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 03-01-2010  What's a Hot Rod?
 02-10-2010  More Rattle and Buzz
 02-04-2010  Negative Gain
 01-19-2010  Take Note!
 11-12-2009  High or Low
 11-10-2009  Down and Dirty
 11-09-2009  When to replace tubes?
 11-03-2009  More Headroom
 10-13-2009  Mesa Tubes
 09-03-2009  Tubes and Tubes
 08-19-2009  Daily Duties
 02-24-2009  Rebiasing after changing preamp tubes
 02-11-2009  Tube Substitution
 01-13-2009  Preamp Out/Power Amp In
 11-12-2008  A Roadblock to Great Tone
 10-29-2008  "You Say You Want a Revolution?"
 07-24-2008  Fender Tremolo Designs Part Five
 07-22-2008  Fender Tremolo Designs Part Three
 06-24-2008  Taking Your Acoustic "Live on Stage"!
 06-02-2008  It's Just a Question of Amplitude
 02-08-2008  Conspicuous (Battery) Consumption
 08-14-2007  A Secret Formula for Overdrive
 07-19-2007  Your Focusrite Saffire Pulls Double-duty
 05-17-2007  Titanic Tone from Diminutive Amps
 06-12-2006  Getting the most out of the Bomb Factory PSA-1 #1
 05-31-2006  Input Monitoring using Meters
 05-05-2006  Using a De-esser - the key to great vocals
 04-03-2006  Using EQ during recording
 03-27-2006  Using EQ During Recording
 02-27-2006  Playing Your Instrument Live with Live Effects
 12-29-2005  The Ins and Outs of Effects Loops
 02-07-2005  How to get the best recorded acoustic guitar sound. Part 2: Selecting the mic.
 12-23-2004  Tips for desktop music production for DJ's
 11-19-2004  Is Point-to-Point Wiring Better?
 08-20-2004  The Elusive "Tube Warmth" Mystique
 08-19-2004  Impedance Matching Mics and Preamps
 08-03-2004  Using the TD-100 and TLA-50 together for a great guitar or bass channel.
 06-28-2004  "Clean" Guitar Distortion
 06-08-2004  Recording vocalists based on range.
 06-07-2004  Recording vocals - tips and tricks!
 04-21-2004  Guitar effects for the keyboard player.
 03-05-2004  Basic Differences Between Digidesign's Control|24 and ProControl.
 02-26-2004  It's time to replace your tubes in your amp... or is it?
 02-19-2004  Microphone Mysteries Revealed, by Ted Hunter: Mic technology over the past 25 years.
 01-28-2004  Grace 101 High-Gain Version and Impedance.
 01-06-2004  David Stewart’s Guide to Specs: Microphone Self-Noise
 01-02-2004  Royer R-121 Ribbon Microphone: Two Mics In One!
 12-18-2003  Ted Hunter’s Mic Mysteries Revealed: External Power Supplies
 12-16-2003  Mackie mixer's extra headroom explained.
 11-18-2003  Stepped attenuators explained.
 08-11-2003  Why are so many different tubes used in guitar amps?
 07-29-2003  Microphone Mysteries Revealed, by Ted Hunter, Sweetwater Sales Engineer.
 07-16-2003  Do all computer audio interfaces include a mic preamp?
 06-27-2003  Phase as it applies to microphone preamps!
 06-10-2003  Using Your Digital Multitrack Outside of the Studio
 04-07-2003  Roland Studio Package Pro issues
 03-13-2003  Overloading microphone.
 02-21-2003  Using the insert send on processors for a parallel signal
 02-13-2003  Recording vinyl records
 12-30-2002  Using the Pod with a guitar amp
 11-22-2002  Connecting multi-effect processors to older tube amps
 09-30-2002  Phantom Power and high impedance inputs.
 05-10-2002  More info on getting your guitar signal to a distant amp.
 05-03-2002  Syncing digital gear with your Digi001.
 04-23-2002  Running your guitar signal long distances.
 04-16-2002  More good info on UPS Systems.
 04-03-2002  Drum tuning.
 12-28-2001   A cool test procedure for aligning your gain stages.
 11-29-2001  Getting adequate signal from your Mackie insert sends to your recorder.
 10-24-2001  Using stomp boxes in effects loops.
 07-03-2001  Foley Tips
 05-25-2001  Patch bays and the differences between normal and half-normal operation.
 05-23-2001  Live mixing - digital mixer or not?
 05-11-2001  How to utilize line inputs of a mixer for stage sources through a snake.
 04-25-2001  Interesting guitar recording technique.
 04-03-2001  More on gain staging and mixing with gain controls.
 03-29-2001  Gain Structure applied in the real world.
 03-13-2001  Splitting mic signals.
 02-15-2001  The "magic" of the studio
 02-12-2001  Using mixer inserts as sends and returns for a DAW or recorder
 01-05-2001  Direct outs versus buses for multitrack recording
 12-15-2000  Questions about what kind of preamps to buy?
 11-07-2000  Using Balanced and Unbalanced Gear Together
 10-23-2000  How to use digital mic preamps in a digital system - issues with limiters & clock sourcing
 01-28-2000  Live miking and mixing with multiple microphones
 01-18-2000  Pin 2 versus Pin 3 at mic inputs
 01-12-2000  Get line level signals into a mixer without line inputs
 12-27-1999  Phantom power from multiple sources
 12-17-1999  Hooking up mics for M-S Stereo recording
 09-21-1999  Recording material with wide dynamic range
 09-09-1999  More on digital converter quality
 08-09-1999  Pin 2 or Pin 3 hot in microphones and preamps
 03-02-1999  How to tell when tubes need to be replaced
 01-13-1999  Phantom Power with Dynamic mics (again).
 02-20-1998  Subjective Audio Vocabulary and Lingo
 11-26-1997  Interfacing a Mic Preamp Into A Tascam DA-38
 

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