Harvey: I bet no one has asked about this. Here is the story - I started recording myself in my home studio as I played my trumpet along with the Ebersole practice CDs (Rythm tracks). Bear in mind that I don't have a "commercial studio" and I just do this for my personal study archives. However, having been a pro musician who has been playing the horn for a good 30- some years, I wanted to do a good job of recording these "perfomances" the best way I could.
Well, some of these recordings are pretty well recorded, but in general, I find it hard to match my live horn with the CD tracks. I'll give you my tracking chain and maybe you can recommend a better way to do this.
I play the CD thru a DBX comp, but using only the gate feature so as to eliminate any hiss/noise from the tarcks. This track goes into my Tascam DA-38. On playback thru a Soundcraft M series board I record my trumpet to the DA-38 tape thru a Grace design 101, Audioarts 1200 comp, using a Rode NTK. I run a Mixroom spring reverb to the board.
The result is ok but not great...do you see any flaws, shortcomings off-hand? How can I improve the trumpet sound to make it closer to the CD tracks? Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Well, some of these recordings are pretty well recorded, but in general, I find it hard to match my live horn with the CD tracks. I'll give you my tracking chain and maybe you can recommend a better way to do this.
I play the CD thru a DBX comp, but using only the gate feature so as to eliminate any hiss/noise from the tarcks. This track goes into my Tascam DA-38. On playback thru a Soundcraft M series board I record my trumpet to the DA-38 tape thru a Grace design 101, Audioarts 1200 comp, using a Rode NTK. I run a Mixroom spring reverb to the board.
The result is ok but not great...do you see any flaws, shortcomings off-hand? How can I improve the trumpet sound to make it closer to the CD tracks? Thanks for any advice you can give me.