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
It sure would be nice if folks bothered to put time limits on these polls.
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Old polls that suddenly pop up are great. Time is relative.

What's limiting my recordings is my RNLA. I'm hooked on its sound at the moment, heh.
 
The room, the bloody room....:mad: Walk-through closet next to an elevator shaft...:eek:
The elevator is not the worst of it, just lousy acoustics and with it being a rental, little to do.

The apartment is about 500 SQ Ft holding:

24-track Studio-in-a-box.
2 R-to-R machines
Pre-amps in a rack
Digital stage piano and a synth staggered above.
2 guitars and an electric bass.
Dolby 7.1 Surround System
7 film projectors (don't ask)

Plus the usual load of (in this case, very nice) mics, cables, and gack....

And one wife.

I wrote all this because of the whole "wife/life/musician" battle so many describe.
I won't ever have really usable acoustics here, but my wife reads on the couch while I practice bass with my heaphones on 5 ft away. Or I play when I am at home during the days off (I work free-lance, god's gift to musicians. I'll never have a mansion but my sanity may still be there.)

I don't think it matters if it is my little apartment or a palace. If people can't agree on the role of music in their lives, they will fight. Period.

My two cents,

Best,
C.
 
trying to do everything in the box. it sounds and works like crap. next in line would be my lack of skills.
 
other: time
actually also space. i have a nice recording space, but it's now co-occupied by my fiancee. until we move into a bigger place (which isn't too far off), i try not to impose too much on her by recording too much. the upside is, as a result, that my living expenses have gone down to the point (plus my salary has gone up) so i've been able to pile up some sweet gear. the irony is that i use it less than i used to use my older, crappier gear, so it's really been quality at the sacrifice of quantity.
 
equally:
my monitors (pc desktop monitors)
my room and it's complete lack of bass treatment
my ears

....but i'm saving up for a new matched pair with extra capsules.

however i'm always open to suggestions on how my mixes can suck less

please feel free to bash away...don't be shy, it's the interne, there's no way i'll hunt you down and destroy you.

www.myspace.com/wilddeadmuseum
 
starsxandxslits said:
please feel free to bash away...don't be shy, it's the interne, there's no way i'll hunt you down and destroy you.
www.myspace.com/wilddeadmuseum
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Mixed these on your PC speakers, eh? Sounds good to me (and I don't even really listen to, uhh... I don't know what label you go by (there are many these days for what I consider rock / metal). Nice, tight sound, as opposed to many here whose material isn't bad so much because of the recording quality, but because of the quality of their playing :rolleyes:

As for bashing others on forums, watch out - someone might come burn your house down :eek:
 
The acoustics of my room suck. A lot of slapback, phasing issues, room modes around 46Hz (that's really the worst problem)... ugh! The problem is it's also the bedroom and the wife will have none of the acoustic stuff as it will mess with the "decor". It was already a struggle to keep the music "stuff" in there.
 
my bottleneck. The fucking glass is all discoloured and dusty now. I'll have to cut the neck off of a new bottle, so that I can make some wicked new music.
 
To be honest I think it is because I am not able to correctly monitor what my mics are picking up. Recording in a basement and using headphones, I cannot truely hear what the mics pick up without doing a test recording, and doing that takes a lot of time that we do not have so we do 2-3 tests and make small tweaks until we can settle on something. I feel if I had a control room and could hear the guitar player playing through the monitors and have an engineer in the room able to move the mic around the amp many more placements could be tested and a better sound recorded.
 
not having a control room or a proper recording environment is my biggest problem. its really hard to get mic placement right. i can't track drums at my place (although i do overdub guitar/vox/etc...) so most of the time we set up to track drums in some basment or some other crappy space, and I don't notice problems with the tracks until I get back home and listen on my monitors.
 
I need monitors really, really bad, but until now I didn't have the mic compliment to record a 5 piece drum kit so I was focused elsewhere. There's nothing wrong with me and I'm glad. I know more about the converters in my Firepod than Presonus does. I can draw the frequency response of every mic I own with proximity effect at varying distances.

I just can't fucking HEAR anything.
 
Not enough time to practice or create. Work and family keep me pretty busy. Also, it's not that often that I can do anything loud. That's why I"m mainly playing nylon string guitar and doing live recording. In the next year or so, we're going to buy about a 6 foot grand piano, so I'll be doing more piano tunes then.

Cheers,

Otto
 
The buttons are nice and bright Tim...so it could be good as some kind of life preserver/ emergency device
 
um...is 'neighbours' on the list?
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not quite. i live in a townhouse-style apartment, and have the luxury of there being an abandoned 8x8 storage shed on the side of my unit, which i've basically trespassed upon and started using as a tracking room, and my "control room" is in the 2nd bedroom.
 
Fire Dome said:
Not having a clone. :mad:
So that they can keep an eye on all the levels while i'm playing/recording. This is especially difficult when you are a drummer.


Dave
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i hear you loud and clear on this one man! i've spent the entire evening depressed and seriously considering selling all my shit on ebay (except my drums) and just focusing on playing in a band, saying 'fuck this recording shit.' how is it possible for us to play our drums in one room while we monitor the sound in another??? i had my wife hit the drums one-by-one while i did sound check on headphones, but that simply doesn't cut it. i'll tell you what--move to akron, ohio and we'll go to each others' houses and play the drums for each other while we dial in our respective sounds. DAMN i'm tired of my recordings sucking ass!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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