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Yes Rob, in PRINCIPLE very simple but making the null effective takes work. The coil (which from that schematic appears to be in series* with the VC) needs to have the right inductance, governed by number of turns and magnetic properties of any materials in or around it. This needs some design...

Well, a bit but! Balanced operation is a little more subtle in that yes, you have an amplifier with differential inputs but the noise rejection comes about by the "balance" of the feed and receive impedance. Dave.

I shall take that as a compliment! That quote is BOLLOCKS! The main hum frequency from a power traff is at the mains frequency. Yes, there will be a bit of 2nd harmonic and if the transformer is working very close to its limit a fair bit of 3rd harmonic i.e. 150Hz for Blighty (and most right...

No, not "back'ards" just not on top of everything! Yes, do read through stuff but also download Audacity and have a play with it. To get the best from it you really need some sort of Audio Interface but if you have a laptop with 3.5mm mic in and headphone out jacks a $20 headset will show you...

Now this next is NOT aimed at you CC but it is these sort of debates that hiss me off mightily! As an engineer* I am far more concerned about getting clean signals into a system than any airy-fairy nonsense about "tone"! AFAIK the SM7b was developed primarily for use in radio TALK studios...

A humbucking coil needs some design thought. It has to be of the right inductance so that it picks up close to the level of hum induced in the mic's coil. It need to be oriented correctly and in the correct polarity otherwise it will increase hum instead of bucking it! Why do you want to know...

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What do you want to do with the vocal part? If incorporate it into a mix I can see that being very tricky without a DAW. WITH a DAW you would be able to edit the clip to fit, 'slide it about' to sync it up. What if they are a bit 'off tune' or time? These things can be fixed in many DAWs. Not...

I have a F'rite 8i6 Mk 1 that I have not used in 3 years. I shall see if I can compare the mic pres in terms of gain and noise to my M4. I do recall last time I fired it up that I got into a complete bugger's muddle with the "MixControl" routing software! This has been criticized in the past...

Hello Mr B and welcome. I have downloaded Hydrogen but get a stern warning not to run it! I shall therefore wait until someone far PC smarter than I tells me if it is safe. One simple way to play and record it might be Audacity? This can be set to record the internal sound card. a function Ms...

This should help you find some wee ones https://4donline.ihs.com/images/VipMasterIC/IC/VISH/VISH-S-A0002473528/VISH-S-A0002474998-1.pdf?hkey=6D3A4C79FDBF58556ACFDE234799DDF0 Or maybe you know a tech you can blag some from?! Dave.

OK, best to keep things balanced so, back of envelope? Assuming a mic Z of 150R a 560R in each 'leg' followed by a 1k shunt gives 9.85dB of loss. Call it 10dB for jazz? That also assumes a mic pre Zin of 1.5k Dave.

Once again, apologies. Often on these forums people tend to try to give, shall we say "complete information" covering various eventualities (like getting a mixer with more mic inputs than you need at present) I am probably one of the worse offenders So, let me condense matters down? Your...

Dave bloody can't give you the exact resistor values because the decibabbles depend on the source impedance (not accurately known) and the load resistance of the pre, an equally imprecise beast! But yes, buy inline XLR 'slugs' but caveat bloody emptor! I bought a cheap 20dB attenuator a few...

Now I assure everyone that I have NO connection with the company but, the Behringer XM8500 is a bit of a steal for a general purpose dynamic microphone. Not quite as rugged as 57/8 but then at about $25 a pop doesn't have to be! The sensitivity is a tad hotter than a 57 and it comes in a very...

Soreeee! I added for the benefit of others who might be looking in that if one had a dynamic mic (phantom power not needed) such as the SM57 then an in line transformer is a better solution than a simple adapter because it gives a signal lift of about 5 to 10 times. I shall find thee a picture...

https://www.andertons.co.uk/behringer-xenyx-qx602mp3-analog-mixer-with-effects/ That mixer ^ would solve both problems. Has Phantom power and reverb. Behringer kit is not THE best around but I have had several of their products and they all worked well. Many here will have had the same...

Tom, have you tried Windows own drivers? MME, Direct Sound or WASAPI? (there might be a new and better one for W11? 'Bout bloody time Msoft woke up to the fact that many people want to do serious MUSIC work on PCs!) Of course, ASIO drivers (if GOOD ones!) give the lowest latency but WASPI is...

Hi Tom and welcome. I am sure one of the top computer blokes will be along soon. Meantime I have Googled "Ableton and win 11 problems" and got a RAKE of info back and several suggested fixes. I don't have W11 yet and am going to hang on to 10 for as long as I can as I have read of other issues...

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/tascam-model-2400 In depth review ^ and some ' frank and open' discussion about it on their forum. Yes, very unusual for a "mixer" to have MIDI ports but when you consider the CPU power on board and the space available it is pretty mean IMHO to leave it off...