Recent content by Gtoboy

Listen to old Steve Miller, Stevie Wonder , etc (original recordings). The panning is all over the place. Steve Miller learned from Les Paul and this helped me realize that what we now think of as 'conventional' panning is just not necessary if you can arrange frequency hierarchy and part...

I think I and many others who play/record music can get enamored with filling the space around the melody to the point where we lose track of what is supposed to be taking center stage. Pro arrangers don't seem to fall in that trap. I feel like some discipline helps me, IOW planning out what is...

Just automate the eq move to drop out when the vocals come in.

Looking at the limiter schematic it appears that in bypass the alesis is still running the signal through buffers which can help keep your signal quality from degrading. So it may be a good idea to leave it in circuit in bypass mode, depending on the condition of the wiring and connections...

NO dairy for at least 12 hours prior to singing. Avoid sugar on the same day. Vicks vapor inhaler helps many (not the lozenges!) as well as Mucinex or equivalent can work for others. Depending on the mic itself, singing off axis approx 45 degrees is helpful as is the old 'pencil attached to...

Specifically looking at the pedal power usage case, I think that different pedals not only have different noise suppression circuit quality, as well as different current requirements. As Dave hinted, there are government regulated specs to keep 'noise' and 'power factor' in line vis a vis the...

One less talked about mic setup: close mic with the dynamic with the tone a bit darker and the drive just a bit cleaner than you are aiming for then play or replay a loop while walking around listening to the walls. I often find there is a spot where the reflections just add something special ...

I have an old Crate bass amp which is low volume but serviceable and IDK two or three LTDs laying around here which I found are equally serviceable. The best thing about your discoveries (IMO) is the concept making an effort to get the best use of what we have. With an eq pedal and a decent...

I like to mix it up by checking 'where' my hearing is with a quick listen to a known track to see if I am off or more often I will switch between monitors, headphones and earbuds to see if I have lost sensitivity

So I haven't run into studio monitors that did not have filters built in to their inputs to prevent the sort of nonsense that is being described in the last few posts, My bad for assuming.

Small monitors are going to act as a 'crossover' just by being unable to reproduce the lower frequencies. I would not bother with a crossover..

I used multiband compression/expansion to get this sort of sound. I liked it, for about a month. Then I brought up some mixes to tweak and took the multiband off. Much better IMO. I think it's very easy to over do processing of any kind, especially program dependent compression. There are...

John Entwistle. Chris Squire. Players who defined the role in modern rock. Add John Paul Jones for all around musicianship, Sting for putting different genre bass figures into pure melody. I won't even mention Wrecklng Crew 'member's, and I can go on and on of bassists who were not frustrated...

There are vids of the 'skelotonized' thing being done and there was no/minimal tonal difference. It may also be anecdotal for me to say, but 'all' the quotes I have read about the effect of mass on a solid body guitar have been, in fact , anecdotal. NO test results of those claims were provided...

I saw Dave already jumped in on the stainless steel hardness statement I was all het up about. Difference in wood density on electric SOLID body guitars mostly does not affect the AMPLIFIED sound, but definitely affects the sound 'in the room' so depending on where you put the mic it can affect...