Audio Hardware/Software Rsponse

I enjoyed soldering the mikes, I’ve worked with soldering irons before on my car and it was nothing new. Though the irons sucked! They weren’t very hot and they have a massive amount of build up on them. Might I suggest getting rosin to clean them with, it would improve the efficiency of the irons and reduce the tie needed to make the mikes. Other than that building the mikes was fun.

I’m a little impartial to the Mini Disc recorder, it is a wonderful device but it’s complicated to say the least. I lucked out on it having the default setting for manual gain; everyone I talked to couldn’t get the manual gain setting on. Mine was always on. I could never help anyone get theirs set up the way they wanted.

I’ve worked with massive soundboards and stage mikes quite frequently. And I’ve never had such crystal clear sound. I love my mike and the recorder has great ability.

First off Audacity is a great program that I plan to keep using. It has a few anti-user friendly areas but it’s still great. I think it will help greatly in my amateur movies during college.

Second, Sonic Stage sucks! No, Sonic stage is a bitch! The worse thing I’ve ever disgraced my laptop with! And that’s saying something considering I have an HP PC with windows Vista. I downloaded it 7 times and it still won’t work right!! Even on the computers in the lab it was slow and painful to work with.

Thirdly the Lame MP3 encoder has a major user-friendly error. It’s not obvious in how it wants you to install it and needs a more thorough tutorial. Other wise it’s awesome to be able to make MP3’s now.