Recent content by Shepherd Jim

Hey David and Garry! A BIG Thank you both for your complete and detailed replies! In the end I decided that if I'm about to start climbing a steep learning curve I should climb the most current curve available. I took the Ableton "Holiday Discount" bait and upgraded to Live 9 Standard. Live 9...

Warning: this is a REAL NEWBIE question. I considered posting it in the Forum's "Newbie" area but it IS a bit too specific for that, I purchased Live 8 a couple of years ago. Dutifully installed it and then pretty much forgot about it. I've been doing other things (Eg. field recording, playing...

Thanks Dave — no offense taken. I try to do an honest job of not pretending to know things I do not. I learned long ago that people who pretend to know things are very dangerous ...if I assume they do know what they claim, anyway. ;-( I myself usually revel in my ignorance and attempt to soak...

Oh Dave! I can tell that hanging with you is going to keep me on my toes! ;) Please clarify your "Back of Female XLR" and "Front of ..." By "front of" are talking about looking at the plug from the end at which the cable emerges? ...I think I might have seen this perspective labelled as...

You gotta love language! ...never a dull moment! I really enjoyed my three years in Willesden Green, London NW3 — continuous language discovery. After three years I thought I had the whole English English thing down pat. And then I went to an auto parts store to buy a rebuilt generator for our...

I've just purchased a used NT-1 on eBay and am eagerly awaiting its arrival so I can use it with my new Zoom H5 recorder. It will be my first "phantom-fed mic" experience. ...so I'm interested in this trouble-shooting discussion. In the meantime, other than collecting sounds/field recording...

Hey Grumpy OB - It's funny; I was thinking "field recording" in the sense of being out in the world collecting sounds like trains passing, thunder storms, baseballs being batted, etc. It's that sort of collecting which I'm hoping to do. But, your assumpting brought me up short and forced me to...

Hello from Midcoast Maine. I'm a shepherd (really!) slash woodturner getting into field sound recording as a hobby. I'm an old dog learning new tricks and having a helluva lot of fun doing it. I've already posted my first real post over in the Microphones section ...hoping they'll be kind to me...

I'm a newbie and getting into Field Recording slowly ...and carefully. I bought a Sony PCM M10 as my first baby-step and would like to now add a shotgun mic ($ range $100 - $300) so I'll be able to avoid some of the greater world's ambiance. The Sony M10 supplies something called "Plug In...