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My thoughts? If you can't tell the difference between an SM58 and a condenser mic, even in a moderately dense mix, one of the following is likely true: You're deaf above 12 kHz. You have serious problems elsewhere in your chain. Your mic placement is very wrong. Just my $0.02. My guess...

Not necessarily. A so-called ground "loop" need not be a loop. In fact, nearly every time I've seen this, it has involved only one piece of gear with an earth ground and lots of gear with two-prong cables or wall warts. There are only two ways to absolutely avoid ground hum problems: ground...

I'm in agreement. I definitely wouldn't pick an SM57 or SM58. They're too muddy sounding. Maybe a current-generation, non-phantom-powered ribbon mic with a really clean preamp. Oh, you meant just one moving coil dynamic? Ugh. Okay, begrudgingly, a Shure 565SD. But I wouldn't like it. :)

The Nady condenser mics are dogs unless you're willing to spend hours modding them. You'll never get a good stereo image out of them stock. The AT2020 sounds remarkably good for an electret, and is interesting in that it lies sort of in the middle between SDC and LDC capsule sizes. It will...

In theory, maple, maple knot, but in practice, it oak to. Shock mount sizes are pretty much standardized these days. :D

Seconded.

Using wall power for a bus-powered interface isn't likely to buy you anything. Either a bus-powered interface provides full 48VDC phantom power voltage or it doesn't, and it is likely to do so whether you're powering it from a wall wart or your computer.

No, but it could be bad for your speakers... and your hearing.... :-)

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To add a little bit more information, piezo contact mics are a reasonable choice when you're trying to eliminate noise from your environment. They are mostly useful for live work, not for recording, because you usually get much better sound by using a microphone a few feet away. Also, many...

You don't want it.

Anybody who could answer that question is likely under an NDA. :)

My policy is "just say no". I have yet to find any iLok-protected software without adequate alternatives that are not licensed using such a brain-damaged scheme. Thus, I vote with my wallet and encourage other people to do so. Hardware dongles are easy to lose, and when that happens, you've...

FireWire is much better for audio and for hard drives because of the CPU load involved. However, as others have noted, it is becoming less common. USB is not the future either, though. USB is a rather poor solution for pretty much everything, whose only real benefit is cost. The future is...

I'd expect a mic to tune nearby radio stations if you don't have the case on over the capsule and/or forgot to put in whatever screws ground the grille. That would be my first guess....

Converters in an external box, unless they are designed very poorly, are inherently going to have lower noise than anything you could possibly put inside an electrically noisy computer enclosure.

Above about $500, the extra $$ mostly buys you a larger number of inputs and outputs....

AFAIK, most of the better DAWs have pitch correction capabilities these days—Logic Studio, Digital Performer, etc.

Ah. I misread your post. I thought you meant to connect the plus to hi-z and the minus to low-z. :)

If you hook up both sides of an XLR to those connections, you'll lose most of your signal. Remember that the pins on the XLR connection are opposite polarity, so the second wire would be taking away signal from the first. And that's assuming they're even in phase with one other, which they...