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Originally posted by wst3
Well, I haven't used the Core Sound microphones, but if you take a look around, decent to very good microphones are flooding the marketplace!
Another thought... while I am no fan of any lossy compression scheme, it seems to me that you might get a huge improvement with a better preamp, depending on what you are using for microphones now.
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I'm not using any preamp... just plugging the mic into the minidisc and going. Until I bought the Philips CR burner, the sound was fine that way - 'cause no one else owned a minidisc and I had to distribute on cassette. The recordings lost so much quality being transfered even to metal tape that I never bothered with any other equipment.
Now that I can transfer to CD however, I'm looking to upgrade. The problems are that a) I still want everything to be portable to gigs (in other words - it all has to fit in my violin case or music bag) and b) I'm down in Kansas working and there aren't very many places here to try-before-you-buy.
The Core Sound mics are the size of ear bud earphones. I've seen 'em at work and heard the results. For about $300 I can improve my recordings about 10 fold.
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I'm jealous... I have that personality type that won't let me do that. The afore-mentioned wedding is still tieing up a large quantity of disk space<G>!
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Ha! Yeah, I just downloaded my first editing program (a demo version of Sound Forge - recommended by a friend at Discmakers). I don't understand half of what this program can do!
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OUCH!!!!! You get lots of points!!! Which theatre? (I grew up in West Chester, and have spent my whole life between Reading and Philly. My Dad worked in Morton for a spell, and he bought me my first "real" guitar at Swathmore Music.)
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Players' Club
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I can't even imagine doing the kind of editing you described... the timing is frightening!
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It was. We sat up there with scores and basically had to breathe with the singers. Most shows took 2 people to run sound. Sometimes we were cutting back and forth between 2 playback machines mid-song... so one could re-cue while the other finished the next verse. I really am glad those days are over. (Did I mention that this place was an amateur (read VOLUNTEER) theater company and NOBODY got paid????)
---R