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Any suggestions on initial placement? It's a 4 piece kick, he plays hard, and there's a good amount of floor tom in almost all of the songs. If there's a lot of floor tom carrying the song, you might not want to do the daptone style with just a 57 alone. those songs are very oriented around kick-sn...

yeah, I dunno man, I think you're right, 8 tracks is a lot. I mean, SGT PEPPER'S WAS ONLY 4 TRACKS

You might want to try asking on the Electrical Audio forum too, Steve's love of the BX20 is well-known and many people there buy whatever he uses.

kslight is probably right but if you really want to try something anyway, it's going to take more than fiberglass. absorption is important but if you want to stop sound transmission you need dense mass. It's certainly not my first time in an apartment, I've been renting places both excellent and cr...

Forgive me if these are obvious questions, this is my first foray into this forum and DIY room treatment. I just moved into a great new apartment (cheap, comfy and close to work), and would like to continue my long history of bedroom recording. The problem is that, besides the door actually I go in ...

I've played around with it a bit. Compared to the cassette-based 488mkII I use and the 238 + M308B combo I had before, it colors your sound way way less. So you miss out on fun tricks like overloading the inputs and flipping tape for backwards tracks, and you have to work a little harder to get a "v...

I really recommend the book Understanding Audio. you can check it out here . It's really a fantastic resource that explains the ins and outs of recording in both the digital and analog world. Otherwise, the bare minimum of what you need to get started on the cheap: -either a standalone recorder or a...

Moog Filtatron is so my favorite app right now! Anyone with an iphone that likes to quickly improvise ambient - cluster - or animal collective - loop based type stuff and such should buy this asap. Totally great app, it's about to go up a few bucks in price so grab it now. I use FunkBox all the tim...

"Non-standard" advice : you are a student at a school. research the mics, get an idea of what usually goes where, and then use your scheduled time to experiment listen. Take your time, don't stress out about it, and as mentioned don't bank it all on one method. Put up 16 mics if you can, so that yo...

Never been much of a churchgoer but I've mixed secular music in this type of setting a few times, here's some suggestions that might help. -One useful thing about the MixWizard is that the pre-fade auxes are pre-insert as well (not always an option with boards at this level, or even the warhorse GL2...

You need mics for toms. You cannot mic two toms with one 441. It's a great mic, for sure, and you'll get a lot of use out of it, but you need at least two of something. I personally really get along with 421s pretty much anywhere on a drum (including over it) and on any amp, guitar or bass. But it's...

A friend recorded some chatter in an Apple store to open a record that's about to come out (nationally distributed on a major indie). it's the sound of many many voices that crossfades into the first song. at one point amongst the din, you can very clearly hear the phrase "two-year contract" pop out...

I was also pretty disappointed with the Black Mountain record this year. TRUTH. It sounded like Bush or something. total 1995 vibe. I was disappointed with most of the album R Kelly came out with a few weeks back. Couple of good songs, nowhere near as amazing as Untitled last year. Also, it's gonna...

silly question, but what are the four channels of simultaneous recording for? I would just pass the mic back and forth and edit the interview in Monle (great app for editing podcasts), using the extra tracks to drop in music and such.

cooters, if you want more low end from the kick you could take a woofer from some old junky speaker and make a mic out of that. put it right up on the head. it'll be nothing but low end boom. Ding! best no-budget solution, it'll cost you the grand price of one XLR jack. especially if it's for trip-...