Message Board

Buy the preamps that were used on your favourite records. Canvassing opinions from folks who may or may not share your basic tastes in music is a mostly pointless exercise...

Shellacattack wrote: Monitors: Event Project Studio 6

Definitely upgrade the monitors first. I had a pair of those ten years ago and there was no bass on those things. Some old cheap B&W 602s and an Adcom 535 would be an infinitely preferable monitoring option in my humble...

Sonny Sharrock, "Guitar", "Ask The Ages"
Last Exit, "Iron Path"

Boris, "Heavy Rocks" and "At Last Feedbacker".

Swans, "Soundtracks for the Blind".

Bernie Herrmann's Taxi Driver soundtrack. Feeling moody and the damn client is late again.

If these multis are representative of a lot of what was happening in that late 60's/early 70's era, I think that people's perception of the sonics of the time have been influenced heavily by the delivery medium. Or perhaps generational loss from another set of EQ-ed masters from the original 2 trk ...

I already have a Metric Halo 2882... but am loathe to upgrade to Snow Leopard to run PT 9... Is here some issue you are aware of with Snow Leopard? In my experience it is stable and also offers some nice performance improvements since there is less legacy code in the os. Or do you have plug ins tha...

An old favourite, "Imperial f.f.r.r" by Unrest. What a fucking great recording by Wharton Tiers. Still holds up after all these years...

Just thought I'd link this cool article I found. Personally, I actually prefer the recordings he did at his parents' house ( extremely cool parents btw, if you read the article!!) in Hackensack to the ones done at his studio in Englewood Cliffs later on. They're both great sounding, but the Hackensa...

Veggie Samurai and Fruit Ninja are very good!

I also have the Gearslutz app. Hell, it kills time when you're waiting what can i say...

Ok, this is veering far from the "What Recording Engineers Should Own" topic into more personal tastes but I guess I'll still throw it out there for the interested... Yoko Ono's "Plastic Ono Band" and "Fly" are both terrific examples of late 60s / early 70s recordings of improv rock. POB was recorde...

In. The. Air. Tonight.

"Mark Hollis" - Mark Hollis. Recorded music as an art form simply doesn't get much better than this. Engineered by Phill Brown, one of the true underrated greats. "The original idea was to record the album in a similar way to a 1940/50's Jazz album. We decided on trying two valve microphones at the ...

"Histoire de Melody Nelson" - Serge Gainsbourg. An aural instruction on how to make a record sound like a film soundtrack. Glorious low mids. "The Band" - The Band. If there's any living document that shows why the modern practice of carving a bunch of 200-400Hz out of every damn track is a bad idea...

The point is it still nulled perfectly against the ripped wav file from the original CD, which means none of this expensive digital cable crap amounts to a hill of beans. Just to be clear, the interface I was using with PT was a MH 2882. Interestingly enough, when I clocked the DVD player to the MH...