retracted crimpers and strippers. It has a 3 inch (76 mm) stroke cylinder to provide easier and faster installation of hand tools to move quickly from one application to another.

Spectrasonics console

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Amanda is having a bake sale!

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2″ tape for sale
Emtec 900 – $150
456 (partial reel) $75

baked an erased!

Call Amanda – 647-352-4213

1979 Fender Twin Restoration

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This was a fun project, ’79 twin

New caps, new gril, new caster, new hardware, cover, tubes, drivers, etc etc

: Droopage

: classic. You can see this had the master volume added in later. It was re-capped, re-tubed and had everything cleaned, several times

: How the amp originally came. Later they were replaced with a pair of the right side drivers. If I remember correctly they were Altec Lansings

: the prices some people pay for “original”…

: Corners before removing original tolex

: My mother is a pro, she has all the proper pattern cutting tools

: My brother Mike glueing the next Marshall tolex on

: the new corners

: The two back pieces and a fresh twin

Radial Powersupply

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I was at Larry and Moes and saw this PSU for the Radial 500 series rack. It’s an interesting package terminated to a cheutrik, “cheap as chips”, I wonder how well these switching mode PSUs sound. So many times I’ve been told it’s a bad idea but I’ve heard nothing but good things about this rack. Does anyone know who supplies these supplies?