new recording set up

[john]

sxpoet – the living room can be a good thing because you will have natural room sound (reverb) which is what we normally add digitally in a small room.
William – mine is an AKG the proper model is AKG C1000S which is around $200.
the link you gave for the sm57 has it at $199 but you can easily get one for under $100.
My AKG is not great by any means, just a mic I picked up years ago when I started recording in my house.
I really should upgrade and really should be looking at mics in the range of at least $500-$2000

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jf – the AKG C1000s looks quite good, could use it for singing as well.
You’ll have to let everyone know what mouthpiece in the $500 upwards range you intend to get.

[Anonymous]

Sxpoet, which MAC did you buy? I thought they all come with built in speakers, they would be sufficient to play around with WAV files whilst you are learning the software. Just make a copy of any WAV file and play around with that. I was thinking about getting a MacBook Pro too, but Numbers can’t do macros!!!

Packing your recording equipment away is a better option, because it will stay cleaner and can’t be damaged accidentally.

[William Cingolani]

This the microphone I have. It uses USB, no interface needed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIyAuY2Vlg

[Anonymous]

@Jeff – i bought a mac pro with the memory expanded to make it run faster with multiple Aps, logic pro etc..
Yes it does have internal speakers, but if i use the audio interface, i can connect yamaha monitors to the audio interface
for play back.

@william – i shall be using an audio interface for recording and playing back sound, so everything will connect to the audio interface.
I’m sure the usb microphone you use will be just as good or even better than mine.

[Anonymous]

Hi William, I just watched the video. I am surprised that all he did was discuss the look and feel of the microphone. It reminds me of a beer commercial we have here that only mentions it’s temperature and says nothing about the taste of the beer! I would have expected a techie to use a signal generator and speakers to record some sounds of equal volume at different frequencies to demonstrate the MV51 sensitivity, after all its all about accurate sound capture.

What I would like to know is whether it’s lower frequency response performs well for the deeper Sax sounds. That is surely the main issue which is why we go for sensors with the largest diaphragm. Judging from your videos it works very well and its a pity that our suppliers didn’t have this one available when I bought my cheaper USB microphone.

“It’s all about the bass, bout the bass not the treble!”

[Anonymous]

one way to compare microphones is to read the technical stuff,
they all seem to have similar info like below

Audio Frequency bandwidth – 60 to 20000 Hz
Sensitivity – 5 mV/Pa
Equivalent Noise Level – 31 dB-A
Signal to Noise – 63 dB-A
Electrical Impedance – 200 Ohms
Recommended Load Impedance – 2000 Ohms

as well as the direction they pickup sound from, and whether or not
they pick up mechanical vibration sounds from the keys clunking.

[Anonymous]

from what i gather, picking microphones is like picking reeds, and
what ever you do, don’t drop one on the floor or in water! lol

[William Cingolani]

Hi Jeff, the guy on Youtube talking about the shure mic did sound like a beer commercial. I don’t know much about microphones but I’m learning. Every thing thatI know sinks into what I don’t know. I learned the term Phantom power 17 years ago, just the term not what it is. Other things I learned are “Gain”, and how to adjust gain.XLR connectors, TRS connectors. I’ve been studying microphones all weekend so I can ask an intelligent question about mics, and then comes interfaces. My interface is 14teen years old. I once had logic pro installed in my mac pro 12 years ago. Logic pro was too complicated. I didn’t have enough time to learn Logic Pro. So I thrashed it and had a public burning years ago. I’m still learning Garage Band and
garage band I like. Back to the music and the horn. We can get so involved with electronics that we have no time for the music.

[Pete]

Correct William we can get to involved in all this recording gear, lets first
learn out to play the sax, wearing a bit thin now all this electronic jargon.

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