My chamber music group (violin, viola, cello and piano) will perform in several cities, and we would like to bring portable equipment to these concerts in order to record these performances for archival purposes. If we bring a Mackie 802-VLZ3, what mid-priced microphones would work best in our particular case, and should we go for the ORTF, or a different positioning system ?

Wow, I had no idea until I saw this clip. Neumann TLM 103d ... add a starter kit (ad da converter, limiter and compressor) and S/PDIF or AES into your DAW. I didn't hear him talk about a mic preamp? Is this all combined into the mic?
I didn't realize there was a bottleneck that happened with analog/mics that was anything to be concerned about?

What 3 vocal ranges, or an all in one Neumann mic would be your first choice for just vocals and what pre(s) would you choose?
Tenor
Baritone
Alto

U87 seems to be the standard but maybe there is a better choice. I'm not going to be using it for kick etc.
U47 valve sounds amazing and expensive. hmm, my lust for mics... :tongue:

This isn't so much a question, as an example of how I recently mic'ed a metal drum kit for a session.
All I was recording was the kit (minus a few scratch tracks), so my resources were plentiful.
Also, I am not mixing this project - my purpose was only to provide enough quality drum tracks for the mix engineer to work with.

I've been trying to record my guitar, and it sounds very buzzy. I've been reading a bunch of threads here and elsewhere and found that backing off on the gain can help, but I tried that (gain down to about 25% of max), but that didn't seem to help much.

Hello there. I am sort-of setting up a small Home-Studio in my Basement, and as looking for a good mic. I came across the "Audio-Technica AT2035 Condenser Microphone"

This is somewhat relevant, but I'm looking to get an effects processor to sculpt a tone for use both in recording and live. In the past I had a processor with a tone I was quite happy with, it was full and heavy and worked with was I was doing, but when I tried recording said tone with a Shure SM58 it sounded muddy and cheap.

Guys,

I know there's a few forum threads on this topic out there, but none of them quite answers my question. I want to try out a few different types of tubes to replace the standard 6922 tube inside my RODE K2. Do I need to replace this tube with the same type (i.e. 6922 aka ECC88) or can I use different types as well?

My drum teacher suggested a PZM for record drums as one of the better cheaper options (I don't want to spend hundreds of pounds on an 4 mic audio interface with the mics :P).

Any views on PZMs?

Cheers

I am in the process of upgrading my home studio from a "jam" setup to being able to record on a computer. I got all the parts in the mail and got it so that the keyboard, base, and guitars are working get but the mic is killing me. Here is what I am using.