I am on a break in my first analog drums session with my tsr-8. After about 2 hours of recording approx. 15 mins of material (multiple rewinds and plays) tape hiss was mor audible. I guess this is from the heads getting dirty with all the tape running over it, right? I cleaned the heads real quick. We will see how the rest of the session goes.
In the middle of my first analog drum session...
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You mean RMGI 911?
More hiss will be audible as you add tracks, since each track has its own background hiss.
Degaussing your heads and tape path will reduce hiss.
I’ve always used noise gates since I can remember. Not for each track, but on program or stereo buss during mixdown. If the hiss is masked by the drums once they get going, all you have to be concerned about is the hiss before the music starts. With a good gate the music will jump out of dead silence. However, with my current studio I happily use dbx (TSR-8) with no problems, so my gates are for cumulative circuit hiss from the board, effects, synths and such. The TSR-8 has excellent dbx NR... better than most. If its not sounding right it probably needs calibration.
IMO, one of the best stereo gates out there is the vintage Behringer (made in Germany) SNR202 Denoiser. It’s between my stereo buss and mixdown deck. Forget about the newer Chinese made denoisers though. They’re not the same thing and the new Behringer is not the same company.
More hiss will be audible as you add tracks, since each track has its own background hiss.
Degaussing your heads and tape path will reduce hiss.
I’ve always used noise gates since I can remember. Not for each track, but on program or stereo buss during mixdown. If the hiss is masked by the drums once they get going, all you have to be concerned about is the hiss before the music starts. With a good gate the music will jump out of dead silence. However, with my current studio I happily use dbx (TSR-8) with no problems, so my gates are for cumulative circuit hiss from the board, effects, synths and such. The TSR-8 has excellent dbx NR... better than most. If its not sounding right it probably needs calibration.
IMO, one of the best stereo gates out there is the vintage Behringer (made in Germany) SNR202 Denoiser. It’s between my stereo buss and mixdown deck. Forget about the newer Chinese made denoisers though. They’re not the same thing and the new Behringer is not the same company.
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