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In another thread you were talking about an Avalon 737. Is that in the chain too?

As to what the issue is with your system, nobody can really guess unless you want to tell us what the entire chain is. What microphone? What preamp? What interface? What kind of computer? What operating system? What recording software? Did you download and install the correct drivers? The...

You seem to be confusing a lot of different things that aren't necessarily related. +4 dBu is the nominal signal level for professional audio recording and sound reinforcement systems. Within this category there are many different types of signal. This is the specification for line level, and...

Yes and no. It means different things to different people. Are your feet comfortable? If you royally screw up and select the wrong preamp for your MIDI guitar tracks you can still score groupies. It becomes exponentially more difficult with substandard footwear. Their standards, not yours.

I'm not sure that Dave actually plays anything, but he's an EE that built guitar amps for a living. I digress. Apologies! It seems like you're looking for validation that if you have a certain piece of gear that it will give you a specific type of sound. You are correct. What the user...

Maybe art isn't always confined to a dot matrix.

Of possible interest to note: Leo Fender was cheap. He designed and built some legendary equipment, but when people go back to look at the recipe it seems like what was originally in those amps was sort of based on what was at hand. 20% tolerance components. A variety of different transformers...

If you've installed the correct drivers for your system it should also have installed the M-Audio Control Panel software. It's not something you would normally use on a regular basis, but it's necessary for certain things. Also if it was installed, it isn't always in an obvious spot on Windows...

Here's a 16 bit sine wave at -48dBfs. Looks good, sounds like a sine wave and it's coming back at -48. -60. Already starting to distort. I'm pretty sure what we're seeing here is quantization errors.

Here's a sine wave at -42 dBfs, 8 bit. Here's -30dBfs. -18 dBfs. Starting to look and sound more like a sine wave but it still isn't coming back at -18 and the distortion is quite audible and way above the noise floor.

Okay, let's start slow. This is a screenshot of a 440 Hz sine wave generated in Cool Edit, rendered to 8 bit PCM at -46.6 dBfs. Notice anything odd?

I've got a question. Maybe some of the DIY'ers and more knowledgeable folks could help me out here. I've heard for a long time that these mics are all large diaphragm dynamics: Beta 52 D112 SM7 RE20 421 441 If there are any other examples that could be added to the list, that would be great...

I've recently scooped a Beyerdynamic M500 from ebay. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some specifications for this mic. I know they have a reputation for being fairly tough ribbon mics with a frequency curve similar to a midrange presence peak vocal microphone, but...

What are the typical phase response characteristics of different types of microphones? By now, I'm sure that many people have had a chance to look at the comparison that Dan Richards made, of the R-F-T M16 and the Apex 460 microphones here... http://www.studioreviews.com/m16-460.htm I'm...