Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Royer Ribbons Recording Drums

Rock n Roll Rentals is excited to be the newest Royer Ribbon Microphone dealer. When you think of Ribbons - think Royer, and, if you live in Austin, think Rock n Roll Rentals!


Royer Labs has a great resource online www.royerlabs.com. It is refreshing to approach recording drums using a minimalist approach. Of course it helps to have a good drummer and a good space.

Rock n Roll Rentals has, in stock, 4 R-121's, 2 R-122's, 1 R-122V, & 1 SF-12. We can special order any of the other mics for you as well.

Monday, September 14, 2009

The V256 Vocoder pedal


Electro Harmonix made some smart decisions when designing the v256 vocoder pedal. One of the best features is the Reflex-Tune mode, which is the t-pain/kanye style auto-tune. You do not have to be a great piano player to acheive these tones either.


The pedal has an xlr for the modulation input, and either a guitar or the internal synthesizer can be used for the carrier. This means you do not have to be a guitar player in order to get good tones out of this pedal.


The vocoder also has drone and vox-robo modes. The overall tone and shape can be adjusted through the 5 knobs which include blend(wet/dry) knob, Bands(decides how many bands of vocoding are done, which from the name i would guess it goes up to 256, and the tone, gender bender and the pitch knob which all kind of work with each other.


The v-256 has phantom power as well as a hi/lo mic gain switch, and a midi input. A preset can be saved and recalled at a later time.
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