Interesting articles

[LazerBeakShiek]

Could any of this be useful in a home recording setup without the expensive processors (Orban, etc.)?

Orban multiband radio station compressors are awesome. I think they have software versions. They make the material sound even. Depending on the genre of music they can be subtle to dramatic.

Limiter seemed to be STOP WALL.....so I never read as much about that. Compression and Bass and Vocals seemed to lead me to Opto comps for smooth, warm, pump...

the desired parameter is a fast attack. Faster the better.

I dont recall using a limiter for RMS loudness? or I did without knowing, but isnt that the Loudness Wars mastering guys talk about? SMASHING it, Flat Lining, ruining the Dynamics for a Louder obnoxious sound?

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Limiters are usually used to prevent a sound from going over a certain point, and they’re very good at doing that. They can also be used to increase the overall RMS loudness of a sound source, which can be quite useful on vocals in an extremely dense mix.

limiters are necessary. Like a bass, perfect example, a limiter will make the strings low to high even out to the same volume.

Not sure about the loudness wars mastering guys..I like demo's. Brainworx has the limiter demo on the product page and offer engineering video tips on their products. Watching them operate the VST shows you how to use it..

 

[CoolCat]

Break-up of the Beatles - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Paul quits Beatles...April 10, 1970

 

[CoolCat]

Noise.....in HR land

I know most get the noise issue reduced over the years but recently I moved my PC and setup and though the rooms much larger than a closet vocal booth, I notice room noise and so....thought this was an interesting article.

Production Techniques Using Gates & Expanders

You can do so much more with noise gates and expanders than nix unwanted noise...

www.soundonsound.com

 

[CoolCat]

Microphones from 1980's to today by David Royer- Royer Labs and Mojave

Interesting microphone designer engineer who did his time.

1998-2000 "the flood of Chinese mics hit the market".....he mentions the capsules were good but the electronics were very poor and the transformer very poorly designed.
The study lead to the Mojave ..LDC line. Later getting into the reason for specific transformers. 12:58...

 

[spantini]

Not a very deep or large article, just a sad one - another one bites the dust.

“If you want to go to the studio and spend $2,000 a day, take that and buy a laptop and a sample library or tell AI what song you want to make”: As the Record Plant looks set to close, an engineer says “there is no money in the recording music busine

“There are less and less rock bands and you could record Taylor Swift in a vocal booth the size of a closet"

www.musicradar.com

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

Not a very deep or large article, just a sad one - another one bites the dust.

“If you want to go to the studio and spend $2,000 a day, take that and buy a laptop and a sample library or tell AI what song you want to make”: As the Record Plant looks set to close, an engineer says “there is no money in the recording music busine

“There are less and less rock bands and you could record Taylor Swift in a vocal booth the size of a closet"

www.musicradar.com

Yeah - if you're a little older and grew up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s... it's a bit dark to see how the music and music production industry has evolved and changed. That golden era is a thing of the past at this point.

 

[ecc83]

Yeah - if you're a little older and grew up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s... it's a bit dark to see how the music and music production industry has evolved and changed. That golden era is a thing of the past at this point.

Yes, very sad but back then the record companies were making millions and the top execs having a 'king good time. Most musicians on the other hand were not doing THAT much better than they do today. Bit like Amazon and of most of the £T companies today. Workers still get shit.

Dave.

 

[spantini]

Holy HDDs Batman !

Nothing new, but interesting anyway.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

arstechnica.com

 

[spantini]

How do you picture electricity in wire? Well, forget all that . . .

Electricity does not flow through wires! - Energy One

 

[TalismanRich]

Holy HDDs Batman !

Nothing new, but interesting anyway.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

arstechnica.com

Yeah I remember years ago telling people that there were only two types of hard drives.... Those that have crashed, and those that are going to crash.

I still have a tower that was built with DOS 5.0 and Windows For Workgroups 3.1. It is over 30 years old. I upgraded to Win 95 (still on there). I replaced the battery on the motherboard early this year, and it booted right up. It was upgraded a couple of times over the years, finally getting to a AMD 486/100 processor and 1024KB of ram. I think it has 3 HDs in it, 5.25 and 3.5" floppies along with CD burner, a tape backup and SCSI card. The network is a 10base 2/10base T combo card. It was kicker for playing SSI wargames and Diablo. I was in a group that used to play networked games on Saturday nights.