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most people couldnt do that because they never learned how to make a record sound good. They just plug in compressors, everything gets louder and thats the way it goes. Most people who are so self convinced that compression makes everything sound bigger would likely be horrified at how much larger t...

active basses generally have a much higher output level than passive basses do. While unlikely, it could very well be that the output of your bass is clipping the input to whatever you are plugging it into. If the passive bass sounds ok in the same preamp, I would try to match the output level betwe...

FZ probably would have gotten to the crux of the crucible however I'll concede the insight you can pick up with a pair of zircon encrusted tweezers while riding along the border line is not to be underestimated.

dave

if you want to expand on that, a bit, that would be great. sure, no prob. you originally asked about creating a bigger room sound and increased sense of reverb by "crushing" overheads during heavy limiting. IMO, explicitly doing this is about the most cliche thing you can do on a rock record these ...

drew, forget what you know and, for your example, think of a compressor like this: plug room mic into compressor. compressor cuts off the top 10dB of your room track and then serves as a volume control for everything under that. Uncompressed, your volume control starts to effect the loudest part of ...

drums are an acoustic instrument which vibrate in an acoustic space. if you think of your mic setup as something that captures the drums vibrating in an acoustic environment rather than say, recording the kit in a vaccum, you'll probably be able to come to some conclusion about why people put things...

move the mic around and turn the knobs until it sounds good?

maybe Im missing something after all these years.

dave

plug it into the hole which makes it sound the best. how hard is that to figure out? Unless you know specifically how the circuit is designed there is absolutely no correct answer to the question in this thread. None. If you know the type of console someone can look at a schematic and tell you whats...

bias is not hard to reproduce.

dave

well, if you want to geek out about MS thats fine but you should approach it for what it is, which few people recording music ever do. Dont look at strict MS as a stereo technique. Its a mono technique that works in stereo. The primary reason why it exists is for playback on mono systems without any...

If you set up the three cardioids in a "ms" configuration and compare that to a cardioid and fig 8 in a ms configuration you will see in blinding detail the difference in subtelty. This of course requires you to actually do something which apparently is impossible under the paralyzing grip of the in...

man, that book... just mix at the fucking level that provides you with the best mix, period. do you think high voltage was mixed at 83 dB? Sometimes you just need to rock to get the right emotional content in your mix. Other times there is material which you really want to mix at a low level. Is the...

unless you are planning on starting a rental business, Id stay away from this. have you ever rented a car? have you ever rented gear? Have you *ever* treated it well? Ive always looked at the whole point of renting a car as trying to break it... what do you do when you get a mic back that has been i...

you'll usually see engineers jumping through hoops with outboard gear and every trick in the book to minimize the signal path. that pretty much sums up the reality with all this crap. If your mix isnt good its because the mix engineer is incompetent not becuause the gear is whatever it is. A good e...

go to a shooting supply place or maybe online like midway.com, peltors and leight both make ultra comfortable and very effective ear muffs for protection. The outer limits of expensive would be like $30. The leights have an adjustable headband the peltors dont. Forget the ratings on them because noi...