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Little Square Mic - by Jeff Towne
December 2010Studio Projects' Little Square Mic. It's little, it's square, it comes in fun colors. But there are three more important attributes: convenience, price and sound.
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Mic Baffles - by Jeff Towne
December 2010These simple baffles can improve the quality of your recordings if you're faced with an echoey room, or some kinds of background noise. These devices are more comfortable to use than a blanket over the head, and will generally sound better too, but don't expect too much: if your recording space has a lot of background noise, these devices will not eliminate that. But they can reduce the liveness of many spaces and block some ambient sound, resulting in more professional-sounding recordings.
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Handhelds: Microphone Shootout Part 2
August 2006At the end of our studio announce mic shootout we plugged-up a few popular handheld mics used for interviews, to get a sense of the different sonic character of each mic. For this particular test, to eliminate other variables, we stayed in the larg...
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The Transom Mic Shootout: Blindfold Test
August 2005Update: Also make sure to check out our Handheld Microphone Shootout. As part of an ongoing training initiative, AIR: The Association of Independents in Radio helped organize a mic shootout, seeking to compare a wide variety of announce mics in ...
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What Microphone Do I Get?
June 2001by Jeff Towne It's one of the most common questions floating around radio-oriented mail lists, discussion boards, and any time radio producers get within six feet of one another. If you're in the mood for some details to get you started, here...
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