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Isn't there also a voltage difference between -10 and +4? 0.3V vs. 1.0V? Which could spell trouble if mismatched for any duration. Line level - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

tldp.org aka The Linux Documentation Project I keed, I keed... But if that's your thing, it has some useful audio tidbits. CCRMA and other things. For software stuff anyway. Hardware is a whole different ball game. And yet in terms of recording and distribution, one cannot exist without...

As long as the thing that's being recorded is aware of that point that they start to clip and can work it. I tend to push mine until it clips, then back down one, so it doesn't. Back down two if it's a performance. Once you add extra gusto for a live gig, plus audience noises, it works out...

If you don't already have that gear, you might looks at the various field recorders out there now. Zoom H1, H2, H4n, Marantz PMD661, Edirol, Tascam, Korg, Nagra, and others. Some have mics and stuff built in. They run on batteries for hours and have no fan noise and stuff that you'd get with...

Back in secondary school, I was pretty anti-social. So anything that most people said they liked, I instantly hated. No U2, Duran Duran, or other mainstream artists for me. But I guess it depends on the qualifications for OLD. I bought a Burl Ives book from a used book store. Just more...

Get a faster computer? Get more RAM? Only use simple sound fonts at the time of capture. Or try fluidsynth in an optimized linux system. With optimizations of course. I was in the realm of a 0.5 second delay until I found that little trinket. It's still a bit of a latency, but small enough...

You acclimate to your monitors over time. You're probably just more familiar with the home setup and therefor hear things better because you have a known expectation. Like a new pair of boots. You don't break them in, they break you in. It could be technical things as well. One monitor is...

A number of sites have unlike buttons now. Negative reputation. Always nice to have higher numbers in six months than most mods have had in 4+ years. Even if yours is negative and theirs is not. Some even configure it now where it looks like you need to click / unclick them to do the...

If you use them as vocal mics, they'll be colder than the breath. If the room is not climate controlled, or you adjust relative to the outside temps to save some cash. If the room is a vocal booth and it gets up to 98.6F and humid while tracking. If your studio is/was in New Orleans. If if...

Perhaps a sample of the track without backing tracks. Also for vocals you'll have moisture problems, without precautions. Which can alter how a mic sounds. I really couldn't tell much beyond the clipping / distortion. Which may or may not be what you're considering the problem.

Looks like a nice mic. 134SPL is not invulnerable, but should be sufficient for that source. Does the subject MOVE when they say that phrase? Changes in orientation to the mic will change how the mic sounds on a source. Do they back away, move off to the side, other quirks. Recalling some...

Various cleaning software. The main issue is that when you remove noise, you remove parts of the audio, that you might have wanted to keep. Sox has pretty effective (destructive) noise removal. Audacity has some, the newer version, supposedly improves on that. Gnome wave cleaner in linux...

I generally check for software support in linux. If it exists. a) better odds of selling it. And b) better odds of a lack of driver related issues. Or having to downgrade your OS version to use it. And other black magic trickery. Although a lot of USB and Firewire devices use the exact...

One other quirk with the SM81's, the SPL limit was a bit low for my needs. Fine for a brass quintet, or most anything acoustic / strings (guitar / piano). But I'd be hesitant to use them as drum overheads. Or anything large ensemble. At least not without an appropriate distance factor in...

I've done 4 in on USB 1.x devices. Using 2x M-Audio Mobile Pres. I couldn't find the software needed to do both interfaces, but I scripted bash to launch two instances of arecord one with & to fork it. A small latency between the start of each, and the woes of syncing in post. But it was 4x...

SM81's are cardioid ONLY. I'd call them hyper cardioid myself. Or shures terminology, unidirectional. They are very directional, kind of flash light directional. With two as a stereo pair, I pretty much had to have them at 45 degrees to pickup sound in a 90 degree range. With enough overlap...

A lot of USB devices are USB 1.x, which implies limits. Generally 2 channels in with 2 simultaneous outs. And 16/48 or 16/44.1 sampling rates. ----- 1337 in hacker / calculator speak is LEET. For those of us who never squashed our inner child like everyone else in the world wanted us to...

Well... some PCI devices have built in hardware mixers. So even though it's say a 4 channel (Delta 44) interface, the computer can pass it 10 channels un-mixed and they'll mix in hardware. This can help free up resources. Assuming software that supports it, and enough tracks to need such...

Well, it depends on "WHAT" you're wanting to monitor. If you're just monitoring the input chain, stick a headphone preamp in there before the computer and there you go. Depending on your outputs of the mixer of course, which might have a headphone socket. But if you want to play back...

I think the post count stays with the post. 1337 is cool, but 7175 might be cooler. Depending on your font.