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I had a C1000 in the early 90's. There weren't a lot of good "cheap" condensers around at that time. I couldn't get it to sound good on anything. I moved up to a C3000 and had better luck. Not into AKGs at all anymore, including the 414s.

That's what I thought too, but I've had VO talent mostly for non-english speaking ads for major movies come into my studio, and the producers (remote from LA) always request the Sennheiser. I'm in wine country, and I get calls all the time from VO artists that are here for the weekend and have a...

If you record a lot of voice over stuff, the MKH 416 is a must have, it's what all of the LA talent want.

The M20 is a bit of a different animal than a regular ADAT; there's a lot more stuff jammed into that box including a more robust transport, and, there were not a lot of them manufactured. I'm not confident your standard ADAT tech could handle it. I used to have a copy of the service manual but...

Yes, and it should be quite easy. Every part in a mix has a range that can be set on the keyboard. If you have the manual, Go to the section about editing Mixes and see the part about setting the Range for each program within the mix; you build a split by editing a mix. It's been at least 20...

You will need some type of controller to lock the ADATs to SMPTE. Stripe SMPTE to a track on your Analog tape machine and feed it to back to the ADAT controller. An Alesis BRC will do this, so will the Alesis AI-2 (but it's a clusterF*** to set up). JL Copper Datamaster would also do this and...

Audio Design and Service in Burbank California. Former Alesis/ADAT factory tech owns the place. If they can't fix anything Alesis...no one can.......

It's possible that the head was replaced but that the hours were not reset by the tech. It takes a special chip to reset head hours, no chip-no reset.

I had some problems with an old Tascam firewire mixer working on High Sierra and Mojave. I found that after re-installing the drivers I had to go to Security & Privacy in the System Preferences and manually accept/allow the drivers to install. It recognized the mixer just fine after that...

I've used a Rode NTK for a long time. It can get a little hairy on loud SPL applications, but it sounds great on a lot things. I've tried changing the tube in it for a more "vintage" sound, but preferred the original.

I have a similar thing going on in my recording space. If you figure it out please post the fix. Thanks

I record a lot of hip-hop artists. Although it's not my most expensive mic, I almost always use an old CAD E-200. The current version of that mic is the E-300. I've tried using my NTK on hip-hop, and it sounds good but can be a little fussy if the artist gets aggressive. Also not quite as fat...

All you can do is reinitialize the unit(power it on while holding down ERASE and PLAY for 3 seconds). That will of course blow out the user memory, so you would have to re-program. It doesn't sound like the power supply, bad power supplies are usually not intermittent. Make sure the midi going...

I like the Audix D2 and D4 for toms, they are punchy and crisp, but you can easily eq them to get less aggressive sounds. I agree that the D6 is a bit of a "one trick pony" but if you play around with mic placement you can usually get close to what you want; a D-112 on kik would probably be the...

Although there are many AT mics that I really like, I've never been a big fan of the 4033. I've always found them to be dull. The NTK is a great mic, but it wouldn't be the first mic I would go to for recording brass. I recently recorded brass with a Sennheiser E609 and it was perfect. I bought...