I'm using the Rock's emulated line/headphone out for the guitars for the BSS Nur Ein song this week, keep your ears out. (I hadn't used it in a long time and decided to try it randomly after playing it through the cabinet I got, and I actually think it sounds really good!) If I'm feeling motivated I...

I know some folks just use their preamp built in to their audio interface with the SM7B and get by without a Cloudlifter by just cranking the gain all the way up. For folks who know how to project, though, you may not even need to max out the gain on your interface preamp. You could start off withou...

In other good news, we've had over 40 million people file for unemployment insurance in the last 10 weeks. USA! USA! USA!

More like, Make America Great Depressioned Again, am I right?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/ar ... 300009.php

If the SM7B is within your budget, it's a solid choice used on many multi-platinum albums for decades, and you should have a real hard time being too loud for that mic. (Most folks have the opposite problem with it.) Glenn Case uses one too and possibly other folks on here.

Oh man, yeah, I am very worried about the Plough's long term prospects. :/ If anybody feels like trying to help the out they have a GoFundMe up here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-starry-plough-stay-open I'm just generally worried about all venues, and our rehearsal space place, etc. etc. It's...

I've broached the subject with Ken offline a bit. I've been holding out but I think it's probably time to start thinking about shifting to doing a live stream or something. Sad stuff!

I did in fact take it out and try it for a bit. It sounds pretty good for the size and cost! I miss my Deluxe Reverb Reissue and maybe more so I miss feeling uninhibited about playing at a decent volume. :/ But this will be plenty fun for now. I need to try out the Rock so i can get a better sense o...

They have a "cabinet emulated line/headphone output".

Looks like the Yeti is an all-in-one microphone, audio interface, headphone amp, etc. so that's the whole hardware signal chain. Seems like folks have issues with it picking up background noise so maybe it's just got a high gain floor? Do you have issues even with the gain all the way down but recor...

My Vox mini head and cab arrived!!! I'm so excited I may not leave the packages to sit around for two days before opening them, like we've been doing with packages generally.

We're having a hot few days, but for us that's ~85°F with low humidity and usually at least a slight breeze. No air conditioning in our apartment, which is the whole top floor of a not-at-all-insulated house, so we get sun on our place all day long. We're managing with fans and stuff.

Ha, yeah, it represents my new temporary toothless reality.

Songs posted!

Take It Outside Due: Tuesday, 06/02/20 9:59am PDT optional challenge: Use at least three instruments yourbandname_tio.mp3 sent to fightmaster@songfight.org Subject: Take It Outside Body: (your band name) Folks, please read the FAQ about naming your files. Thanks! http://songfight.org/faq.html#file_n...

The Gross Tones win!

It's not music gear but now I'm drooling over insanely expensive Dyson air purifiers.

The current songfight.org logo and the Facebook logo are my doing so they are probably not good to use as references. I think this is a more "official" (aka created by Spud) logo:

http://songfight.org/pix/sf_logo.gif

I've run into similar issues trying to replicate the red where all the tools I was using indicated the red I made was the same but my eyes still begged to differ for some reason. It's weird.

(This is just a side bar, I don't assume anybody cares, but just fyi having a band is not necessarily as "easy" as you may think it is. There is a lot of communication and coordination overhead, and compromising, that isn't present for a solo act. I'm not complaining, it's great, but it's not necess...

Spud made this which might be helpful: http://songfight.org/standards/ It says the red should be C60000 (or CC0000 "Web safe" but ... is that even a thing anymore? that was from so long ago). (EDIT: A quick search indicates no, Web safe colors are not relevant anymore and haven't been for many years.)

I also have a question for the judges/Niv. I made 2 different versions of my song, i.e. the second one is a completely different recording, a cover version if you will. Would it be acceptable to submit the second one as a shadow entry? I am aware that there is potential for this to colour people's ...

Ooh, those are great, can we use those? If so like the sound of that.