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It would be a little hard to make calls on levels without any samples. If you're mixing tracks, you want them a bit less hot before mixing or the additive effect will clip. Which you can do while tracking or in post. There is noise associated with most recording gear. But that gear looks to...

The AT4033 should favor a female voice. Assuming a decent room, as that one picks up EVERYTHING. If you like the SM7b, you might give the EV RE-20 a try on her. I think it has a better high end relative to the SM7b. Not that I've used either yet. Or the EV RE-27 which has an exaggerated...

How many tracks. How portable? Laptops are a lot of pain on location. Just one automatic update away from lugging around an expensive paper weight. Plus the whole table thing, plus boot and shutdown times. Battery life and other issues (can't see the LCD in sunlight). My mobile rig for now...

Room treatment is the answer (of sorts). Baring that you can position yourself near a wall / corner and sing out into the room with the mic as close as possible. This should a) give a greater balance of source to room. And minimize reflections since it has (if only in theory) the furthest...

This is mainly an issue for cheap hardware. The high end stuff is more likely to give optimal results (+/- flavor) regardless of the mic(s) used on it. Unless you have a very limited budget and/or a need for tons of channels, your investment in terms of preamps can be in quality and not in...

Normally the issue is too much room. And you can't subtract reverb (much / yet). But you can add it fairly easily in post. Your description is nondescript. Is it empty because it has NO room? Or too much room? As in sounds like a bad cafeteria with concrete walls and tile floors. If it's...

Lots of opportunities to do it wrong. The speakers have EQ traits. The preamps have EQ traits. The room has EQ traits. And then there's the mic that you're actually testing. But there's probably a fair amount of calibration of each of those elements for the higher end brand / models (if...

If you only have one take, use as many mics and channels as you have. And only use the ones that sound good. The AT4050 should be good by itself with a little distance from subject. But it depends on the room and other factors. It never hurts to have more than you need. There are some...

I bet that goes over well with your clients. Your songs are always so long. I press stop 3 seconds in.

But there's liveCDs where anyone who can successfully burn a CD/DVD can run linux. Just going with the lowest common denominator. If only for the other folks who do run linux and/or don't have protools. And just documenting how "I" checked to verify clipping. As I try to wrap my head around...

In small spaces the reflections are very strong. Which is problematic. So you've got to do something, what depends on your needs and purposes. Aside from obvious echo issues, you've got a built in comb filtering effect with the reflections mangling the source audio. Perhaps not that big of a...

+1 for the Rode NT4. Which I've seen for $200-ish on craigslist. If you're open to MS instead, the Shure VP88 is worth a look too. But still a bit pricey new-ish. Otherwise just get a Zoom H1, H2, H4n, or other all-in-one things that come that way.

I'm sorry, I guess I assumed that you'd have the mic(s) on the same side of the treatment as your sound source. Point being that you can add room ambiance digitally. Taking it away after the capture is much harder. I didn't say ONLY carpet or blanket the walls. I didn't say carpet all of the...

Okay, then blanket the walls. Sound Proofing, Soundproofing Material: Lowest Prices - Audimute Soundproofing But I guess it depends on IF you want to have the room sound in your tracks or NOT.

Carpet the walls. Brick is horrid and not. Hard reflections in room. But it will block a bit of the outside world too. On the cheap, already in inventory options. Lean your bed mattress against the wall. Comforters draped over book shelves and other things to improve the inside acoustic...

That just sounds like a whole lot of clipping. Which happens when you mix tracks without applying negative gain first to compensate for the additive affect of mixing. Or use software that does that math for you to prevent clipping. And looks like clipping too. in linux: $ cp /tmp/Flash...

The real question is if the WIFE is also electronics savvy and/or tech savvy. You might be better served with something like a Zoom H4n all in one deal. It's part of the reason I've gone the field recorder route. Push a button, it turns on. Push two more buttons and it starts recording. In...

Headphone preamp. Line level is like 1/10th the headphone level (or less). That little headphone preamp should allow you independent levels (one adjusted for the line-ISH level). Alternatively you can take the rennow approach. YouTube - Ultimate sound recording in Canon 5D / 7D and Sony PCM-D50

Quality control Quality components Quality connectors And OPTIONS Most of which translates into reliability and capability. The mobile pre has so-so preamps, but you can feed it from better preamps. It's also limited to 16/48, which might mean running your levels a bit hotter than might be...

I wouldn't fret too much on driver issues at this point. If the box says USB class compliant, you're mostly good to go. Even if it takes windows 7 a good 6+ months to catch up with the times. If you "need" 24/96, then by all means get a USB 2.x device. USB 1.x devices are pretty much limited...