nice mic! and mixer! I'm a bit of a sound gear geek myself, and I love stuff like that. I'm using an Audio Technica mic, a AT-2020. $100. It does the trick for vocals, and I have software that cleans it up real nice. I need to buy a new mixer, and I want one that works as a control surface for a DAW and has firewire connection to computer. There's a Yamaha that strikes my fancy. I love Yamaha sound gear.
MAR.06.13> WARRANTIES> OPPORTUNITIES> SER'S DAILY BIT
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 On 03/06/2013 at 02:41 PM by Serraxor See More From This User » |
In today's blog, The Original Ser bellyaches about a broken mic and tries to make some cash.
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Before we get going and/or if you haven't yet, be sure to catch Bullet Heaven HD, Episode 65 on Press Pause Radio or YouTube right now! It's a great one!
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Yesterday on my way to work, I got an interesting email in my inbox. It was regarding a microphone that I had bought last year. As many of you that have seen my videos or listened to my podcasts in the last year know, I sound pretty good. There are a couple of reasons for this, the first being good mixers. I used to have a small Mackie 402 mixer that did its job admirably at home and abroad (especially during interviews at PAX). But I traded it in for this bad boy when I found out my new computer hates analog inputs:
Ooooh, knobby.
The Alesis Multimix8 USBFX is pretty great, USB-inegrated and still allows for decent analog out if I need it, though for super heavy duty stuff like streaming and on-the-fly fine-tuning during big casts, I have a monster (and awesome) Peavy PV-14 mixer. Overkill, but effective.
Anyways, a good mixer is only as good as the mircophone that's going into it, so recently I've been using the Applied Research and Technology (ART) M-Three microhphone, pictured thus:
It features a cardioid FET condenser and multiple switches which control the sound cutoff (removing hum) as well as changing the magnetic pattern (directional, figure-8 and omni-directional) to compensate for a variety of situations. Pricy at about $250.00, but I bought this one used for $150, including the custom shockmount, metal case and two year warranty. Good deal.
But I'm not sure if I would have bought this baby if it werren't for the fact that my ART M-One was busted during my flight back from PAX Prime 2012 in September last year. It bummed me out a bit because I know I packed my mic to avoid being damaged, but the TSA must have rifled through my sh*t because everything was tossed about and not where I left it. And when stuff like an M-One gets busted, it's not exactly cheap to replace...
Which brings us back to my email. Turns out, I had a warranty on it that expires in like, two weeks. After Long & McQuade (my music and sound source) a call, it turns out that the damage sustained to my M-One is probably covered under the warranty on it. So I'm heading in to see if it can be done. I guess it's a good thing I didn't throw it out, though I have no idea why I kept it, thinking with 100% certainty that there wasn't a warranty on it. It works out well, because i wanted to get another mic anyways, so that I wouldn't have to keep passing the mic back and forth between Dae and I. I'll let you know about the outcome tomorrow.
Finally, I'm sure you all know about that extra Gamecube of mine. It was featured in my blog two days ago in which it got a nifty Game Boy Player and Wireless Controller upgrade for just two bucks. Well, I'm selling it now, and hopefully I'll be able to get my asking price or close to it. My goal is to get three times what I paid into it, all through perfect timing (about $12.00).
Game not included.
So that's my plan for the day. Hopefully Kijiji comes through and I'll be up some money. Money that can go towards new Air Force Ones. They're the only shoes I can really wear.
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