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My plate was almost as decadent

Al and I just prepared Eggs Benedict for the Mayberry compound. I may have overdone it. See you all after a brief food coma.

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

A recording engineer friend of mine (drivin' n cryin' is one of the bands he records) swears by the Cascade Fethead ribbons

I don't have experience with a lot of ribbons, but I was fortunately stopped from going down that rabbit hole by my local professional musician friend, Dave, many years ago. There are a lot of ... not good ribbon mics in the budget area. And yes, I know "DIY" ≠ budget, but since ribbon mics are so easy to get wrong, I wouldn't. I have my beloved Shure KSM313, which I would recommend for string ensembles (and vocals, which was going to be my primary application), but they are not cheap, and a matched pair will be even worse. Instead of ribbons, you would do well getting a matched pair of large condensers, like a Rode NT2A. (I have two, but they're not matched...that said, if you're not adamant about imaging, you can always do a Blumlein pair, which doesn't require a matched pair, and yields a very comfy stereo playback experience.) General comment for both of you: I would recommend listening to grawk over me on this subject, he has far more experience in this. I even still have some of his hand-me-downs.

My only ribbon experience is kinda theoretical at this point. I bought a nohype stereo ribbon but haven’t found the right place to use it yet.

Thoughts on the Bumblebee DIY ribbons? I would use them for small string ensemble recording i have heard and really liked AEA R88, Royer SF24 and Coles 4038 ..

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Brent is going to be so pissed off that you used his Olivia Newton John sweat bands. Keep up the good work! Also...

This is it. 🤷‍♂️

Warren Haynes Christmas Jam 2025

I think most sound cards are ok. I haven’t researched much because I trust apogee and my main concern is capture, and I have the best in the world for that

Oh yeah, I figured I'd need a new mic(s) Any idea in that cheapo external soundcard I linked or the Soundblaster? Anything else I should look at? Hoping to loop in the midi inputs on our keyboard eventually as well, though I can do that on the Behringer I think.

Ofc such metal piece cannot be placed inside driver, only outside of stator, your right.

The Mavericks - What a Crying Shame RIP, Raul Malo

There is no way to do that, that would have to be awfully thing metal and how would it be attached. If you attached it on the diaphragm side then it would short out the driver and it would simply cause more reflections on the other side

You’ll get way better results for the price to just record the turntable output directly (post phono stage) receiver tape outs, rca splitters, etc to get a copy of the audio signal, then into whatever sound card or adc you’re using. that behringer mic is terrible, and is really just a known quantity for spectrum analysis.

Other people play music and I record it for the kind of recording I do this is in the running for the most d-_-b way to do it outside mics are dpa 4015 sub cardioids mics at a 90 degree angle to get room “space” next in are schoeps mk41v HyperCards at a 110 degree spacing to catch clarity and make up for being a little farther back than is ideal the football is a schoeps surround setup called double midside. It has a front and rear facing mic and then a 3d mic to add sides i can blend them or isolate any of them depending on how things turn out Sonosax recorder and preamp are basically the best battery powered options on the market, 12 channels of 192/32

With Martin Parr’s recent passing, articles have resurfaced, including on a single vote getting him in Magnum. See how angry/joking photographers can get. “The other person to avoid was Martin Parr. As he put it, he was photographing a Magnum Annual Party for the first and last time – using a flash with a thing like a Styrofoam coffee cup on the end of it. My penile extension, he explained hopefully (but unsuccessfully) to any lady who passed by. I mean if Magnum had to hire someone to do the party pictures, did it have to be Martin? He’s clearly not as successful as we all thought, if he needs to do birthday parties, Bar Mitzvahs and weddings. I sincerely hope the Magnum blogsite goes down before he has a chance to post. I mean, if Magnum wanted to hire a party photographer, why couldn’t they have selected a nice ‘concerned photographer’ like Philip Jones Griffiths or Ian Berry to do them – photographers who photograph you with dignity and humanism and make you look good – instead of the appallingly ‘cynical’ and ‘ironic’ Parr? Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus did enough pictures at the MoMA of people looking demented without Parr adding to them.“

My mistake - that green/yellow PCB part I mentioned is from the other side of driver (facing outside). So no changes here probably. Back to stators - I was wondering about covering it partially with some thin sheet of metal, to make more compression inside drivers (similar to drivers from 007). That would change tonality, but in which direction ...🤔

The drivers are the same except new diaphragms and naturally new diaphragm holders for both dust covers and the main films. The material, tension, treatment and even the direction of the tension is all crucial to how the headphones sound. Still with the stock housings and stators, there is only so much that can be done. Now sure what green PCB you are referring to though? There is nothing like that in the stock headphones.

Saw some talk about this and decided to make a new version. use either the tube unbal/bal to bal board, or the solid state version result is about 125 watts rms into 8 ohms at thd of .005% will definitely drive 4 ohms with suitably large power supplies. transistors are standard pinout, so pick your favorite output transistors. the to220 transistors are mje15034/mje15035 perfect for so many things, including esl boost transformers. pioneera09.pdf

That's awesome! You play music and record it using that?

Nice work, thanks for sharing. You report more bass and little different tonality that made them more enyoable for you. In summary the most important parts of this project: 1. Internal dimensions and stators are unchanged. 2. Protecting membranes are changed. 3. Diaphragms are new. 4. Green PCB changed to your own black PCB with higher distance for earpads's lips. Is it correct? I cannot find if you sealed them in any special way more than they were? If so, I guess that tension of new diaphragrams and dust covers are responsible for more bass.

Makes a lot of sense. Binaural isn't my goal, but I'd like to faithfully reproduce/record the vinyl playback if it's feasible for less than $1k...probably not from the sound of things. I'd be running the streaming microphone off of the Behringer, so I don't think 70db of gain should be a problem. Not sure what to use for digital audio yet (I need optical in and out to loop in the Behringer), looking at the Soundblaster GC7 or maybe this as I think it will work... https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/external-sound-cards/237279/vantec-usb-external-7-1-channel-audio-adapter-nba-200u-nba-200u.html