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I don't see this at all. the D-Box and UAD plug ins don't do even remotely the same thing. If you are looking for tape saturation emulation then the D-Box is the wrong choice, it won't do anything like that at all. If you are looking for a monitoring solution with great D/A conversion and 8...

He probably wasn't tracking Metalica and Slayer to a four track cassette porta studios and was more likely talking about something like this: Although if you hit the levels really, really hard you could still oversaturate, but if he was talking about digital clipping (since it was a digital...

I just made my next purchase Saw a pair of used Speck ASC EQs and got them out the door for under $800 for the pair. When I got them unpacked I found one of them was the model with the added transformer option so that's even cooler. I've been weening myself off the plugin treadmill as much as I...

For those without much experience of analog emulation plugs here is a little test with an acoustic guitar recorded around -18dBFS RMS This clip I used a straight non emulation plug Sonalksis Free G to push peaks way up to the top of the digital scale and then pulled the fader down to get the...

I've taken about 5 months off recording to do some open mic stuff, Write some new material and try and be a better musician/songwriter I've got five songs in the works but I started tracking again last week and this is a snippet of what I am currently working on...

I find that when I hit one of those "I'm not getting anywhere" plateaus a couple of things help me. First (and easiest) put the guitar down and walk away for a few days and allow myself to be interested in something else for a while Second (and usually harder) come back to the guitar and...

I pretty much always try and get the sound I want from my guitar going in. I find how I play very much alters depending on what I hear so if I have a completely dry signal I'll play differently and it won't sound the same even if I reamp and record as If I played through the effects You have to...

You can take the two track output of the summing mixer to what ever you want. Many people (me included) record back to a new stereo track in the DAW so you will need a way to monitor the return so you can mix effectively but you could record back to any kind of device, 2 track tape, a CD...

They are also REALLY useful if you want to use out board effects without worrying about latency that you have to deal with if you just use outboard as an inset effect on a track by routing individual tracks out to hardware and back to the DAW I use mine in combination with 2 outboard channel...

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I try to treat a recording session like a gig Holding a guitar as already suggested helps me Also prepare as if it were a gig and give yourself limits that you stick to. if you only have 2 takes to get it right it puts some pressure on you, you have to prepare well and be ready to hit it first...

Tracking with FX in place forces you to get it right in tracking since as mentioned punch ins and fiixing in the mix becomes a much less viable option it also puts the onus on getting the song structure down at the front end and then recording what you want to hear rather than recording a bunch...

+1 to what Bobbsy says I use mine to take some of the room out when using my large recording space (Living room) which is not treated. I like the natural reverb in the room but some times I need to dry it up a bit and the Reflexion filter is very effective at doing just that Just like a lot of...

+1 to the ART Pro & FMR RNC I slightly prefer the Pro VLA over the RNC as it is two channel (Dual mono or stereo for the VLA, Single channel or stereo for the RNC) and is a little less transparent than the RNC, it adds some flavor to the sound but either one is a good choice, I have owned and...

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Just by coincidence I noticed a summing mixer with analog panning on ebay for a pretty decent price here Black Lion Audio PM8

Have you considered playing the vocals and the guitars etc at the same time and EQing till it sounds good? If you are working on a board in a studio there are no spectral analysis tools, you just have to trust your judgement

Most summing units seem to come in units of 8 or 16 channels which seems to marry up with the way many interfaces are configured. so for example an RME FF 800, multiface, M-audio profire etc with 8 analog outs match up quite nicely with a BLA PM8 or dangerous Dbox for example with 8 analog...

It's not impossible that comb filtering is happening at the spot in the room based on how far the reflective surfaces are from the mics and source so I would try moving the array around and see what happens also as bouldersoundguy noted as this is a stereo mic technique the position of the...

Plugins will have to work harder at higher sample rates since they will have to process more samples per second and this will use more CPU or DSP power depending on what kind of plugs you use. Also converters *May* be more comfortable working at some sample rates than at others whether any of...