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vic91218
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Hello,
This is my first post on these boards so bare with me.
I am slowly building a home studio to enhance/improve and sometimes completely mess up recordings I do in other studios with my band. Despite the fact that I've got some great tracks from these studios, money is quickly becoming an issue. With our album almost complete, there are many touchups we’d like to add and some things we'd like to alter. I've decided to try and perform this myself and have thus far been semi-successful. I’ve been casually recording at home for around 3 years and have some limited experience. Just seems the money could be better spent buying actual equipment versus “time” in a studio at this point in our project. The music we’re recording can best be described as boogie-woogie rockin’ blues. I play the piano….unfortunately almost entirely from a digital stage piano. We do a lot of Jerry Lee Lewis style boogie/rock. Also a lot of blues…styles vary between BB king and some old Stones/Eric Clapton British style blues-rock.
Equipment currently owned and being used:
Echo Layla 20bit (rarely used)...usually just adding one track at a time. Though may be used more in the near future.
Echo Mia 24bit
Mackie cfx16 Mixer
Audio Technica AT4033 (Mic we use almost exclusivley. For vocals, acoustic guitars, percussion, etc.)
Audio Technica AT4051 (Can't seem to figure out what I can do with this mic. Was giving to me by my drummer. It costs more than the 4033 but sounds really “dull” compared to the 4033?)
Shure Beta 58
Cool Edit Pro 2.1
So what now? I have roughly 2k to spend. I’m thinking of buying a good mic pre and another mic. The vocals I’m recording with the 4033 seem too bright…”not warm.”
I’ve heard good things about the Joe Meek VC6Q British Channel, and also the ADK tube mics….been told these products could help warm up our sound. But for the price, and in your opinions of course, is there a better combination/choice? Am I missing something in the chain? Right now I’m doing all my EQ, compression, enhancing, effects, with software. Particulary WAVES platinum and Izotope Ozone.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions/criticisms/opinions from anyone on these forums. It’s getting down to crunch time and I don’t have a lot of time to waste running around trying out tons of products…so I’m trying to narrow it down to just a few I should look at. I hope you can help.
Thanks,
Vic
This is my first post on these boards so bare with me.
I am slowly building a home studio to enhance/improve and sometimes completely mess up recordings I do in other studios with my band. Despite the fact that I've got some great tracks from these studios, money is quickly becoming an issue. With our album almost complete, there are many touchups we’d like to add and some things we'd like to alter. I've decided to try and perform this myself and have thus far been semi-successful. I’ve been casually recording at home for around 3 years and have some limited experience. Just seems the money could be better spent buying actual equipment versus “time” in a studio at this point in our project. The music we’re recording can best be described as boogie-woogie rockin’ blues. I play the piano….unfortunately almost entirely from a digital stage piano. We do a lot of Jerry Lee Lewis style boogie/rock. Also a lot of blues…styles vary between BB king and some old Stones/Eric Clapton British style blues-rock.
Equipment currently owned and being used:
Echo Layla 20bit (rarely used)...usually just adding one track at a time. Though may be used more in the near future.
Echo Mia 24bit
Mackie cfx16 Mixer
Audio Technica AT4033 (Mic we use almost exclusivley. For vocals, acoustic guitars, percussion, etc.)
Audio Technica AT4051 (Can't seem to figure out what I can do with this mic. Was giving to me by my drummer. It costs more than the 4033 but sounds really “dull” compared to the 4033?)
Shure Beta 58
Cool Edit Pro 2.1
So what now? I have roughly 2k to spend. I’m thinking of buying a good mic pre and another mic. The vocals I’m recording with the 4033 seem too bright…”not warm.”
I’ve heard good things about the Joe Meek VC6Q British Channel, and also the ADK tube mics….been told these products could help warm up our sound. But for the price, and in your opinions of course, is there a better combination/choice? Am I missing something in the chain? Right now I’m doing all my EQ, compression, enhancing, effects, with software. Particulary WAVES platinum and Izotope Ozone.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions/criticisms/opinions from anyone on these forums. It’s getting down to crunch time and I don’t have a lot of time to waste running around trying out tons of products…so I’m trying to narrow it down to just a few I should look at. I hope you can help.
Thanks,
Vic
