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by BassGuy87
Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:17 pm
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: Jane's Addiction: *The Great Escape Artist*
Replies: 3
Views: 1709

They fell off a cliff. Without the original elements, I am at a loss for JA. Don't get me wrong, I love them. They are amazing live as well. I saw them with NIN a few years ago and they were amazing--but they were also mostly playing the old stuff. The new stuff just sounds like everyone else in my ...
by BassGuy87
Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:14 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Mixing a 2 piece band and hard panning
Replies: 13
Views: 5345

Hard panning drums is a nice effect for a bit or even a song, but is sounds horrible for very long. As was said above, you lose out on that umph in the speakers and woofers. But I may be the wrong person to ask. I am not a fan of hard panning anything but the vocals for very long. Although shooting ...
by BassGuy87
Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:11 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: How to get that late 70's early 80's drum sound?
Replies: 38
Views: 17584

It's been side before, but it's all about compression, compression, compression. By trying to trap very sound and mke it sound "louder / better," they've lost that in-the-room sound. The guy that recorded our first demo went on record about this. He also used very specific headphones and speakers to...
by BassGuy87
Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:08 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Speaker placement, and other acoustics questions
Replies: 14
Views: 6932

Wow, the planking actually worked. I've been having a horrible problem with speaker placement. As mentioned above, moving the speakers around the room just moved the dip / node up and down. Bass trapping helped, but not as much as I was hoping. I cannot believe the planks under the speakers helped a...
by BassGuy87
Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:05 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Amp Isolation Box Build (w/ pics)
Replies: 11
Views: 15380

My guitarist is looking at this sort of thing. Thanks for the pictures, that's a big help. The only problem is, we hate building stuff that doesn't make noise. On that note, as you all know, buying anything like this is penultimate to selling your soul to the devil. We actually considered buying a s...