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I've used shotguns as audience mics in live gigs.

I'm not a speaker designer so I probably shouldn't answer but here's my gut instinct: a) Low frequencies go through stuff like that flimsy plastic horn in the Presonus monitor, so it's practically not there. The horn is there to guide the high frequencies from the tweeter. b) Every monitor is a comp...

In the last thread about cheap tracking phones I posted: At the TV station where I worked a couple of years ago we tested a few Superlux models. Long story short, I ordered a bunch more of the 662 (for location) and 668b (for edits). For the money they seemed pretty solid. I sent an email to a colle...

How come they never list the specs then? (At least not that I've seen.) Like, I'd think people would want to know whether it's 96kHz/32bit or 44.1/16 if their mix is going through it twice?! Because people don't generally notice the difference and the gear would be a lot harder to sell if you told ...

Thanks Gregg. Yeah, a lot of it isn't unique to Korea but the language issue just exacerbates our troubles. I guess I just wasn't prepared how much of an issue it could be. As I said, there's a fair few people on set who speak English: the diretor and the DoP both have worked in the US, the line-pro...

So I came to South Korea last September. I landed a sound design gig for a smaller Korean film production. Today is the last day of shooting (maybe, more on that later) and I have to say it's been tough. I've really struggled with both the language and cultural differences we've faced among the crew...

Awesome! It's a fantastic feeling when you have a really good gear purchase. If you remember, it'd be cool if you could post back a second opinion after a couple of months just to say how you are getting on.

PS. Why digidesign/Avid didn't invest in DSD conversion & processing 10 years ago still blows my mind. Imagine if they'd adopted that technology in 2001-2003 and said to everyone else "yeah yeah... you've got native PCM audio processing... but with our dedicated AD/DA & DSP cards, we can give you m...

First of all, be very careful. As for musicians involved in piano destruction pieces, Karl-Erik Welin (1934 ? 1992) was a Swedish composer, pianist and organist who seemed to have a love-hate relationship with the piano and appeared to be drawn to music that allowed for his flair for drama. His cham...

There has been some experiments. Afaik speakers might slightly change their characteristics over time but other pieces of kit generally won't. But true audiophiles reject double blind ABX because of the unnatural listening circumstances which makes it impossible to appreciate the subtler nuances of ...

Yeah, I'd echo Mr. Goodman here. Why would I, as a consumer, want a new physical medium? Why would I want to put in extra money to get no benefits, another box taking up space that's just locked into fixed specs, when I already have a bunch of generalised computing devices that can be updated with s...

Yah, those $3000 speaker wires sound MUCH better after they burn in for a couple weeks. :roll: Well, at least the stove distortion might fade slightly after a couple of weeks. (Stove distortion is of course the special type of distortion that's audible from the direction of the stove after you spen...

They are pretty big. Dogs, cats, small children all are viable options. D:

I was going to post that I think Abbey Road uses the B&W 801 3-ways but they are also quite spendy so it's bit of a moot point.

At the TV station where I worked a couple of years ago we tested a few Superlux models. Long story short, I ordered a bunch more of the 662 (for location) and 668b (for edits). For the money they seemed pretty solid. I sent an email to a colleague asking if the cans have survived. I'll post here if ...