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by vvv
Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:10 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Interchanging hard drives for recording?
Replies: 11
Views: 3440

Also, that way you avoid paying for a second OS.

If you aleady have a second OS (I prefer XP Pro), set it up as RodC says, and make the app drive double-boot, so you can choose the OS.
by vvv
Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:53 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: where to find bluebook values on amps?
Replies: 11
Views: 3004

Vintage Guitar can give a pretty good idea of amp prices. I have a blond Mark2B, EC condition, Black widow 12", 60/100 with the graffic EQ and reverb that I value in the area of US$1,000. Were I selling, (I'm not) I'd probably want another $125 for the Anvil road case... Keep in mind the coasts' va...
by vvv
Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:19 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Nudging Tracks To Compensate For Mic Distance?
Replies: 34
Views: 8231

I don't do it on stuff I engineer; I have never found the need to, yet.

But as I have posted previously, for some reason when I get sent drum tracks they often benefit by nudging them, usually the overheads a little closer to the close mic's.
by vvv
Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:11 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Made a Blog Following the Making of a Record...
Replies: 9
Views: 2599

Ver' cool!

(Love the living-room drum set up.)
by vvv
Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:47 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Best Tamborine Soloing Technique
Replies: 43
Views: 12527

That was freekin' cool! :worthy:
by vvv
Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:39 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: The Obligatory Fake-Out Lo-Fi Intro, is it Cliche Yet?
Replies: 96
Views: 26929

trodden wrote:...and covered up some stuff we didn't have time to retrack.
Best reason to do it, IMHO.
by vvv
Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:51 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: ANOTHER Genius lays it all out....
Replies: 45
Views: 13611

mr problem was not the guy's music (i didn't stick around long enough to hear any) it was his utterly and completely inarticulate way of speaking. wud u taak mee cereal if uh um uh alla mah poosts weere tiiped lik dis? Actually, I have a persona at another forum where I do-do type like that. :lol: ...
by vvv
Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:45 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Anybody see Kevin Shields guitar set up
Replies: 74
Views: 35461

dwlb wrote: edit: oh yeah, I forgot, sometimes I use the Target distortion pedal for leads.
What's that?

I mean, fom Target, the store?
by vvv
Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:39 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Guitar modeling vs. Guitar Micing
Replies: 109
Views: 25725

Modelers are the most fun at 3:00AM when the kids are asleep.
by vvv
Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:31 am
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: WOW! Tina Dickow's cover of Working class hero is amszing!
Replies: 2
Views: 1722

Awesum!

Two techincal things of note: I love the creative use of the delays, and her mic technique is terrific.
by vvv
Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:18 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: The Quietness Wars (mastering)
Replies: 48
Views: 12778

dynomike wrote: ...and the limiting is actually mixing the record...
Now that is a cool way to describe that result!


To take it even further, when it starts happening (like, on the 10th midnight pass at finishing my bedio mix with "masturding") is when I know I'm being way too heavyhanded.
by vvv
Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:34 pm
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: November 10th, 1975
Replies: 37
Views: 14682

Sumone in the Electrical thread said, "I always hoped that Will Oldham would have covered the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald." 8)
by vvv
Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:17 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: The Quietness Wars (mastering)
Replies: 48
Views: 12778

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:pfffft, that's not loud, you can still see some peaks and valleys there. it's gotta COMPETE dammit!

*drops L2 threshold to -20, nods wisely*
Oh yeah, sorry, I just ran it through the "acoustic singer-songwriter" preset. :mrgreen:
by vvv
Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:59 am
Forum: Listen to Music
Topic: November 10th, 1975
Replies: 37
Views: 14682

Might have been the same woman? I googled and found this , which talks about what I said, and about what you said with the guy being Bruce Cockburn; all apparently gossip, of course! Wikipedia says Lightfoot's song "Sundown" was written about his one time girlfriend Cathy Smith (who had worked for a...
by vvv
Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:48 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Anyone Here Have BFD Joe Baressi Platinum Samples Collection
Replies: 3
Views: 1406

The BFD site has some samples up, here.