Ken: Well, my favorite is the Beyer dynamic M360. It is a large diaphragm ribbon and just sounds so warm and lovely. I also love the early Shure SM Ribbons -"The Johnny Carson Mics". Many of the modern ribbon mics can actually be used on the road because their reliability is pretty good these days. I think most sound companies do not carry a wide enough selection of microphones, but I understand why and I think it's getting better. In an ideal world, everyone would have two of every mic!

Moderator: The early Shure ribbons were terribly fragile, weren't they?

Ken: Yes.

Moderator: And what of the beyer M500?

Ken: They tried to make it too much like an SM57. It's good but too generic sounding.

Jim G: A couple questions in one here. What did you see in the LAB (Live Audio Board) that made you want to become a part of it, and was the idea of ProSoundWeb (PSW) in your mind for quite a while before you made it happen?

Ken: LAB has always been an amazing example of a true Internet community. At EAW I was a believer and supporter for many years. For quite a few years before I left EAW, I was thinking about and working on ideas relating to the Internet. I'm a computer geek you know and quite proud of it! But actually a complete equipment geek, computers and other wise - cars, computers, audio equipment; they're all the same to me. My only regret so far at PSW is that we can't do more faster.

Jim G: What delays you?

Ken: We hope to really add a lot of services and features beneficial to the community. The technology is not all there. Software development is a very difficult thing. We had this problem at EAW and in the little time I spent at Mackie. They had big problems getting software to market. Hardware always outruns software development.

Mike Frost: What are your tools of choice for measurement and modeling of loudspeaker systems, and why?

Ken: I was fortunate at EAW to have an amazing staff of engineers, and rather than measure, myself, I had a team of people using everything from B&K to TEF to Smaart, and a lot of custom post processing software. For the work that I've done I would use Smaart as a general-purpose tool. It is clearly the most useable. I liked it so much I bought the company! :o)