i bought in december 2 AKG mics (c 3000b & c 1000s) from a dude that's selling his whole gear (he plans to move in states) and i trust him he sold me a pair of Alesis m1 active mkII and a midi kb Fatar sl 880. BUT these 2 mics seem to distort everytime i work with a stronger voice (even thought in mixer gain is at the lowest level). I use a soundcraft spirit studio lc .

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I'm in a band (surprise!) and we're looking to record our first demos. No awards for guessing, we need the mixer and mics dirt cheap!

I am the drummer, and I'm completely new to recording above what we've been doing so far, a guitar hero mic which just goes to USB. It's not great.

I plan to begin podcasting. Also, know in the future I'd like to record vocals and keyboard (but not immediately).

Currently I am using AKG c1000's as overheads, sm57s rI'm mounted to the snare and toms, AKG D112 on the bass drum, and another 57 under the snare positioned to also get the front of the kick, with total of eight channels.

Any advice would be appreciated. After reading some negative reviews for the PreSonus Bluetube mic preamp, I decided against it. ART, do they make good preamps in your opinion? Thank-you.

I've searched up and down this site, I've Googled, I've hit Youtube. So far the only vocal sample I could find was a female vocalist using a FatHead II, which was posted on this site.

Anybody have any source of samples/demo tracks/etc with these mics?

I just bought a Samson G-track USB Microphone and was testing it with the included Sonar LE software. In my opinion there was a lot of noise when I listened to some of my voise tests. I tried different settings on the mic volume control. Up untill half power there's noice. At a volume of 3/4 the recorded sound easily gets too loud when singing too close to the mic and that ruins the sound.

I use an AT4033 for my vocals. I do like it, but I was wondering if there might be another mic in that price range that may be better suited to my voice. Opinionswould be appreciated. Here's a link to my tunes.

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum. I have just started to record drums a few weeks ago. I have an M-audio Fast Track Ultra 8R and I am using the 7pc Drum Kit Microphones from Samson. My drums sound great live but when I am recording they sound a bit distant. The room that they are in has very minimal echo and the acoustics are pretty good. Any ideas? Thanks.