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  • Monday, April 15, 2013
    In The Studio: Creating A DIY Walkman Distortion Effect
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    Jon Tidey 04/15/13 04:59 PM,
    This article is provided by Audio Geek Zine.   Last month I finally found the time to finish one of the DIY projects I’ve had on the go for months: turning a Sony Walkman into a nasty distortion box. The concept is simple. Remove the mechanical guts, replace jacks and overload the Walkman amplifier to create distortion. It’s not a tape distortion, but I can do that in a different project. Any portable cassette player will work. I like the… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Video • Amplifier • Analog • Processor • Signal • Studio

  • Thursday, April 04, 2013
    Building A (Great Sounding) Big Woofer Enclosure
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    Jeff Berryman 04/04/13 11:22 AM,
    It’s pretty easy to build a big woofer box. Making one that sounds good is not so easy. Making one that sounds good AND goes really loud is much more difficult. Add touring requirements to the mix—easy stacking, easy flying, moderate weight, good shape for truck pack—and it’s easy to see why there aren’t many good concert woofers available. This note describes how I try to solve these problems in my designs. Requirements Here’s what I think is an appropriate… View this story
    Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Blog • Slideshow • Study Hall • Loudspeaker • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer

  • Friday, March 15, 2013
    Church Sound:Extending Personal Mixer Cables & Fixing Mic Stands
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    Mike Sessler 03/15/13 01:28 PM,
    Headphone extensions have been the bane of many a sound engineer’s existence. The cables on in-ear monitors (IEMs) are never long enough to get from the musician’s head to the personal mixer, which means we need to provide some sort of extension cable. In the past, I’ve tried buying 1/4-inch headphone extensions and used 1/4-inch to 1/8-inch adapters, but those cheap, off-the-shelf adapters are very stiff and the adapters don’t always work. We’ve also tried making our own. I found… View this story
    Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Interconnect • Microphone • Monitoring • System

  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013
    In The Studio: DIY Headphone Splitter
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    Jon Tidey 03/06/13 04:13 PM,
    This article is provided by Audio Geek Zine.   This little box has been so helpful and it didn’t really cost anything to make. It’s a box that takes one stereo signal and splits it into two, or vice versa. While the design is not perfect, it’s invaluable for me and my one-room studio. Parts: —A box (I used a Hammond box, I think, but an Altoids tin would work just fine) —Three unswitched TRS (tip/ring/sleeve) stereo 1/4-inch jacks —Wire… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Interconnect • Loudspeaker • Signal • Studio

  • Friday, January 18, 2013
    Building Your Own Wedges: Follow The Basics To Insure Roadworthiness
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    Jeffrey A. Forsburg 01/18/13 07:01 PM,
    Building a floor monitor wedge is something that many of us attempt (or at least want to attempt) at one time or another. There is great satisfaction in designing and building a wedge. I design loudspeakers for a company, but really enjoy taking other manufacturer’s boxes apart to examine the inner construction and see how they actually put glue to wood to make the design work. Even though some wedges are surprisingly simple in design and work just fine, other… View this story
    Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Study Hall • Education • Loudspeaker • Monitoring • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • System

  • Thursday, January 10, 2013
    In The Studio: Developing A DIY Reflexion Filter (With Audio Examples)
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    Joe Gilder 01/10/13 06:41 PM,
    This article is provided by Home Studio Corner.   In a microphone shoot-out that I did a few years ago between the Shure SM7B and SM58, I discussed some of the reasons for using a dynamic microphone for lead vocals as opposed to a condenser. One of the main reasons is that dynamics tend to pick up less of the room, so if you have a noisy room or just an acoustically bad-sounding room, a dynamic mic might allow you… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Measurement • Signal • Studio

  • Thursday, January 03, 2013
    In The Studio: Making Acoustic Panels Tutorial
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    Jon Tidey 01/03/13 07:01 PM,
    This article is provided by Audio Geek Zine.   My “studio” has painted concrete walls, huge windows across one side, and is a L shape. This results in a very uneven frequency response and ridiculous flutter echo. For not a lot of money I made a big improvement to this situation. Rigid fiberglass is the most cost effective way to acoustically treat a room. Foam only really makes a difference with mid and high frequencies; the panels I made are… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Measurement • Signal • Studio

  • Tuesday, October 11, 2011
    How To Build Your Own Plate Reverb: A Concise Step By Step Process
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    Bob Buontempo 10/11/11 11:05 AM,
    As Larry Crane, editor of Tape Op magazine, noted, “Plate Reverb. Many people ask me about this and I usually tell them to listen to some records from the ‘70s and ‘80s and look for reverb with a thick, pillowy sound that doesn’t obscure the vocal yet doesn’t quite sound like an actual room.” In 1983, I was the owner of a 16-track studio. One of the things that really separated the sounds of the recordings we could get from… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Analog • Education • Processor • Signal • Studio • System • Audio