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Heh I probably should have turned on the email portion of the notifications On those acoustic samples, I did the Huart/Creative Sound Lab 'close' and overhead-above-guitar two mic setup for all but the $1k Larrivee, which I single mic-ed it to see if the new rockwool panels my dad and I built...

You'll like having a ribbon mic in your collection! I think it's worth having because you might be able to EQ a mic to change the sonics from the mic to make it resemble the style of another but the diaphragm, how it's made (condenser vs dynamic), the wiring inside...the mics will take in sound...

Ah nice, I use a Fat Head ribbon mic if I want 'vintage-style' vocal, or if the acoustic is very bright or want an old school-ish sound/vibe to it. The ribbon also does a great and longstanding/current job as my front-of-kit room mic as it doesn't take in a ton of cymbal harshness that I always...

I would just accept transients, they're the oomph of whatever your'e recording anyway so you need them to be there. Transients can literally push the speaker like drums, and you need that. I think the trick is to try and make the rest of it, or at least as much of the tail of whatever it is...

I too like to talk shop so it's all good. Are you using the limiter on your mix bus? I would take it off and see about making the track without any limiting, then try limiting that mixdown. You might be trying to do too much in one fell swoop with conflicting goals. Work on the mix having...

You know even after placing my speakers according to a room calculator's math AND treating the room with some rockwool panels (which does indeed help!) I got a far punchier bass out of my speakers in the listening position, but I still end up playing the song and walking out of the room and down...

So this is gonna have a few screenshots, but these first two screenshots are the whole mixing board for the "Late At Night And Down The Street" tune (as that's stereo and also has electric guitars in it, of the three I've got so far on my site). You can see that for drums and multi-mic stuff...

Thanks for the kind words on my mixes! I have to say, it’s the mic combo that does the trick and I think so long as you accurately mic any amp you’ll get what the amp is putting out. The LDC is a cardioid that I eyeball the height to be the same as the 421/57. I have the close mics delayed...

This thread title interested me because I never got solid, repeatable, full, “album-sounding” guitar tone in my recordings until I bought a MD421 and used it in addition to my SM57 by lining up the capsules (the 421 ends up like a half inch behind the 57) and a LDC a few feet away. And then...

I should have added: Unfortunately I don't know about the Arrow's routing. But in most DAW's you can have a click track running in the headphones and the music out of the speakers or any combo of that. You can control the click volume separately from the mix in Logic at least. Hopefully that...

I have the Apollo x16 so I don't have the unison preamps, but if I did I would definitely use the 1073 and other pre's they've got. I will say that the UAD plugins--and from what I've heard, the unison preamps--are very very good. To me it's a gigantic upgrade from the stock Logic plugins. I...

I used to live in a multilevel coach house and had to go back and forth from the basement to the first floor control room (2nd floor for us U.S. Americans) to record drums. I would facetime myself with my computer (webcam) and iPad, and point the computer's camera at the preamps or the audio...

Seventh Son, I listened to your guitar tracks. I think you need to set a sample delay on the close mic and delay it a little so that it's not interacting so much with the room mic to cause the weird phase/boxy sound I think you might be considering to be fizz. If you zoom into the waveforms...

These are L/R separated guitars in a tune I recently tracked where I played all the instruments. They're a Telecaster into a Pro Jr amp but I unplugged the cabinet and am running a 12" Eminence (that is in an old Line 6 AxSys 212, ha!) with a slight bit of Boss RV-5 reverb. I don't think the...

Hey man, I'm not sure why but the links don't work for me. It says to select a playlist with a long dropdown menu

Oh man. I started to use the UAD plugins I bought for my Apollo x16/Satellite since I figured I got the CPU power. Using the dbx 160 on kick and snare parallel compression buses, the Neve 33609 on the drum bus and main mixbus, and then the mixbus 33609 into the Ampex ATR-102 tape machine...

so instead of running the outputs of the kick in/sub mics to a bus and compressing that, I used sends to run the kick mic to a parallel compression bus and let the kick and sub kick mics signals go out into the regular drum bus with all the other drums. for snare, toms I did the same thing: did...

Thanks Chuck! I like the idea of the ribbon as the overhead. I'll give that a try. I have to just use one of my nicer condensers but I had a large diaphragm condenser on overhead in an omni setting but it's a cheapo Samson and sounded really brittle so I took it down. Seems mud/quietness is...

Thank you! Everything from the drum kit is in mono, and I actually am only using a ribbon mic about 5-6 feet in front of the kit. I think I will utilize overheads and try another take. I will also automate the gain of the individual drums to make them more even in impact. Good stuff to...

Hey all, Just wondering if the drum kit, in particular the bass drum, is punchy enough but also not overbearing in the mix? I struggle with drums, just getting the kit sounding right let alone it sitting in the mix. I'm doing better than ever with each try though. I also ran the mix...