Toy Microphone Transformation
Upgrading a cheap (and broken) BM800 Mic into a Studio Workhorse
DIY Studio Desk
I had always wanted an “Argosy-Like” desk with angled racks right at the desktop level. I resisted because the dimensions and layout weren’t quite exactly what I wanted and well.. the price. Then I would consider doing a DIY desk, begin the design and get too busy to follow through. So I just stuck with …
Latest Trash to Treasure
This MXL990 was totally trashed. I rescued it from ebay hell and gave it a new life
Coal to Diamond: Upgrading a Sterling Audio ST55 into my new Go-To Mic
In my feed on Reverb.com I have several watches set up that alert me when certain items become available at a certain price. One of those watches was for a Sterling Audio ST55 Microphone for less than $80. One day, I had an email from reverb saying I had new items in my feed. And …
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Long Distance Music Collaboration and a Reason Why
There I was surveying my wonderful recording studio which I had been doing numerous upgrades to of late. I had the coolest mic and mic preamp collection I could ever hope for. My console layout looks and works great. I have these amazing Focal monitors. The rooms sound amazing. But why? Why bother with all …
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Cool Guitar Amp Build – Mojotone 18Watt TMB
I’ve had my eye on this Mojotone Amp Kit for a while. I normally do my guitar parts with various modeling gizmos and plugins and I don’t play live with anyone at the moment. So spending 900 bucks on a guitar amp seemed like a bit of a splurge (especially when I also want to …
Successful Collaborating With Multiple DAWs
Occasionally I find myself collaborating with other studios by sharing files and projects back and forth. I recently had the pleasure of contributing some vocal and instrument tracks to an album by an Artist from my hometown in upstate NY. There is almost always some trial and error involved in the process of transferring – …
CAPI VP312 Preamp Build (and Cool Mod)
CAPI is another source for Professional DIY audio kits. They make a bunch of 500 series and rack devices. It is not by accident that they look very similar to vintage products by API. CAPI has no affiliation with API but they offer faithful reproductions of the originals. This project is also featured in our …
Hairball Audio Lola Mic Preamp Build: Adding Another Cool Color
My eight space 500 series rack has had only one module in it until now. It was the Sound Skulptor MP573 Mic Preamp kit I built several months ago. My ultimate plan is to get a second one of those and a pair of something else. After a lot of consideration, I decided that the …
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Another Cool Microphone Build
After building a couple of microphone-parts.com MXL990 kits last week, I did some shoot-outs between them and against other mics in my collection. I discovered that one of my existing mics had a problem. First, some background… Before I found out about mic-parts, I had a few microphones from a company called Michael Joly Engineering …