Recent content by cavedog101

How many "mixes" I've gotten to fix where there is so much extraneous tracks, plugs, and other stuff that the arrangement is completely invisible and the SONG suffers for it. Need a "rule"? Here's one. Don't cover up the song with things that degrade it. A well-tuned and thought out...

Tic-Tac bass parts were not all necessarily a 6 string baritone.

There seems to be one major issue missing in these discussions about recording drums and that is the kit itself and how it's prepped for recording. Many many times I've had drummers in the room who might be really accomplished live stage drummers but who are ill-prepared for recording duties...

Yes that is true. Or rather it can be true. I am always trying for a good level in the track that will make anything added @ mix work as it should. I don't want to spend time getting a sound and then tracking only to have to fix little widgits here and there. I will almost always use a fast...

I compress on the way in. Every time. BUT.....I don't compress as a fix for something I can't control with simple mic technique /placement and preamp level control. I use compressors for the value their individual circuit adds to the sound of the take. A vocal will always get a fast comp...

Top five here for me: SM57-Rode K2-Senn MD421-Oktava MK-219- Audix i5..........all of them had a solid midrange and a tight low end.

I have a bunch of bass guitar options available. In my 30+ years of tracking this particular instrument (it's the one I'm most proficient on) the ONE universal truth is this......Simple. Direct to the capture medium. The bass instrument and the player make the sound what it is. The engineer's...

While I do NOT understand your reluctance to "learn" something I do understand why you maintain that in a side-by-side comparison of several modern (for example) Fender DRRI amps that the sound of each would be very very similar in it's nature. And ,yes, it is a sound that the engineers and the...

Teles are the easiest platform to mod to ones desires......

Sometimes when nothing else works for bass, I go back to the basics....

You can kinda see what's what. As far as the configuration goes. Gear-wise there's (left) an early Joe Meek comp v:2.07, a JJ Audio modded Art VLA (made in USA..I bought it new), a Drip Audio Opto 6(LA2A), and a Warm Audio WA76, and a Parasound HA1000 amp prepped by Sundholm Engineering for the...

Sorry for the blurry pics. The site won't let me upload the hi-res stuff...

John, isnt the 'mastering' version of the 8200 the one with the stepped knobs? Love em for tracking, never could get em to sit well in mastering. Love the Cranesong there....Here's some more images of the current office.