What's limiting YOUR recordings??

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What's the weakest link in your recordings?

  • My recording chain (mics, pres, etc)

    Votes: 156 18.4%

  • My monitoring chain (monitors, phones)

    Votes: 66 7.8%

  • My room(s)

    Votes: 258 30.4%

  • My own ability

    Votes: 368 43.4%
  • Total voters
    848
I have limitations because of my room. My equipment is top notch. I have 5 3630 Alesis compressors, 5 Behringer pro pre-amps, Behringer mics and I use Cakewalk 6.0 as my DAW software. I bought the best Radio Shack studio monitors and seem to have alot of trouble getting a good sound. Some of my friends at Harmony Central seem to think that my room needs treating. I will try to fix this using egg crates. I am getting smarter as all I eat are eggs. My mom buys eggs everyday. I eat them all day, and I collect the egg crates. School will start in september and I want to finish my album because I hate school. If I make it big, I can quit school and have so much $$$ that I can BUY egg crates without the eggs.


Anyway, that is my limitation.
 
I don't think an all egg diet sounds particularly healthy :eek:

Eat some meat, fish, veggies and dairy (if you can) too for heaven's sake
 
Plus the small problem that egg boxes are USELESS for acoustic treatment....
 
Mark7 said:
You forgot the "I'm too frakking lazy" option. :(
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That's where I fit in too! And cheap gear. It doesn't really matter though, it's just a hobby for me.
 
well if it werent for my dang dog always chewin up my stuff and peeing all over i'd say it's cuz i'm too durn stooped
 
I have the equipment, i have the studio, i have the clients.

Missing: time to be able to do it all myself and sadly budget on the client side. It's hard to earn a decent living as a fulltime engineer in studiowork. clients are always on low budgets, keeping up with technology costs you a fortune.

but it shure as hell is fun! :D
 
Knowledge

For me it's not my equipment. If I had to be honest, I would say it's my knowledge. I sometimes have a bit of trouble with the terminology especially in the software. I have gained a good deal of knowledge from this website but still have a long way to go.
 
No mattert what equipment I get I always felt there's someone out there who could walk in my studio and get better results. I will always feel like that untill i record a song for JZ and he goes Platnuim off it. It something about teaching yourself that leaves room for there's proably a better way to do this.
 
The fact that Line6 doesn't support it's products.
I will never buy another Line6 product.
 
My room is small and crowded but set up well. The biggest problem that I have is mics and me.
 
Time and my damn, damn, damn day job!!!!

I spend my time fighting my way thru a mountain of shit every day, but what can you do with 4 mouths to feed.......

All day long in between I'm thinking songs, equipment, how to tweak here and there, HR, HR, HR......in between I make sneak clicks on the net (mainly this forum....don't fucking tell my boss!) I find it very hard to concentrate on work and YES I'M ADDICTED!!! And then the wife and the kids.......

All I want is to spend the rest of my life in my studio....IS IT TOOO MUCH TO ASK!!!???

emm......should I be worried?:eek::confused:

Joeym
 
Garik said:
Ummm .. i'm sure many here have upgraded since 2005
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Yep. It sure would be nice if folks bothered to put time limits on these polls (the BBS software DOES have that feature.) You sure can't count on the end user actually reading what's on the screen.

G.
 
Definately my room. Both tracking and mixing. My wife and I will soon have a house which I will have a 20x20 room to recorded and mix in. I just going to do a one room setup. I just don't have the dough to deck out a full on studio. I will have a chance to pre wire the walls for mic channels so my wife won't razz me about haveing cables all over the floor. I am going to build some diffusors of wood and some bass traps.

I am limited to some pres for tracking drums. I have been in limbo for months now on which 8 channel pre to get. I ain't shell'n out thousands of dollars for pre's. looking at the digimax older or 96k. Not the lt or fs. I was looking at the limiters they have.. Also the mackie 800r. I look on ebay everday for a steal. I would love to find a true system P8 for under 1500.
 
Its a combo, but I selected myself. I am usually too tired at the end of the day to sit down and write / record music.

When the time comes that I find the inspiration to do anything with it, I have nice stuff, and while my room isn't treated, I have a lot of material around to fashion temporary digs (like propping mattresses in a corner to record acoustic guitar or vocals in front of, to kill the reflections.

The only piece of gear that is killing me is my acoustic guitar. It has the heaviest bass output I have ever heard in an acoustic overall, and on top of that, it is extremely wolfy at the two lowest Ab notes within the instrument's range. It is next to impossibly to record with it.

Sure, I've tried cutting the bas frequencies and side-chain compressing the Ab's, but it never sounds right. My next major purchase is going to be a much better acoustic. In the meantime, I'll keep writing and plugging away at learning good mic'ing technique and maybe I'll get something decent.

I know this thread is a couple years old, but whatever - you got your response!
 
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