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You perhaps misread, this was a live recording session for release not just a live event. It was essentially a studio session. We went through plenty of very expensive Neumann mics then down to dynamics like the RE20. The 57 sounded right with the source and balanced with the rest. Live...

For every source, circumstance and session there is a mic that best fits. We were recording a 3 night live show with a Canadian Folk band called Hart Rouge. One of the singers was just getting over a cold and her already husky voice was pretty burly. During set up we went through just about...

A number of years ago there were a few videos about modding a Pyle 57 clone using a stock 57 transformer. Some were saying it was a poor man's 421 for Toms. There are a number of mods out there for the 57 so this is nothing new. Funkenwerk's offers a number of transformer replacements and...

Perhaps it is just me but I'm not getting the sense that the OP, who currently cannot figure out the physics of sound energy between a speaker cab and microphone, is otherwise an acoustics physics savant and will instantly understand the complexities of John's fantastic spreadsheet. I could be...

I started recording in crappy studios in the 70's where the treatment was literally egg cartons on the walls. You learned placement in the room in addition to mic placement on the source to get good results. That is what my post is about. How to get good results, in less than ideal spaces, is...

A lot of good hints in the above posts but the common one that nails it is that your ears are nowhere near where your mic is placed. What the mic hears, isn't what your ears are hearing because they are in different places. So how do you get your ears to hear what the mic does? Headphones...

Couldn't tell you who is producing them but the majority of guitars are made by two OEM's, Samick and Cort. About 20 years ago I got a factory tour in Inchon that included rough to finish in both acoustic and electric manufacturing lines. What I saw was a surprising number of different names...

It is Northern Ash and a bit heavy. I have some book matched Swamp Ash I got from a builder down in Florida but never got around to building anything with it. This was the very first guitar I built. I'd often go through the piles of rough sawn at a specialty lumber company near where I live...

Mine is a eclectic mix of stringed instruments. I had a larger collection of Tele's but have been downsizing. I gave one of my favorites to my son and a Squire and Alvarez Dana to my nephew. The instruments on the right are ones I built starting with the plain Tele. Tele's

Just be glad it is an intel mac vs power PC with NuBus. That is where I started with all this nonsense.

I don't know what your issues with reliability were, but it might be helpful in deciding which direction to go, if you better understand latency. Lots of part contribute to how fast it takes audio to be converted into bits, transported, processed and then returned back from bits to audio. Both...

Sorry, I feel your pain. In reading what you added to your story, it sounds like these two systems were not part of the same recording setup. I used to be in charge of archival content in the corporate studio I worked at. The primary focus is always the content. Once it is backed up to a...

I'm starting to think you are not even bothering to read what I write. HD24Tools was software for this. Hint, hint.

Model and measure. There are a number of spreadsheets such as John Brandt's that work if your room is proportioned as a rectangle. Mine isn't and required additional calculations. For a normal rectangular room, you enter the dimensions and it will calculate room modes at various frequencies...

Seeing as you've got this old system up and running. What I do with old projects on my old ProTools rig, is export the entire session as wav files. I don't read every post on this forum as I've a business to run. So I am catching up a bit on what you've posted. I see you are starting to come...

Back in the 90's I got to work with some early prototype DSP's and my discussions with the product engineering team was laughably interesting. The software engineer claimed that within 10 years, they would have software that replaced us audio engineers. That AI would mix everything, and life...

Warren is notoriously cheap. He admonished his ex-wife once for buying a couch rather than keeping the money in investments.

Sorry, too much of an adult to use emoji to attempt to convey humor, even in these tumultuous times.

I hate to be the one that says it, but we killed another one with kindness. 8 days, no response from the OP, I don't think he's coming back. I could be wrong. Maybe they're on deadline or forgot to bookmark the URL.

A mystery indeed. So much so, I decided to leverage my vast resources (went to the van and grabbed an adaptor and meter) to see if we can't solve just that. I have the opposite setup. I have a desktop PC for my home office that I have to do the occasional Zoom or Teams meeting. It has a...