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I'm at an exhibition - next to me is a reel to reel, splicing block, tape and single sided razor blades for people to try editing. They have had to take razor blades away because younger people have never seen them and cleaning up blood is not good - so supervision is now required. The students...

I grabbed some mics and did a little video

I’m confused? Your other topic listed totally different products?

After the dropout show which was a totally empty stage with one person, we attempted to replicate it. The person on stage held it right where the antenna is which didnt help, but full signal strength from two antennas. We couldn't make it happen again, which is worse than finding the problem...

Well, as the owner of dozens of the damn things, the two you mention would not be on my 'best' list at all. The thing with radio systems is that the most expensive ones are nearly as good as a £10 microphone cable. I just invested in a digital Shure system for this summer that was mega money...

Thanks! - Yes that's it! It's the singers own mic they just have in their touring kit. I wonder who grafted the two together? the capsules are replaceable, so I guess you just modify the mic body? That's an expensive mic to saw the end off? Maybe earthworks offer it as an option? EDIT Yes they...

They do say that after a nuclear explosion only two things will still be working. Cockroaches and ukuleles. Always good to produce your own rules based on experience.

Doing a Drifters show and the baritone has a different radio mic. I’ve never seen this mic before does anyone know what it is?

They seem guilty of selling a common shape microphone with a rectangular badge, but in quantity. Their other ‘crime’ is using numbers as part of the model, as in GTZ-87, or 103. They are not “passing off”, a UK term for making people think they are buying an original. Their website to my...

I deleted your other post as it was a duplicate of this one, and people would waste time probably saying the same thing. Reading the responses, it makes sense. Can I ask what you are doing because wireless, either RF or bluetooth seems a very problematic solution for all kinds of reasons...

No. Impossible to even consider. The main problem would be that it doesn't offer any benefit for me to use. Value for money, I suppose. I’ve got a ridiculous mic collection. 90% never get used. I sell quite a few way below what I paid, but even if the mic was amazing, selling an expensive fake...

Misaligned companders often make wireless sound ‘better’. For many years i ran a 6 way rack of Trantec receivers, but used Sennheiser transmitters. This, everyone says, is bad, and causes all sorts of RF issues to do with bandwidth and deviation, but I did it because it made them sound better...

In the tape days, drift was an issue, big time. Nowadays, I never worry about sync at all. So many ways to fix it. Cubase, for example can stretch and shrink your files to match sync points very simply. A drum snare is visible in the waveform, and you have a brass player playing stabs that are...

The real thing to consider is what it’s for. Two instruments and two voices, or two instruments and one voice plus the audience? One mic per source, mix afterwards. Good separation, panning , scope for eq and effects, clarity and definition. The alternative is a stereo recording. That requires...

I have a vision now of somebody with a classic car getting a friend to also drive their brand new car on every journey just in case the classic car breaks down on the way, so if it goes wrong or starts to rattle, you can still get home?

It was tricky as you didn't stop talking - but when you said you had bypassed the UMC I could just detect a roughness in the tiny silences. Sadly, your issue is exactly what a gate does - prevents signal pass through until a pre-determined signal level is exceeded. So from silence to very quiet...

Ha, DIN! How would today’s youngsters cope with a cable that worked between A and B, but did not work between B and C and needed reverse wired versions for connecting two recorders for copying? Levels wise, Dave, we just turned the knobs, and if it hissed a bit, we ignored it, or the reverse...

Nice version Jimmy - I like how it flows differently to the orginal.

I had somebody in the studio who queried why there were two keyboards set up? In the studio I tend to do this quite often - one weighted and the other as plastic as possible. I made a video to try to demonstrate why two keyboards and just one set of sounds is my way of doing things. I figured...

Yes - try them and pick the one that works for you best. If you set up your exotic preamps to output lots of level, select the appropriate one on the interface, or if you output at a lower level, try the other. If the interface has to have it's gain set high, that's going to ramp up noise. if...