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I can hardly believe this. After months of troubleshooting, I've discovered the source of a noise that's been tormenting me. It's not my mic or my pre or my cables or my electricity or cell phones or any of that stuff. It's my DAW. Listening to my mic and pre through my interface's mixer software, e...

Makes sense. I'm still new enough to DAW recording that edits are kind of mystifying to me.

vvv wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:16 pm

FWIW, my trick on that kinda edit issue is to listen w/ my eyes closed and hit the marker (called that in my DAW), then move the edit to that.

That edit at 2:32 is going to be the death of me.

Thank you so much for listening! Getting mentioned in the same sentence as The Church means I can die happy.

Not sure what to make of everyone saying the bass is totally fine. But maybe I'll leave this one alone for now.

Thanks again.

Current version of song is here: https://soundcloud.com/auntalice/phanto ... -040921aif.

Grateful for any input.

You are all brilliant and wonderful. I'm going through your suggestions one by one. One note: I sprung for Soothe specifically for this problem (and de-essing). So far, I'm not really that blown away. Plus, it just destroys my CPU. Is there anywhere I can post a mix? Does that still happen on here? ...

Let me know how it goes. I'm too afraid to get this mix anywhere near my car at this point. Godspeed! Dealing with this exact thing right now (literally). In my case it's 2 things - poorly set up instrument & very sloppy right hand technique. I did what I could, including editing together better tak...

Thank you all for the great advice. Things I've tried so far: compression, EQ, re-amping, distortion (inserted and parallel), and a bit of automation. The simple suggestion about headphones turned out to be instructive: the part sounds much more even in cans than through my monitors. My room sucks. ...

I'm mixing a song and getting close to (what I hope to be) the end of the process. Which is about the time I notice: some notes in the bass line really jump out, while some recede to the point of being almost inaudible. What is this? What did I do wrong? How does one avoid or repair this? How come i...

If those vox were tracked live, this record is a miracle. Maybe it is anyway.

A.David.MacKinnon wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:55 am

I think it's an akg D202 in the Carole King pic.

Nothing to say the vocals are live on either record though. They may have been an overdub

You guys saying I should reach out to people who worked on it? Oddly enough that never occurred to me. But...yeah why not?!

Good idea. I’m in Seattle, so you’d think, right? For sure, totally get that. But In the same way that I’ve learned to tell Martins from a Gibson acoustic in certain recordings, I’d love to learn how to identify the sound of certain mics or preamps or compressors or what have you…… I don't know the ...

Thanks guys. Good call on the high pass filtering. The whole sound is so intensely focused on high mids. Yet it never feels strident. Really a beautiful sound imo...

I’m also struck by how dynamically even the vocals are. Hard to imagine singers today being able to pull that off.

Question for you guys. If you were to try to re-create the sound of Gilded Palace of Sin, what type of gear and approach would you use? I get that the obvious answer is to get really brilliant players and musicians and singers and songwriters. My question is more focused on the type of gear and appr...

Right. I guess it’s not so much that I care about that song (lol). It’s more just that I’m curious to know if the gear credits they list are accurate. https://www.allmusic.com/album/american-boy-mw0000583392/credits Those are the only people I can see involved in this record. You could contact the M...

For sure, totally get that. But In the same way that I’ve learned to tell Martins from a Gibson acoustic in certain recordings, I’d love to learn how to identify the sound of certain mics or preamps or compressors or what have you…… I don't know the site so I can't be much help there but.....it's th...