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Today's Stupid Deal of the Day is a $200 mixer for $80. Looks good to me: Stupid Deal of the Day Deal ends at midnight tonight.

The Musician's Friend Stupid Deal of the Day today is a doozy - a really nice minirecorder for less than half normal price. Records in both MP3 and WAV, uses a mini-SD card, has built-in stereo mics, and a stereo mic input so you can use a professional mic with it. I just ordered one...

Lately I'm getting some strange "phasing" sounds from my voice-only podcast. I'm using a Heil PR-40 mic into a Mackie 402-VLS3 mixer, no mic processor. The mic is in an isolation box. After I record my audio (Adobe Audition 1.5) I run it through the stock bass filter and then normalize it to...

The Musician's Friend Stupid Deal of the Day - good today only - is a $300 16-input Tascam mixer, plus three Tascam microphones, for $99 with free shipping. Go here: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/stupid For the mics, click the "more information" link for the mixer and you'll see the rebate link.

Though originally used by ham radio operators, I understand that harmonica players love using this mic. I have a ham license, and I bought this mic so many years ago that I've forgotten exactly when or where. Anyway, I found it when I was cleaning the attic and thought someone would like to...

The microphones the American Idol contestants are using this year are Sennheisers that run a tad under $3,000 each: http://www.sennheiserusa.com/professional_wireless-microphone-systems_broadcast-eng-film_3000-5000-series_500434 And they have Neumann innards that run another $650. And who...

Off topic, but I didn't know where else to put this, and you'll LOVE it, guaranteed: A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500) during a flight. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay...

Has anyone tried this one yet? Sounds enticing: http://tinyurl.com/lql6my Behringer has less expensive condensers - is this one better than the others? One source says they were out in April. This one seems to indicate an August release? ---Dan

Do you know what this is: I bought it at a thrift shop yesterday. I thought it was a computer microphone, but it turns out the tip of the "mike" is actually a pushbutton. The heavy base is 2 3/4 inches in diameter (Roughly, just a bit smaller than a tennis ball). The bendy arm has a USB plug...

Just bought my first SM57, brand new. I tried to unscrew the element cover (top of the mike), but it just turns freely (it's not threaded). Is this normal for this mike? Thanks! ---Dan P.S. I'm not worried about it being a fake - I bought it new from American Musical Supply.

The box says EV RE50, but this ain't no RE50. I don't think it's even an EV. Anybody recognize it? http://tinyurl.com/ddrvxf Thanks! ---Dan

I have several microphones (none of them much above midrange in the price department, sorry to say), and I recorded 14 of them, one after another, in a file that runs a bit under three minutes. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a listen and let me know which microphone seems to be best for my...

Please listen to the file below (it's just 10 seconds) and let me know your thoughts. The first three seconds are the end of the canned intro. The last six seconds are the beginning of a particular episode. The sound is bad, and I don't know why. I'm using an MXL V57M microphone with pop...

Hey guys, I'm starting a couple of podcasts soon, one on softball and one on treasure hunting. I just finished laying down the raw vocal track for the initial softball show. Please give it a listen and let me know how it sounds to you - quality of recording, how you're listening (speakers...

I want a patch cord that will connect my cellphone to my computer's line-in or mic-in jack, so that I can play messages that have been left on my cellphone directly into Audacity as an audio file, so I can save it on my computer to use in a future podcast. The jack in my cellphone accepts a...

I bought a MXL USB 006, and I'm using it with a laptop running Vista. When the mike is plugged into a USB port, the audio is muted. I can't hear myself through the headphones (plugged into the headphone jack of the laptop). When I'm done recording, I can't hear what I've recorded unless I...