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I had one of those Ovations - I didn't like it at all. The back was very slippery and it reeked of a chemical smell that hit me every time I opened the case. The strings were hard to fret, even with the action lowered. I had it for 34 years and played it maybe 8-10 times. I donated it to a local...

Gibson offers their P-90DC Hum Cancelling pups. Many dollars.

It does kinda look like metal tubing, and if there is cabling, might it be hard-wired to the mic - no plugs? I know The Ed Sullivan show often had singers lip-sync into a dead mic, maybe these are just props with no wiring.. ? The purple-ish color in these shots is probably from overhead...

This is from March 1971 - The Ed Sullivan Show - Oliver Any idea what mic he's using here? No visible cable. Is the cable run up through the stand-gooseneck and the mic just plugs into that? Hmmm . . never seen that before.

The Beatles turned me on to this guy - my man Carl :

Going with the Sennheiser MD421. . I just happened to trip across The Beatles' 1964 Australia Tour live video, and their vocal mics all appear to be the older MD421 mics - they're sounding pretty good. Surprisingly, their vocals are way up front in the recording. The center mic appears to be...

Always been one of my favorite Beatles songs. Mainly the bass line, then Ringo's very nice matching part to Paul's bass.

Tip Jar

Closing a project may or may not prompt to save, depending on if it's a newly opened project or changes have been made to an existing project. This may help in some instances - try this : If you're in an existing project and make no changes, this setting should eliminate the save prompt(s)...

Mike Pinder

Here's someting involving mics at different distances, all for a single vocal and no DI'd instruments involved. Not exactly the situation referred to in this thread, but I'm sure phasing is involved, just not worried about as the reverberation probably masked it. I originally heard about this as...

Dinner time !

The Alto Live 1604 ? I don't use one, just going by the User Guide. You've got 4 Stereo Aux Returns on the rear panel with control knobs on the top surface. Per User Guide Pg. 9 Stereo Aux Return: Connect the outputs of an external device to these inputs with 1/4" mono cables. If your source...

Howdy, @martyroz. Here's some back material on the M520. https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/tascam-m-520-thoughts.377315/