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I have one of their mics... a Hamburg, IIRC. I did find that it was a bit intolerant of insufficient phantom power supplies. YMMV. Otherwise, my recollection is that it sounds decent, but it isn't my favorite mic for my voice; that award goes to either the CAD M9 or my long ribbons with...

None of it when you're tracking drums. Your kick likely sits down in the ballpark of 50-80 Hz. You actually need those frequencies. If you're getting stage rumble and other problems, you shouldn't try to fix that by rolling off part of the sound, because you'll lose part of the sound. The...

If other dynamic mics work, either the phantom power voltage/current is insufficient, the mic is defective, or the cable is bad. My bet would be on the mic.

If you're using it with a full set of dynamic kit mics (a mic on each tom, a mic on the snare, a mic on/in the kick, and a pair of overheads), I suspect that they should be serviceable. That said, you'll probably want to pair them (at minimum) with a good mic on your kick (and probably your...

The AKG mics I've used are D2300S mics, which AFAIK they don't make anymore, but any of their vocal dynamic mics ought to be decent for toms.

Watch for a closeout sale at Musician's Friend whenever the model year changes.

Non-linear, yes, but they scale the signal back at the end. And therein lies the difference. :D It's lossy when you do that, but if you don't scale it back, it's... well, way more than just lossy. IIRC, it only sounded acceptable within about the range o = i ^ 0.95 to o = i ^ 1.05, give or take.

For acoustic guitar or other precision work, I'd get a couple of omnis. If you're looking for something that's great for the money, I'd steer you towards the Naiant mics. For drum kit overheads, a pair of Oktava MK-012 mics (even an unmatched pair) are a great choice. I know some folks on his...

A linear change in decibels results in an exponential difference in voltage. A 6dB change in volume translates to doubling the voltage. A single bit = 6 dB. Therefore, when you double the voltage, you also double the numeric value that represents it, give or take. If that mathematical...

I'm pretty sure they're wrong. Plug-ins always run in a 32-bit float environment (or higher) in basically every audio system on the planet. Thus, the extent of the difference between 24-bit and 16-bit recording is the lower noise floor. To the extent that you're riding in the mud, your audio...

Unless one of the devices has a HUGE DC offset, my guess is that the computers had something wrong with them to begin with. That said, you might stick a volt meter across the audio line just to make sure.

Umm... all microphones get louder as the sound in front of them gets louder.... To be pedantic, your dynamic mic does not produce more noise than your condenser. Dynamic mics produce no self noise (thermal noise notwithstanding). Your condenser does. Therefore, your condenser is almost by...

Yeah, that's pretty much unavoidable given that, by definition, each bit in a binary number represents a factor of two more than the next smallest bit. :D (Yes, you could do some weird nonlinear mapping, I suppose, but....)

Not quite, but close. More bits means greater precision and also more dynamic range. In fact, precision and dynamic range are really the same thing. More bits means that you can reproduce a value more accurately. When you take a measurement with higher precision, you can detect a difference...

I wouldn't do it in DP; I'm not even sure DP has the ability to change the speed/pitch like that. Normally when you're doing the sorts of things you'd use DP for, if you're adjusting the speed, you don't want the pitch to change; in this case, you do. Download a plain-jane destructive editing...

Me either. I have a 565SD, though, which is close to a 58. I can't say I use it much, though (or any moving-coil dynamic, for that matter). Unless you're using a cheap, battery-powered electret condenser mic, 99% of the time, noise problems are the fault of the preamp, not the mic. The...

An iPad is not a Mac. It's closer to a cell phone than to a Mac. This is not to say that you can't use an iPad for recording—they're fine for scratch recordings, and could even be used for real recording if you can live with the limitations of whatever recording app you choose—but if you're...

I strongly disagree. There are plenty of good ribbons for under $150, any one of which will take EQ better than any condenser you can buy for under $150. This tends to make them more flexible mics, IMO—as long as you aren't using them for drum kit or outdoor field recording, that is. :) That...

The difference in data moved around by a 64-bit app versus a 32-bit app is mostly lost in the noise, actually—particularly when you're talking about audio, which is all floating-point math.

This. And only this, really. The DAWs have to run on newer OSes, which, unless the maintainers are bordering on insane, usually means discontinuing support for older OSes. The newer OSes have higher overhead than older ones, which means you need a faster CPU to avoid the OS's overhead getting...