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i use a bunch of words to describe what i do. "engineer" i dint usually feel weird about it as i went to school for it. did i learn any "real" engineering? no, but who's counting... producer, i actually do this usually studio person one that i hate, but sometimes am sorta forced to use: "musician" y...

if you are recording yourself this is a lot trickier- have whatever mic you are using feeding headphones that you are wearing. move the mic around the guitarist until you hear the sound you want. record a little against the song it is going on to make sure it's kosher. the headphones have to be loud...

im really happy with the electro harmonix holier grail pedal. it's not my only reverb and it doesnt get a million different sounds, but man the ones it does get are just killer. $180.

that was an awesome post

thanks brian

the ChannelStrip compressor is good (with its ratio up at 1000:1 it sort of behaves like an 1176) but it doesnt really work properly sometimes. the release time doesnt do what it is supposed to so your sound gets all dumb on ya. its EQ is outstanding, tho. i've owned that plugin for several years an...

whoa that's hardcore bumping this thread up like that

i see your bump and raise you one "that ghetto thai recipe sounds good and totally gross at the same time, kinda like many other thai foods"

i dont know what the problem is, that was the coolest bass drum sound ive ever heard maybe you should take all those cookies out of the bass drum before recording it? ive heard that filling the drums with cookies can be really bad when recording seriously tho maybe your preamp had too much gain, wha...

the frantone peachfuzz is awesome on bass. equally cool for guitar too. low end out the yin yang

http://www.frantone.com

the max SPL prolly means what the diaphragm itself can take before distortion. it wasnt the diaphragm that was distorting it was the tube section. it sounded like a "tube" distortion (pretty smooth), not like when i stick a condenser mic too close to a loud guitar amp kinda distortion (crackle-y and...

when i hear something not tuned to a440 it doesnt sound weird to me (i have perfect pitch on good days, slightly less than perfect on bad days :) ). it just sounds like theyre playing a different game. having perfect pitch doesnt equal having a closed mind, fortunately. there are blue notes all over...

huh, where did the poll go? i musta screwed up that part, oops

there was a real poll here when i made the 1st post, i swear


interesting facts, keep em comin...

im not marketing or anything, just curious as to wha fellow tapeoppers are doing with their time away from the internet

me, im split 50/50 between recording others for little bits o cheese and writing/recording music for myself

i think a pad would help but only if it were between the diaphragm and tube, cuz i think it was the tube (toob?) that was limiting like that. oh, yeah, it was limiting. i set the level going to disk and it never crossed it on the loud parts. for some sounds it would probably sound awesome, not for q...

the line 6 can do plenty of cool things but not sound very good doing any of it my opinion of course, please dont :ar15: me the guyatone delay is cool. it is a simple digital delay, i think it's got 2 seconds going on. sounds groovy when it self oscillates. not really like an echoplex but still sort...

i sorta have perfect pitch. it doesnt bother me at all if something is out of tune a little, as long as it is still good musically. like sargeant pepper for example, everything sounds weird pitch wise in that song but it's still good.