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We caught up with Dave Thomas of Advanced Audio Microphones while he was on the road, spreading the gospel of vintage microphone design to a class of up and coming audio engineers. Read on for audio gear news from British Columbia:
RH: Do you have any new products in the pipeline? Will the CM-414 ever see [...]

This is not the sort of “hack” I ever intended to write about… while researching some reviews of Violet’s Flamingo microphones, I clicked through to AppleProAudio… to find the site had been defaced
Instead of the microphone review I was searching for, I see a fullscreen picture of a bear and a page title announcing “hacked [...]

I didn’t expect it to take this long, but nonetheless I’m psyched to finally launch a couple new search features for the mic database:

Now you can save search results. Just click the button.
Also you can send search results to a friend. (Or to yourself.) Just click the other button.

Midway through the coding of these features, [...]

Congratulations to Blair Hardman and Zone Recording for the feature article in North Bay Biz: Zone Recording is giving voice to the North Bay.
Blair has been part of the Sonoma County music scene for a long time, and the scene would be a lot less rich and interesting without him.

None of the audio engineers I know look like this guy.
He graces the front page of the Sennheiser website, though, and I’ll be meeting him tomorrow, assuming he works in the microphone factory, which I guess is unlikely.
But hey, maybe the modeling thing is just a sideline gig. Maybe he’ll be at the factory, hunched [...]

Show me a guy with a ribbon mic, and I’ll show you a guy who’s afraid of phantom power.
The two go hand-in-hand, as if the mere presence of phantom power could cook all the ribbons in the studio, whether they’re wired or not. But that sounds less like phantom power than like ghosts in the [...]