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andrewfoshee wrote:Just got home from work to find mine in the mailbox. Steve Albini's foreward was fucking great.

I felt like his forward was a strange mixture of inspiring and depressing to me......

Yeah room mics seem like a good idea. It sounds a little dry to me, but I love room sounds. As a demo: Great. Nailed it. Very focused. As an album: A little boring. Some minor eq might give it a dash of spice, but first I would think of the room mics, trying to mic the bottom of the snare as well. M...

I'm ready to step up. My Focusrite Octopre might dazzle clients with its many knobs but a pro preamp it is not. It is time to step from upper intro preamps to lower pro . I need to decide what to save my money for. FMR RNP or Sytek mpx4aii Obviously one has four channels and the other has two, but t...

percussion boy wrote:Re secret mics, I would say the akg 3000b for hand drums, but every time I do that someone here throws things at me.

So I won't.

No shame in the hand drum bro man- just make sure you get some hemp cable ties so you don't trip over your sandals....shyah!

This might not be obscure enough but no one posted it yet: Shure ksm137. Pretty much a 141 w/o the omni switch. The selectable pad (0, -15, -25) and flat response w/ selectable high pass filter has helped it find its way in my studio to: Snare, acoustic guitar, electric amp, ambient mic. I bet it's ...

Most of the frequencies that come from the average human voice get eaten up by carpet. There will be minimal reflection. Thicker carpet is better, but when you're going for a dead space the science is way less important than understanding reflections in a live room. Don't crunch the numbers just tos...

I have the perfect space to record in my basement.......but my girlfriend wants us to find a place together. So I gotta move. Everywhere I look (affordable 2-3 bedroom houses) has either no basement or six foot ceilings in a 10x10 room. Many places in Denver have stand alone garages. I know a room w...

So we can expect this in the next issue, not the one that just came out?

Most singers that have recorded a number of albums have a favorite mic for their voice. Do you have a 'go to' mic for your vocals, and if so how did you arrive at that choice? Working with TJ how much does the line between producer and engineer blur? Is he strictly an engineer, or does he take on mo...

So when is it coming out?

Jeff Tweedy seems like a big fan of the SM7. Was this mic responsible for the nice vocal sound on the record? What type of preamp and what compression approach was used to get such dry vocals sounds to sit so nicely in the mix? To record live without separation did the guitar players have to use sma...