do you ever.....

[wesley tanner]

listen back to your early recordings and gape at what you've learned?

I just recently stumbled onto some recordings I thought were gone for good and did some direct ABing with similar stuff I just recorded, and it's unbelievable...


I started out recording with the line in on my computer, my fender passport pa as my mixer and monitors and the mics that came with it. that was about a year and half ago.
now I have a full set up:

neumann tlm 103
akg 414
akg d11
studio projects c4s
sm 57
I still use the vocal mics that came with my PA--in a pinch, they get reaaaal meaty tom sounds (who knew!)

presonus MP20

tascam 428

sonar 4.1 producer's edition (quite a few plugins)

alesis monitor ones


a few other trinkets and toys.



I guess the main point of this post is a thank you, I've learned soooo much from searches, lurking and the very occasional post. The other hard thing to figure out is what's next... what do you guys think is the weakest link in my chain? I've got monster cables and a mogami snake, so no sayin' the cables!


(btw, I didn't inherit money, I lived in a shit hole of a basement and rode the bus to my job as a manager at target the entire time, spending every penny that wasn't rent, bills or ramen noodles on what I needed)

 

[mrface2112]

<< listen back to your early recordings and gape at what you've learned? >>

all the time. i listen to recordings i did 15 years ago and marvel at how far i've come both as a musician as well as in capturing the music. i marvel at just how far my dollar goes these days with regards to "bang for the buck". i marvel at the way technology grows in leaps and bounds. even recordings i did a mere year ago sound vastly inferior to the ones i'm doing now.

but then again, isn't learning and improving (rinse, repeat) what humans ought to be spending their lives doing? if i weren't amazed at "how much better i am at this" on a regular basis, then i'd think that something were wrong.


cheers,
wade

 

[wesley tanner]

ahh, but so many people get stuck in the comfortable phase and don't strive like you obviously do. I live for the feeling of something urgent. we all ought to yearn, but I live with enough people (6 of us in this house) to know that the ones that honestly do are few and far between.

 

[EleKtriKaz]

Lately I've been really happy with the fact that I recognize when something needs eq and do pretty well at knowing around which frequency needs eqing. That's my latest development...and I still have a long way to go with eq.

I think I've always tracked well, and in the beginning I knew things needed a little eqing but I didn't even know where to begin, so I figured I should leave it and not mess around until I understood what I needed to do and wasn't just clicking things at random. It's nice that I'm sort of getting to the point that I hoped I would get to back when I started, if that makes any sense.

 

[punkin]

Good question...I do it on purpose just to make sure I'm not doing the same old mistakes and falling into old habbits. I do the same when recording my own stuff...I like to go back and listen to my playing style changes. What sounded great back in the day should still sound great...if it was done correctly...don't you think?

The last two years seem to be the most consitent...dont' know if that means I'm in a rut or if the learning curve is finally starting to flatten out.