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The Ikea Ringum is really a pretty good idea. If you're working with an experienced vocalist that _does_ know what they're doing, you don't want to artificially limit their ability to work the mic to avoid volume spikes or plosives or to sing off-axis if necessary, but you want to give them an idea ...

...an event that you should hold at the next Producers and Engineers Conference in November (because I can't make it in August!). That is outright so cool!

GJ

I was working in a music store, and my buddy Mike (a recording school student) and I got hired to record a concert of Indian classical music featuring the world-renowned Zakir Hussein on tabla drums! We were using an old Vestax four or six-track cassette recorder; I can't remember which (this was al...

1) I was punch-engineering for a friend's guitar solo at a big commercial studio, and armed the wrong track on the remote. Wiped a good bit of a "good take." 2) I unplugged some expensive pencil condensers to reposition the mics, without powering-down the phantom power. They were borrowed, and could...