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- Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:22 am
- Forum: People/Places/Things
- Topic: Ziggy played .... bass?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1556
Ziggy played .... bass?
Hello fellow Tape Op'ers. Last night, just for fun, a bunch of my friends and I tracked "Ziggy Stardust", except our bassist was a no-show. We don't have any more studio time to work with and while we could do something at a home studio, I thought it'd be fun to involve the Tape Op community. Would ...
- Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:35 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: What Did You Work On Today? 4/18/09
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8887
- did a surround mix of Mike Anderson's "TN Women" tune (very Ryan Adams' "Jacksonville"). - did a surround mix of a cover of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's "All You Do Is Talk" - did a rough surround mix of Ian Doerr's "I Am Not The Answer" (Ryan Adams + Wilco + The Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's era -...
- Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:48 am
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: Kids *prefer* the sizzle of MP3s...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12043
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:23 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Why should I dither?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3090
Re: Why should I dither?
Dither adds noise to the track in order to mask quantization noise. I agree. The random noise gives signals closer to the 0 crossing point a better chance at being sampled versus being ignored. The theory is "something is better than nothing", and according to my ears, I'd be inclined to agree. Per...
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:45 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Why should I dither?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3090
Re: Why should I dither?
dither adds random noise to the track, giving the digital audio a better chance of being sampled versus not at all. this is, of course, at super low levels. maybe with the loudness wars, dither is a bad thing. that random noise will sometimes steal .2 dB or so from you - and if you're into hyper com...
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:40 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: overheads with two 414's
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8791
I would have thought the km184s would suit the "hi fi pop" thing more, though. And put the 414s on toms. They have a hypercardioid option and thats the definition of hi fi toms. +1 huge tom sounds, though i felt like they lacked some punch. very well could be the kit / player - thick heads, fairly ...
- Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:45 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Nice roomy vocals without the nice room
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4712
you could try setting up a vocal mic as you would normally, but slowly back off it until the proximity effect has fully diminished. Depending on the mic, this could be 1/2 a foot or even 3 feet or more. At this distance, hopefully, you won't have much room sound going on. Do you have any baffles/gob...
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:25 pm
- Forum: Listen to Music
- Topic: Kindly rip these apart for me, would you?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2206
Chance: Too much energy in the 300-500Hz range. Some vocal tuning issues with BGV. Left heavy. Dark mix! Sounds closed. Cool song, all of these problems are easily fixed. Somewhat congested sounding - panning is very mild overall. Plans: Vocals are too dark. Too much energy in 300-500Hz. Very dark m...
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:20 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: 2 Unrelated Pro Tools Questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3383
Re: 2 Unrelated Pro Tools Questions
Just use the "Save Session Copy" function. It's under the "File" Menu. (Actually, in PT 7.x I think it's just called "Save Copy In"). You can select whatever Bit depth and Sample Rate you desire. Easy. Thanks! Yes, I re-discovered this myself. I found out why it sounded like crap the first time I t...
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:48 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Can anyone recommend a good book on mixing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3647
despite it being a little silly at times, Sound FX by Alexander Case is a pretty good text. A bad title, and even worse cover art... it gives you a lot of the basics of production / mixing, supposedly centered around effects processing. This might sound like it's a book that suggests you go crazy wi...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:24 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: help with buying PC
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4872
from what i gather you're looking for, here is what i'd suggest: a current intel chipset (Core 2 Duo would work!) 2GB of RAM, but 4GB would be best SATA hard drive, whatever size works for you wireless / ethernet connection cheap graphics card, but not integrated and, of course, 3 open PCI slots! si...
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:26 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: Mixing and mastering for iPods
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19092
i picked that up yesterday. great idea, unfortunately this record is hardly an example of hi fidelity. i think it sounds kinda crappy actually, but hey! the sound of the snare clipping the shit outta the converters is presented to you in a full 24 bits of glory, so that's nice i guess. I, too, was ...
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:21 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: What Did You Work On Today? 2-11-09
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9904
I did some drum edits, and some sample rate conversions. then at night I went in to oversee a classmate's session and help him them out in Studio B. Or rather, sat around for 4 hours with the power out in the studio. Not sure what happened, but most of campus lost power and then something else was m...
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:15 am
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: how far left or right?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13896
since i'm sure you've gotten an adequate dosage of the patent-pending TOMB "It Depends" answer... To get a good feel for the song i'm doing, supposing it fits somewhere around a typical genre, i tend to start with these pans: (Keep in mind, this is being set literally the first 2 or 3 times I've hea...
- Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:10 pm
- Forum: Creative Recording
- Topic: How to get tight hi-hat sound
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6747