Search results

Firepod ftw!

Most drummers don't know how to tune their kicks for the sound they/you/the world wants. That being said, you are best off getting a really voiced kick mic. The D6 is just that; no mids, all scooped so it thumps and clicks without remorse. You can get them for 130 bucks used if you're lucky...

Okay. I worked on this a bit despite not really wanting to, upon request of the band. I guess they want to put it on the internet and not wait until we can record better prepared. OWELZ. It's pretty much night and day. Drumagog on the kick and snare just very minimally to beef things up...

Nevar evar. Murder anyone that attempts to even plug your head into a power source while it's not plugged into a cabinet with proper impedance to match the head. EVAR. Just a horror story, I've had a friend plug a frickin' Digitech RP100 into my head to see if he could use it as an...

lol. I'll make sure that I figure out how to make it sound less irritating before we release a demo.

lol. I'm definitely not a fan of Reel Big Fish. The rest of the guys are into ska/punk and joke ska bands like The Aquabats, Catch 22, The Planet Smashers...All these new bands. I'm into more traditional stuff so I don't see a horn section as defining ska. It's all about the rhythm. I'm not...

Thanks for the replies everybody. I'm gonna get around to changing some of these things mix-wise, as I am in total agreement with the puffy kick, wimpy bass, thin sounding mix conclusion. I need to stop working so much though! I mixed this with one of the distorted guitars insanely high and...

I concur. It doesn't sound good on various things (Drums...)but excellent for other things (bass and vocals omg!) but I think that for the 400 bucks I got mine for, it was the best deal out there. I think that the MOTU 8pre is slightly better sounding and I can't tell what exactly makes it...

Open-Ended Lines This is my band. We've practiced four times now and we're working on the arrangement of three other songs aside from this so we can record a demo at year's end and start playing shows. We're still working on this song and this is just a "tool" to help us arrange vocals. The...

You know! Learn to use minimal tools to achieve the results you want so you get really good at faking it, that way you can full make use of the real thing when you get the cash for it. In essence, you're the fattest kid at the birthday party because you brought your own cake? I dunno. It's...

I think it's all too much of a hassle just to sound less modern/digital. Get really good at making digital sound 'analog', you'll be the fattest kid at the birthday party. That's just my opinion.

The most important thing in the chain is the instrument and the player. That being said, don't skimp on equipment if you plan on doing recording and getting decent results, especially if you want to do it as a service. You won't always get good musicians, so good gear to make up for the bad...

Considering Amplitube2 allows you to change power tube configuration (various wattages of EL34/84/6l6s), preamp type, power amp type, cabinet models, microphones (57,87,421,441 etc), allows you to use two separate cabinets for one amp or two amps for one cabinet, gives you actually USEFUL...

I love DI guitars since Amplitube 2 was released. Give it a try. It's gonna get you closer to the guitar tone you want unless you have a great room, great mics and pres, a great amp and so on and so forth.

This thread makes me feel like I can make smarter decisions! Good thread. This should DEFINITELY be stickied.

What's gonna happen when we move onto 32bit stuff?

Pretty good for what you've got. EXCELLENT guitar tone dude.

But human ears aren't sensitive enough to pick up on the dynamic range! The whole issue when it comes down to it is that people are using low-end equipment and pushing it past it's sweet spot causing all kinds of low level clipping, to get dynamics no human ear can hear and tracks that are...

I AM DRUNK and this has a rambly quality to it, but that that makes perfect sense to me Snow Lizard! Really. This is how I took that; I track a snare using my Firepod. Presonus' website suggests that the Firepod has 22b of headroom. Average hits are -24db, sometimes lower, sometimes higher...

Can anyone comment on the way I did the vocals? I've NEVER doubled vocals and this has one lead, two tracks of harmony and two tracks of the lead melody at differing distances from the mic. I like how it came out and I think it adds to a sense of bigness and bigness means 'better', but as it's...