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!
How did the 500-series’ first discrete, transformer-balanced full channel strip fare in our tests?
I finally have a spare bedroom into which I can put some studio gear. Assuming I’ve treated my room acoustically and sound leakage is not a concern, what size of monitors would it be worthwhile me considering?
My Soundcraft EFX12 mixer is pretty new, but when I try and use a channel with a microphone, and an insert cable running to an effects loop with various Moog pedals, I get almost no level from the mic. Can you help?
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?