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First off, this is a great thread and a really interesting subject, especially to anyone who is making music in genres that were defined by people with limited musical training--the descendents of blues, folk, etc. I've been having this same discussion back and forth with the cellist in my rock...

thanks for the responses--i should have clarified, i am using regular instrument cables, not TRS cables into the inserts. should i try using TRS cables? the manual seemed to indicate that using unbalanced 1/4"s would achieve the result i'm looking for, but it's not particularly well-written...

okay, i'm trying to record my band practices, we use a PA and i'm trying to get seperate tracks using the inserts on the mixer, can't get it work quite right. here's the setup real quick: sax (mic), vocals (2 mics), keyboards (2) plugged into Ross Systems PA, inserts connected to M-audio Delta...

hello, i've been playing a musicman stingray 5 through a 70's ampeg v4 head into a bag end 2x12 cabinet (not sure what year or model, just that it isn't made any more and there isn't any information on it on the web). it sounds great, has always cut through the mix, and gives me the...

hey, i just noticed that those ev/blue collaboration mics (the 'cardinal' and 'raven') seem to have finally materialized, and was wondering if anyone on this forum has had a chance to play around with them? i still can't find anywhere that has an actual picture of them, even, just those cgi...

thanks for the advice--i don't know why i hadn't bothered trying to install audition to test it out... well, it installed, but not only does it take incredibly long to load but i apparently don't have enough ram even to playback the fabulously cheesy 'welcome to adobe audition' session that it...

no offense taken. knowledge is (after all) knowing that you know nothing. a reality i am forced to confront daily whenever i try to write a song (or worse yet, record it!)

hello, i've been looking into doing some field recording (at school rehearsal studios) and had thought about using my laptop with a portable preamp/phantom interface. however, my laptop is rather venerable by today's standards. i own audition which runs beautifully on my monstrous desktop but...

hello, i'm trying to do a rough demo recording of my girlfriend singing with a pianist for some auditions. i realize these challenges have been dealt with in abstract in great detail and in practice in various forms in this forum, but i figured i'd post my gear and see what you guys would...

this is a thread whose main question could be answered very easily in one of two ways: 1. a gut reaction or 2. an array of degrees in music theory, music history, musicology and one or two in literature & creative writing. i dropped out of college in year three of an undergrad in lit primarly...

hello. i'm looking into buying an sdc for stage vocals as a backup/alternate/replacement for my venerable ev pl77b. i'm probably looking to spend about $200 (unless i can find something old and nice). i've read lots of good things about the sennheiser 865 on these forums, but not so much...

Hello, I've recently acquired a Soundtech ST 164 (16 ins, 4 outs) for pretty cheap. Has anyone here had any experience with this mixer? I haven't hooked it up to play around with--my biggest wonder is if it has built in preamps... nothing about it seems to indicate that it does beyond size...

thanks! thanks for your replies--these are all very helpful suggestions. dani-- we'd talked about getting a 2x10 to augment the L9, i definitely like the idea. any suggestions as to which would be best suited? all the 2x10's i've seen are closed-back extension cabs for bass. would these...

hello, i'm recording my five-piece band in a small room. the lineup is drums, bass, keys, guitar and sax. we prefer to get the feel & sound of recording as much simultaneously as possible. currently we're running bass and keyboards direct until we get more equipment and better skilled to mic...

hello, i'm a bassist vocalist in a band with drums, guitar, keys and saxaphone. we're having issues with live sound and the mixing stage of recording that i think i know the cause of, but which i wanted to get a few more opinions on. here's our rig: vox--whatever pa is available sax--jbl eon...

okay, i guess i just answered my own question--looks like it's just different patterns from the 835 to the 845... so, lower feedback/room sound pickup as the tradeoff for having to make sure that the vocalist keeps his mouth in front of the mic? or is there more to it?

super, thanks... so would it be safe to say that if i was liked the 835 and didn't care about the extra cash, that i'd be that much happier with an 845? thanks again.

hello. i recently played a gig at a venue that had senn e835's and was pleasantly surprised to find that they suited my voice really well--i'm a somewhat baritoney tenor and my vocals get pretty wordy, so in the past i've found that 58's and 57's end up sounding a little muddy and boomy whereas...

oops, i was writing my reply at the same time as you were writing yours... no need to apologize--I was being obtuse. And thanks for the suggestion--I'll definitely try running straight from the preamp out... money saved and all that. I'm assuming this won't cause impedence problems...

Ah. That makes sense--so the DI needs to be connected in series, with the cabinet as the final output... I wasn't getting that you needed to connect the speaker to the amp through the DI box, I thought you just meant that the amp still needed to be connected to a speaker. duh. I'm...