If my blog layout had subtitles, it would be, “And why Aviom A-16II is now irrelevant.” Longtime readers of this blog will know that I’ve been a fan of the RSS M-48 personal mixing system since it was announced over a year ago. It sounds fantastic, has a ton of flexibility in signal routing, includes [...]
Posts under ‘Audio’
700 MHz: The End is Here
In case you’ve spent the last few years hiding in a faraday cage, you are probably aware that the FCC has sold off the 700 MHz spectrum (from 698 MHz-806MHz), analog TV has come to an end and wireless mics are no longer allowed in the 700 MHz band as of June 12. As in [...]
DPA 4099G Guitar Mic
And we’re back at it with some more DPA mics; this time the 4099G guitar mic. The 4099 is based on the same basic capsule as the 4098H choir mics and the SMK4081. The 4099, however, comes in a shock mounted, flexible boom that attaches to a very clever guitar body mount. One end of [...]
DPA SMK 4081 Stereo Mic Kit
Full disclosure: I’ve yet to hear a DPA mic that doesn’t sound great. OK, there. I’ve said it. Now we can get on with the review. A few weeks ago, DPA sent me a box full of mics. And there are few things that make me as happy as getting a box of mics. The [...]
Volume Webinar Tonight
Just a reminder, Jason, Dave and I will be talking about the one issue that we get questions about more than any other; volume. We’ll talk about how loud is too loud, weighting, LEQ, equal loudness contours, and talk about some of the best practices on getting to the right volume for your venue, service [...]
The Trouble With Choices
Quite often, we have a hard time making good decisions today when the consequences of poor ones don’t appear for a long time. Today, I wrote a post over at Church Production Magazine that talks about how that applies to us as church tech people. The other day I was listening to one of my [...]
When Things Go Crash In The Night
There’s been a great discussion in the comments of my previous post, “Why Digico Over Avid.” Keep those comments coming, to me that’s the best part of the blog. I love hearing other people’s opinion on things, as it causes me to re-think my own. A few comments really got me thinking; specifically comments that [...]
Why Digico over Avid?
When I posted on Twitter that I was seeing a new Digico SD-8 in our future, several people asked me why I was going that route over a Venue. I started to reply, but the answer was way longer than 140 characters. So here we are. Let me start by saying the Venue is a [...]
The “Best” Vocal Mic
Recently, I received an e-mail inquiring about microphones; specifically what constitutes a good microphone. The reader had seen my post on rechargeable batteries and noticed that I was using SM58 capsules on the mics under test. That made him wonder about the report he had just received from a consultant who had reviewed their church’s [...]
DPA 4098HB Hanging Choir Mics: First Impressions
When I talked with Bruce Meyers of DPA back in January at NAMM, he showed me a new hanging choir mic they were working on. I was interested immediately, though my application was not a choir. I have been on the lookout for a couple good audience mics for our IEM system, as well as [...]
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