Guitar recording secrets. Use wisely.

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I dunno, maybe it gets better further on but the first paragraph says, "I'm running three mics: One cardioid to isolate the sound, one condenser for a little bit of crispness and a tube in the room." Well, I kind of know what he means, but a condenser and a tube can both be cardioid, a cardioid doesn't necessarily... oh hell... he's pretty confused.

Heh-heh, after that it becomes kind of an gtr recording fight club. And it's not clear until later that they're talking about electric guitar, not acoustic guitar.

Is there better stuff later on?

Tim
 
Come on, it is 10 pages of genius! Maybe you have to read the whole thing to really get it. Kind of like that Timecube website.

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That forum is just for the moderators to jerk off in public area.
 
Whoa.

I knew I liked it here already. A good reminder of why.

-C
 
OK, I kinda take that back.

That's the funniest thing I've read since Mixerman's diaries. Its a page turner for sure.

My gut still hurts...

:D

Chris
 
What ever happened to Mixerman's diaries??? I was a religous follower until they took a hiatus and then I never followed up. Did they ever come back? Can anyone post the orginial link.
Man that shit was great. :D :D :D

Todd
 
I read 3 pages and couldnt' go on. How can it possibly fill 10?
 
prestomation said:
I read 3 pages and couldnt' go on. How can it possibly fill 10?
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It goes on for 10 pages because that guy is a Walters clone.
 
gbondo9 said:
What ever happened to Mixerman's diaries???
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He's put the first edition together into a book, though the label eventually caught on. My copies of the book have been ordered. Too good not to have a copy to keep and a copy to lend.

While nothing has been fully explained, yet, he's pulled the last 24 days off the website- including the few things that went up after the break. I read them before they came down, though...

I think it was Lance that had been reading the diaries almost all along, though I can't remember if he tipped off the label or not. Either way, the label is now involved in the diaries to some degree and endorses/is trying to use them in some way. The project is still going on, from the hints that MM has left, and he says something about more coming, but... I'll believe it when I see it.

Take care,
chris
 
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...and I could easily give back any minimal dynamics lost compressing with a bit more eq on my mixer


You're going to do what with what?
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He read my mind!

Two posts later, and it's obvious this Jp22 clown is a troll. Don't feed the trolls.

JP22 is really Eric Cartman from South Park. If you read all his posts in Cartman's voice it all fits perfectly.
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Excellent.
 
There's some good stuff there too... I checked out the Acoustic Music forum on Recording.org and it was pretty interesting with some intelligent discussions happening.

Tim
 
I think I figured out where he got his EQ/"dynamics" thing.

Ever record a guitarist with balls rattling-lowend in his sound and not much else? You know, the guy who wants to be James Hetfield? Who has likely never played with a bass player in real life and thinks the guitar is SUPPOSED to be making all that sound? These guys are constantly complaining about how the mixing engineers "ruin" their sound by, uh... mixing it into the rest of the song.

If you compress that kind of sound the HUGE bass energy will cause the compressor to suck the mids and highs out- so you can "replace some of the dynamics" by boosting the mids and highs. If you play really percussively (like ol' James) that would *almost* make the sound dynamic again.

When he tried to explain using EQ to add back in "dynamics" he mentioned boosting the highs and mids. That was my clue.

:D This is my second read through the thread. Shouldn't I be doing something else? :D
 
I always found Slipperman's guitar recording (and general AE concept) threads and narratives not only extremely entertaining, but very informative.

Anyone else familiar with him?
 
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