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and they need to be made exactly right. An example: if there’s a slight ridge around the hole, it’ll create sharp, shrieky resonances in the high frequencies. So the ridges need to be machined off—but if you machine off a little too much, it creates a different set of sharp, shrieky resonances. The diaphragm needs to be of absolutely uniform thickness, and—very important—it needs to be tensioned evenly, and to exactly the right tension, or you the bipolars drove the cable directly. It advantages of both worlds? Well, yes; get high-frequency troubles, which are sounded very clean, and stayed clean up Neumann first did it in the M 149 Tube endemic to condenser mics. to high SPLs. When Schoeps’s patent even- mic. Unfortunately for other manufacturWhy? The capsule is a thin membrane tually ran out, everybody and their brother ers, Neumann’s patent hasn’t run out yet! stretched across a circular rim—just like a began using the circuit. It was cleaner, it drum head. Like a tiny tom-tom, it has a funCondenser conundrums was smaller... and it was way cheaper. damental resonant frequency—but, Transformerless circuits because the capsule is small and the eliminate one of the weakest Myth #2: Cheap condenser mics are skin is stretched very tight, the resopoints in cheap mic designs. crap; they sound shrill and shrieky. nance frequency is higher... as it turns In fact, Recording’s frequent out, it’s a huge nasty peak right in the Status: Not automatically true, contributor Scott Dorsey has middle of the vocal range. developed a mod kit which although there are enough cheap, bad Wente’s mic design’s real achievereplaces low-grade head-amp ment was figuring out how to push mics to lend credence to the idea. that resonance to an even higher freelectronics with the Schoeps circuit; when installed, it can quency, and how to spread it out by Here’s the thing: It’s hard to make a damping the response. The peak was markedly improve the sound of many cheap large-diaphragm condenser mics. good condenser capsule. The body needs now smaller, broader, less fierce-soundto be machined to very close tolerances; if ing—but still there, and mic designers (http://tinyurl.com/DorseyChinese) What about tubed mics? Couldn’t you it’s a directional mic, there are holes in the have been struggling with it ever since. hook a tube up to a solid-state trans- backplate which create acoustical There are other sources of high-freformerless output circuit and get some labyrinths that control the pickup pattern, quency resonances in the mic—every


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Recording - June 2010
Fade In
Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
Cloud Microphones JRS-34-P, JRS-34, and Cloudlifter
Mics, Mechanisms, and Myths—A Meditation
DPA Microphones 4099 Series
Chandler Limited Little Devils
A Studio Miking Primer
Sontronics Orpheus and Sigma
Zoom Q3 Video Recorder
Superscope Elevation—A Walking Tour
Recording’s Guitar Column
Reviewed and Revisited: Ableton Live Intro
Recording’s Keyboard Column
Avid M-Audio Fast Track and Pro Tools M-Powered Essential
It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 3: Recording Issues
ART M-Three and M-Five Microphones
Shure SRH440 and SRH840 Headphones
Readers' Tapes
Advertiser Index
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Recording - June 2010 - Fade In
Recording - June 2010 - 3
Recording - June 2010 - Contents
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Recording - June 2010 - Talkback
Recording - June 2010 - 7
Recording - June 2010 - Fast Forward
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Recording - June 2010 - 10
Recording - June 2010 - 11
Recording - June 2010 - Cloud Microphones JRS-34-P, JRS-34, and Cloudlifter
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Recording - June 2010 - Mics, Mechanisms, and Myths—A Meditation
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Recording - June 2010 - DPA Microphones 4099 Series
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Recording - June 2010 - Chandler Limited Little Devils
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Recording - June 2010 - A Studio Miking Primer
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Recording - June 2010 - Sontronics Orpheus and Sigma
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Recording - June 2010 - Zoom Q3 Video Recorder
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Recording - June 2010 - Superscope Elevation—A Walking Tour
Recording - June 2010 - 41
Recording - June 2010 - Recording’s Guitar Column
Recording - June 2010 - 43
Recording - June 2010 - Reviewed and Revisited: Ableton Live Intro
Recording - June 2010 - 45
Recording - June 2010 - Recording’s Keyboard Column
Recording - June 2010 - 47
Recording - June 2010 - Avid M-Audio Fast Track and Pro Tools M-Powered Essential
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Recording - June 2010 - It’s Your Music—Know Your Rights. Chapter 3: Recording Issues
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Recording - June 2010 - ART M-Three and M-Five Microphones
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Recording - June 2010 - Shure SRH440 and SRH840 Headphones
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Recording - June 2010 - Readers' Tapes
Recording - June 2010 - Advertiser Index
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