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AstroDan wrote:You think someone would be good after helping develop the Manhatten Project as a teenager...but nooooo...Tom Dowd has to go and pioneer every recording technique and technology still used today and produce Layla.

Yeah, what a jerk

A friend of mine has a pair of KSNM 32's I borrow all the time, and I really like them, should really get my own. Drum kit overheads and acoustic guitars are the main places I use them, but I had one vocalist that just sounded awesome through the KSM, tested against a 4050 and SM7, and the KSM was t...

Fighting a cold, or possibly the flu, so I stayed home today (and used being sick as an excuse to get out of Jury Duty!). Mainly laid in bed watching the 12th season of South Park and ate soup. I did rebuild my bass pedalboard for a gig Saturday night, was able to ditch a too big MIDI controller (Be...

Georgia Anne Muldrow, Umsindo: Imagine Mechelle N'Degeocello and Madlib collaborating, a lo-fi one-woman neo-soul epic. Dudley Perkins, Holy Smokes: Muldrow's boyfriend, she produced the album, played all the instruments, and both albums were released the same day. Also pretty epic. Imagine MF Doom ...

My band was doing a live recording at a jazz club in Portland. Our sax player runs through a pedalboard, and this club has tables right up against the front of the stage. There was a guy at the table right in front of our sax player, and, while he had his ringer off, everytime he got a call, it sent...

I once had to mix a record where the tom and snare mics (57's) were recorded with paper cup collars around them. Literally, they punched the bottoms out of fast food soda cups and taped them around the 57's. As might be expected, made for wierd, phasey drum sounds. Not what the band had in mind. Cou...

At this point I'm looking between the SM7 and fathead still. If it's down to just those 2 candidates, I'd go with the SM7. I don't have a Fathead, but I have a few other low-end Ribbons, and while they are great, they don't see near the all-around use that the SM7 does. It's paid for itself in voic...

I have a T that I replaced the hammers with the "Super Sticky" hammers from this site: http://www.gti.net/junebug/clavinet/products.html Really made a huge difference! The output increased pretty significantly, and with a few hours of tweaking, all the keys respond pretty evenly. I like the T a lot,...

I have 3 uses that my 57's are my go to mic for. I almost always run the 57's through my N72's, I think that's an awesome comb. First off, top of snare, 'nuff said. I used to experiment with different mics, but lately, I haven't had jobs that allow me that kind of time. Set up the 57, and it gets a ...

For remote recording, I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T60, can't remember the processor specs at the moment. With Reaper as a DAW and a MOTU 8-pre as the interface. If I need to do more than 8 tracks, I take a rack with a bunch of outboard pres and a Swissonic AD8. This is mostly for recording live shows, b...

I never use the switch on mine, and it's my go-to mic for a lot of sources. Early on. I tried A/B-ing it on different sources with the presence switch, but I always preferred it flat. Haven't even touched the switch for the last year or so.

My favortie signal chain for violin (or fiddle, some players are pretty adamant about the distinction) is Shinybox ribbon-> Neve 9098, which is not dissimilar to what you have, so it might be your room. Have you tried placing the mic closer to the instrument? In your post you said it was a couple of...

Great thread! Lots of films I love are already listed here, just discovered Electric Apricot, and having toured on the edge of the Jamband scene, it is just too accurate. I think I've played with the band that inspired it. We Jam Econo is just too sweet and sad. Any of the Making Of... discs are wor...

I have a Lenovo T60 that kicks ass. I gig with it, either triggering loops from Ableton Live or playing live VST's from Brainspawn forte, and have probably used it on several hundred gigs. Also do remote recordings, 16 tracks at a time into Reaper via a MOTU 8Pre and a Swissonic AD8. Replaced the ba...

I tracked a tune a few years ago that was going for a Motown vibe, and it wasn't until after the drums were tracked that we decided to really go for an older sound, so I was stuck with the tracks I already had. I had set a Shinybox Ribbon out about 4 feet from the kick, at about chest level as a mon...