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Care to expand on the concept of a volume envelope?
My guess is that he means that riding your faders correctly can often be used instead of compression - or maybe that people sometime use compressio ...

If you want to play to a drum machine, fire your drummer. I can't imagine putting up with a drummer (or any musician) and then quantizing their music. Playing drums exactly at the same millisecond ...

I choose ratio, attack, and release that I think will be in the ballpark, then adjust the threshold to get the amount of gain reduction I want, then adjust the makeup gain. Then tweak one of the firs ...

....sound like a cardboard box...
Some Mackies do...
---another one of my opinions...
How about the one in your Avatar? (And sorry for editing you to sound like Yoda.)

Does the direct box have a ground lift switch? Have you tried that? I'm really groping at straws here. Your description sounds like a gain structure problem, not a ground problem.

At any rate ...

Lisa! Get in here.... In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Every electronic device has a noise floor. (At least until we get room temperature superconductors.) Some devices have a hi ...

...Adding to the problem, is that my Yamaha P-140 controller plays the sound back quieter so I have to turn up whatever I play to adjust to that as well. I'm guessing that this is a big part of the p ...

To give an informed opinion we are going to need more information about the type of music, type of vocalist, type of equipment. Without that information I'll give an uninformed opinion - otherwise kn ...

I can't figure out any intelligent advice, so let me pose some questions -

1. Is recording improv sessions with this band the ultimate goal? What comes after this?

2. Are there local recording ...

I've been asked about liability at live sound gigs and that was a big part of my decision not to provide sound support equipment.

What are you comparing the SDCs with? Condensers are often the choice for overheads because they generally have better high frequency response. Small diaphragms have better off axis response (+) bu ...

...Any suggestions? Am I being too overly concerned with isolating them? Would four steps back from each other and four SM 58s work as well?...
Since your goal is to eliminate them from the mix isola ...

Another vote for monitors over mics. The 57s and 58s are good mics. The only thing I'd use budget condensers for in place of them would be drum overheads and acoustic guitar. I think a 58 is better ...

When I've recorded live I'm pretty much on the left side of your bell curve. (Probably a lot of psycometricians nodding to that statement.) I haven't really had a situation where I got a chance to t ...

This is a new industry, so there is not yet an organization designed to keep newcomers out. You don't need credentials, you need knowledge. In addition to the obvious things like electronics and aco ...