Germanium

Working with my buddy on a project where we're going to use a Chandler Germanium on his guitars - we just got the unit yesterday (woohoo!) and I've been playing with it. My goodness! This thing tends to rock and make things sound Big. Getting it to work without blowing out the digi 002 has taken (and will take more) experimenting. For now I'm putting it into channel 4 with an xlr cable, and I need to have the gain knob all the way down on the digi, as well as engage the pad on the preamp to really be able to push it. Just plugging the bass in direct gets in awesome sound, and the feedback knob and 'Thck' button make for a very versatile and killer sounding pre.
Also got an Electro-Harmonix 2880 Super Multi-track Looper
thing and the Foot Controllerwhich is fun. Basically it's a stereo looping box with 4 channels (and a mixdown channel) with faders and panning. Also it does reverse which is neato as well as having an octave dunction where you can kick it up (or down if you start with it engaged). Best of all it send or receives midi clock, so if I get something going I like I can hook a drum machine up to it and immediately be locked up. The stereo part is fun too, I'll send guitars through one side and run it into the palomino amp, and then stick bass on it's own channel and pan to the otherside and put it through the mark bass amp, and then have the drum machine sync'd up and playing through the monitors. Lots of possibilities here - still need to see how nicely the kaoss pads can play withall all this for some cool timed effects and other types of madness.

oktava mod on a 319

So, today I traded my Rode NT1A for an Oktava mk 319, which I've propmtly ordered a mod for from http://www.oktavamod.com - so this should be fun. It's already a pretty fair mic, almost comparable to the Rode NT1A, but am looking forward to the mod results - am getting the floating dome with premium electronics.
Also, the Blue Bottle Rocket is killer, the B6 capsule, which is supposed to emulate an akg c12 is sounding great on some vocal work I'm working on.
Oh, have order an electro hamonix 2880 loop gizmo, am psyched to get it and see what kind of zaniness may ensue, especially since it can do sync in both directions over midi, hooray. Especially interested in seeing how the korg kp3 and it get along!
The piano is sounding good, what an adventure getting it up the stairs! Will take another tuning or two to get it up to A440 and tamed after what was probably quite a while of being pretty flat (about 431). It's awesome just having it hear to mess with, am already getting some tune ideas together and trying to actually practice the thing. Since it's an upright I'm finding that opening it up an micing from the top with two small diaphragm condensers is a pretty good method for recording....