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When it comes to a more "Hardware..." sort of a setup and suggestions as to what that setup should amount to? It would honestly depend on detailed specifics of exactly where a person intended on winding up. While you can pretty easily go from "Keeping It Simple..." to "Beyond Overkill..." with a DAW...

My PT set up isn't underserving me at all. I think the reason I am considering this move is more of a philosophical practice and, further, a new challenge. I am always challenged by PT and constantly trying to learn new ways to do things. The challenge of going in a more or less analog direction is...

... Interesting -- is the idea to combine a duller-sounding dynamic with the brighter condenser? Maybe? Mostly, I'm just thinking that sometimes solutions will come from places that you would not have suspected. Taking some time to try some things that might not work will eventually rule them out, ...

Is there a significant issue with maybe just shifting to a different DAW?

One other thing that you could try just to see if it combats whatever "Dull..." could be is to try micing the vocal mid-side just to hear the results.

Seems like you could use the Figure 8 on the 179 and the Shure/EV/Oktava for the "Mid".

https://www.uaudio.com/blog/mid-side-mic-recording/

On my last mix I was struggling with a dull-sounding lead vocal--I did a lot of EQ cuts on that track but I felt like I struggling to find a good balance between murkiness and harshness. Dig out the Oktava & give it a whirl on lead vocal. It's likely to give you more brightness than most of the oth...

What gear are you recording with? (Hopefully I didn't miss a huge post answering this question before I asked it.) ... ... -My signal chain is all inexpensive stuff...mostly SM57s, EV 635a, an inexpensive ribbon mic, that kind of thing. All into the built-in pre's in my old MOTU. It's not cheap/dir...

Sorry, you clarified a lot of this at the same moment I was posting ^. Re: murkiness. In addition to the high pass filter recommendation, I'd also say low mids can really be the enemy. The 200hz-350hz region is often the worst buildup I struggle with. There are usually one or two instruments that h...

One other thing about SM57s(or the SM7) and lots of ribbons(but particularly less expensive ones...) - Something like a Cloudlifter(or some of the other options there...) The gain they give you meaning not having to really crank a less expensive preamp can make a really big difference on some things...

I gotta say, I'm realizing that gear is a huge part of this. I bought a new mixer and recorder this year that are higher fidelity than anything I've ever used before and my recordings are higher fidelity. Like mind-blowingly higher. You can only do so much with audio that's been put through bad cir...

First, where someone is(as far as picking things up and having things dawn on you as you learn more...) is usually something that is worthwhile. It might minimize folks making suggestions that you are already up to speed on. That said, I'm going to quote someone that I know who posted something else...

One Blue vocal microphone(Encore100?) That said, my younger brother bought it for a "Haul Around..." pa to take to bars and places that didn't have their own. It saw a whole lot of use before it finally stopped working. Looked like the "Inside The Headbasket..." guts had started to separate when I u...

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Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:35 am

I've been using the KWB on synth a lot lately. Rules.

I actually put mine in front of the amp while reamping some M-Tron "String" parts.

It was certainly a sound you would not forget that you had heard.

Since the PRF "Tech Room" sub-forum got a mention, my "Go-To" in the Tech Room is that the Boss Line Selector is the Swiss army knife of guitar pedals. So many things that it will help out with when folks take a little time to think through how an LS-2 might help. Mine just quit working last fall. G...

I grabbed one of his KWB-inspired pedals he built for that charity sale a while back. Can vouch for his skills. That pedal rules. Excellent build quality. Speaking of speaking of (speaking of) Rats, I've wanted to try one of his Black Box's for a while. The KWB Distorter is probably the last versio...