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Ehhh, yes and no. I own two of these, and recorded a whole album with them (along with several other mics, including ECM8000's, SM57's, e602, etc.) They're not particularly inspiring mics, but they did a decent job on male vocals that were, for lack of a better word, "rustic" -- on pitch, but...

My band has broken up (amicably, thank god). As a band, we own a PA system. It was originally purchased by each of us chipping in an equal share, so it is truly equally owned. We would like to determine how much the equipment is worth, so that we can provide everyone the option of buying the...

No subgroups -- it's a very simple mixer, with very few features. (It's really just a glorified set of preamps, but it's got just enough features to serve as a monitor mixer.) Turn it off, eh? Hmm...I suppose I could. :) I guess I should mention at this point that the amp is still in the...

My smallish home studio has a simple problem: the control room and the performance space are one and the same. This means that I need to mute the monitors while tracking, while still sending signal to the headphone amp. My mixer, an Alesis 12R (just used for preamps and monitoring), has...

I'm "mastering" a demo project for some newgrass picker friends of mine. It's guitar, mandolin, and two vocals. I've got all the tracks pretty well set for consistency, but now I'm trying to get the loudness set up right. I've tended to "master" rock tracks up to around -10 to -11 dB average...

Stefan, I'm talking about the ones that are labeled "Kick/Tom" and "Snare/Tom": http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/sid=020608223352209145162146941652/search/g=rec/detail/base_id/75703 That's actually what they're called, per AT: http://www.audiotechnica.com/prodpro/profiles/KP_DRUMS.html...

It turns out that I'm going to need a couple more tom mics very soon. As everyone already knows, the RS 33-3032 is on sale for $30; however, MF has a set of one AT Kick/tom and two AT Snare/tom mics for $60. I can find very little information about the AT mics, other than the fact that they...

I had something similar happen when I went to purchase a mic several years ago -- I went in for a 58, and was steered to a D880. I bought the D880. In a side-by-side comparison, I felt that the D880 sounded better on my voice. The top end is a little smoother, and it had a certain "richness"...

Results... The drum session was yesterday, so I've got some results to share. I started the session with the ECM8000's up as overheads. I had the drummer play for a bit, then listened back to what was actually being captured; I wasn't very happy with the results, so I tried a couple different...

I've *almost* got enough tracks -- I'm one short if I leave out the hihat mic, and two short if I mic the hat (which I prefer to do). I like the idea of asking the client about it, too. The group is a bunch of younger guys who understand that I'm just getting started with this stuff, so I'm...

I've got two pairs of condensor mics to choose from for drum over heads. The band is a fairly heavy rock band. One pair is MXL V57Ms (same capsule as V67). I've used them in the past with very nice results -- a nice, shimmering cymbal sound, but not overly hyped. The last time I used these...

Funny, I was told, in no uncertain terms, that this is not an acceptable practice. Using EQ to correct for the room is apparently a bad thing to do: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=40716

Well, good news on that 200 Hz peak. I moved the monitors (and the desk they're on) about 2 ft. further out from the wall and it disappeared. That left the measured response, uncorrected, measured by the ECM8000, at +/- 5 dB from around 50 Hz to 22 kHz. Not stellar, but certainly better than...

Well, as you might have surmised by my choice of monitors, I'm out of money, so further room treatment just isn't an option. The room actually doesn't have much to do with it, since I'm on the long wall of a 14x20' space with a 10' chopped a-frame ceiling that comes down to about 4' off the...

I'm trying to correct the frequency response of my monitors/amp/control room. The method that I'm using is to play back white noise (stereo, uncorrelated, to avoid phase/comb filter problems), recording it through an ECM8000, and then doing spectral analysis in SoundForge. I'm applying the...