I have a loaded question about OH mic placement, and I was hoping to draw from your better experiences. Please see if my assumption is correct. Is it generally better to have the Left OH mic (in spaced pair) pointing between the crash and the top of the snare drum? AND, is this practice due mostly ...

So my question is, with regards to checking the polarity of top and bottom snare mics, Which sound is more representative of "reality", the thicker sound or the thinner sound? I have a drum recording session. On snare top and bottom mics. When the polarity is untouched, the sound is good / not ...

To clarify, I don't rent out my studio. (And given my country, even if I did rent out, it's easy to surpass the standards of most other project studios. I'm not bragging, I'm saying that the bar is low, and good quality recordings are run quite the bill around here). I'm a songwriter-producer type ...

RichardT wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:44 pm Before you get some drums, it would be worth checking how usable you studio currently is for recording drums using a hired or borrowed kit.

This is good advice. I'll try hitting up my friends.

How good is the acoustic isolation of your studio. Because I promise you if it's not excellent your relations with your neighbours will decline. Luckily in my case it was possible to make my garage space available to the enthusiastic electronic drum kit practiser but these things make an incredible ...

I'm GAS-ing on building my first drum kit in my personal studio. Having gained above average wisdom in the other aspects of recording that I have spent money on, I WOULD like to proceed with some caution. So I have some theoretical questions that hopefully anyone can chime in with suggestions: 1. If ...

Yes, the notch is from the cornermost column of the building, where the room is. Instead of meeting the notch at a right angle, I figured to create to obtuse angle from that notch. Hope it will suffice.

Then, the extra "L" space at the opposite corner, hopefully will.. what? Trap some LF?

The comment about the cube shape was greatly refreshing. So here, the room is no longer a cube, and some trapezoidal areas were inserted.

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But do the room modes matter if I will be recording things that i will filter out the LF from anyway? - vocals - steel guitar - classical guitar (very soft) - guitar cab what if I get around to recording a string quartet? -Definitely not drums, I would NOT waste my time attempting to record drums.

I think you would do well to take professional advice here. A cube is the worst possible shape from an acoustic point of view. If you enter the dimensions into this online calculator for instance you'll see there are strong room modes at 69Hz, 97Hz, 205Hz and 274Hz, plus plenty of smaller ones ...

I'm planning to take over a small area in our office. We've measured things out, and we can build a room measuring ~2.5m in length, width, and height. The room is nearly cube shaped except for an L-shaped wedge due to a structural column. The interior walls will consist entirely of 60kg/m^3, 10-cm ...

Levels of +28dBu are rarely encountered these days, it's more of a throwback to analogue tape days when line level signals were generally hotter and the equipment ran with decent headroom . Now +4dBu and the lower domestic electronics -10dBV are the most common line level standards, inputs with ...

Not sure if this is any help, but I've started to print my ITB mixes out from my 1st gen Scarlett 18i20, through my ART Trans-X transformer-based pre amp and back into my 18i20. It adds a certain mojo that I can't quite get with plugins, and the quality certainly doesn't degrade, it gets noticeably ...

Yeah I thought something was off in the documentation, or something is not being made clear. The pads on the 1820 only say "Line" and "Inst", with another pad called "Pad", which I think combine for 10-15db of more headroom.

I learned a lot in this thread!

Now that I'm checking this out, my 1st gen Focusrite 6i6 can accept +28 dBu line input, whereas all the other 2019-2022 competitors that i'm looking to get only accept up to 17.5-22 dBu line inputs. On the other hand, the focusrite's -80db THD+N is equivalent to 0.01%, whereas those of others have ...

Now that I'm checking this out, my 1st gen Focusrite 6i6 can accept +28 dBu line input, whereas all the other 2019-2022 competitors that i'm looking to get only accept up to 17.5-22 dBu line inputs. Wonder if this means anything? And the Behringer 1820 that I've been printing back through, accepts ...

Any interface that has extra, 3/4 line inputs will serve. One of the best interfaces for its money, around £150 is the Native Instruments KA6 Mkll. You might find a Mk1 cheaper and that will be equally good. If dirt cheap is your thing the Behringer UMC204HD has 'inserts' which are post the mic ...

James Perrett wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:53 pm I use the line inputs on my Audient ASP008 more than the mic inputs with no issues when it comes to sound degradation. This uses the same preamp design as your iD14.

So the line inputs on the asp008 are ONLY the mic inputs on the audient id14mk2?

What is the mixer you are using? How do you know it's not the headphone output on the mixer vs the headphone output on the Behringer that's providing the difference in sound? You may get a very similar result with a new interface, when in reality the audio signal itself remains unchanged. I'm not ...

But if you're after ultimate quality, I'd look for a good two-channel A-D with line inputs and an S/PDIF output that you can plug into your interface, bypassing the interface's analogue electronics completely. Any particular products in mind? (Wouldn't it be counter intuitive for a product to ...

Hi everyone, I do hybrid mixing i.e. send individual tracks through multiple line outs and route the master bus from the analog mixer back into the interface for the so called "print". My question is, is it advisable to do the print-back via an audio interface whose line-ins are "padded through the ...

Is it "OK" to connect an external 8-preamp (Presonus Digimax D8) to an audio interface via line-cable? The line cable is a generic "low noise oxygen free" cable and the connectors will be 1/4 mono jacks. To illustrate, the cable makes electric guitars sound a lot brighter than usual marketed guitar ...

I'm coming from a problem with my SDC's generating a high pitch noise when paired with either my focusrite or behringer, PSU powered interfaces. The working hypothesis is that the phantom power is underpowered in someway, https://www.soundonsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=84077 Recently, I got to ...

It's not unusual for budget, bus powered interfaces to have 'below spec' phantom power at a lower voltage or current capacity, or to be incapable of supplying all it's inputs with 48VDC and 240mW simultaneously. It's just boggling since all my stuff are consumer grade, which is probably 50% of ...