For example, the IB2s with the (originally ATC and now in-house) 75mm dome midrange is a major step up in terms of mid range clarity and resolution, for example. Sadly, I can't justify them here, but once heard never forgotten. Sad but true. Though, if you try hard, you can at least partially flush ...

tacitus wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 12:00 pm ... Just be careful not to shoot the whole band directly behind the maestro, who will not appreciate appearing to have a tree growing out of his head. And not even a Decca tree. ...

A trio is very unlikely to have a conductor.

Is it a live concert/event with some kind of audience, with all the attendant considerations that brings, or just something that someone has decided to film in a venue that they like the look of without thinking how it might sound?

For cost-no-object quality above all-in-one convenience, perhaps: Sonosax SX-M2D2 Add your choice of Android or iOS phone, a couple of decent mics and proper wind jammers. Or if you'd rather not be bothered with the separate phone and USB cable, a Sonosax SX-R4 Plus . But that represents more mic ...

D58Es aren't too hard to find secondhand. And generally aren't particularly expensive. Harder to find but just as good (if not better) is the Beyerdynamic equivalent - the M424N(C) There are also several full sized Beyers and AKGs which, in some versions, will fit directly into panel XLRs. And there ...

I use Field Recorder by Pfitzinger Voice Design. It's not free but imo is excellent value. In Settings there's an option to choose whether to start every new recording in a new file, or to start it from the play cursor position, or at the end of whatever file is currently loaded. I've never tried to ...

OneWorld wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:06 am I got a Brenell Mini-8 and a Technics mixer, what other stuff do I need to build my studio?

If the Mini-8 you have is anything like the one I had, I'd suggest at least an AF test set, soldering iron, an RS account, fire extinguisher and hammer!

Nice sounding thing when it works though.

Over the last decade or so, various people/companies/institutions have been researching and prototyping mics which use graphene as a diaphragm/diaphragm substrate, including some ribbon elements using graphene doped with aluminium oxides, but Im not aware of any being in production or production ...

Perhaps not strictly a pure ribbon motor but.... Fostex

If 16 mic inputs is enough, then the Yamaha DM3 is worth a look. I had a play with one for a couple of days and a live (classical) concert broadcast just before Christmas and thought it was rather dinky. Super portable, very easy to use (Yamaha have done a really good job with the user interface ...

Your Schoeps wide cardioids are a half-way house between cardioid and omni which I think sound rather nice, and have a much more flattering high end than the KM184s, especially if placed close. Just on a point of order - the MK/CCM 21 is the wide/sub/hypo-cardioid that's half way between a cardioid ...

British Areospace in Broughton. We're on the opposite side of the estuary but I've never heard a hum & I can see Flintshire from the lounge window. V strange. Splitting hairs a little but Broughton is actually Airbus rather than BAE. It used to belong to De Haviland (post war) and came under ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 8:43 pm The people have spoken and been heard! ...

I dunno. First that's the reason to destroy the country* and now to make Readers' Ads a bit less convenient.

It's a slippery slope I tell you

(*Though, I don't hold you and Ian responsible for that one )

I'd settle for people putting both the product and the price in the post title. Very tedious to open posts just to find out basic stuff like that, particularly if the price is 'ambitious'. And this! :thumbup: Perhaps make it a strong suggestion on formatting advert posts if mandatory is too much ...

You have all the subforums listed by category, just go for the one you fancy looking at the most in the moment and repeat in decreasing order of interest, surely! "Surely"? Nah. Lots of clicks where one would (and did) suffice is definitely a backward step. Subcategories for something like this ...

Ah, I must have misinterpreted an analogy as a statement, my bad. They're only 50-60Kg each, that's less than the average adult, eminently portable! :D 58.5kg for the current version of the standard actives. Mine were a smidge heavier at 59.8kg as they had somewhat larger handles on the amp packs ...

How about a nice pair of Kinoshita RM7s with RS-1 subs* Allow, say, £350-450k (haggle!) to add a pair of JMF Audio HQS 9001 power amps and FM Acoustics Forcelines speaker cables (5s or 7s should probably cover it; you could push the boat out on some 3s but it's probably not necessary (or you could ...

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What's the genre? (Sonic expectations for genres differ - what is one man's 'perfect' for classical isn't necessarily as desirable for rock/folk/pop/jazz/cross-over, etc.. Some things can be fiddled with in post but some are best solved (or only solveable) at source when the recording is made.) Is ...

If the OP's Zoom software also filters out banjo and accordion, some might argue it's a feature, not a bug... :bouncy: Sorry - I know that's not helpful but I couldn't resist. Uke, banjo and accordion would be a great start but the holy grail would be bagpipes! If it has a filter for those, I'm in ...

I'm with jimjazzdad on this. I learned the hard way never to risk IPA in faders or other potentiometers. Depending on type and age, a lot of those with conductive plastic tracks will have sticky/gooey conductive plastic tracks, or no tracks at all, just a mess/stain on the board, after contact with ...

.... Walk to the far Camera (audience) left of the stage area at the front and say "Camera (audience) Left". Repeat for the stage right and, if relevant, the surround left/right), too. Ok...that threw me a bit - having just idented camera/audience left (aka stage right) I read it as you doing it ...

I thought ISM was the Incorporated Society of Musicians but I guess it's had a name change. A company for which I worked in the 1990s/early 2000s was a member. It may be better known in the classical music world than the wider music community but it's a solid organisation (or at least has been for ...

I have to block off a hallway that leads into my studio space and I'm looking for recommendations on what type of curtain to use for sound control. The opening is about 2 feet to the left of where my desk and monitors will be, which will be pointed away from the opening and in the direction of ...