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I have an HD24XR as well and just got an Allen & Heath System 8 24 channel, 8 buss mixer for 960 bucks to run my system. For starters.. forget that Behringer. You might as well burn that money. The HD24 is just too good for a cheaply made mixer like that... that will not sound good and break...

A band I produce uses a SM7 for studio and live work. Good mike. It can take a lot of abuse like most Shure's can. It's not the right mike for a lot of singers and it does have more midrange warmth than top end. If you are doing hard/screaming vocals the SM7 is pretty awesome. If you're...

In general I would say that there is no such thing as a given mike for a certain type of music. Take a singer and have them sing thru a few microphones to listen to what works best with their voice and for the music. To avoid having any prejudice set up the mikes and sing into them randomly...

One of the songs on Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffitti was recorded outside... you can hear a plane fly overhead. Sounded fine. I'd be worried about ran or the heat of the sun on my gear though.

My opinion is maybe the singer needs to relax. I think he may be tensing up his diaphragm because of the pressure of recording. Try booking short 1-2 hour recording sessions for the vocals until they get used to recording and it's no sweat. Honestly, most bands can't do a great recording...

Most of the bands I record now are emo/screamo type bands so I'm becoming really familiar with the genre. In fact, I picked up a few albums that I liked based on some of the stuff the bands gave me as sound tests/examples. There are a few decent bands in any type of music actually... although...