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4038 as mono OH about 3ft above snare YIKES. Be careful with that... they are not made for strong transients like snares. Don't worry, Nick - I play drums like a little girl... With the mic there into unpadded CAPI VP28 at 12 o'clock in and out, meters don't come near peak even if I play like a lit...

There's a plugin just out from Oeksound called Spiff that deals with transients in a dynamic way. I've had success with it on both spitty mouth clicks and lower plosives. You can tell it what frequency band to focus on, how sensitive to be, and how quick to release. I also used it on a piano recordi...

So I got slightly bored of my reliance and perpetual favouring of GJ drums today and in my effort to like something else better I think I've found a contender for my affection: 4038 as mono OH about 3ft above snare LDC (cardioid, neutral/airy sounding, today was microphone-parts kit RK12) MID + Fath...

Thanks for all your responses - I took great comfort in hearing all your ideas and sorry I didn't get a chance to refer/respond to them all. I had to give her a hard cutoff on Wed morning where one text from me went "no, I don't agree that the piano is too quiet - you need to stop listening to the m...

TapeOpLarry wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:32 pm

My comment to these kind of clients: "Yeah, um, none of the records you like were made they way you are attempting to work right now."

HA!
That's kind of the the subtlest and most cutting at once - ideal!

Thanks again for all your replies. Regarding the A/B to released tracks, we've done that but it just goes straight down a path of "everyone else sounds better than me" and also she sends recordings from a local place that has a brand new £80K Fazioli piano and asks if I can get the cronky old "chara...

Thanks for you thoughts. I was trickle fed the album track by track over a week and a half as she did the (bad) vocal editing (instead of paying, and to keep control), but the vocals all had slightly different EQ as they came from the recording studio (maybe EQ'd on way in), and also there's a mix o...

Oh man - I've been asked by a singer to mix her album which was recorded elsewhere (done really well) because the engineer who recorded it was apparently more pop than jazz and my background has a lot of jazz in it. I've spent a few days on it, some attended and some alone, lots of back and forth as...

I have leftover plasterboard from the build enough to stick another layer up, and there's stuff called Everbuild AC50 which is a bit like Green Glue in that it never sets solid - stays like chewing gum under a school desk - which is way cheaper: £4.50 for 900ml as opposed to £14 for GG. It seems lik...

To dampen the existing double plasterboard, what could I do? First ideas are: (1) Green Glue an extra layer of plasterboard to the face to get more constrained layer damping going on. (2) some kind of mass loaded vinyl assembly? Would that be better at absorbing 40-50Hz? (3) Is there a clever way of...

Thanks for the replies guys. So yes, I am making a timetable! I have times and a severity rating "1142 - heavy freight, no ballads 1247 - light rumble, rock through it" So I think I may have made a breakthrough/change - your posts made me really get my ear to floors and walls as trains came by and I...

So I've just built a nice big room in an old factory/warehouse - ground floor, concrete slab, RWR floating walls and ceiling (except support in middle) - and the main sound which I still seem to have had little impact on protecting myself from is the train tracks about 50m away. The low frequencies ...

Thanks to both of you again for your help on this. I got in to the section shown and tried reseating the board - I couldn't get it out properly but got it to move a little in the hope that any corroded/dusty contacts would reconnect, but sadly I've not solved it yet. I checked connections to playbac...

Is that a front panel or back panel job?

Ah brilliant - thanks for getting back to me guys, will get on the case.