Whats the secret to get a good clean recording no hiss

vier-personen · Post by **vier-personen** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:23 am

ipressrecord wrote:I QUIT!!!

*sets sail with Hosa cable in hand, pointed south, banana split-less*

this proves it.

ChrisCo · Post by **ChrisCo** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:10 am

jckinnick wrote:
ChrisCo wrote:jc, you gotta take into account that you're working with the conduction of electricity. The "electricity" is the signal you want to hear; the "hiss" is "residual signal" you don't want to hear (like electricity bleed from other sources). The more stuff you run through, the weaker you make the "electricity" (signal), which means you gotta make it louder which means the "residual signal" becomes louder... hence more hiss. "Clean" means the purest "signal to noise" ratio, which means you've got to find a way to use the least amount of pieces of gear possible.

(I'm probably going to get flamed on this one... it IS kind of a bad example)

edit: oh yeah, I was going to say... this fuckin' thread is one part hysterical, one part brutal... jc, way to experiment at least man... but you've got to ask questions with the language everyone else can understand as well
Question so these connectors im using they will cause resistance as well?

Yes. See if you can do without.

i am monster face · Post by **i am monster face** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:17 pm

How did it work for you?

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:09 pm

Pretty good I removed all the connectors and changed around some inputs.

Thanks

Johnny B · Post by **Johnny B** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:10 pm

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: ok, i put on my leathur pants and started mixing. i used the retractable coke mirror A LOT. now when i listen to the mixes, they sound really edgy and weird and there's no bass. did i have something connected wrong?

No. Congratulations, you just made a Husker Du record.

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:11 pm

Johnny B wrote:
MoreSpaceEcho wrote: ok, i put on my leathur pants and started mixing. i used the retractable coke mirror A LOT. now when i listen to the mixes, they sound really edgy and weird and there's no bass. did i have something connected wrong?
No. Congratulations, you just made a Husker Du record.

Best one liner yet

Knights Who Say Neve · Post by **Knights Who Say Neve** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:50 pm

OM15.2 · Post by **OM15.2** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:45 pm

the dude should just stick with acoustic live shows

wayne kerr · Post by **wayne kerr** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:50 pm

chords. heh heh.

AstroDan · Post by **AstroDan** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:56 am

I'm not intimate with this thread - but I'm guessing since it's 9 pages, the secret to silent recording is in here...

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:06 am

so, jckinnick, have you actually learned anything from this thread yet? it is pretty amazing.... you need ot work on developing your concept of signal flow. and your english language vocabulary. chords are three or more notes played at the same time, CORDS are cables. inputs are where the signal goes into the preamp/converter/whatever... outputs are where the signal leaves an item.

the correct way to describe signal flow is from it's origin (i.e. guitar, microphone, keyboard) through whatever processing or preamplification occurs (naturally, going into the inputs and out of the outputs...) and finally to whatever the capture medium.

so, lelts say something really difficult like:

guitar > overdrive pedal > pod > multitrack

note that the arrows are an indication of the signal flow.

now.... have you actually been able to solve any of your problems? trace them down? if not, the suggestions that you stick to acoustic shows might not be too far off.

if you cannot develop good porblem solving skills, you cannot make good recordings... there is always something fucking up or needing to be fixed, and you need to be able to do things like read manuals and systematically examine a signal chain to find the problem... the interwebs won't always be able to help you in a pinch.

john

wayne kerr · Post by **wayne kerr** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:28 am

toaster3000 wrote:
guitar > overdrive pedal > pod > multitrack

That's too confusing... try this:

∑ guitar </= overdrive pedal - pod + (cos[64 deluxe reverb] / (tan(Δ cbs)))~multitrack
X
=
plumbing school

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:48 am

AstroDan wrote:I'm not intimate with this thread - but I'm guessing since it's 9 pages, the secret to silent recording is in here...

wayne kerr wrote: ∑ guitar </= overdrive pedal - pod + (cos[64 deluxe reverb] / (tan(Δ cbs)))~multitrack
X
=
plumbing school

There you go, now go record silently.

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:59 am

guys, guys, check out my version of 4' 33'':

sounds good, right? no hiss?

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:33 am

John Cage just clapped.

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Shhhhhh.

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