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- Sat May 25, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Creating depth in mixes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 171
Re: Creating depth in mixes
This is an interesting topic that I rarely think about... I guess mostly because I'm really a live sound mixer, which has different goals and needs sometimes. In particular I tend to think in terms of the arrangement - what needs to be heard? Obviously in a live show it's hard to leave out the stuff...
- Sat May 25, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Creating depth in mixes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 171
Re: Creating depth in mixes
I like using some of the newer UAD stuff, like Sound City and Ocean Way rooms, to push percussion into a room. I mic things with this sort of intent at times, so that I can just keep the sounds off the edge of the speaker. https://open.spotify.com/album/4yFJG2hGKerSocacfwSHjo is a record I did all ...
- Fri May 17, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: DIY drum sample pack
- Replies: 10
- Views: 259
Re: DIY drum sample pack
If you don't need to hold down a groove, do you need to hire a professional?
- Fri May 17, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Getting motivated on your own music recording projects.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 847
Re: Getting motivated on your own music recording projects.
Part of the reason is I know half of what I create will be asked to take out or turned way down. I must say that I'm sort of the guy who chops a lot of other's peoples' stuff out of a song. So the person I end up doing the most with knows this, has complained about it sometimes... but now they just...
- Thu May 16, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: People/Places/Things
- Topic: RIP David Sanborn
- Replies: 2
- Views: 285
Re: RIP David Sanborn
Had his own TV show for a little while there, late night with interesting musical guests.
- Sun May 12, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Any opinion about molded earplugs ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 497
Re: Any opinion about molded earplugs ?
[Here are Etymotics curves, in theory, the ER15 is almost flat til 7-8k: https://www.listeningstack.com/cdn/shop/products/Etymotic_earplug_attenuation_2048x.jpg?v=1674264271 I got curious, and I set up a crude test with my live sound system tuning rig - SMAART software, Earthworks M23 microphone, a...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: dynamic mics and speaker coils?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 266
Re: dynamic mics and speaker coils?
OK, so let's think about what's happening in a speaker. Alternating current flows through the voice coil, generating a magnetic field. That field reacts with the constant field of the magnet, causing the voice coil to move - sometimes quite forcefully. So how much of a magnetic field would be radiat...
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: dynamic mics and speaker coils?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 266
Re: dynamic mics and speaker coils?
At one point I was fooling around with sticking a tape head to the magnet in a guitar speaker. It did pick up sound but I guess it wasn't interesting enough to pursue any further. In general the real action happens deep inside the magnet, in the narrow gap where the voice coil lives.
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:06 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Any opinion about molded earplugs ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 497
Re: Any opinion about molded earplugs ?
I tend to think that any kind of earplugs changes things enough to make it hard to do live mixing, and I'm in the position of having increasingly sensitive hearing as I get older. So looking at like right now I want to find something with at least 15dB of reduction but no change in frequency respons...
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Any opinion about molded earplugs ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 497
Re: Any opinion about molded earplugs ?
Won't go for a long drive, an airplane ride, or a loud show without mine. Sensaphonics, I got them to mold the full ear (like IEMs) and I have 15dB and 25dB filters. Worth every penny and I'm on my third pair.
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: RIP Steve Albini
- Replies: 12
- Views: 531
Re: RIP Steve Albini
Not really a fan of the music, but he definitely did things his way and was a good voice to push back against conventional wisdom.
And that he more recently was able to publicly be critical of his own past behavior speaks a great deal about his character.
And that he more recently was able to publicly be critical of his own past behavior speaks a great deal about his character.
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: I'm not a piano technician
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1382
Re: I'm not a piano technician
Here's an interesting detail about the current piano. Four of the strings have aluminum instead of copper wrapping. Weird, and I'd never heard of that, had to ask a piano technician friend. Aluminum is lighter than copper, and apparently it was a bit of a fad at one point to use it for transitional ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: New DAW?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 304
Re: New DAW?
I've actually got a virtual Windows XP machine that lives on my main desktop, I use it to program a couple odd devices (couldn't find my old copy of Halo: Combat Evolved, sadly) and it runs great in a virtual box. The software to do so is free - https://www.virtualbox.org/ and it runs on Windows (I ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mono Auratone - who knew??
- Replies: 14
- Views: 359
Re: Mono Auratone - who knew??
I start mixes as often as possible on a mono auratone. By starting I mean getting the faders up and setting the relative levels. I don't get into EQ or any of the fine details but as i do much of the broad strokes as possible on the auratone. Which begs the question, did you do the tracking on more...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mono Auratone - who knew??
- Replies: 14
- Views: 359
Re: Mono Auratone - who knew??
I always check in mono, though summed to both speakers. It's too easy to get fooled by the stereo spread. Will have to try the mono Auratone thing, now that I have them!