Got a piano from some crazy guy off of craigs list. It's a kohler & campbell upright, smallish. So having a piano tuner come out this week - it's pretty flat, but seems like a decent instrument, good for the kids and some recording and messing around. Going to pay close attention to the tuner guy, see if it's something I can handle myself in the future. Excited about that. Came with a bench but it's a couple inches short, it seems, so I'm looking around for a cool adjustable piano bench that doesn't look bad.
Picked up an amazing book called Recording The Beatles from curvebender publishing. Goes through the whol emi studios (abbey road) personnel, all the mixing boards, tape machines, microphones, amps, outboard gear - anything that remotely had a chance to touch the signal the Beatles recorded with thoroughly. And the also it goes into many of the sessions, showing the order of track recording and then bounce paths, special techniques. Lots of fun. One piece of gear that gets talked about quite a bit is the fairchild 660 compressor - picked up a plugin for pro tools that emulates it an have been trying to learn how to use it.
Let's see what else - the Crate Palomino V16 has been fun - been on quite a journey with tubes - tried different 12ax7 combinations, including some telefunken tubes that I have in the Art preamp, but then settled on some jj's. That sounds great, good character, but was still having a hard time with clean sound versatility, so stuck a 12ay7 in the v2 position, and feel good about it - it was too clean in the v1 position - not enough gain, but feel like it's got quite a versatile sweep across the gain now.
Went to the Dallas guitar show, found out my Martin is definitely a 00-18, and probably a 1964 model. Loves it. Oh, also picked up a korg kp2 for cheap, haven't messed with it much, but am psyched about midi-ing it up with the kp3 and getting some shtuff goin' on. The Blue Bottle Rocket mic is great, supposed to get the B6 capsule back from them this week, so curious to see if I can get that c12 sound with micing the bass that Geoff Emerick used on sir Paul. Speaking of the Beatles, have gottent turned on to the mono mix of sgt. peppers - wow alot different, still looking for some better fidelity, but the whole UK/US mono/stereo thing turns out to be pretty significant in mix differences!
Peace out for now......
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