I need to close mic to reduce room and hard drive noise. I have a sm57 going into my akai dps16 and that is not a good match for the built in preamps. only need male vocals as everything else goes direct. Singer(me) needs all the help he can get. Should I:
Get a meek vcq1 for the 57-- is this a good combo for vocals?

Hi all

Last saturday I did a FOH job in a theatre for a well known jazz band.

They had rented a number of small Sanken microphones, I guess CU31 or 32 as I found out from the sanken website http://rtg.ch/sanken.htm and IMO they did a very good job on grand piano, clarinets and drum OH's.

Trying to get a Micro Express that I recently bought 2nd hand set up on my computer. It's the serial port connection version and I think that I need to change something in the device manager allowing the new device to utilize the port. I may also be terribly wrong! I've been getting messages relating to the device as follows...
"System board extension for PnP BIOS" and

Hi.
I am thinking of buying a Neumann TLM 103 condenser,I am very happy with my RøDE NT 1 for vocals but I need something better to get my nylon acoustic guitar (solos,classical stuff,brazillian music etc...) .
I have a cheapo mic preamp(Behringer Ultragainer) but it works fine for my bedroom studio:
733 G4
Tascam US-428

:)Hello! Stedel, and all.

The ad says it's hypercardiod. What do y'all think?

Hi,
has anyone of you vintage mic junkies used
the Pearl 8-ck? It's a swedish LD tube condenser
with a square diafragm, made sometime in the
early sixites. I can possibly buy one, but
I can probably not audition it beforehand...

Tankful for any input!

Hi :-)

I'm tired of using my standard-Micing for guitar-recordings. How do you mic an amp...espacially Combos like an VOX AC30 or Fender Twin...etc.
What mic's do you use? What techniques you prefer ? Tell me your tricks in Micing an amp !

Best regards :-)

I just bought a used micro express. It came with a floppy for the drivers but I don't believe the interface software was included. Can anyone guide me to a place where I might get it off the net? I tried the MOTU web page but only found the drivers which I already have...
muchos gracias
PandaMonkey

Any out of the ordinary sugguestions(not beta57 from 6"...kinda' suggestions)but different mic placement, different mics that sorta' thing.
The band is jazz rock(kinda like phish)
The player is great.Bluesy,rocky,jazzy,creative...
Anyway,these are my options:
Fender strat Fender 4x10 blues deville