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| Hihat Question Hey Gary, have you ever heard the original JBL L-100 loudspeakers? They sound very much like the Shure SM-57 mic that a lot of the snare drums (and therefore hihats, to some degree) you hear on albums were recorded with. A nice, big fat presence p... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Atlantic Records in-house producer Jerry Wexler was given Wilson Pickett as a project by the label's president Ahmet Ertegun. When Wexler told Pickett they were going down to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record, he recoiled in horror. Wilson, like ma... | |
| Is there a Northern and Southern California Sound The Byrds, silly. Even better than they are given credit for. The sound Tom Petty was chasing. | |
| Treated my interconnects with Deoxit D5 today As Elizabeth, I prefer the 100% solution in a small bottle with an applicator brush. Caig offers a kit (K-DG100L-2DB) that contains a 7.4mL bottle each of both the Red and Gold cleaner (along with brushes and cloths) that Markertek sells for $25.9... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? You are SO right, boxer. That album was a desperately-needed relief from what everyone was listening to (Jimi, Cream, The Dead---another band with fierce defenders, Zeppelin of course---who ended up being perhaps the most influential band of all t... | |
| Tune of the Day Great song slaw (BPDG). I’m sure you’ve already heard it, but comparing the version by Them (with a very young Van Morrison singing) to the original by Muddy Waters illustrates why Them’s version is just about my all-time favorite cover song. That... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Damn, I shoulda waited ’til I was more awake. Can’t be without Hank Williams (writing, singing), Buddy Miller (singing, guitar playing, producing, arranging), Ry Cooder (guitar, musicology), The Swampers (Fame Studios house band in Muscle Shoals),... | |
| Is there a Northern and Southern California Sound When I got into advanced hi-fi, planars were the only serious choice. David Fletcher (co-founder of SOTA, and designer of the Sumiko MDC-800, "The Arm") was selling the Canadian-made Dayton-Wright ESL’s in his Berkeley shop, Walter Davies (now LAS... | |
| Pono was the best SS headphone amp I ever heard The Stax SRM-T1 or SRM-007T tube headphone amps, for their Lambda Pro Earspeakers. | |
| What do you mean you “heard” the turntable Something that use to amaze me in some of the UK mags' reviews of turntables is when the review included a comparison to a competing table, and the other table was fitted with a different arm and cartridge! | |
| So disappointed in today's Americana Give a listen to the man behind the explosion of Americana (due to his Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack work), T Bone Burnett. His Truth Decay album on Takoma is great, musically and sonically. Look for the original Chrysalis pressing. | |
| Hihat Question @uncledemp, is it what's on the recording you want to hear, or is it "hearing every hihat stroke, close", even if that is not what is contained in the recording? Hihat cymbals are recorded in a few different ways, or even not at all. John Bonham's... | |
| Jimmy Page, It's time to call your lawyers? Copping style is one thing, plagiarizing material quite another. The title and premise of this thread are amusing in that Page & Plant were successfully sued by Willie Dixon for just that. Shameless, knowingly stealing, and then lying about it... | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Favorite Rock ’n’ Roller Dave Edmunds. Favorite songwriter Brian Wilson and Iris Dement. Favorite band The Band. Favorite singer George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Iris Dement, Emmylou Harris, Richard Manuel, Brenda Lee, Big Joe Turner, Howlin’ Wolf, Li... | |
| Saint-Sean’s 3rd Symphony Michael Murray on Telarc. |