Can I hear your recordings please

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Have any of you guys got your recordings online? I'd like to give them a listen...
 
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Should mention that I don't see how this belongs in this forum though. Moderator, please feel free to move this if you feel necessary.
 
Should mention that I don't see how this belongs in this forum though.
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Probably because he specifically wants to hear analog recordings.
 
Doh! Don't be listening to mine then! :D
What the hell does "analog recording" mean anyhow? :confused: :rolleyes: :D
 
Well, my double-bass is analogue, my microphones are analogue, my loudspeakers are analogue, my ears are analogue...

Does that count?

- Wil
 
What the hell does "analog recording" mean anyhow
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Hi Weston, (forgive me, cause I know you know this)and you know that it doesn't make a shit of a difference to me, cause I want to lay tracks at your studio, and yours is digital. Correct? And that is the point. I will mix the digital tracks with my analog MSR-16 tracks later in my studio. It is your acoustics I am after. So for those of you who don't know what it means:

Sources Voice/instruments-anything that moves air molecules-analog (includes speakers)or any thing that excites a preamp such as keyboards, computer sound cards, other tape machines, or coils such as electric guitars and bass's
and anything that can produce an analog sine wave, even CD players, video tape machines,microphones,drum machines etc.- all are analog(at the analog line outs be it, line level, mic level or amp output levels.
Preamp-analog (insert analog to digital converter for digital)
Recording media-magnetic tape(analog)-(insert data encoding to memory for digital)
playback media-magnetic tape(analog)-(insert data retrieving, decoding and digital to analog conversion for digital)
preamp-analog output
amp-analog output
speaker-analog
ears-analog

Unfortunately anything on the net has been converted to digital, and unless the listener has access to an analog duplication of the performance(tape,lp) all modern marketplace duplications for the majority will be digital. Hence the statement in another thread that "we must all convert at some point, because its a digital world".
I don't.
And that is REALLY the heart of the analog/digital preference controversy. IF and I do mean IF, you are planning on recording for the marketplace, you or your client WILL have to convert, regardless if you begin the process in analog and track to tape, and even mix to tape. If you are only recording for yourself and friends and even clients who want an analog media for mastering to digital, you can stay in the analog format, by mixing to 1/4" or 1/2" tape which is given to the client for mastering, dupeing to cassette for your self and others. Thats the catagory I am in. You can even dump it to your digital method and media of choice. However, as soon as any analog signal is converted to 16 bit CD, or converted to MP3 it has entered the digital world and there it will stay, never to be played in its original state. I don't care what ANYONE says. My ears are terrible, and I still hear the difference. Whether I care or not is the point. Technically, the ear is capable of detecting the movement of one molecule of air, it is the brain of the beholder that either cares or doesn't, and MOST listeners today don't care, beause they don't LISTEN to analog recordings. They just want it "loud". At least, most modern producers "think" they do. Contemporary radio is responsible for that. Mastering house engineers are paid by their clients work. If the client wants it to sound "loud", and the client generates $1,000,000 in billing time a year, the engineer says"your the boss". Unfortunately, as a writer for another forum showed, when mastered at the levels that produce "digitaly loud", then dynamic range becomes a thing of the past. And that is NOT natural. Dynamic range IS what makes a recording seem as good as the real thing. However, modern stuido product sales are not based on "realness" in the literal translation of the word. If it were, half of the "artists" in the world would not be.
Thats another animal. Another thread.
fitz:D :D
 
I think you summed that up very well and saved me the trouble. Thanks Rick.

The last step of any recording that I am currently doing is a cassette mixdown. That's not a very good choice any more with the advent of the CD recorder, but I can't afford one right now. I'm buying a much needed guitar on Tuesday and right now that's more important.

I will eventually mix to a stand-alone CD burner, but that will be the only digital step in the chain and it will be the last one. And that's only because I'm being forced to do it because of where the cassette deck is headed.

If this was the mid to late '80's or early '90's, the cassette format would still be perfectly acceptable. Times change.
 
Hey Rick, glad you posted that! Yep, of course. I was just making a funny and moving the thread more towards an "analog discussion" (See, another funny!).

Yep, I track to a HD24 (digital) as that's the clientel I get. Most people I get would be floored to know they're already out at least nearly $1k simply for walking in to do a full album. And since I can't afford to own BOTH...

Although, I do have that original transport from Ampex's first ever b/w 2" video recorder. It's a HUGE BEAST and sits at the foot of my bed on a make-shift crate. Hell, if I ever get my house clean, I'll show it to you! Can bring out the 2" 24-track custom audio heads that my friend Hayne (the guy I bought it all from) had made for it! Also have ICs and schematics to build all the audio electronics for it! NBow if only I had the money to get that thing at least started!

Anyhow, I still mix on an analog console (but I can't wait until my "real analog console" (as some say) is finished) with outboard dynamic and effect processing. I mix to a PC (with a Lynx One card, but I'll eventually upgrade to a Lucid A/D) running WaveLab.
 
Hello Senn(Michael, correct?), hello Weston, how you guys doing today. I'm takeing a much needed break after yesterday. Dug 20' of water pipe ditch yesterday I have to wait on the water company to change the main water turnoff on monday, before I can do any more.
Well I actully got around to listening to your MP3's Senn, and please correct me on your real name. I'm terrible about names. Anyway, they were terrific. So you like country? Cool! I wish I could add tracks to your stuff. Any way of doing that over the net:D :D? What a ball that would be, if a person could add stuff to someone elses stuff clear acroos the continent, or world for that matter. Hey, someone should know how to do this. Lets start a thread OK That is if your into it. I played guitar in a HOT country band, with steel, 2 fiddles, electric mandolin, etc. it was bad. I mean great. Anyway, let me know.
I plan on recording some tracks at westons studio soon, on electric, and acoustic and classical guitars, a little bass, and I'll twist Westons arm hard to play drums for me.:D I have about 5 tunes of mine, and 6 tunes of a friends, but I just want to lay stuff that will be mixed to the MSR tapes of his stuff. Then I have various friends(hot musicians) that are going to add sweetening and vocals for me. The standard "having fun tape" Nothing terribly serious. Oh maybe one or two, the rest is for tom foolery. My best friend writes songs that range from Western prairie sons of the pioneer stuff to cajon rockabilly to 40's type blues. Its all in fun, but I would like to get a CD made before christmas, without him knowing, and then give it to him as a gift. All mixed and mastered so to speak.(I want to get a masterlink if I can.
Alright Weston, get your old blues, country rock, and standards(with brushes)type drum sounds in your mind, cause I AM going to take you up on your offer;) Ha!!
We'll have some fun, OK. One thing, I use a strange setup for electric guitar. I use a couple of small auto wedges with 6 x 9" jensens, driven by a harmon kardon tube amp,
which I drive with an ART SGX processor, so I mic in stereo, cause I play in stereo.
Well have a good week guys. Mine is filled with plumbing and jackhammering. Ha!
fitz:D
 
Yep, the name is Michael. I'm pretty piss poor with names too until I hear it a few times and use it a lot. I never forget a face though. I can still remember what my first grade sweetheart looked like.

I don't know how that would work. I mean adding additional tracks to a mixed song. I didn't have any tracks left on any of the songs and on the four track recording there were a couple of bounces. On the eight track recordings there were sometimes two parts recorded individually on a single track. That's a heck of a juggling act to record not to mention mix. Especially when the parts start and stop nearly at the same time. No bounces though.

Sounds like you had a busy day today. So did I. I cleaned the basement today. It took five hours. It was long overdue. Mostly empty boxes and a bunch of junk. I can actually see concrete on the floor again. Most of the junk was left over contruction material and waste from building my basement room last Feb.

Yesterday I played around with a song that I'm working on. Pretty well have the melody and chord changes down. I'm having a problem working in the bridge. I'd like to take it down a half step without it being noticed until it goes back to the chorus. That's when you'll hear the half-step up back to the tonic. Kind of a build-up and then a release when the chorus starts again.

Actually I like rock and roll as much as country. It's just that I have a difficult time writing rock music. Country music or country-rock just kind of comes out of me without trying too hard. I'd love to write a good rock tune, but I just don't have the knack for it.

If you noticed while you were listening to my cuts that there was no electric guitar in most of them. I'm going to try and liven the music up a bit by buying a new electric guitar on Tuesday as I indicated in my previous post. I'm not much on lead, but I can play a lick or two when I have to. The keyboard and piano leads during the breaks just don't sound like they are cutting it to me anymore.

I was also trying to work out the programming with my new Roland R-5 drum machine. Damn those drums sound good for a machine. Some of the best I've heard yet. Yeah, it'll still probably sound like drum machine drums in the mix, but at least they'll be good ones.

Have a good week. Don't dig TOO deep.
 
Hahahahahahahahaha:D :D :D
"work that thing till my lips get numb!" hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahh!!!!
thats funnier than hell!!! Great voice, who'd you rob. Ha! growlin clarence!! Thats even funnier. Oh yea!! Stick with the blues though, sounds more serious, the country stuff sounds like your makin fun of it. But still its ok, and your right. Sounds like you were havin more fun than I do! HaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAh!!!Keep it up! Of course I had to monitor in my headphones while my wife watches a movie in my studio, so I couldn't really crank it up, but your solo guitar tone is great. Got that greasy sound I like in blues guitar. Not over distorted, just sort of ripping the speaker cone sound. Ha!
fitz
 
I was also trying to work out the programming with my new Roland R-5 drum machine.
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AGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I HATE programming. After I read the manual to my old shitty TR626, I tried a little programming. What a joke. A drummer I am not. So programming things that sound even remotely like a real drummer would play was pretty much out of the question. I have to rely on things like a keyboard that has built in fills, endings, beginnings, etc. Or drag and drop in the computer. But good luck with the programming, looking forward to hearing it and the new electric. What kind you getting? Hope you find a good deal. And have fun with it.
BTW, I didn't think about the songs being already mixed, when I said I would like to add tracks. I know that would be tough. Mind if I dump the stereo tracks to MSR and add some stuff? Let me know. Anyway, you have a good week too Michael. Talk to you later.
fitz:D
 
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