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I never remember Mr Ethan ever saying that? 16" x 16" is not big, the bass traps in my control room are across the corners 102" x 48" x 6" thick. 2.6 mtrs high x 1.2 mtrs wide x 150mm thick. I think you mean feet not inches, ' = feet, " = inches. https://ethanwiner.com/basstrap.html

It is physics, bass low frequency requires mass to either insulate or trap. The insulation in my bass traps can stand up on its end without support, if its floppy soft stuff then you need much more of it to obtain the same mass. Who says the opposite?

For any type of bass trapping you need rigid insulation, to trap bass you need mass.

I am not talking fluffy insulation, you need dense insulation. If you go to an industrial insulation supplier, you can buy large pipe insulation that is very rigid. You can then stuff some softer insulation inside. Or you can roll some insulation tightly into a tube. Alan

To clarify the cylinder trap is called a tube trap. There are ones that are sold on the market but basically if you roll the insulation into a tight tube shape and place it in the corner it will help with the bass build-up in the corner. You can also place them in other parts of the room so they...

It should definitely help, I have seen cylinder style bass traps that work so same principle. The style of bass trap does change how low it goes, but anything is an improvement Alan

I stand by what I said back in Dec 2018. Also use Multiple mics and record to separate tracks then mix them together to build the sound you want. I have attached a photo from a session I recently did, the guitar sound with virtually no EQ is fantastic. There is a SM57, A ribbon mic, and a LDC...

I have not tried the 32bit 24bit thing, but I did open a 48k project in reaper not realising the project setting was 44.1k and reaper converted all the incoming 48k files to 44.1k. Cheers

I also really liked programing midi with human feel anyway by placing some error into the timing, I'm not doing so much nowadays however I did program drums with midi for an album last year and all the local drummers thought a real drummer played on the album. Alan

When I used to use midi in a live dance act, I found quantizing made things worse as all the notes arrive at exactly the same time, where if there is human feel in the midi there is a slight delay between different notes on the same music measure. Alan

The only experience I've had with a noisy Rode mic has been a bad phantom supply, usually by having a cheap lead or dirty connections. Alan

Rosewood, it's soft but I like it.

I should have said what round wounds I use on my fretless, I use Elixir's. I too have found that after the initial few marks it does not seem to get worse. Alan

I have 3 fretless basses, 2 with flats and one with rounds, I love the fretless with wounds as the attack growl monster, so if it cuts up the neck so be it LOL. Alan

When I got the old version of NT1, it was my best mic, we are talking early 90's ? A guy can into the studio to track a female vocal, he brought his Neumann U87, halfway through the session the U87 stopped working, we switched to the NT1, later he could not work out which vocal tracks were...

I bought one of these when they cam out new, still have it but its retired really. Used it as a buss compressor on a whole lot of recordings, then I moved it to my large PA rig and put it between the desk and the crossovers as a safety limiter. The PA really cranked when you hit the micro a...

The funny thing was that when I was recording to tape on my old 16 track I used to hit the levels pretty hard, that's tape compression. So I suppose I was recording with compression on the way in LOL. I do miss recording to tape. Maybe I should dust it off, if only tape did not cost so much. Alan

While I never recorded with anything connected, eq or compression, since mixing more and more using software and not in the analog domain (console and outboard) I have been tracking with some compression. I have been using some compression on things like snare and bass as I find the plugins are...

The very early ones like we are talking about either did not have serial number or it was inside, like the photos in the other thread

Found old thread here https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/early-rode-microphones-nt1-nt2.285271/