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I'm building a portable yet precise recording rig for my upcoming acoustic guitar reviews. This is the phase one rig of my testing.
That's two AKG C414 XLS mics on a Grace Design Stereo Spacebar. They are connected to a Sound Design MixPre-6 II. Over the next few days I'll post some updates as my experiments continue. BTE the gain is cranked to make the display pretty, and the right mic has higher signal because the strobe was on that side.
The MixPre is freaking amazing. It can record at 192kHz with 32-bit floating point depth. It supports six inputs (four preamps) natively to eight tracks with killer preamps and runs entirely on 4 AA batteries. It will also run on 8 AAs, multiple Sony camcorder batteries, or via USB-C. It also works as a computer interface and will record and mix in parallel while doing so. With the musician plugin it will support 12 tracks, and a whole bunch of other stuff to make it behave more like a studio mixer, though at this point I don't need that functionality.
All of this is to replace my aged Olympus LS10 that I love but just kept getting in my way for various reasons.
Additionally, I wanted to build a rig that I could use to record some of these stellar acoustics that I have in such a way that might actually portray the glorious sound they can produce. I also wanted to record each guitar in as close to the same setup as possible which this rig allows me to do.
I've also been toying with the idea of having a YouTube channel and this little mixer would be perfect for that - it even supports timecode from the camera since that's actually what it's made for.
That's two AKG C414 XLS mics on a Grace Design Stereo Spacebar. They are connected to a Sound Design MixPre-6 II. Over the next few days I'll post some updates as my experiments continue. BTE the gain is cranked to make the display pretty, and the right mic has higher signal because the strobe was on that side.
The MixPre is freaking amazing. It can record at 192kHz with 32-bit floating point depth. It supports six inputs (four preamps) natively to eight tracks with killer preamps and runs entirely on 4 AA batteries. It will also run on 8 AAs, multiple Sony camcorder batteries, or via USB-C. It also works as a computer interface and will record and mix in parallel while doing so. With the musician plugin it will support 12 tracks, and a whole bunch of other stuff to make it behave more like a studio mixer, though at this point I don't need that functionality.
All of this is to replace my aged Olympus LS10 that I love but just kept getting in my way for various reasons.
Additionally, I wanted to build a rig that I could use to record some of these stellar acoustics that I have in such a way that might actually portray the glorious sound they can produce. I also wanted to record each guitar in as close to the same setup as possible which this rig allows me to do.
I've also been toying with the idea of having a YouTube channel and this little mixer would be perfect for that - it even supports timecode from the camera since that's actually what it's made for.