SOUND ON SOUND
Hugh Robjohns has been Sound On Sound's Technical Editor since 1997. Prior to that he worked in a variety of (mostly) sound-related roles in BBC Television, ending up as a Sound Operations Lecturer at the BBC's technical training centre.
He continues to provide audio consultancy and bespoke broadcast audio training services all over the world, lectures at professional and public conventions, and occasionally records and masters acoustic and classical music too!
Rycote's innovative Cyclone wind shielding device has been joined by a range of Stereo Cyclones. We test the MS4 kit with a Mid‑Sides stereo array of Sennheiser MKH30/40 microphones.
A ribbon mic would be a very welcome addition to my collection, but would its figure-of-eight pattern mean I pick up more of the room tone compared with a cardioid condenser?
I don’t use my [Electro-Voice] RE20 mic all that much, but when I do I find it needs the preamps turned up an awful lot to capture usable audio, and consequently there’s often a hum in the recording...
For anyone regularly needing to mic a grand piano, the Mirizio Microphone Mount is a very elegant and cost-effective solution.
Small rooms are often the trickiest to get right, as our visit to a TV and film composer’s new home studio proved!
Hand made in Nashville, these mics use old-school materials and manufacturing techniques to deliver that classic ribbon sound.
I have a slight level mismatch that I don’t know how best to resolve. I want to patch the Dangerous Music Compressor through the inserts on two of an Allen & Heath GL2400 mixer’s input channels. The problem is that the send signal from the mixer is a tad weak for hitting the compressor where it works best...
Is Hammond’s XK-5 the best lightweight ‘clonewheel’ organ money can buy?
I have a set of three-year old PreSonus Eris monitors, one of which has just died. I sent it back to PreSonus to be repaired...
All loudspeakers, whether active monitors or guitar/bass amps, tend to exhibit cabinet vibrations. We test this new stand-alone isolating ‘puck’, designed to minimise unwanted colorations from structure-borne vibrations.