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Since the thread is alive (again), my two cents about opto-compressors: I play acoustic music with vocals, mainly, and I use two LA2A-clone opto comps. Three reasons why I bought them, and love them: 1. They are delightful for acoustic music, in that their very design (the photo cell sensor...

Yellowtec is one of the industry-standard brands for arms and holders; they are high quality and they cost accordingly. We have a number of them at work. https://shop.yellowtec.com/pages/mika In a lot of radio-style setups, these things are mounted flat onto the table surface, not up against a...

You seem, by the descriptions, to be piling tools on top of the recordings to "fix" what shouldn't be there to begin with. Forget EQ, gates and all that for now. Room Acoustics. Distance. Angle to Mic. Delivery. That's 99% of your sound. Limit reflections and deaden what you can, both highs and...

Aeron by Henry Miller, all the way...it is still the best chair out there. You get what you pay for. Plenty available refurbished. I sit a lot at work (TV production); the current facility wanted input on new chairs and when I recommended the Aerons, they just laughed at me...now we have the...

"Conference mic"? Do you mean "condenser"? Given that you have tried everything else, it sounds like a defective mic. Send it back, get a replacement and let us know how it works out. C.

A ribbon mic is good for taming the spiky highs of things like shakers and tambourines. I have found those spikes to be some of the most intrusive sounds when mixing. C.

I am assuming this is the hilarious U87 ripoff you are referring to (this is from the US-side of Alibaba)...

To add to the OP's list, I would put in an acoustic-electric (Yamaha/Taylor/Martin) for the country/folk stuff, unless you just want to "Brian Setzer" your way through every softer number with the jazz box :-)

Well, it was uncomfortable. The roundness and the space-age materials seemed like cool things until you actually tried it. The main thing was that it wouldn't "sit" like a regular guitar; it just rotated and wanted to lie on its back when you were in a chair on on a stool with it and you spent...

Ovation...although I have never been a pro player, among the five guitars I have ever owned, that was the only one I literally wanted to throw out. It was the regular deep-bowl acoustic with pickup, and once I got past how nice it was to have "an electric", I started hating using it. As...

AKG 240 have been a studio standard for ages. They're flat in response, and great for tracking. They won't flatter your sounds, nor should they. C.

The thing I have been guilty of over the years, particularly in the beginning, is settling in to a groove and an arrangement and key, and sticking to it all the way without much change. That will wear out even the nicest melody quite fast. The subtleties in arrangements are what I hear as being...

1. Analyze what you play and how, get the gear you really need...and then know when to stop buying. 2. Practice, practice, practice. I find the more I practice, the less I re-record (funny how that goes...) 3. Let go of criticisms and just 'try things'...no one will be hurt if it doesn't work...

Thought I'd bring this one back, as it is a good discussion on "good enough", and also on the Law of Diminishing Returns. My first external pre was the DBX-286 in 2001, my second a four-pack of Syteks (excellent pres). I now have a four-pack of Millennia HV-3Ds that I got used for a couple...

DAW is a Tascam DP24SD, used only for tracking and simple mixing, and bypassing as much as possible the built-in pres (line level in.) It being my third Tascam, from the 788 through the 2488, I am well familiar with their units by now. I'll throw things into Audacity for polishing; my stuff...

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It would have been more persuasive if the style of song actually was 'of' the 50s; instead it sounds vaguely like late 60s. The point of so much 50s music was the 'group in a room' approach, and if you want to replicate that, you have to have...a group in a room to demonstrate it, for the...

As a home recordist, I am covered for gear; don't feel any need to buy or change anything. Where the discipline and self-understanding comes in, is in two areas, IMO: 1. Practice: spend the time necessary to really learn to play better. It can be tedious, but it is what gets you there. 2. Play...

I have a 2i2 parked in front of my PC and while it is not my main interface by any length, I can put any mic I own (from high-end condensers to Shure 57/58s) into it, hit record on the PC and get perfectly usable sound....unless the OP actually got a defective 2i2, the usual suspects are: The...

"Just out of interest, what do they charge you, if you don't mind me asking ?" I wound up paying around $100, tip included, for a 3 mins, 45 secs track consisting of a stereo master and all individual tracks. We had two/three revisions and the player in question was a total pro. Would...