What's limiting YOUR recordings??

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What's the weakest link in your recordings?

  • My recording chain (mics, pres, etc)

    Votes: 156 18.4%

  • My monitoring chain (monitors, phones)

    Votes: 66 7.8%

  • My room(s)

    Votes: 258 30.4%

  • My own ability

    Votes: 368 43.4%
  • Total voters
    848
My own ability. I spent two years being taught how to record, no mixing. Now I'm doing my degree and we're being taught MIDI, and soon how to record.But no mixing.

My monitor setup is non-existent (hifi until I can afford monitors) but I only record for my own improvement at the moment. My mate came round and spent 30 minutes making one of my tracks sound quite good using a whole host of compression and EQ, but I don't even know where to start...
Trial and error time for me!!
 
Me my room and getting our freaking drummer to show up for practice!:mad:
 
studio breakdown

I agree that time is the biggest thing. Never enough, but that's where efficiency of time/workflow comes into play. Learning the new software that comes out or a new piece of gear are all stepping stones to greatness that the masters before us have treaded upon. Put the time in, when you can find it, and eventually a masterpiece will come. Hopefully more easily next time. (That's what I keep telling myself, lol)

I, like most home studio musicians, am looking for "that sound" and doing the best with what I've got. My newest challenges are learning to program drums (to the intricate patterns I want) and learning the monitors I use, how they represent or misrepresent my music and adjusting for that discrepancy curve.

It all comes with time, I guess.
 
I have no ears...or eyes....come to think of it, I hate music....and I'm allergic to tape...I'm amish so I don't normally use a computer (I'm typing this via telepathy)...so pretty much everything is limiting my recordings...oh yes..I don't have power so even if I did have anything to record with, it wouldn't turn on....
 
TerraMortim said:
I have no ears...or eyes....come to think of it, I hate music....and I'm allergic to tape...I'm amish so I don't normally use a computer (I'm typing this via telepathy)...so pretty much everything is limiting my recordings...oh yes..I don't have power so even if I did have anything to record with, it wouldn't turn on....
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I beg to differ. You could be recording into the horn of an Edison wax-cylinder phonograph.

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As far as I know, the Amish wouldn't use something even this mechanically complex, but it still technically doesn't run on power (unless, in 1906, you opted for the fancy add-on motor to make the cylinder rotate at a constant speed). I'm still waitin on someone to make that multi-track wax cylinder phonograph :mad:
 
I almost bought one of those =D There's something quite sexy about them in my opinion.
 
TerraMortim said:
I almost bought one of those =D There's something quite sexy about them in my opinion.
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I feel the same way. Its (obviously) a throwback to where all this started, and there is something beautiful about the simplicity of how all this came to be.
 
My highest quality mic is a Rode NT1a and my highest quality pre-amp is in my firepod. It's good enough to get a decent home recording, but I don't think I can get the quality I'm really looking for with it.

I would've said my room before, but I just moved into a new house and have a nice basement to work in now, but I have concrete walls and it would be nice to cover them in foam.
 
cusebassman said:
I beg to differ. You could be recording into the horn of an Edison wax-cylinder phonograph.

As far as I know, the Amish wouldn't use something even this mechanically complex, but it still technically doesn't run on power (unless, in 1906, you opted for the fancy add-on motor to make the cylinder rotate at a constant speed). I'm still waitin on someone to make that multi-track wax cylinder phonograph :mad:
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Les Paul pretty much did this when he invented multi-track recording on wax discs.
 
Me too

It's completely me. I have listened to others with the same equipment that I have and it sounds much better. It's really the lack of time that I have to learn. When I'm in my home studio, I would rather be playing and drinking rather than reading:D

Maybe someday...
 
the room and recording trumpet online

the room and the neighbors:mad:! I'm a trumpet player recording just my parts for online collaborations (wezimple.com). I have to use my dynamic mic or use my buddy's studio.
 
Maxim at the moment :D Just messin I think having to collaborate with other people in the recording process. Just dont like it (Im at college so have to share studio time, but at least i get to mix it my way at home).
 
My ability and lack of money. But hey, I'm just starting out. I'm sure I'll improve.

:)
 
I do believe that during this test, Les Paul was setting up his 8-track Ediphone to playback track 1 while arming track 6 for recording. Apparently he didn't bother refitting the lid for an 8-diaphragm system tho :confused:
 

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What limits me is my ability to come up with good melody lines and lyrics. I struggle with lyrics, more so than melody, which prolongs the writing process.

Bob
 
the first two, i cant afford good equiptment :)

but i got me basics, a good dynamic mike, a good pencil condensor, and beerdynamic headphones, and a sterio set up to sound flat, and testing with comp speaks, good sterio, crap sterio, and surround sound :) all with sub added and taken away.
 
I'd say my room. My equipment is OK, my abilities are getting better every day.
My room is small, it has no treatment. Luckily I have no real trouble with frequencies, but it's the size and the way I can use my room(like setting up my stuff).
 
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