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Hi there, guys and gals, does anyone of you have experience with cheap lav mics? I would need them once in a blue moon, to enhance speech intelligibility and suppress ambient noise for video shoots. Capture would be either a small handheld recorder or a a laptop with an USB powered interface. I...

I had a pair of PR-30 for a short period. I always thought they had some kind of smiley curve loudness thing going on. As I had gotten a killer deal on them I was able to sell them with a little profit, and so I did. They were not my cup of tea. I'd go for a RE-20 instead.

If I undestand you correctly you are looking for a way to isolate the main vocal track(s) from a song. You are trying to cancel out everything else with a polarity flipped karaoke version or tv-mix. Sadly this won't work. The bus compression on the full version will work different than in any...

He says it is a valuable lesson to mix in mono, nothing more. So, mono ain't the gospel for a great mix, but then again, if you can't do a good balance in mono, you probably won't be able to pull off an effective mix in stereo either. But checking in mono is really important. If your mix that...

There's always reamping if you get into the habit of tracking a DI along your mic signal. Not that I'm fond of reamping. Thing is with modellers, at least in my opinion, that you'll never get any convincing tones out of it unless you have a decent idea how a mic'ed cab sounds. So, I would...

Forget the brain; the most important thing is to suit your ears. You will find a lot of concepts and reasoning in the interwebz, and different schools of micing a cab. Try everything, make mental notes of the trends you will start to see and keep on making records with it, but don't get lost in...

Yes! I wholeheartedly agree.

Wow. And you talk about super ego guitarist? A recordists job is to serve, not to dwell in his own greatness. And given I was the guitarist, I would not give a flying fuck about what you think I should sound like. That's the musicians and/or producers call. Sound recording engineers of decades...

I made different experiences. I think it is important that the guitarist gets 'his sound' in the room with the amp first. Then it is all about making it translate to tape or hd in a way he can agree on. Otherwise you may end up an insecure guitarist who is way out off his comfort zone. You...

Why headphones for the amp? And ho should it wear them?

Klotz stuff is decent, can't comment on the pulse brand.

I don't have a Latch Lake myself, and I fear that I won't own one in the foreseeable future. K&M and counter weights must do for me.

I use Drummica, it should meet your requirements and it's free.

Latch Lake has got a pretty new small mic stand in their product line. This should do everything you need. If I have heavy stuff to put on a boom I usually use counterweights, there are nice and convenient ones from Manfrotto, for ligthing hardware: Not as cost effective as sandbags, though.

Fixed that for you. ;)

..says a drummer. :eek:

I should have stuck closer to the OPs naming, with "average" and "good" mics. So, read cheap as average and you get the idea. And with "good" I mean something like "holy cow, this thing sounds good on just about anything". And yes. I believe that there are mics out there that work absolutely...

Both, if I can get away with it.:) I replied when only your facepalm reactions were online, and they were neither helpful nor excessively polite either. I don't claim to speak teh gospel. But I really do think that using one good mic is always better than using two cheap ones. btw, I'm not...

OPs question was: Short answer: You can get great drum sounds in mono. What is wrong with that in your opinion? Care to explain? Or do you just want to display a general douchebaggery, instead of giving good advice?

It's a legit and alternative third way to upgrade. Stereo does not not necessarily translate into great sound. And one great mic will always trump two mediocre mics when it comes to sound quality. If you can't even get great mono, why bother with stereo?