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I always mic the bottom. If I get tracks from somebody with no mic on the bottom I re-amp the snare track with a snare drum sitting on top of a Fender Pro Jr and mic the snares there. I almost always have an 1176 plug on the bottom snare fast attack/slowest release.

I got a set of IsoAcoustic's Iso-Puck Minis for them from the Amazons. They came in a day and were absolutely simple to get going. For $99 I got better imaging and clearer lows with my set up. Are the Iso-puck-minis anything more than silicone gel pads? I bought some of the Auralex ProPod Lites (th...

In the past I had two smaller monitors up close, one for the edit screen and one for the mixer, which was cool. Then I went to one decent size tv, like 40” maybe, a bit further back on an arm. Now I’m on a 27” iMac. I do miss the bigger screen. I have been on a monitoring (speaker) set up mission o...

I've got 4 vintage 1067s. They do sound really great and haven't been that much trouble but if I didn't live close to some really good techs I may have bailed on them by now. Aside from the vintage stuff I have I'm never really looking for more vintage stuff because of price and maintenance. I'm alw...

Colorblind wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:11 am

Sad indeed. Grateful to have had Clarence work on a few of my mics over the years. I've got it on good authority that Clarence sold his remaining parts and equipment to Cole Picks Vintage in Nashville, and recommended them over Pitman for future mic repairs. RIP.

That's pretty interesting news.

A while back I had to replace my monitors at home. For maybe 5 years I had been using Eve Audio SC205s. One of them had its power supply fail. I had to pay for the repair myself and it took quite a bit of time. The second one started to go so I gave up on them a few months ago and got a set of Neuma...

I just learned that Clarence Kane of ENAK Mic repair died this week. He was a really nice man with an incredible depth of knowledge as the last surviving RCA microphone employee. Tape Op did an interview with him in 2016 https://tapeop.com/interviews/116/clarence-kane-enak-microphone-repair/?fbclid=...

VocAlign is pretty awesome. I've been using it for over 6 years and they keep improving it too. You can use it for all kinds of things. When I first learned about it I downloaded a trial for a bluegrass hybrid project I was working on that had a ton of 3 part harmonies. Pretty good singers also. We ...

Such a super nice guy. Helpful, sharing.
It's a real loss.
My good fortune to do a project w Mark at Pogo years ago.
Always so wonderful.
R.I.P. Mark.

if you don't want the sax player to shove the mic in the bell, then you might try putting tape on the floor, or something bigger, to prevent them from moving in on the mic. If you don't they will inevitably (instinctively?) move right up to it, head on... remind them it's not a live show. :lol: som...

digitaldrummer wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 01, 2024 6:53 am

still missing that "like" button over here on TOMB

Double Ditto on that!

yes honestly proper touring amps and cabs are just for show, because any decent venue (even small ones) the crowd doesn't hear the amp, they hear the PA/FOH and those speakers and what the FOH person does. So it's mostly a vanity thing. Even when i was touring i was In Ears and the amp sometimes i ...

Next issue of Tape Op has a long review of the UAFX Guitar Pedals. The amp/speaker simulating stuff seems pretty cool, and I could see building a DI gtr recording rig with these boxes for sure. I love moving air wit am amp and putting up mics, but there are lots of times I'd love to have the sound ...

Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5024 4-Channel Microphone Preamp $2,499 plus $60 shipping.
Super clean from smoke free studio.

https://reverb.com/item/74587104-rupert ... one-preamp

I'm not all concerned about bleed from the cans - I'm trying to monitor guitars, bass, vox while playing next to a stoned and strong drummer. The drums bleeding into the cans are loud ... I'm not too concerned with sound quality - what I want is to be able to hear good enuff to play to the bass, an...