22 Mar
2010
22 Mar
'10
1:54 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
On Friday 19 March 2010 23:10:11 Ken Restivo wrote:
Great idea! Unfortunately, I haven't checked email until today, and the vocals are
done now. I used the PG58. It was good enough for what we're doing; vocals are not the
focus of the music by any means.
It's going to come down to convenience, I
think. I prefer dealing1 with my
M-Audio FastTrack with its nice XLR and TRS connectors and ability to turn
off hardware monitoring, than dealing with the Zoom with its always-on
hardware monitoring and dinky 1/8" jacks. So I'll probably end up using
the PG58 for everything except background vocals where we'll have 3 or 4
of us standing around the Zoom in a 120-degree pattern.
Why not use the zoom as a microphone and record it with the fasttrack?
If you can't turn off the hw-monitoring on the zoom, make it a feature. Connect
the outputs of the zoom to the inputs of the fasttrack. Then you get the mics
and pre-amps of the zoom and the convenience of the fasttrack. And if you
press the record-button of the zoom, you get a backup recording as a bonus.
PS: I would love to say I couldn't differentiate between the pg58 and my little
studio-projects condenser-mics. But even the difference between the pg and an
sm is obvious when you have both on stage through a pa...
Not to me. I'm not an audio engineer, I have tinnitus, and my ears are shot from 25
years of playing music.
The only difference I can definitely hear is between any dynamic mic and a large-diaphragm
condenser like the MXL 990 which I owned briefly a few years ago. But I can't tell the
difference between that MXL into a FastTrack and, say, my friend's Neumann through a
tube preamp.
-ken