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Yeah and i've still got a couple. The Flux Bittersweet is pretty awesome and i still use it quite a lot. the camel crusher is cool but i didn't ever use it that much, and for a while i had 1-time tape emulation but i preferred the massey tapehead medium which is an awesome free AU so 1-time...

That was the point i was also trying to make, summed up in a "just because you can, doesn't mean you have to" kind of sentiment, but with hindsight, and after a re-read, it would appear that 5 am is not the best time to articulate my ideas :)

BUY ALL THE MICS!!!! :D Tbf mic choices often come down to personal taste. For example, i'm a big big fan of the Avantone mics and less of a fan of the NT1a, but that's my personal taste and even saying that in some cases i've found the NT1a to be the right mic for the job. Ideally, it's best...

Although it's slightly off topic, and i'm sure it's been done to death all over forums around the net, the Performance vs Quality of recording is a trap that i fear some home recordists fall into, and i can't help but think it's because, as you've said; It's the wonderful double edged sword of...

:laughings: "combat audio" is my favourite description for live sound engineering EVER!!! because it sums it up so beautifully. Well played sir, have some rep :)

^^^This whole thing pretty much sums up my feelings on the subject^^^ I normally record a guide rhythm guitar track and guide vocal track to a click first with the intention of re-recording them just to help the other instruments grove when recording, or to help bands know where the cues are...

That seems to be the resounding response from around the internets, but trying to find them this side of the pond is hit and miss and relies on either the occasional evilbay listing (where the price rockets!) or importing them :( I'm looking for something with some grit and umph for drum buss...

I have a friend who runs a small live sound company and he owned a studiolive 24 for 18 months but last weekend he sold it and replaced it with the berhinger X32. He did really like the SL24 and he said the iPad controller stuff was easier to implement than on the X32 but he said he was sold on...

Tbf i've had my eye on the Chameleon labs comp for a while now but to use as a mixbus comp so i'm gonna keep and eye on this thread to see the alternatives. I've heard very good things about the overstayer but i'm tempted by the FET version for drum buss stuff rather than the VCA one. EDIT: the...

I've had it the other way round where i sounded mega out of tune in the monitors and really struggled but heard a clip of the recording and it was absolutely fine. I put it down to what Gecko was saying about the relative volume of bass and treble in the room (it was a very small lively room)...

I know it was said waaaayyy earlier, but the point about people DI'ing and mic'ing a guitar amp with the thought process that "meh, i can reamp it later" and then not spending the time getting the amp sound right through the mic is an issue that i keep seeing more and more of and really grinds...

Hell yeah man, i flippin' love the Z3300a. i was gonna suggest it but it's not a huge step up from the sE2200a. Well, it is a step up (slightly smoother sounding, multiple polar patterns) and for £199 (or £188 from thomann but without the flight case) it's well, well worth every penny but we...

The Avantone CV12 and Rode NTK are both well worth a look in the "step up and less bright" category, although both come in at £399 new (although the NTK can probably be found easily enough used)

Other than Thomann (which is great), i've had good dealings with Musicstore.de, Absolute Music and DV247 (although DV247 is now owned by musicstore.de anyway so it's really just a UK outlet to keep shipping down to our little island). Also, although i've not bought anything from them, The...

It took me 10 years to discover the true joys of Omni and Fig.8 polar patterns. Now i can't get enough!

Depends on your budget tbh, but there's plenty of mics out there that should do the trick; Oktava MK012 with Cardioid and Omin capsules would be great for acoustic guitar and violin and probably double bass with some careful placement. A smoother sounding LDC like an older Rode NT1 (not the...

EQ - Focusrite Midnight EQ or DDMF 6144 Compressor - Focusrite Midnight Compressor or Logic stock compressor on Opto De-esser - if it needs de-essing i'll go outboard as i've not found a really nice plugin one Reverb - Altiverb 6 on a send or, for a more 80's sound, an old Alesis Microverb I...

I was absolutely gob smacked by 1) how personally he took everything and 2) how quickly he jumped to rage.

This to me is one of those key points that gets missed a lot when talking about music in education. As with anything in life you really do get out what you put in. When i was at uni we could book the studio out for 3 hours a week during term time and technically 6 hours a week during holidays...

A while back a mate asked me to go through some music theory with him to refresh his memory. As we live 200 miles apart skype seemed like the best idea. Most of what we did was just screen sharing and chatting which was wonderful. We then tried jamming over skype to put some theory into practice...