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Why not just use a big Polish sausage as your mix buss?

Granted that opamps are not perfect.

Still, an opamp summer can be prototype with Radio Shack parts and powered from a couple 9v batteries... a pretty painless way to start.

nopeanuts wrote:i have a murphy bed, maybe i should record behind that.

I read some interview where Waits talked about recording the innards of big rocking chairs... old Lay-Z-Boy types of things. I'm pretty sure that's the sound at the beginning of "Murder in the Red Barn" from Bone Machine.

For the simplest mix buss I'd recommend an op-amp. Basically you set up the simplest inverting amplifier circuit, say 10K resistor on the input and on the feedback loop. The actual inverting in becomes a "virtual ground"... which means you can just add more inputs with more 10K resistors, and there ...

After a day of further thought, I would suggest the following version of the "Silence of the Lambs" quote:

"It sings in tune or else it gets the hose again."

It's dead simple, actually. All you need is a reasonable buss amplifier, which can be done with an op-amp or two. Or a FET, or a tube... simpler than a mic preamp, most likely. Especially if all the inputs are fed from the same sort of source (DA ouput?) and you don't need any volume/pan controls. F...

What issue is the TapeOp diy omni detailed in? Is there somewhere online I can find the information? I haven't soldered anything since Stage Lighting practicum in college, and that was probably a little less delicate than what is necessary for audio equipment, but heck, gotta start messin' up somew...

"It puts the headphones on and it finishes the overdub, if it doesn't want to get the hose again"

I like a functional vibe... especially as a musician.

But it's gotta be clean (cluttered is OK). Nothing worse than a place that smells like a bar with the stale smoke.

(Right, Norton is now North...) I took a close look at the specs on the Sonic II filters... the package says "6dB" but that's what they're allowed to claim since it's not flat. I think that 6dB was down in the lows; the really nasty ear-damaging stuff above 1K was more like 15-25dB reduction. But st...

I finally bought the custom-fitted earplugs. They're definitely nice... especially for long car/plane trips! I used to use the Norton Sonic II filters, the orange ones with the fins and the little metal filter inserts. Those worked pretty well for $12. For actually being a musician I'd wear one on t...

Couple of different possible reasons:

1. Might have a momentary partial connection (only one pin of two) while plugging in.
2. Current-limiting resistors on mic input will slow current surge into mic when turned on.

Local camping store had some heavier black elastic cord in the rock climbing section. Might be a bit too heavy-duty, but it worked fine for some DIY shockmounts.

Been playing with this stuff again... I've also ordered about half the parts I need to try one of those mp3forkidz projects. What I've been doing lately is trying to put the omni capsule on the end of a few feet of cable but still use the phantom power circuit. Results are interestingly mixed! I did...

As pointed out in the article about building the Tape op omnis - they're a variation of the RS pzm. The power supply is based on a design used to give RS pzms a ballanced output. They do sound different but not all that different. Not exactly a variant of the RS PZM, but rather the phantom circuitr...