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I spent the first half of the EssenEss set at Shredstock at stage right, close enough so that Steve and Steve’s fingers were not completely blurred (although Ron Redeen’s sticks still were). Wandering back to join friends at a table near the mixing desk, I noticed Steve Smyth‘s laptop, set up to record the show […]

Ever since high school, I’ve been told I have a good voice for radio. It always seemed like a neat if not immediately valuable asset: ok, so I’ve got that goin’ for me, which is nice. But then I get to wondering if there are any other dead technologies I’m particularly well suited for? Maybe […]

I made a pilgrimage to Sacramento last weekend, to visit John Baccigaluppi (publisher of TapeOp) at The Hangar. I was on a mission (about which more shall be revealed here soon) and so I didn’t have time to take any pictures, except this one because it’s just too awesome. Well, what else would you expect […]

One of the best-known hybrid mics on the market, the Oktava MK-012 FET condenser body will accommodate a dozen different small- and large-diaphragm capsules. Here is a visual inventory and applications guide to the Lomo, Blue, and Oktava capsules for this ubiquitous pencil mic.

Working on the Heil pages of the mic database the other day, I got to wondering exactly how a dynamic mic could be described as “large diaphragm.” Was it simply a matter of the voice coil being an inch or more in diameter? I’d seen a handful of “large-diaphragm dynamic” mics, but the qualification had […]

As promised, here is feature #3 of our three-week series of upgrades. The tag-based microphone browsing tool is ready for action. The search tool within the microphone database already gave easy access to common categories (or characteristics) such as “large diaphragm” or “pencil mics.” The tagging system actually duplicates some of that, but it goes […]

Introducing The Mic Modder Directory You probably own a couple inexpensive microphones — MXL, CAD, Nady, Oktava, ADK, Joemeek, and on and on — because if your mic cabinet was filled exclusively with Neumanns and Gefells and vintage AKGs you wouldn’t be reading this website. You’d be tracking 24×7 to pay the Visa bill. And […]

DigiDesign’s market-leading DAW, Pro Tools, has not been compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) since 10.5’s release on October 26, 2007. Mac users who run Pro Tools have been stuck with 10.4 for eight extra months. On June 19, Digidesign finally approved Pro Tools 7.4.2 for use with OS X 10.5.3. Then on July […]