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Electrically, the snag is just loading. The speaker impedance is almost short circuit to whatever comes after, so connected to a 200-600 ohm typical input means very low input level. Think of it like a ribbon mic. You have a specially designed transformer to produce 200 ohms-ish for a mic input...

Well - it has arrived and ...........................

My record with reel to reels is bad. My tascam 34 is in bits as it went bang and smoked, and the A77 just still sounds ‘weak’. The old 36 is not bad, and the B77 is a slow speed one. None get used because my zooms and interfaces sound better. So why have i just ordered a PR99 that is vague in...

When you start to build relationships with the sellers over there, you start to get access to more stuff. Pretty much anything is available - my contacts are essentially an office and a small workshop space. The other day, I noticed in one list, behringer P16 personal mixers and the mic stand...

I suspect one problem has been that the Chinese have also been making very good products for other manufacturers for a very long time that got rebadged - the original meaning of OEM. I note recently some very expensive japanese products are now available from sellers in China. Sony professional...

I suspect the build up of rosin is fundamental to the purpose, layer on layer, carefully applied year on year. My own experience is you always need more, never less. The mess on the bridge area of every bowed instrument a testament to the 50% of players who leave it on. The other 50% are...

On the string front? I wonder if the rosin on the bow has gone a bit dry and non-sticky? The smoother strings, especially thicker ones can be quite difficult to get 'moving'.

If anyone in the UK is willing to pay the postage, i have a virtually unused 5 bay CD copier if they want it. Stick a cd in the top and blanks below, and press go.got a DVD one somewhere too!

If moving the guitar changes the hum pickup, then surely you can use the guitar like a magic wand and use the pickups as a sensor - wave it around the room, floor, ceiling, walls, equipment and that will help you find the problem. People have suggested so many things over 7 pages that I'm...

Have you tried taking it somewhere else? That will prove beyond reasonable doubt if it's the kit, or your house. Be aware that this kind of thing is outside the scope of many electricians. Hums and noises in audio equipment is rarely covered in any courses, qualifications and training. They can...

Er...... the OP hasn't been back for three years, started this and then vanished. Not much point replying now after all these years?

I think what is happening is you have lost the ground connection somehow? If eddie is left and the other right, then you hear them both, you are hearing the difference of the two. Anything in the middle is being cancelled out, but anything left or right is added together. Quite how this is...

One of the things with any composition, irrespective of genre is rhythm. This does not mean rigid 4 to the bar, and cross rhythms can be exciting - however, you have so many different rhythms going at the same time, it's almost impossible to tap your feet to, let alone dance. The first beat in...

I have had lots of kit from DV247 and i seriously doubt they would sell you a poor system. It looks solid to me.

All that happened is the forum software flagged your posts for unusual activity. In a short time after you joined you triggered the behind the scenes systems that looks at frequency of posts, numbers of posts, IP addresses and it flagged them for moderator approval. I have just woken up, so at...

I mentioned in another topic I was doing my first Hindu recording. A really nice lady turned up and we had a chat. We agreed an experiment was required to find out if what she wanted could be recorded and then progressed in little sections through the year. She had an ipad that produced drones...

Cubase certainly doesn't work like this Dave - in truth I have no idea how it actually works in the mix bus. Most of my individual tracks in cubase are sitting around -3 - and look right in the display, waveform wise. If they are lower than that for some reason (probably less care on the input...

Being ancient enough to remember the 219 and 309 mics when they first came out, at the time, both got good comments for sound, and the 219 was only slagged off for the poor castings and build quality. In the era of cold war Soviet engineering, they were made exactly in the way we imagined. Most...

I have been smiling a little on this topic. Signal generator, audio voltmeter, lots of discussion over different specifications of coaxial cable. Then i look at the huge pile of audio cables in the studio that i have not put away. Apart from one that is turquoise, which I know the impedance of...

I figured I've recorded most things over the years, but this year has been 1st time for a few things - Recording poetry with visuals for use during services at cremations. Bit of a music bed with words to go with images from the person who has died's lifetime. Sombre stuff. Then today a phone...