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I did a session a bunch of years ago where the singer used the TC Helicon for "backing vocal" parts. I couldn't convince him to just sing the harmony or he couldn't, I don't know. Anyway, in the end I rigged up a second mic to feed the pedal so I could have the clean vocal and harmony on their own c...

I reca roscoenyc as a long-time proponent of The Pro,Jr., using them ( a pair, I think?) on stage with Earle. I think his might have been goosed, as, I believe, were Jeff Beck's. Lovely amp, awesome pedal platform but good sounding on it's own when ya want that just-at-breakup sound, it's perhaps l...

I remember Chris Shaw mentioning a plugin that allows you to check to see if tracks are really stereo. You might search for that. Any phase meter plug will show you. I use stereo tool when I get a mix that's all stereo tracks. Sometimes looking at the waveform makes it obvious sometimes not. That's...

A really short stereo delay can help (along the lines of the ableton haas delays you mentioned). I generally use different times on each side and usually set the ms rate in the teens or twenties. A good small room reverb can also be a big help. I have a few roll your own IRs that I use on acoustic i...

Picked up a line 6 DL4 and a Maestro Discover Delay for use with my ambient improv band. Both are tons of fun. The Maestro in particular sounds dirty and fantastic.

Thanks all! I had briefly debated trying to rig something with an altec 1588 octal mic preamp can. It seems like a lot of work though. I am running a jam man at the end of my chain. Thanks for reminding me that it has mic in! I would like to have access to all the pedals before it with a mic though....

I've started performing live drone and loop based ambient music. I'm playing guitar through a bunch of pedals and loopers (including a uher report L running tape loops) and want to add the option using my voice in the same chain. I'm trying to track down a mic pre in a pedal format that will run off...

If you have the option to leave things set up then doing full songs from start to finish is a great way to work but setting up and tearing down each session is a real time suck.
If "someone else's space" means your paying a day rate or rental then it's also going to eat up budget.

McCurdy ever time. Ward Beck is a close second.

yeah, I'm afraid my cheap "universal wireless mic clip" does the job and is not $50. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MY110--on-stage-stands-my110-unbreakable-dynamic-wireless-mic-clip Whomever I bought a couple ATM-25s from decided to remove the assembly that attaches to the mic stand, so I...

Found an image of the Mark II version: Califone-stereo.jpg Awesome!!! It's not hard to find single rotor leslie baffles pulled from old home organs. They're basically a styrofoam version of your Mark 2 turntable leslie. I had one for a while and it did an ok job. There's no horn but you get some of...

I did this for bed tracking on my bands last record. Because I was engineering and playing I just let the computer roll once we were set up. I kept a copy of the main session master as is. Then when it was time to work on each song I made a session for each tune and imported all the takes of said tu...

My friends and I play a rag-tag live show every year or so... and we got tired of ganging-together 2 small mixers with a powered pa-head/mixer, so I went ahead and bought a used Mackie Onyx 1640 mixer... and damn! this is maybe the quietest mixer I've ever used. And the flexibility of the aux routi...

I can't speak to those specific mics but my experience recording audiences (usually for comedy but music too) is that a tight pattern gives me the best results. Hypercardiod is great, shotgun mics are even better. I put them on either side of the stage, behind the mains, ponting across the audience ...

Amazon is fun for cheapo pedals. Some are actually decent some aren't.
This one is great - https://www.amazon.ca/AZOR-Vintage-Guit ... 6KQFG?th=1