wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Stupid question Try it. Any one speaker guitar or bass amp...hook it up backwards and it sounds bad. Period. | |
| LP care A Spin Clean works very well, although not expensive enough to be taken seriously by some. It cleans seriously though. I've been rediscovering my collection of "10 years stored" moldy LPs and damn...after some cleaning I find a lot of fun in those... | |
| Peachtree iDac reliabilty? Based on these posts I will never buy a Peachtree product. I've come to expect an insane level of reliability from electronic stuff and maybe that's not fair, but it is kind of amazing how so few items have crapped out over several decades of pers... | |
| Stupid question Hook up an electric bass cab backwards and see exactly what I mean. I worked with a bass player who did exactly that and the cab sounded pretty crappy until we re-wired it back to the proper polarity..."el sucko wrongo a mundo"...lower output, wei... | |
| Stupid question Out of phase speakers do matter...it's all about "suck in or suck out" and if out of phase they "suck in" and that sucks. | |
| Classic records reissue - very disappointing Somebody in Brooklyn just opened a new LP pressing plant...NY Times article. | |
| Magico Q3's at Goodwin's High End I forgot about that demo...damn. I did get my own demo a few weeks ago though when I stopped by Goodwin's for the first time. Heard the Q5s for a bit and they did sound great, and the cool thing was how nice the dude was who showed me around...the... | |
| Old vs. New Older gear (within 15 years or so), if not abused, can save you a pile of money...I use a new preamp with a well regarded circa 1997 or so power amp and it sounds amazing and cost a LOT less than a new amp with similar specs and build quality. Plu... | |
| XLR cable for basic beginner I recant. After more time in my system I decided to take the Mogamis out. Too bright! *sigh*...I'll put 'em back in the effects rack and move on. See? Ya never know! | |
| XLR cable for basic beginner I was recording the live audio for a weekly cable music/interview show and, although using perfectly acceptable pro mic cable, I tried a better mic cable one day. Mogami Neglex with gold plated Neutrik plugs. LARGE improvement on nearly every leve... | |
| Hearing Damage over 20khz? Frogman is right. This is exactly why analog sounds different from digital, and live instruments often sound sweeter. I have a piano in my listening room, and play acoustic and electric guitar (for over 45 years...boy are my fingers sore...) so my... | |
| Monster Cable To sum up: Use Ivory soap, not Monster cable. | |
| True Headphone AMP? My girlfriend walked in and caught me on my computer hanging out in a room full of HEADPHONE ENTHUSIASTS! Or, "hey Bob...are you forgetting to iron your tunic or are you a headphone enthusiast?" Or "a priest a cowboy and a headphone enthusiast go ... | |
| True Headphone AMP? I bought a little tubed Bravo V2 headphone amp (cute) recently and drive it from a set of unused single ended outputs on my preamp. It allows the use of the preamp remote volume control, works perfectly, sounds great, looks cool (the amp, not me n... | |
| Stupid question Red is only positive if hooked up as positive, and if left not hooked up to anything, it's nothing at all. |