[Dean Roddey]

I got it racked up and patched up. I improved the patchbay this time around, using more normalled slots, so that a lot fewer patch cords are needed for the common scenarios. Amazingly it all worked perfectly the first time. I also get my little Mopho synth hooked up and MIDI'd up and patched in. So now I can just keep that guy hooked up and drive it from any MIDI source easily. So I'm looking forward to playing with that some. Makes me want to do a Rush type tune.

I played around a bit tonight with recording some accoustic, so that I could test the new mic (AT4047) and the pre-amps. Other than room and my accoustic sounding horrible it went well :-) Too bad SCA doesn't have a Big Sweet Room kit. Though, to be fair, I've not spent nearly enough time yet really just relentlessly moving around the room to see if I can find some good spots. I did some more tonight and made some progress, but I need to spend way more time on that.

I did notice, and I'm not sure why, that I'm picking up a lot less room noise when cranked enough to get a good level than when using the old Great River/P-1 and Pearlman. Unfortunately, it's hard to say why that is because I went from those to these. So too many variables have changed to say whether it's the mic or the pre-amps that made the difference. And the 4047 this is the first time using it so I don't know its ins and outs yet. I generally used the Pearlman in cardiod mode as well, so it's not because of a different pattern.

Anyway, that's spilt milk under the bridge. No use crying over camels of a different stripe and all that. Time to move forward. So tomorrow it's on to Le LA-2A. But at least now I can also get back to recording some as well, and learning the new bits.