Category Archives: Tech

After 2 weeks of head-scratching by our engineering staff, the Drug Rug podcast and live stream is finally correct. Some people emailed me thinking that the whole thing was pitched up and sped up a step beteween the actual braodcast … Continue reading →

We’ve created a Pipeline! Dashboard Widget for OS X that makes it really easy to skim through and listen to the weekly podcasts of our live band sets.  Check it out, and let us know what you think!

So we have this new Mackie we’re reviewing. This past Tuesday we introduced ourselves to it, set it up, and mixed our first live set on it (The Touch Me Theres played). And so, because you never get a second … Continue reading →

I tried this out yesterday,. while recording a song with Shrinking Islands, Kyle’s band. This was multitracked to protools, not live-to-two-track like we usuallly do. We laid down most of the song. Impressions: –There’s a really nice overdrive/compression effect if … Continue reading →

Two posts from the excellent Analog Industries blog. It’s well worth the read! The Alice DIY mic kit, by Scott Helmke. Check out Scott’s microphones page, there are other DIY designs there. ShinyBox ribbon microphones, notable as they sell for … Continue reading →

I noticed that the output of the Presonus is going into the line input of ch 1 & 2. I think this means that the presonus signal is also going thru the preamp of ch 1 & 2, and for … Continue reading →

On what other instruments have y’all tried the SE mics? Check out this interesting GearSlutz thread discussing SE3 on snare.

We’ve had the Bluetube DP stereo mic preamp around for a few weeks now, and I’ve had a chance to use it in several different recording situations. It’s a pretty sweet-looking (the visible tube glow is cheesy but cool) little … Continue reading →

Andy recently brought down a couple microphones for us to review for Tape Op: an SE Z3300 large diaphram FET condesner and an SE 3 stereo pair from SE Electronics. I had the chance to use our new microphones this … Continue reading →