Despite very cold conditions, poor electrical grounding, dim lightning, and a bare bones recording setup, I managed to get a video done while under stay-home isolation.
All non-essential businesses are forced to close in New York state as of yesterday. LBA is essential for my survival, but apparently they mean a different sort of essential. At the end of the day yesterday, I loaded up my truck with a pile of instruments, 2020's, an amp, a basic recording setup, my camera, and my video/photo computer, and then headed home. My home office is very small, but is now functioning as a makeshift mini studio until the threat has passed. I'm extremely limited with the work I can do from home, but I will try to stay productive. This will be a difficult time for everyone, I'm sure. I still have business bills to pay during this period, although I was able to get them lowered. Your support during this time will help me to stay afloat. You can place an order for a 2020 here, which will ship out as soon as I'm allowed to go back to work... even if the release date is after the date I can return to work. I will attempt to create demo's of the 2020 in my very makeshift home studio until I can get back into LBA Studios for proper demo work. Thank you for your support during these trying times. Please be responsible and stay healthy.
I did some extensive lab testing today. I previously did a lot of audio testing with various instruments and pedals, but today and this blog post is mostly about the test measurements. Those measurements will surely say a good bit to some, and these results make sense to me based on what I heard through my various amps. I first started by measuring the impedance of a variety of instruments to establish a general reference point, since instrument impedance can span a range based on pickup style, etc.
I think there's substantially more THD when the 2020 is driven by humbuckers/split coils, vs. single coils or pedals (at unity gain). However, pedals, such as my tube pedals, can saturate the 2020 in a very audible and pleasing way. I haven't used lab equipment to measure this yet, but I heard it and it sounds pleasantly colorful to my ear. That'll be my next test for sure. |
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About the AuthorMike Congilosi II, Owner/Designer/Electronics Engineer at Lightning Boy Audio and Owner/Audio Engineer/Music Producer at LBA Studios. Archives
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