Phil Garfinkel

Portland

Underwriting Coordinator at KBOO-FM

Contributing Features Editor at ProSoundWeb

Long time pro audio geek, product specialist, clinician, FOH engineer, guitarist, songwriter.

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Road Test: Shure Nexadyne Instrument Microphones

1 week ago | prosoundweb.com | Phil Garfinkel |Phil Garfinkel lives

Last year, Shure introduced the Nexadyne series of microphones, one of the first major shifts in a while for the company, which is currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. As someone who worked for a competing mic manufacturer for 15 years, I was very intrigued, and also initially a bit skeptical. After all, the Beta series seemed largely a re-packaging original mic designs (admittedly with different magnets). Was this really a new direction? Or was it just more of the same?
Road Test: The New Earthworks SR117 Condenser Vocal Microphone

Nov 27, 2024 | prosoundweb.com | Phil Garfinkel |Phil Garfinkel lives

Earthworks has been around for a while; it’s a family-owned company in New England (specifically, Milford, New Hampshire) that has a reputation for designing high-quality microphones at a price point that’s usually not for the faint of heart. So when I heard about the company’s new handheld vocal condenser, the SR117, coming in at $199 MAP, well, there was no question — I had to try it out (and, of course, tell y’all about my experience).
Real World Gear: Drum Kit Microphone Packages

Oct 2, 2023 | prosoundweb.com | Phil Garfinkel

Drum microphone packages (as well as mics specifically designed for drums) have been around for a while now. It was in the early 2000s, though, that I was part of a team at Audix that helped create the drum microphone package as a product category and began to get drummers (and, of course, drum shops/departments) to understand the importance of how their kits were miked.