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I have a pair of these:

https://www.diyclassd.com/product/nc400 ... ete-kit/24

They're easy to put together, you don't have to solder anything, just follow the instructions.

Ordered direct, it was like $1600 a couple years ago, they're cheaper now.

A friend of mine is putting out a comp of quarantine songs, I whipped up this one: http://oldcolonymastering.com/stuckhere.html I made the basic track awhile back, when I went to finish it I needed vocals and a few instrumental bits. So I started digging through my archives of my old bands records a...

I think Tony is on to something. The impulse is to point it at the cab, just further away, but I think that (especially) 4x12s are extremely directional. The random mic in the room not pointing anywhere near the amp is probably worth a shot too. I second this, or third it as it were. Fourthed. I'll...

I have the Hypex Ncore amps (class D) here, can't say enough good things about them, they're incredible. Impossibly fast and accurate. Quite affordable considering how good they are, but maybe too spendy for a living room setup. My previous amp was a Rotel RB1080 and that was no slouch either, serve...

Just read Larry's thread and man it is just crazy that any DAW has problems with BTD in 2020. Just add up the damn numbers come on!

Still have mastering work coming in, did a really cool record yesterday....studio's a separate building on our property, so staying home is no problem for me. Ms MSE is working from home, although at the moment she's taking a lil nap, don't tell her boss. A friend is putting out a "quarantine songs"...

Love REAPER, can't say enough good things about it as a DAW and Cockos as a company. I'd echo (ha!) everything crow said, and add that it's super stable, pretty much never crashes ever. The only bad thing I can think of is the default theme is ugly, but of course there are 80 billion other themes yo...

Why would I buy a physical CD from bandcamp when I can just download the files? I don't think there's very many people who care about the physical CD packaging the way people do with vinyl, which makes sense. If I'm buying vinyl I want the thing, if I'm buying a cd I just want the information that's...

I'll be honest, I prefer CDs over vinyl. I do too. We have a turntable in the house but hardly ever use it. I don't have one in the studio. I don't have a cd player out there either but every cd gets ripped into the computer in all of its glorious 16 bits. I have approx one zillion records I can ca...

Man the loudness button makes my phonograph sound like garbage. What is it even, a compressor? A bass boost? Pretty sure it's just low and high freq shelves. The idea being you'd press that when you were listening at really low volumes and it'd make everything sound better, because Fletcher Munson....

I want to ask other engineers about how much effort do you put into trying to get your masters to play well in all specs of different players? None. I have monitors I know really, really well (had them 15 years now) in a room that's as acoustically perfect as I could make it. I make things sound go...

Definitely try the PZM on the floor in front of the kick, anywhere from 1-6' out. Can pretty much guarantee this'll give you some kind of cool sound.

losthighway wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:57 pm

I'd have to be in a pretty weird mood, or in a really weird session to put it up as my choice for the kick but you never know.

I recently learned that the kick mic on Van Halen 1 was a 57. I was like "that explains so much!" Apparently they didn't feel it needed any eq either....

I never saw the point of normalizing, have never really done it. All it does is raise the highest peak to zero, and you might well have one peak that's 3db higher than anything else....if you wanted to be fussy about it you'd go through and manually turn down just the highest peak bits and THEN norm...

Every place mentioned so far would do you great. There's also: http://www.oddfellowsrecording.com/ http://www.soulshoprecording.com/ http://universalnoisestorage.com/ and if you wanted to come down to Providence (and stop and say hi to me on the way), there's http://www.machineswithmagnets.com/studi...