I currently got a usb interface which acts as my soundcard. The M-Audio Fast Track Pro. I also got the audio technica 2020. I just about got enough for the joe meek 3. what exactly does it do and will it help?
well its not loud enough to even hear really when my vocals are over a beat but, itd be nice to get rid of it so i cant hear it just when im listening to my vocals by myself. I have the at2020. I was thinking of getting the Studio projects b1 with my money. I heard the sp b1 has low self noise. Is that the noise a mic picks up or the noise a mic makes?Fieva said:If it's that loud, I doubt it will kill it out of your mix. You might want to look at feedback reducers for that.
thanks for the infoe-dog said:What a compressor does, is, y'know how sound looks like a "wave" on the computer or whatever, a compressor takes the tall parts (amplitude) and squishes them down so that the small parts, in the center of the wave, appear bigger in comparisson. So, if you compress a song it will start to fill up the screen more.
It makes the quiet parts seem louder and the loud parts seem quieter.
This makes the whole song seem louder.
That's what a compressor does (but it also can mess up stuff).
Canibus: The better the mic the more room noise it will pick up. The best thing to do would be to quiet the room. If there's no way to make the room quieter, or move the vocals to another room that's quieter (use headphones) then a "dynamic" will pick up less room noise, but also sound quieter overall, and usually not as good.
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thanks for dumbing it down for me. I think Im just going to get an extra long xlr cable so i can place my mic as far away from my pc as possible.e-dog said:Just looked at the Joe Meek ThreeQ...
Yeah, that looks good. It's not going to help with room noise though, it will make the signal cleaner and louder but will make the room seem louder too.
I think you're thinking of a "Gate"..
You can set it so that it turns off the sound when there's only room nosie, but then when something louder hits it, it turns on and lets ALL of the sound through... this can sound cheezy though if the backgraound beats or whatever aren't loud enough to cover the change from slient to room noise + vocal. I don't like 'em, I bought one, tested it, then never used it.
The Joe Meek doesn't have that though.
The Hi and Mid and Low is an "equalizer" which the Joe meek DOES have.
It's treble and bass controls, mid is in the middle.
Low makes the lows like the bass and drums sound louder... Hi makes the high-pitched stuff sound louder (like female vocals, hi-hats)... Mid will make different stuff in the middle sound louder (deep male voice, snare).
Hope that helps.
You REALLY should move you computer someplace else, or whaterver you're micing, making the room quiet is WAY better for your sound.
Before you buy the Joe Meek, make sure the type of outputs match up with the type of inputs on your Fast Trak...
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e-dog said:What a compressor does, is, y'know how sound looks like a "wave" on the computer or whatever, a compressor takes the tall parts (amplitude) and squishes them down so that the small parts, in the center of the wave, appear bigger in comparisson. So, if you compress a song it will start to fill up the screen more.
It makes the quiet parts seem louder and the loud parts seem quieter.
This makes the whole song seem louder.
That's what a compressor does (but it also can mess up stuff).
Canibus: The better the mic the more room noise it will pick up. The best thing to do would be to quiet the room. If there's no way to make the room quieter, or move the vocals to another room that's quieter (use headphones) then a "dynamic" will pick up less room noise, but also sound quieter overall, and usually not as good.
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Can it make the whole song seem louder? Sure, based on your gain settings in the compressor, it can. A compressor does make the loud parts quieter, it doesn't make the low parts louder. It simply gives you some control over the dynamics of the vocal. This is usually to compensate for poor mic technique in singers. For Hip-Hop, it's to control the dynamics as Hip-Hop vocalists often place harsh emphasis on words, rhyme patterns, etc... Use of a compressor will bring those levels into a respectable range ensuring a more quality mix.It makes the quiet parts seem louder and the loud parts seem quieter.
This makes the whole song seem louder.
Canibus said:thanks for dumbing it down for me. I think Im just going to get an extra long xlr cable so i can place my mic as far away from my pc as possible.