What Is The Best Maple Drum Set Under $1000?

One nice touch: flip to room mics for compare/contrast. Same cymbals used, same setup, same placement, same mic’ing. Gretsch Catalina Maple, coated heads, 2.3mm triple-flanged hoops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz2lAEeIHdc Drum Center of Portsmouth, nice work!   A maple drum set refers to a drum kit where the shells of the drums, such as the bass drum, snare … Read more

Long-time pro players / engineers explain and compare the reasons WHY behind their session, mics to mastering – welcome to Hyper School w/ Rick Beato and friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97eIIpla95k       === Studio microphone recording techniques involve various approaches to capturing sound in a recording environment, aiming to achieve the desired audio characteristics, spatial imaging, and overall quality. Here’s an overview of some common studio microphone recording techniques: 1. **Mono Recording**: – **Single Mic**: Using a single microphone to capture the … Read more

Understanding the Different Types of Acoustical Treatments – Absorption

In this livestream, we go over the various types of acoustical room treatments with resident expert Anthony Grimani. We discuss how to acoustically treat a room and where to locate treatments along with things you should NOT do. Various acoustical treatment types are discussed with this episode focusing on absorption. Diffusion, reflectors, and bass traps … Read more

Binauralists take note — Monaural, not binaural, beat-frequency mixing is found superior — research, audio files, and Eileen McKusick ..what could be better?

From https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9771235   Previous Research In the last decade, many researchers have shown that music sounds are a type of vibration. In terms of expanding their application, stimulation with a suitable vibration can effectively promote relaxation [20], [31]. Therefore, binaural beats (BBs) and monaural beats (MBs) [22] have been proposed to promote relaxation [9], [10], [12]–​[14], [21], [27]. Regarding binaural beats, two monotones with a … Read more