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Again, I've seen bar gigs done with 3 mics for a small club. Two 535's for vocals and a Beta 91 in the kick. All condenser mics. No dynamics used. There are a bunch of other condensers that could be used at live gigs as well. We're not exactly talking about vintage C12's. Under normal...

I've seen bar gigs done with 3 mics for a small club. Two 535's for vocals and a Beta 91 in the kick.

If you have a half decent home studio, you might be able to make use of it for certain things. Mixing has a big learning curve, so it might be cheaper, faster and better to hire an experienced mix engineer with a good facility to help you there. Depending on the production, it might also help to...

You could use an inline pad in that situation if necessary.

Sort of. Only if you use that dynamic as a nearfield pickup. When the mic is farther away from the source you get more room sound. Condenser mics generally have higher sensitivity (meaning they output a higher signal level) and faster transient response (meaning the sound will start and stop...

In a nutshell, yup. It's that simple. Digital audio was designed with line level signals in mind. The same line level used with analog gear. There is no standard for where this will land on your AD converters, and the gain staging you use on your input chain is a critical first step. RMS...

The Airwindows DeEss is free and a bit unusual and powerful. He also has a number of clippers, compressors and a huge pile of other plugins. Many of them are a bit experimental. DeEss | Airwindows

It was 48 fixed point. There was a thread several miles long somewhere (probably the DUC) with people complaining about the sound. Basically when you started the mix it sounded fine as long as you didn't do anything. As you got deeper into the mix, it sounded progressively worse. Eventually as a...

It's unfortunate that a lot of people don't have a better understanding of dither. When to use it, why and what kind. Any time you quantize something to a fixed point format it should have dither on it. Your A/D converters should be dithering when you record tracks. Once you're in a DAW, the...

Sort of true. In a practical sense, any digital noise or distortion from 16 bit audio is barely audible. 16 bit dynamic range is actually pretty good. The real benefit of 24 bit audio is if you're going to process it in a DAW. The extra resolution makes it less vulnerable to breaking because...

I'm under the impression that Daking has only ever used one design for their preamps. It's a high quality unit that can hang with the best. Same class as things like Trident, A-Designs, Great River, Neve and API. The price point is competitive.

I recently picked up an Ibanez Talman that I'm very happy with. (Never say never, but as of yet I haven't played a low budget Soundgear or Geo that I liked.) Cost is around the same as a Squier Affinity Jazz, which I also have. In both cases they have no dead spots, reasonable action and they're...

It's easy to generalize about about different mic charactersitics to a point but the bottom line is that each unique model of microphone will have its own voice in your room, for your application. The only way to really know that is to get it in your hands and use it for a while. The room itself...

Like 90: used to indicate a condition of great speed, eg. "dude was bombing down the avenue like 90". Can also be used to indicate conditions of abundance, great fortitude and/or positive affirmation. "They rocked like 90", "I require an opportunity to urinate like 90", "Steam came screaming out...

The MoreMe name is there just because every time you ask a musician what they think of the mix they want to hear "More Me!". It's a tongue in cheeck reference to fucked up egos or whatever. Meanwhile the headphones are dirt cheap, not genius as far as sound quality, reasonably durable and great...

Harvey hasn't been here in years, but there's this: Indian Trail Recording Studio

As far as I know, Blues Jr.'s have a 1/4 inch jack for the speaker and another for connecting a "Fat" footswitch. For convenience, they are beside each other on the back underside of the chassis. "Line Out" and "External Speaker" are 2 different things. Unless Fender changed this on newer models...

Phase affects just about everything that touches audio. It's something you really have to hear to be able to identify. An interesting tip I learned recently was that if you know something has wacky phase, become allergic to that sound. When using a spaced pair or similar (drums, multiple mics)...

Both files seem to be labeled MK300?

Technology is always changing. I'm in the camp that likes real amps, so I don't have much direct experience with sims to offer. I was very surprised to see Steve Howe playing through a Line 6 when I saw Yes a couple of years ago, but it didn't stop me from enjoying the show. A few people...