Thanks...look forward to any and all suggestions.

I don't know about conspiracies related to the military industrial complex but
dental fluorosis is a real condition.

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p102/noisegag/teeth.jpg

At the very least it's superficial, but I personally see it as a litmus test for other conditions ...

Good gear can be hard to find used sometimes (cheap and in good shape)...right now I'm just settling with mediocre gear, looks like I'll keep on looking. A boy can dream though

Thanks for all the input.

Just because there are tubes in something isn't always an indicator of the quality of the unit. Saddly tubes have become a key marketing term.

Yeah I know....this is exactly what I want to avoid. Throwing something in there just for the sake of a marketing gimmick...but I think I was just being ...

That's news to me...thanks for that warning. I think the 12 channel is around $5k.

From the very limited amount of info I've read (and still reading) they don't appear to have the headroom of many of the consoles of today...but I dig the sound of older recordings and got some idea in my head that a tube based mixer would be more ideal for me. I thought they didn't make them ...

I think they're already out, I know Sweetwater sells them...they're the same price as the studio ones but have been modified to have a sturdier ribbon. You can always tell if it's a live version by the red Royer label (instead of green or black)

So I've been looking around for other cheap ribbons and stumbled onto http://www.cascademicrophones.com If you're ever feeling frisky and wanna give live ribbons a try or just want some decent cheap (read Chinese) mics then look no further. They list quite a few ribbons anywhere from ...

Sorry I'm confused, maybe I'm under the assumption that a power amp, like say a Mesa 50/50 is designed to run a speaker cab. The first amp my signal hits is a THD Univalve, which has a line out that runs either instrument level or line level. Then, from the line out on the Univalve to the delay ...

Maybe some of you have experience with this. I want to place my Roland SRE-555 tape delay after my amp, the amp in question has a line out that can either be line or instrument level. For those not familiar, this supposedly maximizes your amp tone by not coloring your amp with delay through the ...