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Wild that this thread has been cooking for fifteen years and the issues remain the same. Kinda comforting in a way. I just wanted to chime in on two points - first is that the SM57 and 58 are reliable, workhorse live performance mics. We would joke that if I misplaced my hammer, I could always...

I'm messing with an iPad and a Tascam im2 stereo mic for live tracks. So far, so good. I'll post some concert tracks from the other night. What I like is its unobtrusiveness and the ability to record after the screen shuts down. I'd like to find an application that records in .wav files though...

Here's an oddball question for you. I didn't find a discussion using the search function. Maybe that's ominous... I have an old AKAI DPS16 multitrack recorder that keeps on trucking - it was a phenomenal machine in its day, but came out just before the widespread acceptance of USB connectors...

WOW! What a beautiful piece of work.

I've been having some fun with my new VOX Li'l Night Train. I traded an old Trace TA30 and a 60 pound Fishman - 280 watts of acoustic amps for ... a 2 watt tube amp. Kinda glad I did that. Why? I use it at home as a practice amp and our fish have stopped dying. I use it out gigging only as a...

I've come to the conclusion after about ten years of running live sound and recording gigs that I must be stark raving mad to try and do both at once. Recording three or four tracks, sure. But the last time we tried to do a full band it was eight musicians, sixteen tracks, submix to a 8-track...

I can tell you I'm getting sick of putting up with the Bill Gates syndrome and am about ready to put a bullet through my PC laptop and the studio CPU. I think an Apple is in my future... after the megabucks cashes in for me.

Wrong question. That's as lazy as a rapper mic question. If you're operating at this level of inquiry, just go and get the most expensive one because you'll never know the difference and the industry might as well fleece you for as much as it can. But if you're serious, think about what you...

OK, then ice him. oh, right.... thin shank...

Same recording session as the last a cappella - 15 college kids including my own, live recording... Lemme know yer thoughts - thx! G.

You mean a little longer reverb? I can play with that easily. I use reverb like wasabi... delicious but a little goes a long way.

Thanks all! I believe you're hearing HVAC rumble that I could not isolate. We recorded in a chapel music practice room at Goucher College near Baltimore; it was an acoustically sensitive, but not a true studio space. Next time I'll cut the ventilation system to the building... This was...

Here's something I'm working on for my daughter's a cappella vocal group - a cover of the Chiffons One Fine Day. I had a hell of a rumble from the building HVAC systems that I couldn't get out for a long time... this is about as good as I've been able to get it so far. Lemme know yer thoughts...

There is more than one right way to do this. I tend towards hot amps for a very simple reason - My Crown amp does not have an attenuator. i run the monitors and sometimes the subs through this amp. The mains are adjustable Mackie powered cabs (SRM450s). I always set the trim on those at about...

Where's JGourd when we need him? Jonathon has all these answers in his back pocket and has built a reputation not only as a geek's geek, but also as one hell of a cable builder.

Head up or head down has more to do with the direction in which you are projecting than the quality of your voice. Ideally your vocal chords are more likely to be relaxed (as they should be) if your head is racing straight ahead and neither up nor down. Either extreme will require some neck...

Check pvt mail bro

Hey bro - I'm pissed too. But I'm going to back off a bit. I'm driven by Betty's banning with the same rage you feel... but anger isn't going to help us any. Come join us over at A & A. Nobody's gloating all that much... Glenn

Also check your monitor routing and adjustments; are you too hot there? If you are using powered monitors, turn the trim on them to 50 % or less. When I first got my powered monitors, they were so loud I had to turn everything down when monitoring. It took me a few weeks of workarounds before I...

It may be that your highs are a bit aggressive. There's a good basic concept to remember when using any kind of EQ, and that is to use subtractive, not additive EQ whenever you can. That means if you need to have a bit more midrange, then drop the highs as well as the lows a bit. The effect will...