On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Friday 19 March 2010 23:10:11 Ken Restivo wrote: > > It's going to come down to convenience, I think. I prefer dealing1 with my > > M-Audio FastTrack with its nice XLR and TRS connectors and ability to turn > > off hardware monitoring, than dealing with the Zoom with its always-on > > hardware monitoring and dinky 1/8" jacks. So I'll probably end up using > > the PG58 for everything except background vocals where we'll have 3 or 4 > > of us standing around the Zoom in a 120-degree pattern. > > Why not use the zoom as a microphone and record it with the fasttrack? > If you can't turn off the hw-monitoring on the zoom, make it a feature. Connect > the outputs of the zoom to the inputs of the fasttrack. Then you get the mics > and pre-amps of the zoom and the convenience of the fasttrack. And if you > press the record-button of the zoom, you get a backup recording as a bonus. > Great idea! Unfortunately, I haven't checked email until today, and the vocals are done now. I used the PG58. It was good enough for what we're doing; vocals are not the focus of the music by any means. > > > PS: I would love to say I couldn't differentiate between the pg58 and my little > studio-projects condenser-mics. But even the difference between the pg and an > sm is obvious when you have both on stage through a pa... Not to me. I'm not an audio engineer, I have tinnitus, and my ears are shot from 25 years of playing music. The only difference I can definitely hear is between any dynamic mic and a large-diaphragm condenser like the MXL 990 which I owned briefly a few years ago. But I can't tell the difference between that MXL into a FastTrack and, say, my friend's Neumann through a tube preamp. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
