minimal noise from 424mk3

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okay this is what im after. im curious about possible techniques to minimize noise. i know about dbx and the manual recommendations. what i want is techniques youve came across through experimentation or anything besides dbx and manual. please dont tell me to just experiment with it. thank you ahead of time for any replies
 
Two things I discovered myself (stupid things)...you prolly already do it.

Keep the Effects knobs in the hard left position when you're not using effects.

Turn off all channels that are not in use.
 
use good tapes! (TDK SM-60 is to me the best, but most type II's perform well)

when recording don't over EQ- keeping it flat usually yeilds the cleanest results.

watch your levels, try to record "hot" but without clipping!

-JHE
 
when you say eq flat. flat means none or slight equalization correct. and when you say record hot do you mean in the red or just average "0" to +6 on meter read out. zank yous very mush
 
yep! my EQ nobs dont stray far from center. except for sometimes the kick drum when I'm recording (that's just because I don't have a good kick drum mic) you can cut or boost during mixdown. 0 to +6 is a good place to be.

another tip- when you are bouncing tracks pull all the faders down to zero except for the track(s) that you are bouncing, otherwise you may get "bleed through" (you can hear the other tracks from the tape cue if you need to)

have fun and you will find the warmtone.

-JHE
 
James, it's best not to EQ while laying down the tracks? So I should keep all knobs in the middle (on my 424MKIII), and do the EQ once it's on tape? Does it mess the tape or track up any if I EQ it a bunch of times and mess around with them?
 
hmmm... Well I not saying that you shoul keep the EQ flat when tracking all the time, but the resonig behind this is that you shoul try to concentrate on making the source sound the way you want it from the beginning (i.e. through mic placement and good acoustics etc...) Lets say that you are micing a guitar amp, you set it up and audition it, and you decide that it need a little more bass. You should try to achieve that through mic placement or on the setting on your amp before you go boosting the signal with the EQ on your mixer. You want to get as clean a signal as possible to taPE, adding or even cutting EQ will put some (not very much, but some) sort of distortion on your signal and distortion = noise. In certain situations however, this can be a good thing, it's all very subjective, but as a rule of thumb, if you want the cleanest and most trasparent sound, the less that you do to the signal to closer you will get to achieving that.

-jhe
 
Ah hah, that's a very good tip. I'll have to keep that in mind. Thanks!
 
ive found the warmtone boys . i looked up down and all around and spotted it on the strings of my strat. i never would've imagined it would be there. for the longest time i thought it would be floating through the air and one good sniff from the ol' snoze and it would enter into my soul. i guess the stars have it all planned out that way. all this time i've been looking in the wrong places. oh woe is me. i guess thers a lesson to be learned: just pick up guitar and play. thanks for putting up with my jibberish
 
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