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In the states, SM57's are about a hundred bucks each. At around your price range of 130 Pounds or $202.45USD you could probably get two! I'll second the 219/319 suggestion, as they are a great choice for a first condenser. I have and use my two 319's even with other more expensive microphones to...

This could be describing my back room!

Every time I drive past a camper sales place I have delusions of ripping one apart and loading my stuff into it. Not one of the big ones. Just one built on a full size van frame. olduncledino

Bobbsy asked the required first question for sure. Take ECC83's advice seriously! This could be an insurmountable issue and it being a rental certainly limits your options. That all being said, I just want to go over some of my personal hum hunting checklist. Not on any particular order. 1) All...

Good idea to reiterate that Bobbsy! The audiophile was not at fault except for the unbalanced I/O. It was a great card! It was the HP without a doubt. As was explained to me, that particular model hP was apparently well known for that issue. I first went to a balanced I/O Delta 44 card and the...

+3427 And Yes... getting the AD conversion as far away from the rest of the computer circuitry is always a good thing. I used to use a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card which was highly regarded at the time, in a HP desktop. There was always a low level amount of computery noise and hum audible...

mjbphotos, That my friend is excellent advice!

One of the most frustrating things for both newbies and those who attempt to help them is the subject of money. I always grimace when someone posts a question about some piece of kit they need but insists that they only have $100 dollars to spend. This is especially problematic when they insist...

First and foremost, make sure your computer and mixer are plugged into the same circuit. Second, turn off all the extraneous electrical devices in the proximity of your recording set up. Especially fluorescent lights. Third, (maybe this should be first) listen to the headphone out on your...

Maybe I got a bad one but the Focusrite Trackmaster. Bought it new when they first came out. Five minutes with this thing and I knew it was a mistake. Just seemed to make good microphones sound like cardboard. Four hundred bucks that could have gone to better use. It's still sitting in a...

I'd like to approach this from a little different angle and ask just how softly your finger picking is? As I also have an extremely light touch when fingerpicking it requires my instrument to be more sensitive. With my plywood Takamine it is imposible to record a decent level when playing...

more trouble than it's really worth compared to a more costly laptop setup. If the system can handle tracking a few channels at a time it would cover a big part of how I actually record. For anything more complex, I could still use my multi-in/out iMac DAW and outboard equipment. The idea of...

This was actually fairly common among the basement recording set. In theory it seemed like a good idea, because they had a super high tracking speed, possibly in the hundreds of inches per second, but the results were never very good IMHO. Any advantage that the high tracking speed may have...

A while back I picked up a couple of Telefunken M80 dynamic handhelds. Very polite, smooth, with an almost condenser like top end. These are a great alternative to some of the other fine mics mentioned above. They're a bit on the pricey side compared to some of the other products out there, but...

+347 on that point. Of course you must also add the player to the equation. All that being said, it may be that for your purposes a blend of acoustic and electric is the appropriate methodology. Years ago I made a demo recording for a musician/ project studio owner/ friend of mine to listen to...

Nothing exotic but fairly versatile. MONO/Voice?:Bock195/Oktava319/SM7/RE20/TelefunkenM80/BeyerM500/Royer121-UAM610/TruePsolo-dbx160a-MOTU TWOTRACK:Oktava MK012/Oktava319/RodeNT5/SennheiserMD211/Pair of Grace 101-dbx1066-MOTU/SonyD50 olduncledino

I'm sure it's past 30k if you include all the cables, interface boxes, and a ridiculous number of broken headphones. The best of this stuff was purchased for other purposes than music recording, so does that count? The sad thing is that most of it rarely gets used much any more. I just don't...

Just a quick point from an old sound guy. Ballet dancers, concert pianists, professional athletes, and even computer workstation operators, are all highly trained in their fields, have safety and ergonomic policies to protect them, and all still suffer from career threatening injury. These...

Can we clarify the term quitting? Selling your stuff for the survival of your family doesn't constitute quitting to me. I would imagine that every one of you fine people here have had to give up something precious along the way. I would bet that any one of you would do the same thing again in...

Put down yer guitar, trumpet, oud, or whatever, and go to a circus. or a library, or a park and just watch the people. I travel alot as a stinkin camsoundlighting guy, and I find that wandering around different place gives me all sorts of inspiration. Go see a part of your home town that...