Shure Sm 57-58

   Sm58                           Sm57

These microphones are simply brilliant!

58: Is perfect for live vocals as its durable, has a mesh screen with foam pop filter on the inside. The frequency response is 50 Hz to 15000 Hz, This mic can be used in many ways in the studio as well, for example a performer may feel uncomfortable singing into a condenser with a pop filter so to make the feel at ease wack this beauty in front on them and there you go!

57: Exactly the same as the 58 but without the mesh ball around it, generally used for instrument mic in a live setting as well as the studio. again being a dynamic mic its durable and able to be used for almost instruments.

Both of these mics are relatively cheap and easy to access at any music store.... if you have a home studio or are planning to build one do yourself a favour and buy one of these if not both!!!

Digidesign .... now known as AVID.

Digidesign, the creators of SoundTools and ProTools. Technological masters!




There creation of sound tools in 1989, has sparked the revolution of the DAW (digital audio workstation.)
We have now seen the effects of this as almost every recording studio in the world will own one digital studio equipped with Pro Tools or a similar program e.g. Live 8 or Logic Pro.

With this we can edit audio to a degree that was not possible on tape!  in saying this i am aware that there are a lot of purist analogue recording geniuses out there and i know that there are sounds that cannot be replicated digitally... yet! but i believe the extent in which we can play with the audio has increased immeasurably.

With digital recordings comes digital formats of audio and with this portable music player such as Ipods and MP3's have taken of....

A recent trend with these DAW's is to produce electronic music entirely made up of  MIDI instruments. (see my post on MIDI.)

What i am trying to say is that with out Evan Brooks and Peter Gotcher and their company Digidesign none of these things would be avaliable to us!



Here is a link to an interview with Evan Brooks, he talks on how the company came about i highly recommend this!

Steve Jobs 1955 -2011.

Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple, and the ex CEO after stepping down earlier this year. Jobs was a revolutionary thinker for his time and the company Apple reflects his ideas.

The most stand out idea to me was in 1997 while the internet was very new to the world and sever based computing or 'cloud computing' as referred to today, was only ever seen in large scale businesses with huge databases of information. Jobs was seen to be thinking into the future and thinking wouldn't it be great if we could do all of our computing from an online server. He thought that this idea would take off as you could have all your storage online or on a sever and your computer could now be the portal in which you access it so no matter where you went you always have your information.

While earlier this year Jobs was seen again presenting on apples product iCloud, where it took the PC or Mac from being this so called portal or hub to being another device so now the cloud was your digital presence and you would use your computer, phone, tablet and any other device to access the your digital information literally anywhere you like.

As many will know Jobs passed away recently, this is a sad moment indeed to lose someone of such genius. i would like to finish this post on ...

RIP Steve Jobs.