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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Tape vs digital with a new song.
    Hmmm I wonder if you just subconsciously did versions 'coloured' by your knowledge of what they were? Like maybe when you know a mix...
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    rob aylestone reacted to bouldersoundguy's post in the thread Newbie question about recording vocals with Like Like.
    I avoid putting anything other than eq and reverb on vocals in the singer's monitors. I want them to hear what they are actually doing...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Tape vs digital with a new song.
    I wonder if the success is that all the action is well below tape cutoff frequency. We are so used to all the HF stuff above 6-8K that...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Keyboard question?.
    I've had a Steinber CC121 remote for cubase for years - theres a fader, some buttons, some knobs tape transport LEDs etc - but if you...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Newbie question about recording vocals.
    Pretty standard for analogue hardware mixers and now for digits - I record dry, but it's easy to route that input to effects and...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Best YouTube Music Downloader in 2025?.
    We used to get lots of posts like this but as people here tend to be striving to maximise quality, YouTube is rarely where we would...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    I think my accent probably is old school, as lots of younger Brits sort of have 'new' accents. The weird thing with that moving mic is...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Keyboard question?.
    I use streamdecks sometimes to control cubase or qlab, which works. You can also map MIDI CC messages to buttons - I have a master...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    Sorry for delay - this is the video, in nearly the right place. I just noticed in this older video that in amongst the different mics...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    The honest thing about making this sort of music sound good really isnt the gear. It’s the instrument and the space. I made a video way...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    A concert hall? You haven’t given us a clue in the recordings. I was thinking a large practice room, with sound treatment, that kind of...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    That’s a more realistic sound, but still very close and the stereo field is very strange. Are you certain you have not got two sets of...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    The raw track sounds better but reveals a few things. The mics are too close - so you are hearing more of the hammer sounds and less...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    Got you. I’d like to hear it without compression. Never found YouTube really an issue with lighter classical piano. To my ears so that’s...
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    rob aylestone replied to the thread Classical piano mix comparison - feedback needed!.
    Compression in the same sentence as classical piano? Reverb wise they are as Raymond says similar - but if you hadn't said it was real...
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