Recent content by jeaston

Thank you. Actually it's not just one gig. I'm the piano player in the band and we play often, in the bass player's teaching studio. These mikes will be for the long term. Suggestions are much appreciated.

Too much money on hand. After I buy these mikes I'll stop buying mikes forever, and won't be worrying about endlessly upgrading to mikes that cost a hundred dollars more than the ones I currently have. But thank you for your reply!

I will be recording an acoustic jazz band (grand piano, string bass, trumpet, tenor saxophone, no drums) as well as solo grand piano. No attempt made to isolate instruments. Will be recording to the Tascam 788 digital portastudio. I have one Rode NT2 and plan to get another one, to get a...

Will phantom power damage a dynamic mike or create any other problem? I ask because I have a Bluetube 2-channel mike preamp and its phantom power switch controls both channels. It has to be switched on for my NT2 but I'd like to run a dynamic mike (an old AKG D224E) thru the other channel. Thank...

Thank you, Charger. You say: "In a noisy room, there is going to be a fair amount of rumble down below the 50Hz area, the same thing that is cut when you turn on the low frequency rollof switch on the LDCM. Since you're rolling off the LDCM, you might try some small diaphragms for the same...

Thank you, charger. My sources thus far have steered me to large diaphragm condensers for miking this situation. Why would small diaphragm condensers be as good or better? Thanks.

Thank you, James HE. Very helpful. I see I am in for some experimentation. Jon E.

Thank you, Kristian. Very helpful. I think I will indeed use two mikes to try to get a room sound, but use additional mikes into additional channels so that I will be able to mix those channels in as necessary to compensate for underrecording of certain instruments or room areas. Obviously I...

Lemonsucker--thank you for your response, although I have no idea what it means. I have done some more testing and find that these bass rolloff switches actually make a big difference--especially if I pound the floor with my foot, in which case the NT-1 picks up tons of rumbling sound, while...

Yes, Axis, I liked what I heard. I just made another recording (NT-1, NT-2, 4033, skipped the Nady) and played it back through an Onkyo integrated amp and Boston A100 speakers. Still, could barely discern differences. I am thinking that the differences might indeed be minor ones in this price...

I will be recording our acoustic jazz band, which is typically composed of grand piano, string bass, tenor saxophone, trumpet. We typically play in a relatively small room, and while I will be making no attempt to isolate instruments I may use more than 2 mikes so that no one is underrecorded...

I will not be doing any PC recording (will instead use the Tascam 788 Portastudio, which for my needs is sufficient), but will be getting a new PC for various purposes including to do some PC-editing of music recorded on the 788. I need to know what soundcard would be adequate. I believe all I...

A professional recording engineer told me that his preference for miking a grand piano is to use one stereo mike. (He believes the phase inversion problems are worse than other engineers think). In any event, the stereo mike idea is attractive to me since in addition to recording a piano I...

This is a request for specific information, but being directed to previous posts where the general answers already are would be much appreciated as well. I want to buy a PC computer system to do the following things: 1)record an acoustic jazz band (piano, bass, trumpet saxophone, occasional...

Thanks much, monty and tdukex!