Month: April 2019

Do Reference Mics Drift with Age?

Do Reference Mics Drift with Age?

Here’s a 8-year-old Behringer ECM8000 compared to a brand new, out of the box ECM8000, both measuring the same nearfield studio monitor. The slight phase deviation at HF can be attributed to a slight position error of about a tenth of an inch. Differences this small are absolutely dwarfed by the change you would see …

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USITT19 Live Sound International Loudspeaker Demo

USITT19 Live Sound International Loudspeaker Demo

One of the common themes for me is consistency. I’ve written in the past about keeping as much on the console as consistent as possible from gig to gig. I’m fussy about my channel naming and coloring conventions, my patching, and my console layout.  However, all this routine loses its usefulness when it stops serving …

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