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Misaligned companders often make wireless sound ‘better’. For many years i ran a 6 way rack of Trantec receivers, but used Sennheiser transmitters. This, everyone says, is bad, and causes all sorts of RF issues to do with bandwidth and deviation, but I did it because it made them sound better...

In the tape days, drift was an issue, big time. Nowadays, I never worry about sync at all. So many ways to fix it. Cubase, for example can stretch and shrink your files to match sync points very simply. A drum snare is visible in the waveform, and you have a brass player playing stabs that are...

The real thing to consider is what it’s for. Two instruments and two voices, or two instruments and one voice plus the audience? One mic per source, mix afterwards. Good separation, panning , scope for eq and effects, clarity and definition. The alternative is a stereo recording. That requires...

I have a vision now of somebody with a classic car getting a friend to also drive their brand new car on every journey just in case the classic car breaks down on the way, so if it goes wrong or starts to rattle, you can still get home?

It was tricky as you didn't stop talking - but when you said you had bypassed the UMC I could just detect a roughness in the tiny silences. Sadly, your issue is exactly what a gate does - prevents signal pass through until a pre-determined signal level is exceeded. So from silence to very quiet...

Ha, DIN! How would today’s youngsters cope with a cable that worked between A and B, but did not work between B and C and needed reverse wired versions for connecting two recorders for copying? Levels wise, Dave, we just turned the knobs, and if it hissed a bit, we ignored it, or the reverse...

Nice version Jimmy - I like how it flows differently to the orginal.

I had somebody in the studio who queried why there were two keyboards set up? In the studio I tend to do this quite often - one weighted and the other as plastic as possible. I made a video to try to demonstrate why two keyboards and just one set of sounds is my way of doing things. I figured...

Yes - try them and pick the one that works for you best. If you set up your exotic preamps to output lots of level, select the appropriate one on the interface, or if you output at a lower level, try the other. If the interface has to have it's gain set high, that's going to ramp up noise. if...

You have each source connected to a pre-amp, and each of those goes to another pre-amp? OK. What you have to understand is gain staging. Every connection stage has to work at optimum - so assuming the first interface is the 'highest quality' one, you set the gain stage there to be at the optimum...

I don’t understand its the same on a mixer or a preamp? You adjust each preamp gain knob to set the level on its way into the mixer or preamp. That way every channel will have undistorted but optimal level. It also means that some faders will end up very low compared to others, that is very...

Ha you don’t need permission. Recording has rules that everyone learns are really guidelines, that breaking once they fail is perfectly. Now i am ancient, my personal warning bells ring whenever you get asked to record solo violins and violas, any brass, and to a lesser degree, small woodwind...

Not sure if you're interested, but I have a spare EV320 which I'd happily loan you if you cover the postage. I'm not using it - if you fancy experimenting with a different kind of mic?

My business is split between music/entertainment and radios. As in mostly boat radios. I supply the prestigious Japanese brands, but also a number of Chinese ones. I discovered that two radios I sell at the premium end - one a handheld and the other a boat mounted version have GPS, which means...

How about this one? tube mic

Forget calling the pairing of 2 mics on a bar X/Y or ORTF, or DIN or the others - stereo, because close in, they're being used totally differently that the usual stereo application. The way these techniques work is to do with a couple of two main features. Differences in volume from one mic to...

I think we are hearing the hole in the middle. Both mics missing the nicest area of the harp. four feet away probably means the inverse square law reduces the furthest strings too much, too quickly. Assuming they’re symmetrical, you create a blending f two mics that ‘blur’ the crossover point...

For VO work don’t your clients want just the raw audio? Then they adjust their end to match what else is going on? Audio beds, sfx, that kind of thing. The last thing I would want would be any kind of processing I can’t remove?

I would stop right there and use it as it is. I expected dull, muffled, boxy audio - it wasn't. I seriously doubt if you will even hear the swap to rockwool. Seriously - your voice and the space work 100%. There is a little strange sibilance - but it's minor and probably the angle of the mic to...

I liked that. Did I notice anything? The only thing that jarred was the keying on the guitar, when his headstock vanishes and sometimes bits of him and the guitar body, but I suspect you just got given the footage and the error is in the media. In premiere that i use, there is a moving mask...