Posts from April, 2008
new microphones in the Advanced Audio pipeline
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | by matthew mcglynn
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 […]
Tags: Advanced Audio, Dave Thomas
Posted in Microphones | 1 Comment
AppleProAudio.com website hacked
Friday, April 25th, 2008 | by matthew mcglynn
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized |
new search features
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | by matthew mcglynn
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 […]
Posted in Colophon |
congratulations, Blair!
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | by matthew mcglynn
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.
Tags: blair hardman, recording studio, zone recording
Posted in Studios |
tourism for gearheads
Monday, April 7th, 2008 | by matthew mcglynn
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 […]
Tags: sennheiser
Posted in Travel | 2 Awesome Comments
phantom power kills ribbon microphones, truth vs. fiction
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 | by matthew mcglynn
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 […]
Tags: phantom power, ribbon mics, royer, shinybox
Posted in Microphones, Video | 2 Awesome Comments