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I'm looking to modify my ECM8000's with some Panasonic WF-61 capsules. I think these may be a couple of db better in the signal to noise ratio department. It maybe possible to replace some of the headamp components with something slightly lower noise but most of the noise issues with any small...

What mic and mixer/preamp are you using? It sounds like you may be getting too much low frequency soundhole 'woof' when you are micing close. If you are using a cardioid mike then backing it off as you are doing or avoiding pointing it directly at the soundhole should help. An omni mic can also...

Once you couple quality with portablity you are talking $$$. Why do professional battery powered mixers the size of a Mackie 1202 cost 5 to ten times as much or more? Because they tend to be used in the film and TV industry and must be robust and reliable and often have features missing from...

Re: M-300 - Balanced? Yes, on 1/4" TRS. Go here for the full specs... TC M-300 Cheers ;)

We pay more for the Studio Projects stuff here than in the US but less for the Rode gear. BTW I saw a VTB-1 for nearly $600 Australian yesterday! How much in the US... $179 US!! That works out to about $300 AUS. So why does it cost $600 here? Even $450 is more than enough! We're paying DOUBLE...

Er... do you intend to keep using the laptop line in to record through? If you do, don't waste your money on a Grace or anything else for that matter. Consider at least getting some kind of USB or firewire AD/DA interface as a MINIMUM before you get too far down the track. The quality of the...

Basically it depends what you want to do. If money is no object you could just go out a buy a rack full of Avalons or whatever, but you haven't really made yourself clear. If you just wnat to record one or two channels simultaneously then a two channel pre like a Studio Projects VTB1 or the...

Well, I was trying to be polite! ;)

The Rode NT5 or possibly the new Studio Projects C4's would be a better bet. The C1000's can sound a bit 'peaky' and harsh on certain instruments. They may have been a good value budget mic a few years back but there are plenty of better contenders around these days. ;)

I have two Beyer 201's. Think of them as a refined 57. They work on anything a 57 does and then some. Great on snares, often good on toms with their rather pronounced proximity effect. They even sound better than almost any other dynamic mike on acoustic guitar. They have a really nice top...

Use the M-One for it's reverbs and delay/chorus FX etc... get yourself a RNC for compression. You won't go wrong! ;)

Get yourself a TC Electronic M-300 and forget the cheaper Lexicons! ;) So I'm biased... I've used the M300, own a M-One XL and have a friend who has a Lexicon MPX100. I also have a bunch of Lexicon and TC impulse files in my PC. M3000, M5000, PCM90, PCM91, 480L etc. IMO, at the bottom end of...

A friend of mine picked up a Neumann KMS84i from Cash Convertors. It's the vocalist version of a KM84. He paid $30 AUS... about $18 US! It was stuck in amongst all the elcheapo mikes. He gave it to me for a birthday present! :) I'm currently auditioning female singers to work with me in a duo...

I have a Composer MDX2100, an Aphex Compellor and three RNC's. If you don't need the built in gate or dual mono features the RNC kills the Composer hands down in the sonics department. In fact in real nice mode the RNC sounds vey similar to my Aphex Compellor which costs a shitload more than...

A B3 would be a better 'all round' solution... at more $$ though!

It depends on the size of the venue and the crowd and the size/quality of the PA. If you are playing in a small venue and your off stage sound is already plenty loud enough then just running the vox through the PA to keep up with the bands off stage sound is enough. Fully miked mixes require a...

Put it this way. You basically can't go wrong with a standard 58. The beta may sound better on some vocalists but it can also sound completely shite on others... especially strident female vox.

What I was in fact 'hinting' at is a $50,000 console will NOT use $500 worth of components in each of it's pres. From a manufacturing viewpoint it's not viable to spend half the total cost of the console on the pres alone. Sure it may sound great, but if the faders fall apart, the patchbays...

Re: Re: Re: mixing board pre amps

Only the first six. The other inputs are all line inputs.