I would say bypass that digitech thing and do some compression post EQ as stated. I play in metal bands, too, and that usually helps. If you want to add some distortion to the vocal track later, don't use that digitech thing, use a decent guitar pre-amp with a line in/out. Works much better...
Yeah, that is probably a nice sounding snare.
Make sure she learns how to tune drums.
Whenever I meet someone who is just learning an instrument, I make sure to spend at least the first week tuning. If you are spending that much on these drums, spring for the new heads, and read up online on...
It's not so much as rookie manuever, it's more like that is what happens when you live with your bandmates.
When you wake up in the morning, and before you even have that first cup of coffee, the tubes in the amps are already warmed up and you've played a couple of tunes.
When you can hear...
What I did when I had a drummer doing this, was I stripped down his kit to bare minimum, only kick, snare, hi-hat & ride cymbal.
Make him play for a couple sessions with just those, then slowly add things back into his kit. It will make a difference. Put him on stage with the bare kit, and see...
is it like the THD Hot Plate and the Marshall Power brake?
Kinda, except the Red Box does not let you record without a speaker cabinet. It is an inline thing, so you connect your speaker out into the Red Box, and the Red Box has 2 outputs, 1 for the mixer, 1 for the cabinet...
I have a Hughes & Kettner Red Box, and it takes the load from the amp and is essentially a speaker simulator. I really like the tone I get from it, but it still does not have the air that comes from miking the cabinet.
It has variable impedance and a balanced XLR out. It is really convenient...
Hey folks, first time poster, long time reader here....
I have an opportunity to get a Fostex E-16 along with the matching 16 channel mixing board & meter bridge for $500.00.
The tape machine is in great shape, good heads, quiet transport, etc.
however, my tech says that these old Fostex...