Recent content by rob aylestone

The effected vocals seem to shift pitch at very strange places, rhythmically? and it makes it very difficult to understand the actual words. The music has a beat but the words are like jazz, sort of syncopated and off beat? Is that meant to be? I'm way from expert at this genre.

The transformer looks like it got very hot, and the pcb that sits over it looks really nasty - all the tracks look warped and distorted.

I was a bit surprised by that version of Amazing Grace Colin? The tune isn't quite the one I know! Bar 9, just sounds a bit odd? The comments on Police and aircraft made me smile. In the UK we have been unable to listen to emergency services radio for a very long time - since they encrypted...

Hmmm I wonder if you just subconsciously did versions 'coloured' by your knowledge of what they were? Like maybe when you know a mix will be used for a certain purpose, or you've mixed it for a particular audience? So not a taoe or digital mix, but an 'technical' mix for digits and maybe a remix...

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 we now have the bad habot of believing quality = HF busyness. My hearing falls away gradually because I'm old, but usually the top HF I do have makes the tape...

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 look in cubase, it's just a MIDI device that maps all the controls via MIDI - appears really clever, but almost any MIDI device could be made to do the same...

Pretty standard for analogue hardware mixers and now for digits - I record dry, but it's easy to route that input to effects and processing and squirt that back in to headphones. You have to do this for the monitor mix anyway - giving the singer your rough mix from main left and right works if...

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 source music from. If you want to do it then for me I tend to use OBS and hit record. Then I’ll just take just the audio. The kids have dozens of apps for this but...

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 how gentle the changes are. You see people who move mics small amounts, but the actual difference they get is actually tiny.

I use streamdecks sometimes to control cubase or qlab, which works. You can also map MIDI CC messages to buttons - I have a master keyboard controller and can even use the drum pads on it to fire off cubase - it's just programming so a but fiddly to set up, but it works fine.

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 there's a piano simulation too.

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 back where I took a decent single mic and while the pianist was playing, moved it around even underneath, in a normal room in his house and what you hear was...

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 thing. If it is a typical one then the job is to capture the instrument in the space. A nice piano in a concert hall should sound like the ‘whole thing’. I...

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 mics with one around the wrong way. I’m hearing left hand right and right left which is fine if that’s where you wan5 the listener, but either the piece was...

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 soundboard. That could be why some notes jump out a bit. I think maybe you've just not found the sweet spots. I have a Yamaha grand, and with the mics close in it...