CrowsofFritz
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I used to use those gooseneck pop filters but now I just use those pop filters like Beatles did when they started close micing their vocals.
Your trying to be too exact Crows. One of the 5th Beatles. Your covers are ok as they are. No point in sounding 'exactly' the same.I used to use those gooseneck pop filters but now I just use those pop filters like Beatles did when they started close micing their vocals.
Lol they’re just much more convenient. Don’t get in the way.Your trying to be too exact Crows. One of the 5th Beatles. Your covers are ok as they are. No point in sounding 'exactly' the same.
C'est vrai, Monsieur, c'est vrai.Some of the things the Beatles did were just necessity at the time
This. I absolutely hate rules and narrow thinking when it comes to tracking and mixing. When newbies ask how to do something in an exact way, it just makes them an inputter rather than an AE.Probably loads of the special techniques we now try to emulate we’re happy accidents. When the Beatles needed an extra instrument miking up with abbey road’s excellent comic collection was the unusual mic a real choice or a quick time saver because one was sitting there from a previous session where it had been used on a zither or some other odd thing? I’m thinking john Lennon being willing to wait fifteen mins while a tape op was sent to the stores and one was wired and patched or just using something odd? I’ve discovered these happy accidents myself. Forgetting to mute an extra mic in a space or accidentally patching the wrong effect to a bus? Nowadays new people get indoctrinated with rules and history. You see those YouTube videos where clueless people teach these mistakes to others as if they’re magic. Worse you get mistakes passed off as deliberate. Like the wonderful effect you get singing into the wrong side of a mic. Wonderful effect my bum, they just didn’t notice and had to mega eq a mistake then pass it if as deliberate! People believe it! I’ve recorded loads of things with wrong mics because I thought the mic connected was X but I’d actually plugged in Y!
Pop filters are andy, but you can also learn how to not need them by:
1 managing your plosives . . . it is possible to sing 'p' without a blast of air;
2 not singing directly into the mike. Singing slightly over the top or to one side can make difference; and
3 maintaining a greater distance from the mike.
I believe it was the tape machine that was 4 track. The REDD console they used was actually 8 mic/line inputs with 4 busses and 4 returns.In response to the Beatles references here. They didn't get into experimenting with mic placement and such until Geoff Emerick started working with them. EMI had very strict rules on mic placement and screwing around with the equipment. Placing mics closer to amps or inside the piano close to the strings was against the rules and they always had to have someone watching out for EMI staff while as to not get fired. And most was trying to get what the boys wanted which could not be done in the conventional way at times. Not sure if Emerick was the first but his first sessions he took a blanket from a photo shoot and stuffed it in Ringos kick drum and slammed the compressor on it and it blew them all away. When The Beatles became EMI's cash cow they eased up on them having to go by the rules and gave them and the engineers more freedom to experiment. Emerick's book is an absolute great read and shows how creative he was with the mics, compressor, and a 4 track console.
Yes sir. I meant to refer to the tape machine.I believe it was the tape machine that was 4 track. The REDD console they used was actually 8 mic/line inputs with 4 busses and 4 returns.