Thank you Ketch for observations.

I will test even TT25-SMA coax, self powered along with 45-SMA on Feb. 19

I'm going to have to show that to a couple of console mfgrs...

Hi Kelly, just wanted to say thank you for your input on the mic choices, i went with the Shure Beta series - cardiod model, works great right in front of my EV line array. To much gain actually.lol.

If I'm not mistaken - these guys are in your neck of the woods. NYC & LA have fantastic rental houses but you might want to check out these guys.

http://www.foxesmusic.com/shop/brand.asp?storeID=EVBEGV9KSCJT8GFJ02Q9BB6DMDV64VB0&seg=0&c0=3&type=Equipment

A very nice way to put it Ketch

Thanks for the kind words

LOL! 'Headphone Envy'... that's a new one. But you are correct, the engineers that come through the club all say the same thing... 'Wow, can I use those?".

Post away! Also email / pm me your snail mail address. I must send you my new test CD. The page which explains it is here:
http://www.soundoctor.com/testcd
There's also (ahem) a white paper on white noise, here:
http://www.soundoctor.com/testcd/whitenoise.htm

The out-of-phase summing works spectacularly well AND (it's a win-win situation) cancels the residual hum!. The only caveat is both sources need to be either transformer isolated (if you can afford it or get away with it) or at least be really good cross-coupled balanced output sections.
I'll post you a secret drawing if you like.
Barry

Barry

Digital (in general) is like boob jobs. It looks great on paper but rarely works well in real life. Also, women and audio should be flat, but often with a house curve of 1dB/octave above 1k. Seriously, (wait, I WAS being serious) iti's not so much the perceptual quality of digital, which is getting much better; rather it's the group delay, which makes it impossible for HUMANS to work with it. The faster the processors get, the more crap people will try to do with them, so the net result is more group delay, not less... it's the same nonsense as operating systems: so what if the CPU is 3 x as fast; the OS is 4 times slower. And when all is said and done, neither an analog nor a digital board is going to fix tasteless audio or music.