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drumsound wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:07 am

Hey, look at this... The 57 frequency plot corresponds well with MSE's post. Who'd a thunk?

Haha! Your arch-enemy, the Shure sm57.

A frequency analyzer can be helpful. I usually have one on my master bus and refer to it from time to time. I don't use it to make mix decisions but it can be really helpful to quickly locate problem areas. This has helped me in a big way with low mids, particularly in identifying the differences b...

That Nina Nastasia record - great drum sounds on there! She did a record with Jim White I really like, too.

Damn, what songs on that album - so great. The hard-panning gets distracting to me, but that’s a quibble I can get past. Sneaky Pete’s steel playing is perfect on this record.

One thing I’ve noticed after long drives is that my left ear gets desensitized to the wash of road noise up against the driver’s side window, and I’ll have some lopsided hearing for a bit after that. I wonder if some people also just naturally favor one ear over another, much like being left- or rig...

Dave Hill Europa preamp. I’m going to sell some stuff so I can get a second one. These things are so versatile. Did some acoustic guitar and bass DI yesterday with it - the option to slow down the slew rate and add harmonics allows for some nice mangling that doesn’t ever go over the top. And the 18...

You'll have to let us know if anything else from these lists is useful, or if you've got some of your own contributions to add. It's been a quest for the last year or two to find references that A> Sound really good or are especially revealing B> The songs aren't too tedious to listen to Yeah, AC/D...

Cool, and thanks, y’all. Some good suggestions. Just now setting up the new pair of Neumann kh120’s, and hearing all kinds of new detail in Gillian Welch’s The Harrow & the Harvest. Fun stuff, but I’m frightened to pull up my own mixes now...

What’s on your reference mixtape for when you’re working in another studio and/or listening on different monitors?

I’ve got some new monitors coming tomorrow and want to spend some time getting acclimated to them. Curious what y’all like to put on for an occasion like this.

So many fun delay pedals out there.
For the hazy washed out thing, I’ve been really into the Demedash pedal I traded for. It’s got loads of character. No tap tempo, but I don’t miss it.

Omni for my Oktava mc012, super close to the 14th fret of an acoustic for finger-picked stuff. I’ve been experimenting with lots of acoustic mic’ing lately, but this old standby just works in finding a nice balance.

digitaldrummer wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 28, 2021 6:11 am

cool stuff. I was hoping to hear it through a Tube screamer and wah-wah

That’s the Joe Bonamassa signature edition perpetual melody machine.

Very cool!

Richard Thompson has a beautiful approach to fingerstyle playing - really delicate and lyrical. And I like John Fahey for the opposite reasons - he seemed to get some grit and twang in his playing.

This is fun to read.

When I was a kid, I was so taken by Ben E. King's Stand By Me. It sounded like the perfect expression of emotion. I'm still chasing that.