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I find the fact that the 'knock offs' are so similar internally and electronically the most worrying aspect? If someone was just wanting to make a fast buck then yes, they would get the cosmetics right enough to fool people online but then just fit a dirt cheap mic capsule with no buck coil...

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/guitar-amp-recording?print=yes Dave.

Well maybe "skill" was not quite the word to use but judging by the 100s of posts I have read in forums about recording amps, peeps find it a trial to get the sound they want sometimes Eric. But OP can try both ways at once with one of these...

Listen to Rich GG. You have discovered why guitarists use "guitar" amplifiers! Because amps have internal "voicing" circuits to shape the tone but most of all, guitar speakers have a natural roll off at about 8kHz and a bit of a low mid "bump" at 80 to 120Hz. The filters in DAWs such as Reaper...

Well that was for comedic/dramatic effect. My "grammar" is I think about as good as you would expect from a kid who left school at 16 (just) with no GCEs and started fixing things for a living? Dave.

May not mean much in this largely American forum but I am reminded of an old movie actor's catch phrase? Bernard Bresslaw used to say... "Well! I only asked!" Dave.

Yup, that's what my son did in his bedroom years ago with a Teac A3440 but even at 15ips and 456, noise build up was always a problem. Things got a lot better when I got him a JVC hi fi VCR (was dropped and repair cost too high for the customer but hours spent linking out broken tracks paid...

Rob, 'twas ever thus! I recall over 30 years ago delivering a "Murphy" 20" TV to an old boy. "I went for a good old British brand" he said. "I had enough of those ( be illegal here to type it!*******) in the last war." I did not have the heart to tell him that the internals were 100% Toshiba! Dave.

Fair enough Rich, I don't want to get into a cow on my hobby horse! You have to remember though that most of the info from such companies is written by the Adpuff dept, not the engineers and so we still have mathematical absurdities like "rms" friggin watts and audio stages that "saturate a...

Well, if you like but since we are 150 years on from Mr Faraday I prefer the modern term "Capacitor". Even when someone as ancient as I who started 'tech' in the '60s the term "condenser" was reserved as part of steam engines! Dave.

Just saw a vid with Billy Ocean and LURVED that bass sound! Anyone have an idea of the bass (looks like Fender P) and the rig? https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13965988 Dave.

Ah, that would make more sense. The NT-1 is not your "classic" vocal mic but will I am sure be fine. LDC mics of course are normally used at a distance, a foot or more and with a pop screen. They are therefore going to have very little proximity effect so the voice might sound a bit 'thin'...

I have searched the Rode microphone range and cannot find an "H 1" What manner of microphone is it? I would say for "60s crooner" sound you want a dynamic mic such as the venerable Shure SM58 although some might prefer an SM7b or Electrovoice. The EQ applied post tracking will depend on the...

I am reminded now of "humbuckers" that were used with early loudspeakers. These speakers did not use a permanent magnet but were "energized" by a coil of 1000s of turns of fine wire. "WTF!"? you say. Well PMs were expensive and not very good but also the coil was usually used as a smoothing...

There is a subtle difference between the way that mic defeats hum and the way balanced operation does it. For the mic (and h'bucker pups) hum is picked up on both the "wanted" coil and the buck coil (which collects no sound) The buck coil's signal is then inserted in opposite polarity to the...

https://www.modartt.com/ Go there and download their demo. It will run on its own but has just about the simplest to use MIDI interface. The Keys49 is I am sure the same box as my Ekey49 by Evolution and I still have the driver and software disc for it somewhere. You can try Avid who now own...

WRT to the noise floor, you have to be realistic in a "domestic" situation. I have done tests where I have buried mics in layers of a duvet and got noise floors better than -70dBFS (that is better than any tape machine or vinyl) but once "the covers are off" the ambient noise worsens that by...

One of the basic mistakes people often make when listen back to instruments (and especially speech) is to run at too high a level. Check how loud the guitar is on your SPL app then set monitoring accordingly. "Pro" studio people are not immune to this either I am told? Dave.

"Circumstances alter cases". My son records picked classical guitar about 1/2mtr from a pair of Lewitt SDCs onto a Lenovo laptop and get a very decent S/N ratio. That's cars allowing and people not banging on his window! I shall see if I can find a clip.. That's the last thing I had from him...

This is a problem my son had many years ago when he was at home. We had a desktop PC and things were fine for singing into a capacitor mic (Sontronics LDC) and recording electric guitar but the PC was too noisy when trying to capture acoustic guitar We only really resolved the problem when I...