I just sang into an old white 421 for the first time and after listening the next day, it had a character so that it sounded like a cool finished recording w/ only a little bit of reverb, even if the take itself wasn’t all that. I wonder why they’re not more known for vocals. Normally I am on here c...

B67 Thank you! I agree exact vintage specs don’t matter, but it is helpful that your description of the b67 jives with the older Neumann 67 models - that ‘dark’, midrange sort of thing. Plus they are famously used on all sorts of instruments. You have to figure the utility extends elsewhere, but I ...

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:16 am Earth - A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra-Capsular Extraction

Yeah, I better put that one on soon at an appropriate volume. It’s been too long

Oh these two are really fun: The Miles Davis ‘as told to’ biography and the John Cooper Clarke autobiography. The Miles Davis one is well read by an actor that totally pulls it off, but of course the text is amazing. The John Cooper Clarke one is read by the author himself and he’s magnetic through ...

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:49 pm Bought an Electro Voicr 658L mic on a whim for very cheap. Anyone familiar?

Ok, the seller can’t find that one so it was canceled.

Got an EV 665 w/ a return policy coming instead

I started this one, which I'd mentioned up-thread: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59110368-in-the-eye-of-the-wild "In the Eye of the Wild begins with a terrifying account of the anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s nearly fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear while conducting research in Siberi...

Thanks, yall, its usually a bit tidier than that, but this was at the end of a mix with pretty much all the outboard being used and most of my groups and channels being used up. I try to use the right length cable w/o stress or too much slack, but by the end I’m using whatever I’ve got left. I’ll tr...

Is there a reason not to do this, other than it being dangerous and inconvenient?

So badass. Good on you man

Madame Bovary. It isn’t moving me like Salammbo did, but go fuckin figure.