Wednesday, 9 August 2006
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| USB versus non USB (LDC) mics? Guest 20:54:17 |
| | I am in the final stages of shopping for some pieces of my home studio.
I was wonderin what the pros and cons are of USB (LDC) mics as against
the traditional non USB ones?
- I know that LDCs typically need phantom power, so I will need a
pre-amp for that. It seems the USB version of an LDC will Not need
phantom power (will be USB powered)?
- Also, that seems to eliminate the need for a preamp (vocals are
directly converted to digital form, so analog pre-amp is pointless)?
- This also seems to mean that my soundcard could Suck, but I will
still record good vocals limited only by the mic's quality?
- Which are the tried and tested good ones in the same league as the
AKG Perception 100 and Studio Projects B1/C1?
Thanks!
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| Shure 57's and 58's Richard G 20:32:52 |
| | I am not a sound guy so my question may generate considerable scoffing...
What's wrong with the old 57's and 58's? I used em for years and they seemed
ok. Reading through some old posts, it seems you would much rather have
teeth extracted than use them.
As an aside, what is the general opinion of the Beta58a's ?
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| Re: Help - Alesis Quadraverb 2 - 9v AC PSU plug wiring Phil Allison 20:08:58 |
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"Gareth Magennis"
"Gordon McBriar"
Does anyone know the wiring of the 9v AC line to the Quadraverb 2? It is a >4 pin din plug. I emailed Alesis but they say they don't have this information!! Thanks for the help - Gordon.
The left pair of pins are connected together and are one connection, the
right pair of pins are the other connection. It is AC so there is no
polarity issue.
** Spot on.
By the way, does anyone know how to get rid of this stupid solid line on the
left? Tried everything to delete it.
** After clicking on "Reply" - click "Format" and then " Plain Text".
Magic.
Don'tcha just HATE idiots who post in HTML !!!
........ Phil
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| Compete in Free, Live Online Singing Contests at http://isuperstar.net iSuperStar 18:06:30 |
| | Compete in live online singing competitions. Listen to great and terrible
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Go to:
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Good luck!
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| NEW 1/2 inch tape anywhere? Spud 17:54:58 |
| | I suck at google these days. Any sources for NEW 1/2" tape?
This is an Otari MX5050 MkIII 8-track so I think they're 10" reels.
Thanks as always, s.
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| Amplitube 2 Guest 17:37:21 |
| | Has anyone spent detailed time using and testing Amplitube 2. I have
heard demos and was impressed. I use guitar rig, but get annoyed at how
CPU intensive the plug-in is. Is the new Amplitube the same way? IK has
a pretty good crossgrade deal from LE. Please post thoughts and
opinions.
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| What happens when wireless batteries get low? Guest 16:42:11 |
| | I recently recorded interviews in an area with loud ambient
music, using a dynamic reporters mic. I used a
plug-in transmitter on the mic.
I did monitor with headphones but the ambiance was
quite loud. When I listened to the recordings
later the spoken word had a bit of
what-sounded-like distortion, or maybe
just a tendency to "crack up"/not be smooth.
Now, maybe it was just coming in too loud
to my cam's preamps.
Or ... what I was wondering, though, is if it's possible
that if wireless batteries get low, but are still
functional, that somehow the transmitter or
receiver might be more inclined to have a
distortion-type effect in the signal. I do suspect that the
batteries were on the low side at the time I did the
interviews, having been used for some
hours already prior to the interviews.
I'm just wondering what happens to voice over
wireless if the batteries are low?
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| I can retire now...maybe not Ty Ford 15:19:56 |
| | Pro Audio Review's esteemed editor/publisher John Gatski has graciously
allowed me to write a feature story (instead of a review) about techniques
and gear in my own studio. The concept for the story was how to make big
sound in a small studio. You'll find it in the back of the most recent issue;
August, I think.
Since this signifies the pinnacle of my career, I'm considering retirement
because it's all downhill from here. To that end, my current options include
repeating the phrase "Would you like fries with that?" to complete strangers
but, wait!........Apparently there's a new StarTrek game coming out and this
coming week I'm booked to do four voices; Lo'Tal, a Romulan Captain;
Klingon Captain 4; Enterprise Captain 4 (Sommerset) and a TOS crew member.
All suggestions are appreciated.
Life is truly surreal.
Regards,
Ty Ford
-- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other audiocentric
stuff are at www.tyford.com
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| Brian, please read. Soundhaspriority 15:06:49 |
| | Dear Brian,
I was so absorbed in my incarceration at a local mental health facility,
I forgot to check if you've changed anything. The answer is no. I on the
other hand am a changed man - the anti-psychotics are working wonders on
stopping the voices, and even the people at the local Shop 'N Bag don't
cower with fear when I enter (with a carer).
Luv,
Robert Morein
Shop 'N Bag, Pennsylvania
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| Yamaha PM5D - issues? Jt 11:57:38 |
| | Hi
I have recently had two DISASTEROUSLY bad experiences with using a
Yamaha PM5D as a monitor console.
I'll post the details in a future post, but before I do so I am curious
as to whether anyone else has had any nasty issues with these consoles?
J
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| Sony Budokan walkman--- Anyone remember this thing? Guest 11:46:05 |
| | I know, not really the appropriate venue for this discussion, but I
figured if there was a group of people on the Internet that might
contain someone who owns one of these "holy grail" items, this would be
it.
I remember coveting it as a child, seeing it in the display at the
department store, price tag around $300.00 (in the early 80's).
It's a Sony cassette Walkman with something like 2 Watts of power
running into huge sealed cans.
Notice how little you will find about this thing on the web.
I am pretty sure I have the spelling right, as I did find a few hits on
this.
Anyone own one? Where can I find one?
I already own the other piece of covetted 80's electronic relics of my
childhood dreams, the Conion 100F Boom box.
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| Boom Recorder 7.5 released Take Vos 07:17:01 |
| | Hello everyone,
I've just released Boom Recorder 7.5
- Changed "New Take" function, by using the normal record button and a
preferences setting.
- %f are now numbered from 1, instead from 0.
- Set file and folder limitations of Lite licenses to be equal to the
Pro license.
- Copies a simple soundlog.xsl for viewing soundlog.xml in Safari,
still subject to change.
I am still working on the new sound log functionality. I hope that
version 7.6 will re-populate the sound log; working from the audio
files in the selected folders. This will make the soundlog.xml somewhat
useful.
Cheers,
Take
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| Need some experts opinion Chewbacca 05:35:53 |
| | Found some equipment for pretty cheap, but not sure of its quality and
the technical specifications are chinese to me. Figured some of you
guru's could give me your opinion.
http://www.thesecondchancemovie.com/_site/mediaplayer/index.php?id=59a362eacbeaeda153f8e3fdf493c508
Thanks in advance,
Tim
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| Hi MD charging Spleenminus@Yahoo.Com 03:24:43 |
| | I just got my replacement MZrh10 from sony anfter nearly 2 months. I
cant seem to get it to charge by pressing or holding the stop button.
is there a trick?
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| HI md charging Spleenminus@Yahoo.Com 03:24:42 |
| | Hi,
I returned my mzrh10 to sony after it stopped reading, and after
nearly 2 months and them repeatedly trying to charge me for the
replacement I finally got a replacement. problem is that it wont
charge the battery when i plug it in and press stop. anything special
I need to do to activate the crarging feature?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
J
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| Re: Problems installing M-Audio USB Audiophile Lorin David Schultz 03:19:51 |
| | Malkz <at_tuneREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote:
I've tried re-installing the drivers for the M-Audio USB Audiophile> interface but I can't get any sound out of the line outputs or the> headphone sockets. If I crank the amp right up I get a very faint> distorted signal. What am I doing wrong?> p.s. installing on a Sony Vaio laptop, presently no problems with> my M-Audio firewire 410.
Have you selected the Audiophile as your output device? Go into Control
Panel, select Sounds and Audio Devices, click the Audio tab, and select
the Audiophile on the pull-down list under Sound Playback.
--
"It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!"
- Lorin David Schultz
in the control room
making even bad news sound good
(Remove spamblock to reply)
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| Saxophone and piano Clol 03:04:45 |
| | I am recording a classical saxophonist and piano. I cant seem to get a
good balance. The saxophone is alway to loud or much more present on
the recording than the piano. Can anyone help with ideas to get a good
balance, to bring the piano out more?
I have tried closemiking the piano but then the saxophone also gets
louder.
Claus Olesen
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| The Red Army Choir Ruined My Earphones Msadkins04@Yahoo.Com 02:47:08 |
| | Well, not per se. As the Americans say, "here is the deal": I had
never tried using Internet audio before. A caprice led me to attempt
this, for the first time, in sampling the Red Army Choir. After
searching Google, I clicked on a likely provider of online audio, and
when the link connected, the video/audio of the Red Army Choir singing
the Soviet National Anthem started *immediately* and automatically. I
had no chance to adjust the volume level before starting play, and
indeed, there was no volume control built into the player software of
the site. (I was later able to determine that there is a master volume
control, in the form of a completely unidentified slideable strip, in
the lower right corner of the Firefox browser, outside the site content
entirely.) I estimate that the volume was on the order of 150
decibels. (And no, this is NOT what I deserve for listening to the
Red Army Choir.) I was using a pair of earphones made for Walkman-type
use in the audio-out jack of the computer -- some Philips
"surround-sound" earphones (a description which exists largely as
advertising hyperbole), and I ripped out the plug from the jack very
quickly.
The problem is an apparent change in the audio quality of the
earphones, as used once again with the Walkman unit I had been
habitually using them with. I cannot say that there is any unambiguous
distortion in particular frequencies or in the audio as a whole, though
it seems to me that some frequencies (horns show this particularly) are
slightly scratchy. The quality of the audio seems, however, somehow
noticeably poorer. The balance of frequencies has changed, for the
worse. And these earphones, which had previously done a good job
filtering out background noise (e.g., traffic) seem much less good at
this now, even with the same music.
I am hoping that this is ear-damage (!) -- TEMPORARY ear-damage ONLY,
of course -- rather than damage to the earphones. I am not sure what
technical explanation, other than a rather vague "speaker blow-out" --
could be responsible for this, unless it is that one of the speakers
was damaged more in these frequencies than the other (though I would
expect the audio in question to have been mono, though perhaps not).
Mark Adkins
msadkins04@yahoo.com
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| Stereo crosstalk of 29dB? Guest 02:39:27 |
| | I just found out that one of my recorders has a
"stereo crosstalk" of 29dB, according to a
RightMark (I think it was called) test, and this was
described as "very poor".
Could anyone elaborate about what the
29dB means? Will this level of crosstalk have a noticeable
effect on the sound of stereo recordings?
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| Regarding the "What Would You Have Done" post... Grouchy Sound Guy 01:14:07 |
| | This is the sign I put on our venue's stage. Can't say it
always works, but it seems to get through to some people.
STAGE VOLUME & MONITORS
This is a small stage in a small room with a quality PA
system
capable of delivering loud, clear sound to the entire room.
The volume on stage should not be so loud as to cause your
singer to have problems hearing himself, cause the people in
front of the stage discomfort, or create problems achieving
a
balanced and comfortable mix in the front of house mains
speakers. If your volume is too loud we will ask you to
turn
it down. We want the entire band to sound great for
everyone in attendance so please take this into
consideration
when setting your stage volume levels. Thank You.
MONITORS
We have 4 separate monitor mixes, with 5 monitor wedges.
2 wedges will always be used for the lead singer (I can
always turn it down if it's too loud). If you will be using
IEM's you should be able to run your own mix from stage.
Stage monitors are for vocals and acoustic instruments.
If your instrument is amplified on stage you should not
need it in the monitors. Adding instruments to the monitor
mix on a small stage only causes the monitor mix to become
muddy and increases stage volume. If you can't hear
your vocals in the monitors please ask the people next to
you on stage to turn down their amps.
VOCALISTS
Please stay close on the microphone and sing loud. Talk
loud between songs. It's a small stage and the higher the
mic gain is set the more stage volume will bleed through
the vocal mics, causing all of that stage volume to bleed
into your monitor mix. If the audience can't hear and
understand your vocals we have a problem. Help us
make you sound your best. Good vocal mic technique
equals a better sounding monitor mix and a better
sounding mix out front.
GUITAR PLAYERS (And Steel, Fiddle, Etc.)
If you do not point your amp up at your ears you will
probably have to play it at a lower stage volume or
possibly aim the amp towards the rear or center of
the stage. We have tilt-back amp stands that you
can use, just ask if you need one. Try using your
amp as a wedge monitor. Your ears are on the
side of your head so why is your amp pointed at
the back of your knees?
BASS PLAYERS
We have (8) 15" drivers and (4) 18" drivers with
6000 watts of power dedicated to those speakers.
Your bass amp should be loud enough for you to
hear yourself on stage, the PA system will do the
rest. If you brought an amp with 15" or 18"
drivers it will probably be louder in the room than
it will be on stage unless you set the volume very
low. If your stage amp is as loud, or louder, than
what is coming out of the FOH mains there will be
phase cancellation issues causing your bass to sound
weak, muddy or even disappear in the mix. Placing
the bass amp on the drum riser or tilting it at you like
a floor wedge might help you hear and "feel" the
bass better.
DRUMMERS
The drums will probably determine the stage volume
for the rest of the band. If you're playing too loud
everyone else will probably follow. Please maintain
a stage volume that does not interfere with the
vocalists' ability to hear their monitors and does
not overpower the FOH mix. Breaking sticks is
caused by playing too hard - if you're breaking
sticks you're too loud for this stage.
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| recording from windows mixer Bonk 01:07:29 |
| | When I use a windows application to record sound that is currently
played back in windows (using the volume settings of the stanrad
windows audio mixer) how does signal processing work here? Am I
recording digitally? Or is there any digital --> analog --> digital
conversion taking place internally on the soundcard?
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| Stupid question Myemail@Yeah.Right 00:36:42 |
| | I get the impression that phantom power is somehow superior to
battery....the higher end mics don't even seem to use batteries. I'm
guessing that this somehow reduces noise.
Can anyone please tell me why this is?
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| OT: Problems installing M-Audio USB Audiophile Malkz 00:16:16 |
| | I've tried re-installing the drivers for the M-Audio USB Audiophile
interface but I can't get any sound out of the line outputs or the headphone
sockets. If I crank the amp right up I get a very faint distorted signal.
What am I doing wrong?
p.s. installing on a Sony Vaio laptop, presently no problems with my M-Audio
firewire 410.
On a second point, I need to buy a PC for audio using SX3 and am looking at
Carillon Core 4 and Red Subs dual core extreme. It seems like with Red Sub
you get more 'bang for bucks', anyone any experience or comments?
Malkz
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