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DPA Mic University presents: How to Mic a Violin This video demonstrates the best way to mic up a violin, using DPA’s d:vote™ 4099V instrument mic and, d:dicate™ 4011GS – with the new MMP-G Modular Active Cable and GSM4000 Gooseneck Shock Mount, and d:screet™ 4061 Omni mic. The d:vote™ and d:dicate™ are both directional condenser […]
Meris founder Terry Burton and DSP engineer Angelo Mazzocco head over to Red Bull Studios in LA. They chat with studio manager Eric Stenman about the Santa Monica recording scene and check out some of the latest Meris gear – including the incendiary Mercury7 Reverb – and what it sounds like.
We hooked up with Brighton singer and writer, Josh Bevan and engineer Donal Hodgson at Snap! Studios London to test out the Meris 440 and Ottobit in a live recording situation. Funky Junk brought the Meris Pre’s and expertise while Bevan and keys player Ben Jackson Cook lay down a solid performance of his original […]
We had the opportunity to meet with Paco Peña and discuss his iconic sound and how he achieves this live. Paco is a longtime user of the DPA d:vote™ 4099G microphone for all his performances, and he explains why. We also got a private performance, which was awesome. Thanks Paco! Paco’s guitar was recorded using […]
Louis from Garageband and Beyond has put together a nice video demonstration using the DPA d:dicate 4015A recording microphone. From DPA’s d:dicate™ recording range, the 4015A is a wide cardioid recording microphone with a clear and flat frequency response second to none, and here you can hear how it picks up the following acoustic instruments: […]
This beautiful recording was made in the Church of Saint John the Baptist in Béguinage, Brussels, for Bruxells ma Belle. Portland, Oregon based folk artists Alela Diane and Ryan Francesconi use the lush natural reverb of the space to their advantage for this performance of “Migration”, recorded using DPA d:vote™ 4099 instrument mics and omni […]
Ask Audio‘s Matt Vanacoro tests the DPA d:fine™ Directional headset against the Countryman H6 and the Shure Beta 54 headset microphones in a variety of challenging, real-world conditions. In the video review posted to their website, Matt lists the equipment he used including a Shure ULX wireless transmitter/receiver, for the thorough test he put the […]
BBC 6 Music Live at Maida Vale saw Bloc Party perform brand new songs for the first time in over two years in the UK. Watch them perform “Exes“, with frontman Kele Okereke introducing two new members in the band: Justin Harris on bass and Louis Bartle on drums. Okereke dubbed them “Bloc Party Mk2” […]
Nils Vinding from DPA Microphones HQ in Denmark presented a training session in conjunction with DPA partner LMC Audio Systems, focusing on using microphones in the corporate AV environment. His talk went into detail about how microphone capsules react to sound in their environment and how this matters to the human ear in these situations. […]
Meris’s Terry Burton demonstrates how to use the Ottobit 500 Series Bit Crusher to add interesting textures and Ottobit Sounds to your recordings for R&B and Funk tracks. Using guitar, analogue synth, drum machine, vocals and bass via the Meris 440 preamp and DI and then patched through the Ottobit, Terry shows how the Ottobit […]
Designed to deliver unmatched clarity and low handling noise, the DPA d:facto™ Interview Mic features a dual-capsule omnidirectional capsule (aka MMC2006V) which is compatible with the entire d:facto Adapter range
Angelo Mazzocco, DSP Engineer from Meris in the US presents part 2 of the Meris Ottobit ‘sounds and settings’ guides. Angelo demonstrates how to create awesome sounds using the Meris Ottobit bit crusher and his electric guitar plugged into the Meris 440’s DI input. Part 2 shows how to create the following Ottobit sounds: Crushed […]
