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I just got my first set of Professional Monitors/Speakers and I invested in a nice pair of Focal CMS 65. On the second day of using them I answered a FaceTime call on my iMac and stopped working on my mix.

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I had a disaster last week while recording and I'm curious if anyone has a suggestion on what went wrong.

Does clipping when recording actually damage the mic at all or just produce an unpleasant sound?

Thanks

Had a bit of a disaster over Xmas.

A water pipe in our ceiling burst and basically flooded the ceiling, which drained itself through the few exit points it had - one of which came across another ceiling and down the back of my control room wall, and flooded the desk, soaking most of my rack gear from the bottom - everything sits in 4U racks in a circle right around the desk.

Hey all,

I have no idea what I'm talking about with mics so...

How would I know if my large diaphram (1") condener mic was damaged while recording "rockstar" the guitarist. I only realized after that it may have been too loud for my mic.

Hello everyone,

I have recently bought a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO 80 Ohm, but I noticed that the jack on the audiocard has some DC, and sometimes while keeping the volume high the sound distorted.
Then I plugged my headphones into the mixer to avoid the DC problem, but how can I know if I damaged them already even if the exposition to DC has been just for some days?

I did a very stupid thing with my PreSonus FP10. I was getting low recording levels on the drums, so I've changed a mic cable on one of the mic inputs from XLR-1/4 to XLR-XLR to check if the recording levels would improve. Of course I was stupid enough to keep the gain level on this channel almost to the max.

Hello everyone, I'm obviously new to this forum so first and foremost thought id say hi.

Is there any rationalization out there to think some frequencies are more prone to damage the human ear? Maybe 2khz-6khz because the ear canal resonates in that region? Or maybe loud subbass because of the amount of energy it takes to hear it as well as the higher regions?