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For budget drum overheads, I've heard good things about the MXL 993s. It's $200 for a matched pair on Musicians Friend, and I imagine that you can get them cheaper on Ebay. As for vocal microphones, I wouldn't recommend a 58 for recording. Vocal recordings done on live-use dynamics can sound...

For stereo piano and drum overheads, which of these is the best purchase? Shure SM81s, Josephson C42s, or AKG C451s? I have access to a Kawai baby grand in a decent room, and I record with some pretty dark, dry old Zildjan cymbals on a 70s Ludwig set. Merci.

Update The Mbox does indeed have my only pres. The 002 is for sure, as I need more inputs and I'm pretty used to Pro Tools at this point (and I like being able to take sessions back and forth between places around town). Since those pres are supposedly slightly worse than those in the Mbox...

I'm having a ton of trouble deciding where I'm going to get the best bang for my buck. Will a nice mic pre-amp improve my sound the most? More microphones? More acoustical treatment? A bigger room? A better monitoring system? I, for one, haven't much of a clue. This is what I've got...

I love Debussy. La Mer is probably his best symphonic work (in my opinion), and the Suite Bergamesque is best for solo piano. The only famous, official impressionistic composer. I won't talk about it. It's better to just listen, I think. Plus, I love the whole-tone scale.

This is what I have: Gefell M71 AKG C414 B-ULS 2 Oktava MK012As 2 SM57s 1 Beta 58 AKG D112 AKG C460B This is what I plan on buying soon: Shure SM7B Electrovoice RE20 Beyerdynamic M160 Sennheiser MD421-MkII I'm trying to put together a good home studio mic locker, with a fair number of colors...

Are the RPG Modex bass traps any good? I need to bass trap a fairly small room and I can't really order Real Traps due to the shipping cost (I live in Alaska and it's something like $70 per trap), and I've not heard great things about plain foam bass traps. What are my best options in this...

If it helps any of you decide what I ought to do, I'm going to be running all of this through a Digi 002 that I'll be purchasing in the near future. I'm used to Pro Tools and I'm going to stick with it, whether there are better value software/hardware deals out there. So I'll have those four...

My favorite album of all time is probably Radiohead's OK Computer. Aside from that it's all the other British greats--the Beatles, Queen, and Muse. I'm recording a circa 1970s Ludwig 5 piece with same era Zildjan medium cymbals. The ride is really dry, jazzy, and gorgeous. Bass drum has nice...

I need something pretty versatile as they're going to be the pres I run everything through, aside from when I'm micing a drum kit. I keep hearing about Great River and Avalon everywhere I go, and those are the two companies' respective stereo solid-state mic preamps. And finally, they're in...

I've read a lot of great things about both the Avalon AD2022 and the Great River MP2-NV but I can't decide which I would rather have in my home studio. Right now all I have is the pres in my MBox. Where is my money better spent?

I'm going to be setting up a live room across from my current control room (bedroom) soon and I was wondering what the advantages of absorption (foam/fiberglass) are as opposed to diffusion (ala the rpg skyline and other products). It's a relatively small room, maybe 15' by 12', and I'm going...

I want to buy a high quality vocal mic for use with a high quality preamp like an Avalon M5 and I was looking at the Soundelux iFET7. I listen to a lot of bands with similar wail-ish vocal styles, i.e. Queen, Muse, Radiohead etc. Is there a better choice for the money?

I'm going to be buying some stuff soon, and I was wondering if someone could help me out with the purchasing decisions. I listen to a lot of british music--radiohead, muse, queen, the beatles, coldplay, and play music similarly. My voice is kind of muse-ish. There are some crappy recordings...

Digidesign Digi 002 Rack Avalon M5 Presonus Digimax 96K Power Conditioner Patch Bay M-Audio subwoofer some good quality cables. Already have an RNC, C414, C460, a pair of MC012s, an SM57, M-Audio BX8 monitors and such.

the core now that everyone's bashed/praised pro tools le once more, can anyone offer me reasons why or why not to continue using it? i'm running an mbox right now and it does fine for what i've been doing but i plan on upgrading this summer. my experience with le thus far has been good but...

There seems to be a lot of animosity towards Digidesign, Pro Tools, and units such as the Mbox and 002. There also seems to be a lot of rave reviews of these items. I've heard loads of contradictory information on both sides, often with little justification. I'm curious to hear people's...

I figure I could use the RNC to limit transients before they hit whatever mic preamp I'd be running the signal to. Also I've heard good enough things about it that I imagine I could use it even after I got the Avalon. I'd be getting the Octane so that I could have more than four simultaneous...

I currently am running a home studio with a Digidesign Mbox as the core with no outboard processing aside from, occasionally, a Presonus Tubepre. I use a rackmount Alesis Multimix when I need to record drums. I have a decent set of mics at my disposal (AKG C414, AKG C460, 2 Oktava MC012s...