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Knights Who Say Neve wrote:I had nothing to do with it.

Oh sure, and I suppose you would like a shrubbery as some sort of reward....

-J

Either one would work out fine, although if the prices aren't too different then the ever-so-slightly larger guage of the 24AWG cable would probably be a better candidate for the line-level signal. Some folks might argue that star-quad is overkill in that application, but then that is argued at micr...

professor you were doing good until you got to here: Ringo was really nothing special on 4 drums No question that the music changed the world, but there's been lots written about Ringo getting the gig because he could play a roll. Likewise, I remember drummers foaming at the mouth back in '91 or '9...

Just in case I didn't type enough already, I had one more thought that didn't really fit into the above post... but I'll keep it short. On the subject of "wasting your precious time"... First, you need to go do some live sound gigs... preferably in a place with crappy 16-channel board that has 3 or ...

It seems to me that between the title of the thread, the original posting, and many of the responses, this particular subject speaks to a larger underlying issue among a lot of the folks here. Yes, in a later post Fakiekid added an update that explained his angle a little more - 15 year old player; ...

Well, the AT4040 is a fast condenser mic with a little bit of a bump in the highs. The ribbon and 58 are both going to respond more slowly to the quick transient sound from the hard K which is kind of like putting a little fade-in on the front end of every sound. But you happen to like the sound of ...

It may already have been said in that other post that was linked, but just in case, I think it's worth mentioning that waaayyyy too many engineers seem to think that drum sets require every individual instrument to be mic'ed. Sure it's nice to do that sometimes... even fun to do... but it's the wron...

I use a power amp into headphone distribution boxes here, although I didn't build the boxes myself. The power amps are 60wpc Brystons (yeah, that's a little overkill) but any thrift store, pawn shop, or mom's basement old stereo amp will do. The boxes I use are made by ProCo, model HJ-4P and they sp...

The 'K' sound is, of course, just a part of our language, and it is going to show up in recordings of vocals because it has to show up. What you should find is that if you zoom in on the waveform at a point where you have a hard 'K' sound, there should be a little pile of narrow peaks just ahead of ...

I've had this pair of Middle Atlantic speaker stands under a set of JBL LSR 28p monitors for my live room fold-back for six years, and they are really quite nice. http://www.middleatlantic.com/images/istudio/ecspk36sm.jpg They are very solid and pretty heavy, probably double the weight of the 602s. ...

Call me crazy and all, but what about simply panning the snare mic from your existing setup over to the right? If you pan the snare mic to the center, yes it will appear in the center. But if the overheads are pulling the snare sound to the left it is because there is more energy on the left side. I...

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to have noticed that the nearly fundmentalist argument being waged against higher rates seemed to keep getting reversed with regard to practice, perception, and product designs. Even the apparently uncontestable words of Dan Lavry seem to suggest that a sample ra...

Eh, maybe I'm being to sarcastic. Really it is cool that anyone would go through such measures to discover the truth (or at least a really good estimate thereof) behind a long standing mystery. I guess I'm just bummed that I didn't know it was such an important mystery until it was solved. It's sort...

I hope the guy earned his PhD with that research... or maybe a fat research grant... or even both!! Too bad that Metallica already explained that the big chord hit in 'Wherever I May Roam' was made by slapping an 8-string bass. But I don't think the Moody Blues ever found the Lost Chord, so maybe th...

Well, I guess I have to go read some books, but thanks for the schooling. Really, it's pretty fantastic to learn that digital systems exhibit such absolute perfection of their design intent that any 44.1k system should be indistinguishable from any higher sample rate, unless we're recording & playin...