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trimpot from muted to full volume, so you can adjust speaker levels to be the same at your listening position and leave them that way; there’s a similar trimpot for the Dim function so you can decide if you want the Dim button to just drop your monitor level by a few dB or down to silence. (There’s no Mute button per se; if you want to mute rather than dim your speakers, just hit the A or B buttons to turn them off. Simple!) The Mono button works as advertised, and the Sub button simply routes the main signal to the Sub Out, leaving the filtering to the sub itself. That greatly simplifies the MC3’s internals with little or no harm, since pretty much every studio-worthy sub has its own lowpass filter settings. A separate trimpot and switch let you set the Sub Out’s level and flip it in or out of phase. Oh, and on the rear panel, a tiny hidden button lets you select whether you’re feeding the MC3 from balanced or unbalanced inputs. What does it sound like? Nothing. What do you mean, ‘nothing’? I mean nothing. This is the quietest, cleanest audio router I’ve ever heard—the headphone amp is exceptionally clear and quiet even while producing hefty output levels, but its –87 dBu noise floor is positively noisy compared to the dead-silent monitor path.

This box simply does its job and lets you hear what your speakers can do without any coloration at all. Gripes and final thoughts? Gripes? Tiny ones, addressing which would have added a lot to the complexity and cost of the MC3—I’d have liked to see a separate level control for one or more of the headphone outs, and/or a way to have the headphone level pot not affect the Aux Out level (for feeding an external recorder or headphone distro amp at a steady level). Small stuff compared to what this box does right, which is pretty much everything else. The MC3 does everything it’s designed to do without fuss and at relatively little cost compared to super-duper active monitor-control devices. It brings the useful, convenient, audio-respectful monitor control that every serious musician needs into reach for pretty much every studio out there. The more you read our articles and Readers’ Tapes critiques and learn about how important it is to be able to reliably switch between monitors and headphones in even the smallest studio, the more you will realize that this box was designed as if Radial was reading Recording’s collective mind. Price: $249 More from: Radial Engineering, www.radialeng.com


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Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
Lynne Arriale’s Solo—A Piano Solo Recording Of Note
Kel Audio HM-7U amd HM-3C Microphones
Fanny Franklin’s Get Wet—A Conversation With Producer/Engineer Jason Gutierrez
AKG Perception 120 USB Microphone
Miking Instruments: The Lost Art
Earthworks SR20 Microphone
SXSW 2012
Radial Engineering MC3 Passive Monitor Switcher
Readers’ Tapes
Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 5: Introduction To Microphones—Part Two (Directionality).
Miking A Symphony Orchestra For A Commercial
Audio-Technica AT4050ST Stereo Microphone
Alclair Reference In-Ear Monitors
RME Fireface UCX
Advertiser Index
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Recording - May 2012 - Talkback
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Recording - May 2012 - Fast Forward
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Recording - May 2012 - Lynne Arriale’s Solo—A Piano Solo Recording Of Note
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Recording - May 2012 - Kel Audio HM-7U amd HM-3C Microphones
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Recording - May 2012 - Fanny Franklin’s Get Wet—A Conversation With Producer/Engineer Jason Gutierrez
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Recording - May 2012 - AKG Perception 120 USB Microphone
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Recording - May 2012 - Miking Instruments: The Lost Art
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Recording - May 2012 - Earthworks SR20 Microphone
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Recording - May 2012 - SXSW 2012
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Recording - May 2012 - Radial Engineering MC3 Passive Monitor Switcher
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Recording - May 2012 - Readers’ Tapes
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Recording - May 2012 - Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 5: Introduction To Microphones—Part Two (Directionality).
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Recording - May 2012 - Miking A Symphony Orchestra For A Commercial
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Recording - May 2012 - Audio-Technica AT4050ST Stereo Microphone
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Recording - May 2012 - Alclair Reference In-Ear Monitors
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Recording - May 2012 - RME Fireface UCX
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