Author: SoloDallas

29 Apr AC/DC In The Studio: Recording Info Insights (Update!)

Posted at 21:32h in Blog, Gear Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 37 Comments

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UPDATE: Our friend and member Currentpeak has just found this superb interview in audio form where Powerage sound engineer Opitz describes how Angus recorded the album back then.

This is Currentpeak‘s understanding, I am posting his comment as a whole:

It is a Michael Butler’s (of Rock ‘n’ Roll Geek Show) interview with Mark Opitz. As we know, he was an audio engineer/mixer/producer for many Albert Productions’ artists including AC/DC, The Angels, Rose Tattoo = real rock royalty! (more…)

22 Apr Breaking News: The Vega “Right” Settings with Input Impedance @ 50kohm

Posted at 12:38h in Amplifier Reviews, Blog, Gear Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 77 Comments

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Well well well… I’m so ecstatic. I thought I couldn’t be any more than this, but I am.

As anticipated here, yesterday at the lab we went back to what we know of the original specifications of the Schaffer Vega. It clearly stated – thank God – that the input impedance of the transmitter was 50kohm (basically, right after the input jack there is a resistance inside the transmitter box).

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Original Schaffer Vega Specifications (transmitter/receiver) (more…)

22 Apr Current Status of “Vega Research” (Mr. Guido Borghesani’s Lab, SECRET-1 and Cloe Guitars): The “Black Vega”

Posted at 00:05h in Blog, Gear Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 28 Comments

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Fig.1: The “Black Vega” Outer Box (left); Other Cetec Vega unit (right).

So,

today was (Guido) Borghesani‘s lab day 😀 (more…)

20 Apr The (almost) Final Word On Back In Black? (UPDATE Shoot To Thrill)

Posted at 12:21h in Amplifier Reviews, Back in Black Tone Project, Blog, Gear Reviews, Guitar Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 131 Comments

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Update: trying to grasp “Shoot To Thrill”.

Only an attempt, this one also is far from final. However, some reactions are already happening.

Angus seemed to have been “higher” on the guitar volume knob for this one, as he is evidently “boosting” the bass freqs more (you can hear it definitely even in the rhythm tone).

So on this 1971 SG Standard, volume knob was all time on 9 for both rhythm and solos (did only a single take). (more…)

16 Apr LTBR/’78 Glasgow Tone DEBUNKED! (Updated, shocking)

Posted at 11:17h in Blog, Gear Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 163 Comments

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Update: found this:

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Would rule out LTBR having been recorded with the Vega. Even Angus confirms that he was given the Vega at the Palladium concert in NY (after recording LTBR). (more…)

16 Apr “Thunderstruck” Live Footage from upcoming DVD

Posted at 09:02h in Blog, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 12 Comments

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15 Apr MatiRocker’s “Live At River Plate” Review (with pictures)

Posted at 08:14h in Blog, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 10 Comments

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As en exclusive for us at SoloDallas.net, MatiRocker has been our secret reporter and wrote the following.

Enjoy!

(THANK YOU Mati!)

By Matías Fraga (MatiRocker)

I attended to the Avant Premiere of Live At River Plate last night!!!! (more…)

13 Apr It’s The Vega, Baby! (FIRST VEGA TEST)

Posted at 13:16h in Back in Black Tone Project, Blog, Gear Reviews, Premium, Reviews by SoloDallas 86 Comments

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Still learning here.

With this one, I took away some more TX level. I realized it was too much on the arpeggio piece-thing in the middle of the song: my picking hand was too noisy because of the excess compression.

You see, this thing works as follow: there is a compressor on the TX; and an expander on the RX.
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