Well guys, I have been toying with my new Psolo mic pre for a couple days. I am stunned at the clarity and detail in the signal. I have no doubt that this is a world class pre.
My problem is, it is also revealing just how bad my room is, my Behringer Vampire 210 amp is, how bad my acoustic is, how bad my voice is.... The point is, recordings with guitar direct through my Pod Xt sound better than recording with a mic and the Psolo from the Vampire. It is starting to dawn on me that the pre AND the room have to both be good. The mic doesn't really have to be, because you can make great recordings with a 57 or a cheap China condenser, but the recording environment and the quality pre are what's needed. I can hear the crisp detail and 3d sound of the Psolo. It's almost a religious experience, a feel hard to explain. But the sound it is capturing is absolutely terrible.
I have spent tons of money over the years buying frickin compressed fiberglass (702), but my room and walls are too thin, (I live in a mobile home), and I am starting to realize that I will NEVER be able to record quality audio in this environment.
Should I keep the Psolo and hope that someday I will be able to build a real studio room, or should I get rid of it and buy a Boss Br1200 and simply plug my guitar and bass straight in and have drums on the unit, basically, an all in one box which will never really give me pro recording quality, but closer than the Psolo will in a terrible room with terrible amps and acoustic guitars to mic?
You see, I think the Psolo is actually a better class kit than I can use, because I don't have the pro recording environment that the Psolo was designed for. This may be a huge moment in my long quest to be able to record pro sounding stuff, and I may have lost that quest, after thousands of dollars. I may never be able to have a REAL studio room built, with a room inside a room, with proper trapping and diffusion and such. I may never have the space or money to do a room the right way to even do justice to a pre such as the Psolo.
Now, I am faced with a certain reality, my quest may not be possible, and I may be better off with some all-in-one box like a Boss recorder, but I will never really be satisfied that way either. Is my recording quest finally over, after all the money I have wasted buying recorders, foam, fiberglass, mics pres, mixers?
Here I have finally realized that this quest may be impossible for me considering where I live, how much money I make, and everything else. I feel like crying after hearing how the Psolo captured my terrible recording space.
The psolo does it's job so well that it has smacked me in the face and said "Wake up dude, you are so far from pro recordings that you will probably never get there and you have wasted thousands over the years to learn this. The psolo said to me, "Son, send me back and let a real studio buy me where I can join up with a real studio environment, real engineers in a reall studio, I am way above your head and it may be years and thousands more until you are ready to do me justice. Accept that you lost the quest, it was never possible in the first place, and I have come here to show you that it's not possible. Put your wallet back in your pants and save for a real studio when you have some songs to record".
Signed
Heart Broken
My problem is, it is also revealing just how bad my room is, my Behringer Vampire 210 amp is, how bad my acoustic is, how bad my voice is.... The point is, recordings with guitar direct through my Pod Xt sound better than recording with a mic and the Psolo from the Vampire. It is starting to dawn on me that the pre AND the room have to both be good. The mic doesn't really have to be, because you can make great recordings with a 57 or a cheap China condenser, but the recording environment and the quality pre are what's needed. I can hear the crisp detail and 3d sound of the Psolo. It's almost a religious experience, a feel hard to explain. But the sound it is capturing is absolutely terrible.
I have spent tons of money over the years buying frickin compressed fiberglass (702), but my room and walls are too thin, (I live in a mobile home), and I am starting to realize that I will NEVER be able to record quality audio in this environment.
Should I keep the Psolo and hope that someday I will be able to build a real studio room, or should I get rid of it and buy a Boss Br1200 and simply plug my guitar and bass straight in and have drums on the unit, basically, an all in one box which will never really give me pro recording quality, but closer than the Psolo will in a terrible room with terrible amps and acoustic guitars to mic?
You see, I think the Psolo is actually a better class kit than I can use, because I don't have the pro recording environment that the Psolo was designed for. This may be a huge moment in my long quest to be able to record pro sounding stuff, and I may have lost that quest, after thousands of dollars. I may never be able to have a REAL studio room built, with a room inside a room, with proper trapping and diffusion and such. I may never have the space or money to do a room the right way to even do justice to a pre such as the Psolo.
Now, I am faced with a certain reality, my quest may not be possible, and I may be better off with some all-in-one box like a Boss recorder, but I will never really be satisfied that way either. Is my recording quest finally over, after all the money I have wasted buying recorders, foam, fiberglass, mics pres, mixers?
Here I have finally realized that this quest may be impossible for me considering where I live, how much money I make, and everything else. I feel like crying after hearing how the Psolo captured my terrible recording space.
The psolo does it's job so well that it has smacked me in the face and said "Wake up dude, you are so far from pro recordings that you will probably never get there and you have wasted thousands over the years to learn this. The psolo said to me, "Son, send me back and let a real studio buy me where I can join up with a real studio environment, real engineers in a reall studio, I am way above your head and it may be years and thousands more until you are ready to do me justice. Accept that you lost the quest, it was never possible in the first place, and I have come here to show you that it's not possible. Put your wallet back in your pants and save for a real studio when you have some songs to record".
Signed
Heart Broken