Recent content by soundchaser59

Understood. I respsect your opinion and your experience. (wish I had your background in sound!) I guess my main reason for diss'ing chinese mics is I have never used one that ended up with the recorded voice sounding exactly or closely like the person's real voice. Many folks don't like C414's...

I don't think we are talking about the same things here. The OP makes it very clear that multiple monitor mixes have very little to do with his question. And when 'the sound guy' records a big live production, he splits off all of the mics and DI's to get signals to his digital recording system...

Usually reserved for the blue hairs. This is for the people who get to really have all the fun with the finished product.

Well, then don't ever look sat your band mates on stage and say, "That wasn't half bad!" I know I like to toy with words, and I like to split hairs, but trust me on this one. Teach yourself to quit saying that. If that phrase doesn't leave room for vast "misinterpretation" then I don't know...

A good start is elminate any brand that is made in china. Mic makers usually give you the self noise spec in the ads. Try to get one that has self noise -78db or -80db or less. Anything higher than that will probably give you some noticeable hiss. Build a home made mic booth out of 2x2's and...

Rent a mixer and a mic, then try it both ways. Record test tracks thru the mixer and going direct. You will be surprised at how a mixer in between the mic and the software can almost totally ruin your sound. I suppsoe if you dont have an interface then you dont have much choice. But if you are...

I really cringe when people use this cliche.......it also implies that the sound is only half good. Not half bad? What about the other half? Disagree. Cheap condensors are by nature a brighter sound. Great condensors are not brighter by default. Telephones are by nature a brighter sound, but...

NO! You do NOT need to spend $600 bucks on a Duet interface, especially one that uses a breakout cable for its hardware connections. For that kind of money the breakout box should be included, but it's not. What is it about the Duet or the Duet2 that makes it $300-400 bucks better than a...

This is what I've done for quite some time, and since I am recording my own tunes (with an ocassional singer coming in) and my own instruments, I thought I might be more efficient and consistent if I pare it down to some core favorites that I use. I do understand starting from scratch each song...

Elegantly provocative.

Ya know, I agree with you. But I am realizing that it takes a lot of experience to get to the point where this would happen consistently. I'd be thrilled if I were good enough to have every song be 80% of the finished sound as soon as I'm done recording the tracks. I commend you if you are at...

What I mean is, do you mix everything from scratch and try different fx and different plugins each time? Or do you have a core set of favorite fx and favorite plugs that you fall back on every mix? It's fun to be creative and experiment with every bag of tricks on every track on every song...

I was finally wanting to automate some parameters in my effects on certain tracks in Repaer. But it didn't seem very intuitive once I tried to figure it out by ear. I have a variety of effects, Sonitus, Kjaerhus, MDA, some VSTi instruments, etc......and it is not clear to me how to connect...

Well, that is all I want to do.......how do you do that? I understand midi and controllers, but do I need to use a midi controller to automate the effect bypass? I want to turn a delay on and off in real time as the song plays, and have Reaper record it so it will play back that way automatically.

If I had this problem, the last thing I would do is buy another one just like it. The fact that a $200 dollar mic comes with a wood case, shockmount, and pop filter tells you that the mic itself is worth even less than you think. (no offense, just brutal reality) For $200 bucks you can do a...