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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...

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...

Since I don't trust myself to build my own computer and don't know anyone who does that, where should I go to order a computer for digital recording? I will obviously specify all the components it should have, based on info gleaned from this board and elsewhere, but can I really just order all...

I need to buy mikes to make digital (to ADAT or computer setup) recordings of a jazz band (grand piano, acoustic bass, trumpet, tenor saxophone--No Drums) that plays in a 20x20ft room with no attempt to isolate the instruments. I might want to place more than 2 mikes to record to more than 2...

Slackmaster--have you or anyone else posted any other comments on these boards regarding the computer components (not including soundcard) that would be desirable? For example: type of hard disk (does the brand matter) and speed (7200 I gather, for IDE), brand of computers that are acceptable...

Which is better? Any thoughts?

I want to get a PC system that will do the following: 1)record to hard disk from microphones (acoustic jazz band, no more than 4 simultaneous analog inputs needed, and I will never be using MIDI), 2)avoid getting a mixer or preamps if possible--is the Aardvark soundcard that comes with built-in...