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My Genelecs have been 'on' since 2004. Never a single thing wrong. Lot's of signal time. My Neumann's have been 'on' since 2013. They work perfectly. I think the incident rate goes way down as the price of admission goes up.

I own three Eleven racks. Two portable and one in the main studio. I have friends who swear by their Kempers but I still like the Eleven. If you don't need the PT and the converters then it's an astounding buy at the prices they go for these days. Plus there are lots of share-ware sites you can...

I used to record rehearsals with a couple of SM57's into a cassette recorder and a small mixer. If you pay attention to the input gain and properly balance it with whats going on in the room, there's no reason at all not to get recordings that will tell you what is going on with the band. But...

I love her. Nice mic too.

Rivera Rock Crusher Recording. Load box but not simply 'resistive' it works on 'reactance'....There's a huge difference in the type of output signal from each of these protocols. A resistive load box simply adds a fixed impedance to the speaker output on your amp. This allows you to crank a...

This one way to do it. Again I recommend using a DI with a transformer to sort of 'buffer' the output of the sub-kik. It also will give you a true low impedance input to your preamp of choice.

Yes. as I described before...buy the EV N/D868. I did and it has replaced all six of my other kik drum specific mics. I own Audix D6, Shure Beta 52, AKG D112, Audio Technica ATM25, Beyer M88. etc.....

Here is my sub-kik and the mounting

No. That's it in a nutshell. There are several schools of thought on that and this one in your case is mine. There are others who have suggested using the best mics, the U87's as your overheads and get the "kit" sound from there whilst enhancing the kik and snare specifically. This is my belief...

I have built several sub-kiks. The best suggestion I have for their use is to use a transformer based DI on the output. It serves the same as a pad but also adds that bit of "iron" to the signal. I finally wound up with a 5" Fender guitar speaker from some little practice amp and built it into a...

I do like the 441 on snare and I do have one but rarely if ever use it for that anymore. I have much better choices these days. But for your kit and description of the style, the 421 is going to give you more 'body' on the snare just micing from the top and also I feel that in an "okay" room...

Love my Slate Trigger. And yes, sometimes for brevity with quality sake it's whats on the plate. If it's my intention from the get-go to 'replace' I use an Audix D4. It bleeds NOTHING

A year or so ago my Sweetwater Pro contact let me in on a special sale they were having on the EV N/D 868 mic you listed as perhaps wanting to add. Mind you, I own several really good kick only mics and a bunch of others that will work on nearly any kit and style imaginable. The EV is now my...

Sometimes the leading voice NEEDS to be two voices (or more!)but not in a traditional Harmony like you'd find in the chorus after the verse or a refrain after the chorus. It's here that the subtlety of the mix can bring a special harmonic content to the leading voice in a way that gives it power...

Practice practice practice! Two things to help as kind of a starter to understand what you're actually hearing EQ-wise..... 1.Do you have a 31 band graphic in your plug-ins library? I'm not suggesting its actual use (although sometimes its exactly what you need) but putting it on an...

Sorry. I had to laugh. No, really....It's a great idea! The key here in your assessment being "the long run"................

"The worst clients are those that demand the earth, pay peanuts and expect miracles! " I can't count the number of times this has been the only true thing to come out of sessions where the clients talk a big game and deliver on nothing both in their performance and in their pocketbooks...

First off. It IS a Neumann. There's a certain cachet that goes with these and for good reason. However. Not my first choice for any vocal singing, spoken word, recorded voice calling cattle in. However, you may find that the 'capacitor' part of it gives you things that the RE20 never will...

Objections noted. However, there many studies over the years that indicate certain tones, musical structures, bandwidths, etc etc have much effect on the human physiology both physically and neurologically. Are we living (in these advanced times) with learned behavior and reacting to...

Great advice and points made. Any source not created inside the DAW is most likely analog. A mic and it's associated pre amplification is an analog signal at it's most basic. A synth that you take the output from it's analog outs is....analog. So just what is this magic that these peeps...