I recently invested in a few different tubes for my amp which only has room for a single preamp tube, the rest is solid state. I thought I'd share my findings with you. I could hear and feel a pretty nominal difference while playing through the amp, but to be honest I strain to hear the difference in the recordings, maybe your experience will be different.

I recently did some comparisons of some popular capacitors for the electric guitar and I thought I would share the results with you. I tested poly film caps which are the little green rectangles that have been the standard on fender strats for over twenty years. I also tested ceramic discs which are a bit more modern or so I'm told.

The subject of this shootout - Ribbon microphones!

Well, Blue Microphones is offering a $200 rebate on their Woodpecker ribbon mic. Tom Bethel and others have given this mic good reviews. I've been thinking about getting a better ribbon lately since my Cascade Fat Head II ribbons have been doing working out surprisingly well on acoustic instruments. I'd like to see if I can get that "ribbony" smoothness in a more precise mic.

very unscientific, but i did get all mics as close to coincident as reasonably possible. signal chain:

mic -> onyx 1640 -> firewire -> tracktion -> normalized -> .aiff file

show me what you've got. i'm very interested in hearing the differences between some of these:

sm57
beta57
md421
i5
e609

on sources like these:

electric guitar or bass
hand percussion
acoustic guitar
brass / winds

so who has some extra time today? (y) thanks in advance

Here a microphone shootout on a grand piano at home:

http://www.esnips.com/web/Microphonesshootout

Microphones in 20 cm AB, 1.25 m above the floor, 40 cm from the piano rI'm at the tail end, steered to the pianist. Chopin's nocturne. Fearn VT-2 and Fireface 400, MP3 320 kbit/s. Microphones list :

I have the day off today. Here's what I did this morning:

a few dynamic vocal mics .. on a guitar cab. a pisspoor guitar cab and pisspoor guitar. in a pisspoor room. also i'm a pisspoor guitar player. now that you've been warned...

Okay, so I'm really referencing another recent topic, but since it's buried in there, I thought I'd open this one and point some people to it.

Gaff - feel free to delete this after a couple days if you'd like once people start going to the shootout.

Check it out here:
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right click over the following URL and choice 'save target as. '

http://cbss.wo.to/a.mp3
http://cbss.wo.to/b.mp3

which AD converter do u prefer?
i recorded them in same situation except for AD converter
they are already calibrated correctly.