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If the sound that you're after isn't the sound of the source, it really doesn't matter what mic you use IMO. The usual mentions, but generally beyond $100 (even per mic). Shure SM81 Rode NT5 Oktava MK-012 depending on if you want one or two mics. Two mics are normal IMO, but mainly to...

laptop + giant squid mini mono - NO - The usual reasons, couldn't multi-track. High hiss input. Every little thing caused interference and other quirks. Sounded nothing like the source sound(s). But it was cheap. Phase II M-Audio Mobile Pre + same laptop + Art Tube MP + AT4033a - YES -...

the AT4033a has been out of production for a while. With other models since then 4033cl and whatnot. So even if he got the very last one produced, it's at least a couple years old IMO. Still a pretty good mic though. And $200 is about the going rate with a shock mount and case. As opposed...

By drift I just mean that the clocks on the different devices do not run at exactly the same speed. Baring any drastic changes in temperatures there shouldn't be too much drift of that other nature while recording. Just different lengths of results at the end of the day. Until you speed up...

Why would that drift worry you? It's expected, even normal. We are talking about a pro field recorder. And a consumer camcorder. With NO syncing mechanisms. And the drift in question is less than a second over the course of an hour. But it's enough to make clips longer than 10 minutes with...

I guess one should ID what is needed in terms of straight to CD. So you can listen to the gig as you drive home? They are starting to have car stereos with audio inputs these days. iPod or otherwise. So optical discs, which never really played well on many car CD players, are not the only...

Except that when you Zoom, you don't "look" 30' away anymore. And in a noisy environment where you might be inclined to read the lips, it helps if the audio is mostly there and in near perfect sync. Enough that the full head shot at full zoom and the delay are at odds to each other IMO. The...

I do most of my stuff in stereo at the point of capture. It's just odd to hear mono to me. No spacial information to accurately ID where the sound was relative to the mic(s).

Because most folks interested in recording professional audio typically need more than one channel. Baring voice over type stuff, but there are interfaces for either. If you only need one channel, there's the M-Audio Fast Track Pro, and the Mbox mini, and other options out there. Personally...

Well, there is no world clock on my gear. Or ADAT, or whatever the current option(s) are. Kind of hard to call them standards. We'd have to call 8-tracks standard, and from a certain POV, I guess they "WERE". While the video is not continuous or "complete". I do record in 60p, so that's...

In my case, the camcorder has no audio input. And the mics are at roughly the same location as the camcorder. Audio goes into a field recorder that I edit in post. I mean really all I'm doing is finding a sync point and trimming the long audio segment to match the shorter video segment. I...

30' is only 10 yards though. I can detect it, but I'm looking for it. And for music things, particularly drums. If you're looking for it, it's very evident. 32nd notes at 120bpm aka 64 beats a second. Just over two notes a frame at 30fps. Kind of obvious to me that the drummer stopped...

I do more event style stuff with video (or try to anyway). And I seem to be ultra sensitive to sync issues. I'm rarely closer than 5 yards from my visual reference with the camcorder and mics and even though I've been syncing the external audio to match the audio that the camcorder recorded to...

And a real time suck, doing something not involved in actively making music or recording music. It's not as fun when it's not "your" music. Money just buys the other things that makes it semi-worth while. Or whatever passes for money these days. Gear, season tickets, whatever applies.

Time management wise, which is worth more? Your time or theirs. It might be easier and faster to get them to retrack over and over until you get one good take. At a minimum it forces them to practice. Versus taking a limited gene pool and altering it's DNA on a cell per cell basis until it...

As a stand alone line level converter? Probably not, you need the firewire bus power to power the unit at a minimum. Which means that the computer has to be turned on and connected.

Well, you mentioned dance studio. A Zoom H1, or H2 or H4n depending on the quality level you're wanting for audio. Are you wanting to record straight to CD? And hand it to them at the end of the session? Or something with a post flow, i.e. editing? If you also need video, the Q3 might be...

5400ms HDDs isn't going to be an issue if you're only doing 2 tracks at CD quality. If you have a firewire device and are doing more than 8x channels, maybe. Or if you're using a USB interface AND a USB external HDD at the same time, then you'll have issue. Same with sharing the same bus on...

The difference is mainly how snugly the connectors fit IMO. The cheap cheap ones have them literally JUMPING out of the devices running for freedom. But I tend to just buy a bunch of 6' ones and link them as needed. Be sure to have tape (electric / vinyl) handy to keep things from having a...

What type of recording spaces are we talking about? Just private lesson rooms? Or concert halls that can fit a couple hundred (or thousand)? If you get towards pro-ish stuff, you definitely need at least 8 inputs. A drum set could easily eat most, if not all of those channels. If you're...