I have a head cold, bleah. But! I’ve been poking around in the studio anyway.<\/p>\n
Several years ago, I bought a Sony ECM957 small-can capacitor microphone for recording live with a minidisc recorder, and it worked okay for that. But I’ve never been able to do a goddamn thing with it in the studio despite repeated attempts on different instruments (and voice), so it’s been sitting in a drawer for most of the last two and a half years… or, until now<\/em>.<\/p>\n Turns out it’s really good for recording percussion, or, at least, for recording this djembe that none of my other mics are recording worth a damn. I could hear it on the live monitor in my headset as soon as I plugged it in and popped a couple of test riffs – it was that obvious. In the playback it’s a whole ‘nother world compared to my previous attempts. It’s enough of a difference that you can see it outright in the waveform display, comparing to recordings on other mics. Today, the djembe; tomorrow, the bodhran! Hopefully.<\/p>\n Freaky little microphone, I knew you had to have something<\/em> good in you. I’m so glad it finally showed up! \u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a head cold, bleah. But! I’ve been poking around in the studio anyway. Several years ago, I bought a Sony ECM957 small-can capacitor microphone for recording live with a minidisc recorder, and it worked okay for that. But I’ve never been able to do a goddamn thing with it in the studio despite [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}