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Hahaha, you have a gift!

Went to the local guitar shop yesterday and bought an MXR Phase 95, which is the phase 90 and phase 45 circuits in one pedal. Dunno how much the phase 45 will get used but the 90 is pure EVH bliss and I'll probably never turn it off.

Yeah, I only went to the one in Tucson in 2007 (i think? maybe 2006), but it was a great time and that's actually where I met Chris for the first time. We became fast friends, which was very easy to do with him. I'm so going to miss the epic, sprawling phone calls. It'd be like this: me: I really du...

Chris and I would talk on the phone for HOURS on end. I can't imagine a better friend, mentor, advisor, or person than Chris Garges. Same. I'm so going to miss my phone ringing at 11pm, seeing it was him, shutting everything down for the night cause I knew I was gonna be on the phone till the reall...

C'mon man, you can't just tell us about this, we need a video demonstration.

The relative positions and spacing were carefully established. Curvy guitars small.JPG This is top shelf work right here. Really nice. Love the lights on the wurly/synth stand too. I had a ton of really bad hand/arm/shoulder/back problems last year, had to stop playing completely for a couple month...

Don't think I've ever low-passed overheads. IMO if cymbals are annoying the problems are gonna be around 8-12k, maybe 5k-ish. But not way up high. Best cured with a de-esser, sometimes two. I've certainly HEARD some aggressively low passed drum sounds, seemed to be something of a trend a few years b...

But @morespaceecho it sounds like you’ve done this before. Yeah it's been my default for years now. Gets plenty of ride/floor. I never really liked it in 'conventional' oh position, like right over the kick/snare pointed straight down, but I stumbled upon this position ages ago and stuck with it. G...

Try that 160 over by your wife's right shoulder (assuming she's a righty), aimed at the snare/hat. That's where it's always worked best for me, anyway.

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Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:51 am

unsurprisingly, @morespaceecho is exactly right

Gonna make that my sig.

You mentioned boosting 3k on the snare, I didn't just guess that!

Listening on a laptop I agree it ain't broke. Maybe put back a little of the low mids in the overheads and/or ease up on the 3k on the snare a lil bit. Maybe a lil more overall compression. Tough to say without hearing it in context of the mix, but they sound like drums!

^^^^^ Sometimes you gotta use two! I've had 3 going more than once.....

In mastering, a de-esser is as important as the eq or the limiter. I've fixed so many sibilants, at this point I think I could do it in a coma. :D Essence is an amazing piece of work, but tbh I mostly use that for controlling subs/boomy bass. My de-esser of choice is still the venerable Spitfish, st...

...and be more of a pain in the ass to use.

Right. Except anyone doing this will quickly realize they need an eq before the limiter, and probably a de-esser, and....welcome to mastering.

Snarl could try and find some old L2 hardware (they're going for around $1400 on Reverb right now), and while that would be loads better and more appropriate for what he wants to do than an RNC or ART or TC whatever, it's still basically outdated junk and he'd do way way way better using the $60 plu...