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Phildo
I heart guitars!
Not exactly a recording technique, but...
For the last few years, as I've been acquiring more and more gear, my studio's tended to become a mess of trailing spaghetti cables, piles of wobbling synths and all manner of crappy connections and assorted hums & buzzes. I have gear which I'd bought two years ago but never even had plugged in.
On Friday night, I thought "Right...that's it!" and took the whole bloody lot down, weeded out the bad connections, patched everything through my patchbay (Pods, analogue synths, preamps), wired a loom up to my DAWs inputs, fx outs etc, shifted the gear I don't use into storage and then rebuilt the whole thing again. Only took me four hours, but proof of the pudding, as they say...
A friend came round last night to show off his new axe, so we nipped upstairs and did a bit of recording. Just that. No messing around, no looking for leads, no balancing stuff precariously where it would fit...just honest-to-goodness recording. In one hour, we'd got more accomplished than we normally would in three.
My message is this - if you're in the same boat as I was, don't procrastinate - just do it. You really will not regret it.
Of course I'll need to take it all down again when my balanced looms and bays turn up...
For the last few years, as I've been acquiring more and more gear, my studio's tended to become a mess of trailing spaghetti cables, piles of wobbling synths and all manner of crappy connections and assorted hums & buzzes. I have gear which I'd bought two years ago but never even had plugged in.
On Friday night, I thought "Right...that's it!" and took the whole bloody lot down, weeded out the bad connections, patched everything through my patchbay (Pods, analogue synths, preamps), wired a loom up to my DAWs inputs, fx outs etc, shifted the gear I don't use into storage and then rebuilt the whole thing again. Only took me four hours, but proof of the pudding, as they say...
A friend came round last night to show off his new axe, so we nipped upstairs and did a bit of recording. Just that. No messing around, no looking for leads, no balancing stuff precariously where it would fit...just honest-to-goodness recording. In one hour, we'd got more accomplished than we normally would in three.
My message is this - if you're in the same boat as I was, don't procrastinate - just do it. You really will not regret it.
Of course I'll need to take it all down again when my balanced looms and bays turn up...
