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- Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:57 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: The Variety Hour - Exploded View EP, my first full mix job
- Replies: 3
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- Thu Nov 20, 2014 9:46 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Latest gear you've acquired.....
- Replies: 5340
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- Wed Nov 19, 2014 6:46 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: The Variety Hour - Exploded View EP, my first full mix job
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2045
The Variety Hour - Exploded View EP, my first full mix job
Check out my band, The Variety Hour's 3rd EP and first on an indie label (Swoon Records, Tacoma WA) entitled Exploded View! I've always recorded and helped others mix but this is my first front-to-back serious effort doing all duties minus mastering. Hope you like it! http://store.swoonrecords.com/a...
- Tue May 29, 2012 7:25 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: Bought the hype? Then bought the tunes? Disappointed?:)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5203
- Tue May 29, 2012 7:21 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: What do you monitor with?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10215
- Tue May 29, 2012 7:17 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: MBV Loveless Remasters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5043
I've had a couple beers so I'll admit this: I've always thought the production of Loveless was kinda sucky, thin and lifeless. I'm into the MBV thing and all things shoegaze, but comparing Loveless to, say, Swervedriver's Mescal Head or Catherine Wheel's Chrome, Loveless sounds like frayed paper, to...
- Tue May 29, 2012 7:13 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: DI Bass - Tones and Plugins?
- Replies: 17
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I typically use the same method when I record my bassplayer and when I record myself: Record direct with Sansamp Bass Driver (or, straight to your preamp) Apply a software compressor, like a 1176, liberal compression amount, medium attack, fast release Distortion of some sort, even light application...
- Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:53 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Guitar Gear That Sparkles!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10640
I think your 'sparkly' may be a little more extreme than mine, but my jazzmaster with Curtis Novak vintage p/ups through a newer-vintage AC30 head powering a Weber Alnico Blue and Celestion G12H30 is mellow-sparkly, but my Squire 50's Telecaster through the same amp is super sparkly, especially thro...
- Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:02 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: The Variety Hour - 'Transmissive' new EP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 944
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:26 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: The Variety Hour - 'Transmissive' new EP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 944
The Variety Hour - 'Transmissive' new EP
My band's second ep. I'm stoked as this is the first project I engineered by myself. I was most worried about my drum recording - I have the least experience with that, but I think I did alright. We always tell people we sound like Cheap Trick on cough meds. Definitely 90's alt-rock and shoe-gaze in...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:51 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10015
Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth
Alright already - its gotta be done: Lets talk Van Halen! I am a lifelong VH fan, despite what that does to my 'indie credibility index.' I gotta say this album is pretty much kicking my ass and melting my face off. The first song on the album (and album single), Tattoo, sucks. Why the hell did they...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:32 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: Selling Cd's vs CRD's
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9226
My band, The Variety Hour, just had our 'CD Release' show at our town's most-popular club on a Friday night. We are not that big a deal, and don't have throngs of fans. We experimented by handing out our CDs to folks before our set and scattering some more on some tables and booths. On our 'merch' t...
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:20 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: What's the most fun mod I could perform on an extra strat?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12156
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:48 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Vintage Tube Rebranding
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12178
Grey plate RCAs are cheaper and supposedly 2nd choice compared to black plate RCAs. RCAs in general are supposedly 2nd choice to Mullard, Bugle Boy and some other Euro tubes. I'm saying 'supposedly' as I have no first hand experience, but the various tube geeks on other forums seem to come to sort o...
- Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Vintage Tube Rebranding
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12178
I've been interested in diving into the NOS 12ax7 tube world for a few years, but every time I start jonesing, I take a breath, look at the cost (i.e. grey plate RCAs to Bugle Boys and Mullards, ranging between $75 to >$200) and realize my money is better spent elsewhere. For the price of vintage gl...