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by nacho459
Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:41 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: youtube video of king jammy....
Replies: 7
Views: 2327

I am really fascinated by dub music and have pulled off some dub delays on a few drum breaks on things I have recorded (ran the Memory Man off an aux) but it was more of a "Walking on the Moon" kinda whitewashed dub rip off. :wink: I have been thinking of digging through a bunch of my recordings and...
by nacho459
Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:31 am
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: Under the Covers Vol. 1
Replies: 6
Views: 2588

Re: Under the Covers Vol. 1

JASIII wrote:And Susanna Hoffs is still hot as hell.
Yep I mixed monitors at one of their LA shows about a year and a half ago. Susanna is a sweetheart. I dig the CD, nothing to write home about, but I let my bartender borrow it and I think he's gonna throw it in the jukebox.
by nacho459
Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:36 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Guitar Center stories good and bad
Replies: 169
Views: 44825

About 5 years ago they were doing this deal where you could get a PreSonus MP-20 and an Oktava Tube LDC for like $599. I thought Wow that's a pretty good deal. So I walk into GC in Pasadena and asked the guy for the deal, but instead of the tube mic I wanted the ML-52 ribbon mic. First he told me th...
by nacho459
Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:53 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Guitar Center stories good and bad
Replies: 169
Views: 44825

About 3 months ago I walk into a local GC that usually has good used gear. In the pro audio section they have a fairly beat up Dolby 323 NR unit marked down from $4999 to $29 I ask the kid at the counter if the price was right, he told me yes so I told him I'd buy it. Near the dolby unit was an old ...
by nacho459
Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:34 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: PCI vs PCI X vs PCI express
Replies: 16
Views: 5403

Wait so the new PCI slots aren't backwards compatible? I almost bought a late model G5 the other day to replace my worn out old 850MHz G4. So how am I supposed to use my UAD-1 card?

This is the reason why I record on tape. I hate all this upgrading crap.
by nacho459
Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:26 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Control Surfaces vs Front End
Replies: 1
Views: 1205

Just get this and have both :wink: http://www.advancedaudiorentals.com/images/aws900.jpg What kind of mic pre's do you have? personally I'd go with the control surface. I think it's more important what you do with a mix then whet gear it goes through. You can have good front end but it doesn't reall...
by nacho459
Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:18 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: pro-tools vs analog mixing....!!!
Replies: 27
Views: 7264

About a year ago I recorded a band in ProTools which I rarely do (they didn't want to pay for tape and wanted to be able to edit everything). I did a few mixes "in the box" and didn't like the way things were going, it was really hard to mix with a mouse. Every mix I did sounded sub standard, I figu...
by nacho459
Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:52 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: treating ceiling over cymbals...
Replies: 14
Views: 5262

Some Sonex should work, you can just glue it on to the celling. It's not that expensive, and pretty light.
by nacho459
Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:48 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Switching from Analog to Digital
Replies: 27
Views: 6999

You could always stripe SMPTE on one of the tracks and lock it to your computer, then record 3 tracks at a time, but then you might as well get a 1" 8 track or something like that and lock it together. But I thought you were trying to move away from tape. Why not just get a rack of old ampex or scul...
by nacho459
Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:50 am
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: Most overrated albums?
Replies: 84
Views: 25645

Tatertot wrote:
nacho459 wrote:
and Rush really annoys me after 2 songs.
... but Rush isn't exactly overrated...
Well out here when you run into kids from MI or kids in metal bands or any drummer under the age of 21 all you hear is how awesome Rush is. :shock:
by nacho459
Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:15 pm
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: Worst cover by the worst cover band contest winner
Replies: 22
Views: 6381

I was drinking iced tea and when that keyboard intro started I almost gaged and had to run to the sink to spit it out I was laughing so hard. Then about 10 seconds later I took another sip, and then the vocals came in and once again I had to run to the sink to keep from spitting tea all over the pla...
by nacho459
Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:08 pm
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: Most overrated albums?
Replies: 84
Views: 25645

I agree with most of you...

I totally agree that Led Zeppelin is way over rated.

Brubeck's "Time Out" isn't nearly as good as "Countdown: Time in Outer Space"

and Rush really annoys me after 2 songs.
by nacho459
Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:57 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Phantom Power Saftey Question
Replies: 8
Views: 2616

Only buy tube condensers that way you won't need phantom power at all. :wink:
by nacho459
Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:43 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: retail in the studio
Replies: 8
Views: 3561

My buddy and I came up with a gain boost petal that we sell... http://www.myspace.com/crowncityengineering A lot of the time my studio becomes testing zone. So it kinda works both ways bands come in to record, and many check out the petal, and vise versa. Making a studio / boutique amp shop could re...
by nacho459
Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:31 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: NOS Tape???
Replies: 5
Views: 2315

It's a 456 thing. I had a box from 1992 that was total crap by 2005 but I have used 499 from the early 90's and have no problems. Also I think any 3M tape is bad by now. I went through a bunch or old reels of tape from the 80's about three years ago when Quantegy initially closed, and everything but...