Question 1.
"Ok - Hi everyone! I have a question which will answer my "missing link" in a recording studio. Let me explain the anatomy of the studio in my head to isolate the question.
Starting at the level of the instrument or mic, I understand them, I get pre amps, I get instrument fx, I get it going to the mixing board....
....I get the mixing board going main out to the PC hardware and to the editing software (or to the recorder built in to a mixing board.
My question lies in between those two. In pictures of studios I see racks of equipment that usually goes after the mixing board.
I understand rack fx used for specific instruments like rack amp emulators for example.
My question is - between the mixing board and the recorder what are the rack items used to alter the general sound of a tracks (in basic ways) and to also be used to alter the mixdown.
I see racks of things, but aside from general fx (reverb, distrortion) etc.. I am totally unfamiliar with what is USUALLY and most COMMONLY used there.
I know compressors and EQ can often be there - but what else?
It's the only part of a bare bones studio I don't know about."
What's the question again? Anyone notice the lack of question marks? And that's the least of your grammatical mayhem..
So I say...
"There's no real way for me to know what you're thinking of by that description. In a pro studio there may be racks of A/D converters, patchbays and direct boxes.
There are two basic types of effects boxes (besides digital modellers which can be a combination) dynamic and time-based. Dynamic is anything used to shape sound by volume or frequency targeting. Time-based is anything that makes an effect like reverb, delay, flange or chorus."
Very basic and educational I thought..
Then you mr. dill weed go....
"Ok. Let me ask it another way....
What are the major types of signal manipulations that one would use on tracks BEYOND the mixing board, but before the recording, unless used on mastering.
And yet another way...
I am familiar with effects used on individual instruments like guitar effects etc.... I am familiar with mics and pre amps and guitar amps and mixing boards....
....and to recording and editing software and to cd burners.
What is the other areas of control room equipment that you see left out there?
And I will ask it a third way:
Here is my list of major anatomy parts of a studio:
1. mics (vocals or from miced amps or acoustic instrumnets)
2. mic pre amps
3. instrument effects processors (like guitar
4. mixing board
5. main processered used here (i only know of compressers and EQ)
6. recorder
What would you say is the MAIN sections of a studio left out there?
And I am speaking on terms of beyond the instrument-specific parts..."
Man you are dense....and the post gets worse from there. I give you links and you say they're too basic but you are missing something basic. You don't know what it is but you expect us to guess what you are thinking of in some Mix magazine pictures....what a fool.
It's fine though, this is fun.
