I picked up a ccouple of Milabs VM-44s on a hunch (for a price I couldn't refuse). I've heard of them, but never met anyone who's used them. They're small diaphragm interchangable capsule condensers. I have the cardiods.

Anyone play with them?

Anybody have any good tips on how to mix room mics on rock drums (compression and eq)? I know a lot of people usually compress the hell out of them, but I cannot get any desirable results.

I am limited to using only plugins and I am guessing the 1176 or the LA-2A plugin would be the way to go. Any tips on settings?

Can anyone recommend some nice condenser mics that are self-powered (battery)? I would like to do some field recording (sampling, sound FX, as well as some vocals & acoustic guitar) and won't have access to phantom power with my setup. I'd like to have some great mics to make this sound as good as I can... suggestions?

Thanks much!

I am interested in these mics for overhead cymbal and acoustic guitar micing. Any users with comments?

$800 per matched pair.

Warren

I'm picking up a portable CDR or DAT soon for location and sample recording, and I want to aquire a stereo mic for recording ease. The only stereo mic I've used was one of the Audio-Technica s, and it was pretty decent, but if anyone has any opinions concerning the new rode, the Shure, or any others, i'd love to hear them (the Royer is out of my price league right now-). Thanks-

I've been getting really frustrated lately Micing amps and drums, its usually a really time
consuming project running between the studio and the control room listening for changes,I feel
i would get better results if i could hear what I'm doing in real-time. I've tried placing mics

Because compression & normalizing artifacts are more audible with SACD, will their use become less prevelant?

Will dynamic range return?

Will Car SACD players have "compression" buttons?

Are the new higher fidelity formats (SACD & DVD Audio) going to succeed in the market place?

HI!

I have to rent some mics to mic up a drum kit. I would like 2 room mics, 2 overheads, 2 snare, 2 bass drum, tom and hat mics. I have an AT 4050 some 57's and a D112 already. I would love some recommendations on some mics I can rent to fufill my needs. Hopefully nothing to esoteric or hard to get as I have to find these hopefully fairly cheap. Opinions on Neumann km 184's or SM 81's?

Flames invited.