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Monday February 6, 2012. 12:25 AM
Way back in the dark ages of recording, there was a little band called The Beatles. They liked to experiment in the studio as all good bands should. In Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew’s book, Recording the Beatles, they detail an instance of using a speaker cone in front of Paul M...
Wednesday February 1, 2012. 05:19 AM
After 35 years of working in media professionally, I’ve heard and auditioned many microphones. From cheap to uber-expensive, American, German, Japanese, Chinese, you name it. It has been an interest of mine for many, many, years. In 1980, I was Production Director and...
Thursday January 26, 2012. 08:47 AM
Just before Christmas I received a package of microphone accessories to review from Shure, the A27M stereo mic bar and two A75M Universal Microphone Mounts. Yes, I was ridiculously excited! Within minutes of playing with them I found myself tweeting: OK, so I was...
Wednesday January 11, 2012. 06:31 AM
Here we are again with some more ribbon microphones to test with voiceover. My previous article addressed the suitability of ribbon microphones for voiceover: Royer R-101 and DIYAC RM-5 Ribbons for Voiceover. This article will lean more towards a shootout and overview of how ...
Thursday December 22, 2011. 10:31 PM
We recently surveyed seven entry-level condenser mics on vocals, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar cab, in part I of The Best $200 Condenser. Here in Part II, we’ll hear these mics — and a couple more — in a podcasting test. Strongly held biases (plus over 50 years of...
Wednesday December 14, 2011. 05:04 AM
I have been progressively “deadening” my project studio. This article provides an easy solution to a recent challenge: mounting acoustic panels to the wall with a variable air gap behind each panel. A secondary goal is to minimally destroy the walls in the process. Why would...
Monday December 12, 2011. 08:19 AM
It was 2010. Blue released a new USB microphone that because of its ease of use, pattern versatility (3 mono patterns, plus stereo), price (I paid $99 for mine), and quality of sound, quickly became a bestseller. With its distinctive retro look, built-in zero-latency...
Tuesday November 29, 2011. 08:21 AM
matthew mcglynn Without question, the quality of inexpensive microphones has skyrocketed in the past 10 years. Most every mic company has a handful of entry-level choices now, and most of them sound pretty damn good. At least some of the time. But which ones sound the best...
Monday November 28, 2011. 08:57 PM
With all the hundreds of TV channels and websites available, you would think that every taste was catered for when it came to visual entertainment. There have been some great ‘making of’ documentaries about album recording experiences, but necessarily these are geared...
Wednesday November 23, 2011. 11:53 PM
The final session of the $60,000 Ribbon Mic Shootout took place at my home in Sonoma County. The artist is local songwriter and friend Michael Capella, who you might recognize from previous features in this space, such as the recent Oktava MK-012 Figure-8 capsule review or...
Friday November 18, 2011. 08:48 AM
Stellar Sounds is a small company dedicated to providing affordable alternatives to the costly boutique brands that many recording enthusiasts find to be outside their financial reach. There has been a lot of buzz in the online pro-audio community about Stellar’s...
Thursday November 17, 2011. 08:32 AM
Dave Hill is a mad scientist, the kind of mad scientist who probably as a child built backwoods stills that ran on solar power and synthesized corn mash out of atmospheric carbon–with a geothermal beer cooler in the carpeted shed in the backyard. Nowadays he kind of looks...
Wednesday November 16, 2011. 06:35 AM
I recently had the pleasure of testing the Lewitt Professional Audio LCT 140. This is a fixed cardioid “pencil” microphone; it is the entry-level small-diaphragm condenser in the company’s Authentica series. The mic comes with a foam windscreen, a tool for adjusting the...
Tuesday November 15, 2011. 05:32 AM
My earliest memory of tube gear is my father’s HiFi tuner. So I was inclined to think of vacuum tubes as an antiquated, marginally useful technology. But when Alain Le Kim points the camera at the folks from Manley Labs, they make the case that “tubes rule.” The film starts...
Sunday November 13, 2011. 09:39 PM
Over the past few years, ribbon microphones seem to have made a comeback. All I ever hear on audio blogs and podcasts is how awesome ribbon microphones are. Well, thanks to RecordingHacks, Royer, and DIYAC I was given the opportunity to see what this influx of ribbon love...
Friday November 11, 2011. 09:33 PM
Microphone guru David Bock wears rubber gloves all the time. Sometimes he’s slicing raw fish for one spectacular item in a multicourse gourmet dinner. Sometimes he’s doing final assembly and testing on a production run of microphones. Filmmaker Alain Le Kim intercuts scenes...
Wednesday November 9, 2011. 08:58 PM
A solid competitor in the low cost, “pencil” style condenser microphone field is the Gauge ECM-84. For under $100 you get a well-built microphone with both Cardioid and Omni capsules in their own storage “pill box,” plus a nice shockmount. The microphone also includes a...
Friday November 4, 2011. 06:50 PM
At long last: click the profile photo for any microphone to see a full-screen version. Video demo: Zoooom! Try it out in the microphone database.
Monday October 31, 2011. 04:37 AM
Earthworks recently redesigned the windscreen attachment for the SR20, their entry-level cardioid condenser. The new windscreen is a metal-mesh design that will be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever sung on stage. Below the mesh head, a ring of carefully-designed...
Friday October 28, 2011. 07:37 AM
The Swedish company Milab has been producing microphones since 1939. They have been held in high regard within the industry, and the DC-96B and DC-96C do NOT fall short in the world of small to mid-sized capsule microphones. These mics held up very well capturing a variety...
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