Phong Shooey...

[Phildo]

Not exactly a recording technique, but...

For the last few years, as I've been acquiring more and more gear, my studio's tended to become a mess of trailing spaghetti cables, piles of wobbling synths and all manner of crappy connections and assorted hums & buzzes. I have gear which I'd bought two years ago but never even had plugged in.

On Friday night, I thought "Right...that's it!" and took the whole bloody lot down, weeded out the bad connections, patched everything through my patchbay (Pods, analogue synths, preamps), wired a loom up to my DAWs inputs, fx outs etc, shifted the gear I don't use into storage and then rebuilt the whole thing again. Only took me four hours, but proof of the pudding, as they say...

A friend came round last night to show off his new axe, so we nipped upstairs and did a bit of recording. Just that. No messing around, no looking for leads, no balancing stuff precariously where it would fit...just honest-to-goodness recording. In one hour, we'd got more accomplished than we normally would in three.

My message is this - if you're in the same boat as I was, don't procrastinate - just do it. You really will not regret it.

Of course I'll need to take it all down again when my balanced looms and bays turn up...

[detuned6]

a couple of weeks ago i got a patch bay and shelled out mad cake for lots of monster cables, and now everything is organized, i can press REC faster now.

[badgas]

Yeah, that makes really good sense.
I'm in a small room, two amps, six guitars, all the hardware and more.
I've just set mine up and I intend on keeping it 'clean'.
I have no intention of buying any more stuff. I have plenty and everything has it's place. Nice and orderly.

Now, if I could find my computer, I'd tell you more about it.

[scodu]

I have seen the word Loom a few times on the boards but I have no idea what that is, can someone please explain.

Thanks,
scodu