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- Thu Feb 16, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Thread Size Around XLR Barrel on Condenser Mics
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2769
Re: Thread Size Around XLR Barrel on Condenser Mics
Is there a Fastenal location near you? The one in my area has helped me a few times with this sort of thing as they have the gauges, calipers etc necessary to determine what size it is.
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mic pads — they all work the same, right?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13030
Re: Mic pads — they all work the same, right?
As counterpoint, Scodiddly's simplified JFP has Scott Hampton's article fresh in my mind. In it he advocates for placing the pad after the preamp input transformer, "b/c transformer saturation can be cool and most mics are unlikely to cause huge amounts of saturation," or words to that effect. Whic...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mic pads — they all work the same, right?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13030
Re: Mic pads — they all work the same, right?
As counterpoint, Scodiddly's simplified JFP has Scott Hampton's article fresh in my mind. In it he advocates for placing the pad after the preamp input transformer, "b/c transformer saturation can be cool and most mics are unlikely to cause huge amounts of saturation," or words to that effect. Which...
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 12:11 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Silica Gel desiccant packets in the studio?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4584
Re: Silica Gel desiccant packets in the studio?
Good guys keep 10-12 in every guitar case for just such casesTheo_Karon wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:40 pmThey are also extremely handy to have around if you or the band run out of snacks
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 1:54 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Can you recommend a tiny USB mixer?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2855
Re: Can you recommend a tiny USB mixer?
I've got one of the little Soundcrafts that's a size up from what you're describing, and it's fine. Nothing amazing, just very useful for what it is.
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:21 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Hamptone gain block / mic preamp article
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11876
Re: Hamptone gain block / mic preamp article
I did get rid of that hot resistor, it was there in case the output was needed as an arc welder power supply. Massive overkill. Without it, the total power consumption of my 4-channel version is 1.5 watts. R5 is 1M for a DI input - for an input transformer it'll be somewhere in the 10k's of resista...
- Tue Oct 04, 2022 2:11 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: My poor hears are getting old
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5687
Re: My poor hears are getting old
I believe it's from driving with the window down for soooo many years. That thought has occurred to me. +100 i see the audiologist every 2 years, hearing is my life, my passion, and my part time job, i don't mess around when it comes to my ears. i also use in ear monitors for live gigs that are noi...
- Tue Oct 04, 2022 2:07 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Hamptone gain block / mic preamp article
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11876
Re: Hamptone gain block / mic preamp article
Great looking builds. Did you stick to the original schematic? I ask because at one point the folks at groupDiy were talking about one of the transistors getting overly hot, i think maybe the ztx653, and also about either individually biasing each fet or sorting them so that uniform values could be ...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:46 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: My poor hears are getting old
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5687
My poor hears are getting old
I've had a hearing imbalance for years. My left ear has less highs, and seems more compressed, if that makes sense. Oddly, I find that in most non-critical listening environments, it's actually the ear I favor when I'm really trying to pay attention. Anyway, like I said, this has been something I wa...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:13 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Tascam reintroducing high bias cassettes
- Replies: 38
- Views: 34415
Re: Tascam reintroducing high bias cassettes
I hope nobody is expecting these to be reasonably priced. :shock: My guess is $6 per. From what I heard, at one point Tascam was listing the expected price at something like $40/per, but then quickly walked that back claiming "a glitch in the system, correct price to follow shortly." I don't know t...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:09 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Tascam reintroducing high bias cassettes
- Replies: 38
- Views: 34415
Re: Tascam reintroducing high bias cassettes
By the mid aughts sources for cassette local to me had dried up to virtually nothing. The local cd store had the grey Maxell XLII shedshrine mentioned, only available in 90 min. Since it was the only option, I used quite a bit of it in my mt8x, 238, and 246. Never had any problems. I recently got my...
- Thu Dec 23, 2021 6:32 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Tascam reintroducing high bias cassettes
- Replies: 38
- Views: 34415
- Wed Dec 15, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: Unusual musical marriage - Herbie Mann and Sonny Sharrock
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8456
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:36 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Interesting Tascam Cassette Bias Observation 35us vs. 70us for 238 and 246
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11423
Re: Interesting Tascam Cassette Bias Observation 35us vs. 70us for 238 and 246
FLoid most multitrackers run double speed, that's not anything to note really. 99% of cassette multi-trackers (that are double speed) that use Type II CrO2 tape are 70us bias though, and the fact that the 246 and 238 are 35us bias is something to note, which was the point of my original post. CCIR/...
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:42 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Interesting Tascam Cassette Bias Observation 35us vs. 70us for 238 and 246
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11423
Re: Interesting Tascam Cassette Bias Observation 35us vs. 70us for 238 and 246
Makes sense, these units run double speed so the eq is double the freq.