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The Audio-Technica 41-HE is a bette mic than the SM58. It is more sensitive has more bass response and more high range. Simply better. The sm58 "sets the standard" that other mics surpass because it is alomst 40 years old. Technology has improved since then and better mics are being made and...

Thanks Goose. Experimenting yourself and letting your daughter experiment is good. Since you bought the (clip on?)Sound Professionals binaurals, have you tried the simplest manner of clippong the binaurals to your or your daughter's shirt collar? eye glasses? headphones? hairband?

I want to be able to Go to concerts as an audience member, and leaving them as a person with great recordings of each concert. I also want to be able to, as an afterthought, record any rehearsal of mine easily and without a fuss, regardless of ensemble type and location. I want the quality...

Sorry, but that argument is ridiculous for most people. A CD will last it's shelf life regardless of the amount of times it is played. 1000, 2000, 50 000 times. An LP will not be great sounding after only 15 plays or so, and after 100 plays it will sound crap. If one stores an LP and NEVER...

Before using the EQ to cut or boost, have you tried panning? Assigning different panning space for the bass drum and the electric bass will help "keep the apart" sonically.

Some simple checks: tape speed consistent? dbx NR ON for recordings and ON for playback?

I have read that different brands of CDR last for diff. time periods. Stored in darkness: Entry level greeny-gold about 25 years Silver "Data Grade" about 50 years. Tapes last depending on how much it is played, and how it is stored. I have read that MD lasts about 100 years But these may...

You forget about Yamaha. they make good 4 track cassette units. TASCAM 414 (new or used) Fostex?? x-55 /xr-5 x-77 /xr-7 The TASCAM units seem better desighned than the Fostex ones. The Yamaha ones seem good. MT4 or something like that. XLR inputs and sweepable mids will come in real...

I have tried that out for curiosity and the sound was quite poor. Maybe if you spen a lot of money and get top of the line computer speakers with subwoofer (not that expensive compared to stereo gear) but still the sound will be inferior to similarly priced headphones. $100 will get one so-so...

The main reason I did not buy the FD4 or the FD8 was that they can only record 2 analogue tracks simultaneously. Even the 8 track. Says so in the brochures. They can record 2 analogue plus 2 digital tracks simultaneously, but where are you giong to get two digital inputs from? an external AD...

To really hear what you have done: -set recorders in Safety zone. -set channel switches to TAPE -Raise channel faders to shaded area -Turn all Tape cues to OFF (left) -Raise Master fader to shaded area -Set Line out switch to L-R (left most position) -Set tape cues to OFF -Turn...

A girl named Cello and a talk of diaphragms? Uh nevermind.. A PZM mic is a big contact mic. The old Realistic PZM mics are very good. Large (16 to 25 square inches) metal (superior to plastic) a hole for a screw (no tape needed) and a very long cable included. Very flat response...

Just today I heard a live "illegal" recording of an Eric Clapton arena concert. The pirater was using a tiny "clip on" Sony stereo mic and either a portable DAT of a portable Minidisc. He sat in the 12th row center column. He then transfered that to a CD and the results sounded great! Almost...

S8-N, I think you are wrong about re-sale prices of the satand alone units. 5 years from now, practically nobody will be able to buy the current VS and Akai Korg worksations for less than 50% of the current retail price. Simply put no one will be selling those units for a less price. They...

visit these web sites: www.minidisc.org www.mdreviews.com http://members.tripod.com/~Psych/index.html the latest MD units offer ATRAC 5 and 24 bit words. (better than CD?)

Welcome to the "Fletcher-Munson" effect (spelling?) That is what ATRAC compression is all about. The problem is all in your head. It does not exist outside of it. Really. All our heads are like that. The frequencies are layered on top of each other and when given two or more identical...

That's a tough question. The majority of the public prefer a really well marketed act/album with lots of sex appeal. The actual music is not all that important. The album sucking is not that big a hindrance (Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson etc). People who really focus on the music first is a...

The portable minidisc will have one stereo 1/8" mini-plug. It will also have one optical digital in and one stereo 1/8" mini-plug line in. Though the last two are being combined into one on the newest models. To find these portable stereo minidisc units go to the specialized electronics...

It is funny, but in your initial troubles that "barley audible" music you heard should not have been audible at all. What you were listening to was unwanted signal bleedthrough. You should have heard nothing from the tape. Cause: inexpensive and decent, but not great mixer electronics.

Acoustic instruments incuding voice will almost always have effects put in only during mixdown. Electro-acoustic instruments like electric guitar, electric bass, electric keyboard will be eq'ed "at the source" ie instrument knobs, and amplifier knobs. Using an "In-Line" effects set up instead...