Here is a good link for all you home recorders who play the drums but only use drum machines / samplers to get your beats down… Derek Miller i’m looking in your direction….
Now get recording!!!!!

I still haven’t gotten my Oktava’s mod’ed as I am waiting for the repairs of my Otari MX-70 to be completed but I’m even more anxious to get the work done.
Michael Joly has added a new feature to his standard 319 mod.  He gets rid of the ‘boink’!  I have experienced this sound and have mention it […]

So on my last recording, before my Otari MX-70 I/O cards went south, I made a great discover!!  A DI, a pedal compressor and a SM-57  make my Fender P-Bass and Ampeg B-15N sing.
I had mostly been miking my amp with bass specific mics or just straight DI.  This time I used my Radial DI (which was recommended to […]

So I frequent the Tape Op message board.  I post very infrequently because there are exchanges like this and this…. 
I’m sure the people in the threads are great people in person, but oh boy those are some pretty time-wasting exchanges.  I think most attempts at humour / sarcasm / irony on message boards are lost and […]

My two Otari Mx-70 amp cards have arrived in Chicago.  The UPS website tells me that ‘FABER’ signed for it at a ‘residental’ location at 12:15 CST today…..  well I hope it got to the correct location as the ‘residental’ location indicator in the UPS website makes me go hummm and who the hell is […]

This web site, Recording Consoles of the 20th Century, is a spot on the old innerweeb where if you are a geek like me you could spend hours.
Multi-track tape recorders galore, recording consoles of every shape and size, outboard gear from a-z, etc…
It isn’t updated frequently and it isn’t as comprehensive as it could be, but it […]

I came across this blog awhile back.  Very cool stuff.  Lots of links / post about analogue gear and it’s updated reguarily.  Some of the set-ups he lists under Hard Core Gear Porn Fridays are amazing…..

Adam Lazlo at Analog Electric sure is a busy man.  He is very good at keeping his journal update with good information.  You can also listen to the results of some of the recording he is writing about.
They recording quality is excellent…… Wow.

Take a look at this ebay auction…..
Ward Beck is a Canadian Company that has been around for awhile and makes broadcast equipment.  Back in the 60’s and 70’s they made alot of topflight gear for the CBC here in Canada.  Mostly it was for TV broadcast purposes, but they also made lots of consoles that […]

It seems that the 2 Otari MX-70 cards that I sent to Soren Wittrup caused a problem at the US border.  The customs people couldn’t extrapolate ‘amplifier’ from ‘amp’, and the cards looked suspicious in this day and age of  global ‘terrorism’ - gotta keep’em scared, spending and in-line, asking no questions….
Anyways Soren was kind […]