Recent content by David_Gardiner

It's still useful information for anybody looking for info on the EC-3 microphone, which was what got me here in the first place.

Laptop 3.5 mm sockets and external soundcards (assuming they have the usual soundcard characteristics) would not normally have sufficient gain to accept a condenser microphone directly. To use one you would need a small microphone mixer or similar pre-amplifier to bring the signal up to...

Hello Steenamaroo. All is explained here: Engineering Paradise the Musical Open Source Project I've been joined by singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Andrew Richardson, who is very talented but very busy, and helps when free. Most of the songs exist only as lyrics, so need melodies as well as...

I thought it would be easy to make straightforward recordings of vocals from a condenser mic with piano backing from a Yamaha keyboard. In fact it isn't anything like as straightforward as I imagined, because unless you want to record the output of the Yamaha's built-in speakers as your backing...

Thanks very much to everyone who has replied. I'll PM you all in the next couple of days. David.

I am looking for singers both male and female to help me to record a few demonstration songs from a new musical set in Belfast in the 1960s when the most recent round of 'Troubles' was starting. I'm at the stage of putting up demo songs on Songcloud in the hope of interesting an amateur or...