Random Guitarist wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 12:06 pmI've read you can never have too much bass trapping, but would this be overdoing it?

You read right... and you really can't over-do bass trapping. If you have the space available it's always a good idea to use it! The ceiling/wall boundaries are often unused space that can be utilised this way too.

I am getting slighly asymmetric voltages at the o/p though: +15.05V and -14.89V. Is that likely to be within spec?? Phantom feed is 47.5V... Yes, I'd say that's within spec and nothing to worry about. It might be worth checking for noise with a 'scope, if you can, but I very much doubt the PSU is ...

I'm free on Wednesday, if that's any good to you?

Matt Houghton wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 8:23 amThere's no reason in theory why an AI-instructed robot couldn't, say, sand and finish a wooden floor. Or patch the potholes in a stretch of road.

Fair points... we're doomed!

Yeah.... the lists are infantile bollarks. Clearly, manual jobs of all kinds can not be performed by AI... As for the rest, 30 seconds reading the AI summary of any Google search reveals how unsuited AI (currently) is when it comes to critical, intelligent writing of any form... AI might well be ...

Sky news published two lists of the jobs most and least at risk from AI. All pretty obvious (and with a suspiciously American selection of jobs): https://news.sky.com/liveblog-webview/money-latest-consumer-personal-finances-sky-news-blog-13040934 They think those most at risk included roles like ...

Pretty much all the noise will be room acoustic, rather than preamp hiss — unless you recorded at -50dBFS or lower.

...professional field recorders do have higher inputs Yes, some do... although not always as high as all that. Sound Devices' flagship recorders, the Scorpio and the 888 both have a maximum mic input level of +8dBu, for example. ...and, don't forget that 'field recording' encompasses industrial ...

Good stuff. :thumbup: Regarding the +4dBu maximum mic input level*, I dont believe it presents a headroom problem in reality. The sensitivity of most popular capacitor mics ranges from around 10mV/Pa (eg. Neumann km84) to about 25mV/Pa (eg. Sennheiser MKH40)... or a little higher (eg. Blue Baby ...

It's frustrating as a newbie to this as a fun hobby that you buy a 'portable' 'handheld' recorder and find that you can't hand-hold it really... You can! You just can't move around while hand-holding it! and to get a good recording you have to carry far more than the 'recorder' that you purchased ...

I'll be carrying a handle for it to isolalte it before long. :crazy: Rycote make handles with suspension mounts for handheld recorders. I use one with my Olympus pocket recorder and its brilliant. Completely removes all handling noise. https://rycote.com/media/wysiwyg/2023/collections/portable ...

You may be right... I'm still not convinced. But we'll find out soon enough!

I think the missing aspect in your post is authentic living value. I disagree. I think we naturally like the believe that there is something 'special' and 'indefinable' about the exclusivity of human creativity... but I don't think that's really the case. It's just sufficiently complex that it has ...

I've never felt the need for fans in racks. Convectional cooling, with spaces above and below anything that gets warm has always proved sufficient for me. And putting any hot things at the top, not the bottom!

For centuries, Humans have developed skills, and their offspring have learned those same skills and improved upon them and shaped them, and so on and so on with each generation. Every composer today creates music based on what they've learned about all those who have gone before them... Just as ...

...my Zoom H1n was purchased about a year ago for £81 with £10 worth of dead-cat cover to go with it. Nothing wrong with the H1n — I'd have killed for a recorder than good and conveniently sized when I started out recording on location! I mentioned the Tascam and Zoom models specifically because you ...

Arpangel wrote: ↑Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:07 pm A quick one for Hugh, what are the mic amps like on that Tascam FR-AV2?

They're like amps that make quiet mic signals louder...

I specifically addressed that question in my review linked above.

twotoedsloth wrote: ↑Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:03 pm Can you record to the SD card AND the usb output at the same time?

Yes, I believe so, provided they're operating at the same sample rate.

Explaining what the video is and why its relevant makes all the difference!

I've become a big fan of the Tascam FR-AV2 for ultra-compact hassle-free location recording. Very similar to the Zoom F1/F3. The key point being very compact and using 32-bit floating point recording -- the latter meaning you don't need to worry about setting levels during recording. https://www ...

When we cabled the speakers as 2.2 we ended up with the Left sub fully anti clockwise, infinity, so it was basically acting as x-over doing its thing to the top with no bass output from that sub. So it was already running as a 2.1 system, but without delivering bass from the left channel (unlikely ...

Here's an idea...

Why don't you start doing it and let's see just how much work is involved?

We're not going to know what's really involved until you start, and I suspect after the initial flurry of enthusiasm and flood of free objects it will quickly slow to an occasional trickle.

We'd like to remove one sub to make a 2.1 system (no need to lug around two big heavy subs) and am therefore looking at a dbx 223xs crossover to go after the mixer (QSC Touchmix 16). Not needed! The mixer doesn't have a mono summed output - only has L&R outputs. No, but the subwoofer already does ...

I'd suggest finding a dedicated user forum for it. There's bound to be one on Facebook or one of the popular music tech forums. Kurzweil might well run one themselves. Any reliability issues or bugs will certainly be flagged up there very promptly. But I'd be surprised if there are any serious issue ...

I am going to be an awkward old sod and say, "is there any evidence of this?" Yes, masses of it. I'm not going to spend my Saturday googling it for you, but this report PDF from Prism Sound thoroughly investigates some aspects of CD players sounding different with lots of the graphs you like so ...