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- Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Your favorite tips & resources on working with tape
- Replies: 3
- Views: 994
Re: Your favorite tips & resources on working with tape
So, submixing/stems and bouncing, playing with varispeed, hitting tape hot, setting bias for a different kind of sound, etc. Some of this will be subtle, like changing the bias to get a "different" sound. And "hitting the tape hot" is more a function of the electronics in the machine than the disto...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: People/Places/Things
- Topic: Songwriting: Jeff Tweedy book "How To Write One Song"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 857
Re: Songwriting: Jeff Tweedy book "How To Write One Song"
Thanks for sharing this, it could prove useful to me. Cheers!
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
- Replies: 5340
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Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Bought a Digidesign 192 and extra analog input card, for my old TDM HD3 system. I had sold off the converters to get the Focusrite Rednet 2 with a discount back a few years ago. Mostly because I miss mixing with my UAD DSP plugins, and it looks like they are going to take forever to port them over t...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Heritage Audio Britstrip
- Replies: 17
- Views: 30758
Re: Heritage Audio Britstrip
I’ll be recording singer songwriter stuff with Vocal and acoustic simultaneously. Any input appreciated ! I'd stay away from compression for singer with acoustic guitar. At least not until mix time. That britstrip looks interesting. Just don't use the compression on it... ;) Which microphones are y...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
- Replies: 5340
- Views: 2737610
Re: Latest gear you've acquired.....
Steinberg has a February sale, so I got VST Connect Pro 5. Been testing it for a few hours today, learning how to do remote recordings. I still have a day or two before I feel confident about it. Lots of small code parts that need to be "just so" for it to work correctly. But, fun, once it works, as...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Best mics/mic-ing approaches for sax?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3574
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Best mics/mic-ing approaches for sax?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3574
Re: Best mics/mic-ing approaches for sax?
I've had good luck with Sennheiser MD421s and 441s. Also the old trusty AKG 414, but with the -10dB pad on.
As always, listen to the sax and the player, put the mic where it will pick up the best balanced sound and not get blown out by a loud passage.
As always, listen to the sax and the player, put the mic where it will pick up the best balanced sound and not get blown out by a loud passage.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Roland SH-101 + MoogerFooger MF-102 peda
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2135
Re: Roland SH-101+MoogerFooger MF-102 pedal
Check to see if you have a "DC coupled" output on your converter. Those allow for CV voltages to be output directly. Motu has some. Also, the CV In / Gate are very common synthesizer control voltages, -5 to +5 Volts. If you have a synth, see if it has those types of ins and outs. Try the LFO out of ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Quirky Mastering Situation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4324
Re: Quirky Mastering Situation
+1 on Karl's suggestion. I wonder if YouTube has a built in HPF that prevents your speaker from overloading the way your master seems to be. The YouTube conversion does have filtering, ant it probably is on both ends of the spectrum, lowering the extreme low and high frequencies in order that the C...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: How to structure a multi-part session
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2296
Re: How to structure a multi-part session
Very helpful, Nick. When you say "additional tracks", do you mean you're adding some compression/eq to kick and snare, or setting up a drum bus? I sometimes will create a group buss, send a submix of the drumkit, and compress and EQ it, and record it. Especially if there is an exotic or rare compre...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: How to structure a multi-part session
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2296
Re: How to structure a multi-part session
When I do recordings of bands, which are like this, multi day, I always always always spend the first day(s) getting the recording sounds. Drums first if possible, followed by the basic bass, rhythm guitar, keyboards, and at least a scratch vocal. Depending on their budget and time, I try to nail th...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: What preamps are y'all liking these days?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 24401
Re: What preamps are y'all liking these days?
My really great 2Ubes VTX tube mic preamp. Made by hand by my friend Larry Janus. Crazy good, and it has WiFi, so I can change the settings from my phone while adjusting a microphone in the other room or across the room. Has a great sound. At some point, I'll be getting a 2nd one. Great on electric ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: List your Bandcamp page
- Replies: 619
- Views: 326164
Re: List your Bandcamp page
Cool song.winky dinglehoffer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:05 amAnother collaboration with a friend of mine.
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- Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:04 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Drum OH's, only
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7892
Re: Drum OH's, only
I'd recommend some AKG 451s. Or AKG 414s. The trick is to listen to the placement, so you get the kick and snare in the middle of your Stereo image. After that, you can EQ and compress a bit until the kit sounds balanced. I don't like ribbons on percussions, they can and do tend to smush transients,...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Quirky Mastering Situation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4324
Re: Quirky Mastering Situation
I'd ask this:
What is the best playback system you have, and can you somehow play what the ME sent back to you on that?
What other high quality material can you play back?
Is this BT speaker the only thing you have to play back stuff with?
What is the best playback system you have, and can you somehow play what the ME sent back to you on that?
What other high quality material can you play back?
Is this BT speaker the only thing you have to play back stuff with?