Recent content by obsoleteman

Ok. Let me take another stab at this. #1. Ain't no one accusing you personally of a dammed thing. #2 Musicians take themselves WAY too seriously, as you just did. You made it all about you, just like so many musician types do. Face it, most musicians are far too selfish with their talent. They...

I finally gave up on my Lambda as it was USB 1, designed in 2006 and just had too many problems with drop outs. I have replaced it with a Steinberg UR 242. Now if I only had time to install it.

Cancelled out pre-roll and pre-count and everything seems to be back in sync. It took slowing things down to a crawl and playing along with it on a bass to prove to my partner in crime in Nashville there was a problem. Next is the latency issues. I have a particular issue with latency as I have...

I have spent most of my life sneaking up on mics. Polarity baby!

I can appreciate that. But the price of quality mics today is much less that they once were. It is like interfaces, I am going to have to replace mine and one of the reasons why is because of the USB port only at USB 1 and my interface is not upgradable. But you see, I went cheap. So because I...

Jimmy is absolutely right, you can get some great combo deals with the MXL line. I bought one of those combos with a pair of 770 (I think) but the condenser mic for the instrument does a good job of livening up acoustics. Mics are a lasting investment, I still use an AKG 330 BT from decades ago...

I didn't used to us the pre-roll and never had much of a problem with it. I may just stop using it altogether.

I will take a look at the metronome setup next time I get a chance. Should I just stop using the pre-roll altogether? But I am using the precount you are talking about before the first measure. Do you think that might be the issue? I am open to any suggestions. It does take a four count as I am...

The set up is pretty straight forward, two measures of pre roll and off we go. It goes down perfect, no racks, no presets, just a mic, a guitar and that is it. When you play it back, the recording is about 1/2 a measure early. I have been recording most of my life, analog for most of it but if I...

Ok, here we go again with the click track. When I record with the click when it plays back after the track is down, the recording is early. On the down beat of 1 in the first measure, the guitar comes in early. The sliding adjustment in the inspector is at zero when it is recorded and played...

I'll be honest about it, I have not had that great of luck with Lexicons. The Lambda was introduced back in '06 and while it will do what you want at the price, you can expect the Phantom power to quit working properly and I don't know that it will ever be USB 3 adaptable. So, it will not be...

I guess that is why I always used my trusty old EV 357. Great mic in those days...still is.

I own two older Electro-Voice ND 257 and 357's. Both are in need of the slip on handle that eventually rots away and both need the foam pop filter that goes inside the screen. Does anyone have a resource for these? Or does anyone refurbish them?

Tell me this isn't the Harvey Gerst from Indian Trail Studios....Is that you in that box?

Well, I am trying to be kind. It is like all the rejects walking away from American Idol saying "I'll be back and I will show them". I always hated auditioning new band members too. Fashion be dammed, it doesn't work if you blow into the wrong side of a Blues Harp!