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Using Mics & DI Boxes On Stage
Find out how to mike up a typical live band — and also discover when it's best to Direct Inject instead.
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Find out how to mike up a typical live band — and also discover when it's best to Direct Inject instead.
This entry-level, large-diaphragm mic has enough facilities to grow with your needs, and comes complete with case and suspension shockmount.
The elegant Valvet provides a choice of omni and cardioid polar patterns, as well as delivering the kind of transparent valve sound for which German mic technology is renowned.
However much you rely on a computer to provide sounds and help create arrangements, if you want to include vocals, you still need to know how to mike and record them properly in what may be a less than ideal room. We offer some tried and tested solutions...
When is a digital mic really a digital mic? Cutting Edge looks at the hybrid digital/analogue technology we already have and suggests a radical new approach.
This affordable large-diaphragm cardioid mic benefits from an open sound with a hint of transformer warmth.
TL Audio's new valve mic and preamp package takes the unusual step of integrating the preamp into the mic's power supply unit. So why take two boxes into the studio, when you can just bosh and go?
I bought a Rode NT1A a few months ago and I'm now considering buying a second one. How can I tell whether the two mics are closely matched enough for use as a stereo pair?
This surprisingly compact large-diaphragm condenser mic shakes up the established competition.
I did a recording session recently using a mixture of dynamic and condenser mics, and realised my desk does not have switchable phantom power for each channel — they're either all on or all off. Luckily, I had some external channel strips which I ran the condensers through, but is it safe to apply phantom power to dynamic mics?
The excellent sound quality and rugged build of these drum mics belies their highly affordable price tag.
Audio Technica have put two different capsules into the same mic, giving you a choice of different sounds for different occasions.
This Samson microphone offers true capacitor design and multi-pattern operation at an extremely affordable price.
I've just been looking at buying a cheap condenser mic and I was wondering how useful it is to have the low-frequency cut and 10dB pad options that are on some mics?
This affordable miniature mic from one of the top names in condensers can neatly solve a variety of common recording problems.
A Russian-made, large-diaphragm tube mic which is surprisingly affordable.
One of the most prolific manufacturers in China has launched three new affordable capacitor mics.
With so many brand-new budget-priced microphones out there these days, I'm wondering if it might be better to get a high-quality mic second-hand instead?