Re: ways to emulate 50s educational film sound for narration?

Steve King wrote:

Why would you want to use two mics, when you can later use a stereo
synthesizer to get those two channels?

AArgh, I have erred, what a lot of setup and tear down time that amounts to
over the years. And disk space .... sheesh.

With bigger budgets, just use
a bigger microphone. Luddite, indeed, as I sit surrounded by 1's and
zeros, zipping around;-)

Speaking of cool stuff, which we weren't, but which I will now...
have you seen the Micport Pro? It is a USB audio input device that
accommodates both phantom-powered mics as well as dynamics. It is
housed in a barrel about the size of a Shure pad with an XLR femail
on one end and a USB pigtail on the other. It has a mic level pot
plus a headphone out with volume control. It is not stereo, so its
not suitable for music recording. However, for the occasional
interviews I record for corporate projects, it is a cool tool. I've
only used it with relatively higher output condenser microphones.
Sounds amazingly good.

The caves in China are growing usb direct type mics now.

Steve King
Luddite Impersonator and Tail Twister


Kind regards

Peter Larsen



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