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To the right of the channel 2 gain control. "48V"

Do you have phantom power switched on? The microphone doesn't need it on its own but the Durham does.

"The blues isn't about feelin' better. It's about making other people feel worse. And makin' a few bucks while you're at it." ~ Bleeding Gums Murphy

Red Light Fever! Yes indeed. Any sort of jedi mind tricks you can play on yourself can help. It can help to be set up and ready to go so you're not worried about your sound, mic placement or any of the futzing you need to do on the technical side. Pulling out a great performance is a different...

K. It's analog and everything, but imagine it was digital for a second. I set the sample rate to 48k. I mult the output of the source to record 2 channels of 48k. So far so good. There might be creative reasons to do that. If I combine those 2 48k tracks, it won't be like using 96k sampling...

When I think of a connector with 3 pins XLR-M comes to mind. You're probably talking about TRS connectors which are commonly used for balanced lines, stereo lines or inserts. All that stuff and more is covered in the manual for your mixing board. You should read the whole thing, as well as the...

I set up all my strat type bridges that way. It might affect intonation slightly but it's easy to correct. Floating whammy bars are a moving target which is why I deck 'em in the first place. Something like a Floyd Rose floating trem takes a while to tune. Changing the tension on one string...

Post #15 on page 2 Here's the manual: Support Loudtech There's no second input channel. The insert point acts as a send and return, like an effects loop. Tip = send, Ring = return (To the mixer, not from - the signal goes the other direction) Sleeve = ground. Not balanced. Fairly standard...

All I usually do is adjust the spring tension or add springs so the bridge can't float. If the bridge plate is bottomed out on the guitar body it will work much like a hard tail. It won't throw the guitar out of tune if you break a string. You still have the option of using a whammy bar to bend...

More bits affects the digital noise floor, putting quantization artifacts in fixed point systems at lower signal levels. In the other thread we were talking about sample rates and bandwidth, not "more bits". There can be disadvantages to running ultra high sample rates. If you disagree, do as...

The SM57 is part of the Shure Brothers' "Unidyne III" family of microphones developed by Ernie Seeler which include the 545, 565, SM57 and SM58. These are the best selling microphones of all time, operating in all corners of the globe and beyond. Up until the Trump administration, a duo of...

It's easy enough to dither, and it would be easier if we didn't have to think about it. For a while now, Samplitude has had a thing called smart dither or something that you can enable so the workstation just dithers automatically when necessary. I don't think all DAWs handle it the same way...

Monty's video demonstrates it well enough in some ways. He shows a sine wave on a spectrum analizer. Without dither, you can see the harmonic spikes from truncation distortion. With dither, the noise floor comes up a little, but the spikes are gone, and the amplitude of the distortion is greater...

A lot of people attribute the "sound of digital" (eg. lack of depth, poor stereo imaging, cold harsh sound) to lack of dithering. To be fair, it's a subject that usually generates a lot of confusion, on which developers don't always agree. Since it happens at very low signal levels, the argument...

The problem with that video is that Monty is a developer (Ogg Vorbis) so people might assume he's speaking from a position of authority. He is, sort of. His demonstrations are effective, but his descriptions can be misleading, especially concerning dither. At around 11:30 in the video he begins...

Depends on the goal. If you're making something you intend to release as a finished product, I agree. If inspiration strikes and you just want to get an idea down, I usually like to just plug in and hit record as quickly as possible while it's fresh. Futzing with minutiae could be counter to...

Defining your goals is an important consideration. Pro quality gear exists at a very high standard so as to not get in the way. If you're hired to capture and produce someone's art I think there's an expectation to do that in the best possible way. If you're just using a home setup for...

People have made the claim that often people with hearing damage can pick out miniscule details better. From what we know about what we can hear, I don't think most people realize how well our ears and brains are wired to do that. I was reading a discussion where Bob Ohlsson was talking about a...

Not sure if this is the same Ryan Murphy or not, but I found this elsewhere on the net. The picture looks like the same guy.

Well hey, I learned something new. (Old, actually). But what's 0.0000738 amongst friends? For machining purposes it's practical to have tolerances that typically don't get tighter than .0005", and temperature can bugger with it. Fortunately they reworked it so now it's just 25.4.