vs890
Oh I'm bored. Here goes.
Oh advice, I'm "full of it". This advice applies to any new peice of gear.
The primary advice is :
USE IT! It's a tool. Just like guitars and amps. Don't get caught in GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) Be a musician or an amateur recording dude .. don't just be a dude with a vs890. Ask yourself if you have GAS.
But here's some actual good advice:
- Have fun. Respect your equipment and you'll approach music more professionally.
- When at your vs890, pretend that it costs you money to be there. That will force you to be professional about it, which leads to more productivity.
- Don't use a gadget (on
the vs890) simply because you have it. That's like going through the presets on a Casio keyboard at the local electronics store. Annoying and un-productive.
- You can't fix a bad take. It takes much less effort for the musician to simply do it over!!! So tell the guitarist that it's too damn bad and that he should re-record his so-called "almost perfect" chorus.
- Get a tuner. Force people to use it.
- Don't let dust/heat/crackers get into the faders. Cover the device when it's not in use. Scratchy faders leads to disrespecting the gear. Look it's not a million dollar peice of equipment, but it's yours. You've earned the right to use it for years and years because YOU toiled to save the money and YOU have a vision.
- Don't use it's onboard FX on your mixes unless it's just for messin around and demo'ing it's capabilities.
- Don't ADD EQ. Only remove EQ. Solve your EQ problems by positioning your mics properly , not by goofing around with compressors and eq's. (Recording engineers use EQ's to make well recorded instruments sit in the mix better, so don't touch the EQ until later.)
- Use good cables.
- Use good microphones in good rooms.
- power cables and audio cables should cross at a 90 degree angle to avoid hum.
Tristan
