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by A.David.MacKinnon
Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:27 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: MD-421 clip lock
Replies: 13
Views: 32765

Re: MD-421 clip lock

yeah, I'm afraid my cheap "universal wireless mic clip" does the job and is not $50. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MY110--on-stage-stands-my110-unbreakable-dynamic-wireless-mic-clip Whomever I bought a couple ATM-25s from decided to remove the assembly that attaches to the mic stand, so I...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:36 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: rotating speaker alternative
Replies: 27
Views: 157054

Re: rotating speaker alternative

Found an image of the Mark II version: Califone-stereo.jpg Awesome!!! It's not hard to find single rotor leslie baffles pulled from old home organs. They're basically a styrofoam version of your Mark 2 turntable leslie. I had one for a while and it did an ok job. There's no horn but you get some of...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:14 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: For themaya's is recording sessions straight thru,
Replies: 12
Views: 11742

Re: For themaya's is recording sessions straight thru,

I did this for bed tracking on my bands last record. Because I was engineering and playing I just let the computer roll once we were set up. I kept a copy of the main session master as is. Then when it was time to work on each song I made a session for each tune and imported all the takes of said tu...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:33 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Replies: 5333
Views: 2425109

Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....

My friends and I play a rag-tag live show every year or so... and we got tired of ganging-together 2 small mixers with a powered pa-head/mixer, so I went ahead and bought a used Mackie Onyx 1640 mixer... and damn! this is maybe the quietest mixer I've ever used. And the flexibility of the aux routi...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Fri Nov 10, 2023 3:49 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: SDCs for Choir & Orchestra & Audience recordings (sennheiser 80xx)
Replies: 7
Views: 6385

Re: SDCs for Choir & Orchestra & Audience recordings (sennheiser 80xx)

I can't speak to those specific mics but my experience recording audiences (usually for comedy but music too) is that a tight pattern gives me the best results. Hypercardiod is great, shotgun mics are even better. I put them on either side of the stage, behind the mains, ponting across the audience ...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Mon Nov 06, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Actually useful Amazon junk?
Replies: 19
Views: 25507

Re: Actually useful Amazon junk?

Amazon is fun for cheapo pedals. Some are actually decent some aren't.
This one is great - https://www.amazon.ca/AZOR-Vintage-Guit ... 6KQFG?th=1
by A.David.MacKinnon
Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:58 pm
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: A Soundtrack - Cassette 8 Tracking - 488 and 238.
Replies: 2
Views: 3596

Re: A Soundtrack - Cassette 8 Tracking - 488 and 238.

I don't find them very different at all. That said, I was bypassing as much of the onboard mixer electronics as possible on the 488. The 238 takes all that stuff out of the equation right off the bat so the workflow is much easier. I don't think the tape section itself sounds any different
by A.David.MacKinnon
Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:57 am
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: A Soundtrack - Cassette 8 Tracking - 488 and 238.
Replies: 2
Views: 3596

A Soundtrack - Cassette 8 Tracking - 488 and 238.

I've talked on and off about this for a few years now. My band (FemBots) have been writing and recording music for a CBC short TV series called Farm Crime for about 5 years now. The third season is about to launch and to commemorate it we've put together a soundtrack album featuring some of our favo...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Sun Sep 17, 2023 5:06 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Electro-Voice 641- got one? What do you think of it?
Replies: 8
Views: 5234

Re: Electro-Voice 641- got one? What do you think of it?

Is it a hi or low z model? Or switchable? That may determine how much use it gets. That said, I've rarely met as old eve mic that I didn't like for something. I had an earlier EV omni mic of a similar style (can't remember bteh model for the life of me) and liked it quite a bit as an overhead. It on...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Mon Aug 07, 2023 3:46 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Replies: 5333
Views: 2425109

Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....

winky dinglehoffer wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2023 1:44 pm
A.David.MacKinnon wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:17 pm
3/4 size classical terz guitar. Tunes G-G.

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Those purple stairs would go nicely with my purple bass!
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by A.David.MacKinnon
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:17 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Replies: 5333
Views: 2425109

Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....

3/4 size classical terz guitar. Tunes G-G.
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by A.David.MacKinnon
Mon Jul 24, 2023 10:18 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Latest Gear You've Un-Acquired....
Replies: 147
Views: 156886

Re: Latest Gear You've Un-Acquired....

I used a Millennia HV-3D/8 for the first time the other week. It's been in the racks forever, but I always shy'd away from it from just hearing hearsay on the internets, and just stuck with all the Neve, API, Great River, and Trident 80B for preamp options at this studio. I wanted to try this RCA B...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Wed Jul 19, 2023 5:49 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Replies: 5333
Views: 2425109

Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....

After almost a decade of hunting I have finally found a Marxophone. More specifically a mandolin guitarophone but basically the same thing. It needs a bunch of work, the end block where the tuning pins sit has started to pull apart, it has some top and back cracks to fix and it needs new strings. It...
by A.David.MacKinnon
Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Replies: 5333
Views: 2425109

Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....

Just scored another RE15 as well as an RE10 for $200 a piece. Much more than the $40 I paid for my first RE15 but I'm still happy. My favorite mics.