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I completely agree about the UA 610 pre's. I've used all the combination from the LA-610, 6176, solo 610 and the 2-610. I've wanted desperately to find something to rave about with these pre's and sadly there isn't anything in my opinion. Describing it as "sluggish" is dead on for me, it just lacks ...

I appreciate the responses and advice and I think I've come to a conclusion. After letting some other people listen to the sounds I was getting, it became apparent that I'm hard to please. Most people thought it sounded fine, while not great it was fine and worked for the project I am doing. My expe...

I think most of problem is that my expectation are too high. I'm not an engineer by day and that being said I'm not quite sure I want to know what goes into to making todays rock records. I have no desire to be surgical with recording. The music I do (alt country/folk rock) usually sounds best by ca...

I guess my question should have been: What do you do differently when recording guitars digital instead of analog. Do you take a different approach to your setup, gain staging, loudness of amp, use more distortion or less. Do you compress/EQ on the way in. I realize room acoustics, guitars, amps, ec...

guitars and amps are not the problem. As i posted in my gear list I've used multiple scenarios with the ribbon mic and 1272 pre sounding the best. La-610 and 57 sounding the worst. Distance micing seems to have phase issues even when using one mic which I think are due to crap converters. Ironically...

I quick run down of the problem I am having. The band just did a recording session recorded with PT LE and a 002 and things sound fine, not great but not terrible. Normally I am recording with Radar as a front end to PTHD or a Studer 827 and this is what I have become accustom to, but this time it's...

I don't have the album in front of me but doesn't it have one song that starts with the tape coming to play speed. If this album isn't recorded analog, it's one of the best digital albums I've heard....ever.

Well since I'm a young 27 and have little curiosity, why don't you make me a list of 10-20 exciting awesome albums I need to check out which shouldn't be hard to do since thousands are being cut every year.

Well, I'll continue to live in the past, with 90% of the best music ever made. You can enjoy living in the future and tune vocals, replace drums, and stare at a computer screen and beg for miracles from software. You can be proud to be in the new era of recording guru's who lay claim to all the grea...

I disagree, the people who WERE just passing through, are now staying and continuing their path of destruction. People are actually making money with a 002, a 57, and MXL vocal mic. All you have to do is lurk around craigslist and find a few of the thousands of people who move here each month to be ...

I don't think most of you are going about this the right way. Letting people squeak by without being called out for things does nothing but hurt and prolong the problem. Sugar-coating has never helped anyone and we can see many things in this country that have gotten worse due to people not wanting ...

I have hardly used Apogee Mini-Me that I'm looking to let go of. Since the day I go it the phantom power switch had not worked. I bought it new but never used it as a preamp really, and one day discovered the phantom didn't work. Sweetwater would not take it back and I never got around to sending it...

I am tracking at the Castle actually. I did an internship there in 04' and a few projects after that there. As far as I know they have a few 1073's, 1081's, 1063's, with at least 4ch's of API. One thing I am going to rent in a Chandler Germanium mic pre.

I'm feeling better about the GP9 now. The project is an alt. country singer songwriter stuff. I was told by the artist himself that he wants the record to be like Ryan Adams Heartbreaker mixed with some Exile On Main St mixed with some Neil Young Harvest. I also don't agree that the Studer A827 is a...

Thanks for the help so far, and let me clarify things. The only reason I need to transfer to digital is because I am only tracking the album and I am not mixing it. The artist/client wants the sessions to leave the studio on a hard drive, not my choice but I understand the ease of mixing in digital ...