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| Best all British, except cables, system you heard or can think of. This is an easy one for me, being somewhat of an Anglophile. London Reference pickup, Helius Omega Silver Ruby arm, Townshend Audio Rock turntable, Ear-Yoshino Acute 4/Dac 4 CD/SACD player, EAR-Yoshino 912 pre-amp and 534 power amp, QUAD ESL louds... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Filth & Fire by Mary Gauthier. Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams’ guitarist/bandleader/producer up through and including her Car Wheels On A Gravel Road album) produces, plays a bunch of instruments, and sings harmony. Other musicians on the album... | |
| Nakamichi Cassette Decks Whatta ya know wolf, same Nak (BX300) I bought from Brooks Berdan thirty years ago. Had it rebuilt at the Nak service center in L.A. once, still works and sounds fine. a good partner to my Revox A77 reel-to-reel. | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard tomic601, I have made live recordings of my own bands, using a pair of small diaphragm condenser mics straight into the two channels of a Revox A77. I used the same mics into a simple Sony mixer and then into a Teac 3340 4-track to make studio rec... | |
| Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling... I enjoy reading the thoughts of highly-opinionated people, one’s with a well-defined point of view. Arthur is certainly that! I bought a piece from him a few years ago for a very reasonable price, and found him to be a pleasure to deal with. | |
| Tune of the Day OMG slaw, how I love that song! I saw him live with the lineup on that album, and though they were not as much to my taste as were the bands on Bring The Family and Slow Turning, they were great on their own terms. John Hiatt, one of our national ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Aw boxer12, I was just kiddin'. I actually DO like The Dead, at least when they do what they're good at, which isn't singing. It just so happens I love, love, love harmony singing, and superior chord progressions, melodies, arrangements, etc. In o... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard Let me go back to the beginning. The world of music recording is comprised of two, completely separate entities: the audiophile, and the mass market. Audiophile recording engineers evaluate microphones in purist terms---accuracy, etc. Inna, your q... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard By the way, the Shure SM57 is also commonly used to mic snare drums on stage, so ironically any given player's snare drum often sounds very much the same on a recording as it does live. | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard inna, the Pink Floyd recordings you cite were made long before their London studio was built, and were recorded in other studios.Where did you get the idea that microphones are the bottleneck in the recording process? Most commercial studios have ... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard There have been great microphones for many, many years. The Telefunken U-47 from the 1950’s ( a large diaphragm condenser tube mic) commands massive amounts of money on the used market (it is still considered the best mic of all time for vocals), ... | |
| What Characteristic Strikes You First About Un-amplified Music? Yes, imo many speakers create a miniaturized, doll house-sized version of instruments, especially big ones---grand pianos in particular. And many also make the music sound as if it is being squeezed through the speaker enclosure, the analogy being... | |
| Why should we think of "what microphones heard " as a standard Unless you know a way, then, of using a pair of "golden ears" in place of microphones, all the sound in any given recording is that captured by the mics, at least that of acoustic, non-purely electronic sources (keyboards primarily, though some gu... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? ghosthouse, I’ve long been intrigued by the subject of the genesis of songs, not possessing that gift and talent myself. I’m sure Iris has heard "Black Diamond Bay", but she didn’t write "No Time To Cry" until almost twenty years after that song c... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? ghosthouse, one of my most fun gigs was backing Don (Sugarcane Harris) & Dewey on a set at The Foothill Club in L.A. (a place that booked pure American Rock ’n’ Roll and Rockabilly artists) in the late-90’s. Don & Dewey had been on Special... |