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
jrhager84 said:
^ No offense dude, but if you really have such little respect for your "friend" or his band, you have no place touching ANY of his material. When you track/mix/master you do so with the utmost professionalism and moreover; respect. Doing a mix for money and money alone with such resentment in your heart only hurts your credibility, and in the long run has negative effects on you as a person. Don't be dick. Refer him to someone else...

Ask any engineer. That's your name out there in that recording. Treat the track with a little respect, dig?
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i actually realized that afterwards, i was like shoot, i'm trying to be a pro here, that's not cool. so yeah, i see what you're saying. thanks for bringing that up.

i'm actually in charge of the podcast for my school now, which is cool, gonna be recording it, then putting it on the web. it's gonan be a good exuse to my parents to buy some more gear;)
 
Some big fat stupid guy keeps coming into my studio and tripping over mike cords and knocking over mike stands ! Then, he spends 3 frikken' hours trying to tune his guitar. To top it all off, he can't get all the way through a single take without forgetting the song.

He always wants to "help" produce the mix, but he can't remember how to setup or operate the Roland Workstation, so he just randomly twiddles knobs and buttons until he gets tired and gives up.

I guess that is the biggest "bottleneck" around my studio. I HATE that guy !
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i'd be ripping fat boy a new asshole for knocking over mics...i make it clear to everyone who sets foot in my place that they aren't to touch anything outside of their own instruments...and especially not the mics!!

No offense dude, but if you really have such little respect for your "friend" or his band, you have no place touching ANY of his material. When you track/mix/master you do so with the utmost professionalism and moreover; respect. Doing a mix for money and money alone with such resentment in your heart only hurts your credibility, and in the long run has negative effects on you as a person. Don't be dick. Refer him to someone else...
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while i agree with you on this one, i'm in a similar spot myself...a buddy of mine has a "band" with another guy i know, and they're both beyond terrible, but are totally bent on recording an album together. of course, since i'm the only person they know who is capable, they badgered me about it until i agreed to "produce" their stuff for them.

i knew from the very beginning that it was crap, and am really only doing it to get a few bucks for more gear. BUT...the important thing is that they've been tremendously happy with the results, which i guess is all that matters in the long run.
 
Ironklad Audio said:
i'd be ripping fat boy a new asshole for knocking over mics...i make it clear to everyone who sets foot in my place that they aren't to touch anything outside of their own instruments...and especially not the mics!!
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lol, yeah, i'm very protective of my stuff too. i HATE it when people don't turn off my LCD or touch it. I tell everyone that comes near my stuff not to touch my pc or anything near it. most people are scared off me now.... lol

Ironklad Audio said:
while i agree with you on this one, i'm in a similar spot myself...a buddy of mine has a "band" with another guy i know, and they're both beyond terrible, but are totally bent on recording an album together. of course, since i'm the only person they know who is capable, they badgered me about it until i agreed to "produce" their stuff for them.

i knew from the very beginning that it was crap, and am really only doing it to get a few bucks for more gear. BUT...the important thing is that they've been tremendously happy with the results, which i guess is all that matters in the long run.
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i guess if my friends band becomes "decent" i'll do a DEMO for them. but i'll probably rewrite their guitar and drum parts and have to do the bass parts, since they don't have a bassist (wat!!??).... lol. i'll probably have to sing as well.

maybe i should put my face and name on the cover as well.....
 
The problem lies somewhere between the keyboard and the chair
 
The Axis said:
Some big fat stupid guy keeps coming into my studio and tripping over mike cords and knocking over mike stands ! Then, he spends 3 frikken' hours trying to tune his guitar. To top it all off, he can't get all the way through a single take without forgetting the song.

He always wants to "help" produce the mix, but he can't remember how to setup or operate the Roland Workstation, so he just randomly twiddles knobs and buttons until he gets tired and gives up.

I guess that is the biggest "bottleneck" around my studio. I HATE that guy !
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ROFL!!

I have this visual of the perpetrator being some guy in an Elvis costume :D

Thanks for the laugh

Dags
 
Bottleneck..operator errors

Nothing wrong with my gear, though most of it is old. The main problem is my own lack of skill and experience. Need more practice with mic placement.
Mike.
 
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christiaan said:
My room is seriously keeping me from recording. Too small, too crowded and too noisy and no ways to improve it unless I find a bigger house/apartment (which I hope to do next year).
I'll never learn the art of recording properly in this dump. :(
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Agreed. I don't have a room. I have a mobile studio and use different rooms and areas. I guess it really is getting me in tune with my gear more an more but if I had a set room to my liking I'm confident in my abilities to make a good recording.
 
The problem is that I record in my little one-bedroom apartment and I have neighbors. It's really hard to get a good distorted tone when I can't turn my amp above 4 or so, although my attenuator's helped. But then the other problem is that, because I have to keep the amp at moderate levels and I can't get too far from it, you can hear the strumming a lot of times when I'm recording distorted guitars, which is really lame. So, definitely the room. And my lack of a $100,000 budget.
 
IsmaelTapiaII said:
And my lack of a $100,000 budget.
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No kidding! Hopefully next year I can get my business loan, buy a space, and have enough to get a Pro Tols HD rig and some more outboard gear.

"Dreams are only dreams until you try to live them." - Tom Verlaine
 
I made a $365,000.oo investment in my studio!

It's called a new home with mortgage!:eek:;)
 
Farview said:
The musical education of the bands coming into my studio. It is hard to make anything better when the musicians don't have a musical vocabulary so you can explain something to them.
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I had this problem with a guy today. We were just discussing guitars and bass, he was pretty arrogant. Tended to use alot of buzz words, he said something about a 'silky smooth' bass tone, and insisted that he'd bring a 100 Watt ashdown bass amp to record with. I told him that 100 was kinda impractical and unnecessary and asked 'how many precison basses have you played through a 100 watt amp?'. I think alot of guys figure what sounds good on stage - or worse - in their bedroom will sound good in a recording environment.
 
What about indecision and an abundance of options?? Seems like, even in my humble 1 bedroom apartment, with all the tools and options in the most modest DAW this day in age, it's hard to make a decision on which way to take a project... Should I use this mic or these mics, should I try doing (whatever) to this track? Almost seems like I'll only get about halfway done with a project before the experimentation starts taking place and I completely lose focus of what the original intent was.

Yeah, I chose "room", but it's more like "myself"... lol
 
although i am happy with my recordings, i need otb summing badly. the problem is a otb summing rig will co$t me big bucks. in the meantime i am going to treat my room more and keep improving on my own skills.
 
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