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- Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:01 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: What Did You Work On Today? 2-05-05
- Replies: 57
- Views: 17818
Re: What Did You Work On Today? 2-05-05
I've been recording local punk/hardcore bands in my basement on the weekends for extra $. Today it was three really young kids who were a bit better than some of the older groups I've been getting. They actually use clean guitar about 30% of the time, have fairly unique phrasing, and sound kinda lik...
- Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:37 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Any reason not to crank your mic pre input gain?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7376
Re: Any reason not to crank your mic pre input gain?
I don't think any legit designer would allow you to turn it up so high a component pops and therefore there shouldn't be any ill effects on the equipment from doing so. this is only partially true. as previously expressed, the testing of components is done with a dummy load that assumes a setup con...
- Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:32 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Any reason not to crank your mic pre input gain?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7376
Re: Any reason not to crank your mic pre input gain?
Maybe I'm contributing, and maybe not: linear vs. non-linear has to do with distortion at different gain. Class A is technically the most linear (i.e. least distorted), Class AB can be more distorted outside of smaller window of "linearity". Finally, there's class C which features a smaller window ...
- Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:48 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Any reason not to crank your mic pre input gain?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7376
Re: Any reason not to crank your mic pre input gain?
I like mic preamps that have an output trim as well as a gain knob so I can intentionally distort when I want to. I don't think the transistors/tubes mind operating in the non-linear region and neither do I. I don't think any legit designer would allow you to turn it up so high a component pops and ...
- Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:56 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: DIY bass cab
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1958
Re: DIY bass cab
The cabinet dimensions and port(s) should be tailed to the response of the speaker. The port and cabinet space behind the speaker creates a helmholtz resonator that will ring at a certain freqency. You usually want the hemholtz bump to occur where the LF response of the driver starts tapering off to...
- Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:34 am
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Microphones used on Zeppelin songs
- Replies: 79
- Views: 20320
Re: Microphones used on Zeppelin songs
DONT GET ME WRONG! I'm not saying those recordings werent great for their time. Certainly not the best, but good and rockin', for sure. I'm saying that they really don't compare to what's possible these days - even when you're trying to emulate a vintage sound - and I stopped using them for sonic re...
- Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:46 am
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Mics on a mingus record
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4618
Re: Mics on a mingus record
what i find hilarious about mingus records is how good everything sounds except....the bass. it's always so low volume and gets lost so easily. isn't it ironic? don't ya think? I think he's just being humble. I tend to do the same thing when I play bass on a record, and bass is my first instrument.
- Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:20 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Why?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9329
Re: Why?
Attention: Hillary or Larry. Someone please get rid of this annoyance. We don't deserve it.
- Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:48 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: You know what sucks?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10186
Re: You know what sucks?
KEEP THE AVATAR!
The drum sounds on Black Sabbath's "Master of Reality" are a joke. Same goes for tons of 70s records I guess. Usually when I enjoy the music so much it might take a long time to realize the sounds suck but this I spotted long ago.
The drum sounds on Black Sabbath's "Master of Reality" are a joke. Same goes for tons of 70s records I guess. Usually when I enjoy the music so much it might take a long time to realize the sounds suck but this I spotted long ago.
- Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:43 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Mics on a mingus record
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4618
Re: Mics on a mingus record
You might want to say which Charles Mingus record it is you're referring to. I hear he's got quite a few.
- Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:39 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Microphones used on Zeppelin songs
- Replies: 79
- Views: 20320
Re: Microphones used on Zeppelin songs
Are we still talking about Zeppelin or am I too late? I'll just say this I used to think that my Led Zeppelin CDs (the remastered ones, 2, and 4, and grafitti primarily) were the best recordings I owned and used them as mix references. One day, while trying to analyze the production techniques of "H...
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:24 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: ATR is making tape right now!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 12778
Re: ATR is making tape right now!
Lance Romance knows what I'm talking about. Les Paul is one of the founding fathers of our field. Everyone on your knees and pay homage! He deserves to be in Tape Op more than anyone I can think of who ever existed. Home studio in the 1930s (earlier even!) with techniques that were miles ahead of al...
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:40 am
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: Studio Mics Live?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7240
Re: Studio Mics Live?
If you're really that anal and need a condensor for your stage voice, Neumann and Rode makes handheld condensors. Save yourself the trouble and use a 57 (which I like better than 58s for small coffeehouse and theater gigs). I worked at a well kown club in NYC where we used SM58s/57s/Beta 57s on pra...
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:20 am
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: ATR is making tape right now!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 12778
Re: ATR is making tape right now!
I was just at a broadcast museum that had a working example of one of the first tape machines made in germany. apparently bing crosby was into tape and had some connection to the deck.... anyway he recorded some stuff on one of the decks (late 1940s). The machine is still working and that old ass t...
- Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:46 pm
- Forum: 5/03-2/05: General Recording
- Topic: I need a MRL tape
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1773
Re: I need a MRL tape
Any calibration settings are going to drift - some very quickly depending on the machine and conditions. Also, even if you print your own reel of tones after calibration the head aligment may drift over time too, rendering that reel not as useful. The fact that MRL tapes are full track is a benefit ...