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Post by donr on Mar 10, 2023 12:30:06 GMT -6
Could have used a better name. Sounds like a cosmetic.
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Post by donr on Mar 8, 2023 18:34:08 GMT -6
All good ideas here. For soloing, try singing a melody and playing what you sing. Like George Benson. Also, take chances. Play some wrong notes. I do it all the time!
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Post by donr on Mar 7, 2023 21:01:47 GMT -6
Am I alone here, or is anyone else pleased a bit, to get the chance whiff of ozone when it occurs?
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Post by donr on Mar 7, 2023 20:08:41 GMT -6
I'll suggest, with a little experience in the matter, swirl and soak the unscrewed head basket and foam in water and perhaps a dash of mild detergent and then air dry it 'til it's springtime fresh. Wipe the diaphragm case carefully with a clean damp cloth. I've washed the baskets of SM58's over the years, to get rid of road case storage stank. Never gotten sick from a funky mic, to my recollection. But I've sung on a few. Our crew used to spray Ozium on our mics as a matter of course. Didn't affect the mic performance, or, maybe it did! I'm struggling to imagine how it got so cologne'd up to begin with. I hope it wasn't an impassioned performance by a previous client or owner.
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Post by donr on Mar 7, 2023 12:00:58 GMT -6
I just watched the promo video. SSL added distortion (Waves SSL 4000 EV2), went with the bus comp instead of the channel strip compressor (they stole that from Sonimus Satson CS), oversampling, and modeled the distortion of the dbx fader VCA. Yes they modeled a fucking fader. What’s next? I want a rotting tantalum capacitors smelling like a dead body fragrance aerosol can to spray my desk with. Make it one blast per emulated intermittent channel. Air fresheners that smell like the resin on unwashed pcbs heating up. Fumigate the made in China SSL gear with unfiltered Chinese cigarettes. Let’s get the old gear smell. I'd definitely buy a couple bottles of Eau de Studer.
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Post by donr on Mar 3, 2023 15:20:09 GMT -6
I've been ASCAP for 50 years. Never thought to change, although I'd heard occasionally BMI payed better. In the digital age, with the blurring of what is performance and what has now replaced "sales," much of what might be called performance earnings has bypassed PRO's and goes directly to publishers and recording rights holders.
I'm glad PRO's exist. I don't quite understand how a profit motive would incentivize a PRO one way or another. Just attract more clients that earn revenue? Shake down more restaurants, bars and retail stores?
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Post by donr on Feb 21, 2023 9:38:05 GMT -6
I worked on an 8 trk M79 at Elektra's studio then located on La Cienega Blvd. in LA. in 1970. The transport was unique. The engineer (Brian Ross-Myring) said it was hard to edit on.
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Post by donr on Feb 20, 2023 22:34:57 GMT -6
Rolling Stones Mobile is legendary, made famous in Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water." Glad it still exists.
BOC did a lot of our live recording with the NY Record Plant Mobile, then commanded by Dave Hewitt, father of record producer Ryan Hewitt.
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Post by donr on Feb 14, 2023 21:17:06 GMT -6
Here's the guitar. Looks like a regular humbucker Tele. Never saw a baritone.
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Post by donr on Feb 14, 2023 12:20:58 GMT -6
8"-12" has been my general range with LDC's. I'm listening to what it sounds like. Live, I eat the M88, 'cause that's what gets me in front of the band. In the studio, a better sounding room allows more distance and visa versa. So you use an M88 live? What a coincidence! They're great mics... beat the pants off any Shures.... Were you using the same mic back in the day?
Recently I've been running it through an A-Designs channel strip and the Opto-Comp , which is IMO the best of the new LA2As.
I've used just about every dynamic live vocal mic over the years. Shure, Audix, EV, CAD, Miktek all had their turn. Shure most often. Tried condensers, they didn't cut it for my voice. Only using the Beyer M88TG for a year or so, I like it a lot! A mic custom EQ'd for my particular voice might be ideal, (like a hearing aid is tailored for the wearer's ears) but the Beyer just sounds good, and helps Steve Lacerra (FOH) get my voice out in front of the band. My voice is a lot mellower than Eric Bloom's. And our biggest hit is sung in a low register, even for me. I think the M88 takes EQ very well, even as I don't EQ my in-ears.
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Post by donr on Feb 13, 2023 13:45:09 GMT -6
It didn't look like she was actually singing to me. At least the show didn't depend on her vocals to come off. She was "singing" even when she wasn't.
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Post by donr on Feb 13, 2023 13:28:09 GMT -6
She was tied down, so my friends were acting like that discounts any fear. Maybe if you aren’t very smart? I’d at minimum secretly be petrified thinking the rigging would fail any second. I’m scared of heights, I think maybe that’s a downside of being intelligent, lol- but hey, I tell myself enough statistics and I can adapt to any stupid high place. Thanks Eric for reminding us the rigging guys are the real superstars The other unsung hero is the RF guy. Imagine your keeping a number of Freq open for 1/2 time and you have to pray that some stupid newsie outside the stadium doesn’t stumble on your open freq! Imagine if there was some double secret frequencies reserved for times like this.
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Post by donr on Feb 12, 2023 23:41:55 GMT -6
It was a medley of her hits. I know three of them. It was a lip sync, and not that diligent either. The set and stage was interesting, many platforms high in the air. It looked to me at times like some Chinese or Korean arena dance routine. There may have been two hundred dancers out there. She looked pregnant, or heavy. It went over well. Ever since The Weekend, I'm just glad to not be appalled at a half time show. Thought her vocal was slightly undermixed, but ok.
Game was great!
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Post by donr on Feb 12, 2023 11:09:53 GMT -6
Eric Bloom and I for years did a "cross guitars" gag onstage where we'd rub the fingerboards of our SG's (Eric was playing a '70's Les Paul gold top in this instance) against each other for the sonic chaos. One day in MA, the polarity of our stage amps was reversed, and for whatever reason, the potential between our guitar strings must have been close to AC line level. When the guitars crossed and the strings touched, big sparks came off the strings, some broke and when we examined the guitars afterward, a couple strings had melted into the nylon saddles of Eric's tune-o-matic bridge. It never happened again, and we've done it hundreds of times.
I still get string end punctures if I'm not careful changing strings. I used to leave string ends untrimmed, but not any more.
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Post by donr on Feb 12, 2023 10:39:43 GMT -6
8"-12" has been my general range with LDC's. I'm listening to what it sounds like. Live, I eat the M88, 'cause that's what gets me in front of the band.
In the studio, a better sounding room allows more distance and visa versa.
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Post by donr on Jan 31, 2023 9:43:16 GMT -6
I'd imagine 1 would fit better in the mix. Nice work! Don't mind the 'tuning at all, in the context.
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Post by donr on Jan 31, 2023 0:09:52 GMT -6
g, made my comparison on the first 8 bars. D is the loudest w/dyamics. They're all about the same loudness.
I'm thinking the trick is to be LOUD with dynamics on the last, loudest 3-6dB. Maybe less, I'm guessing. Let us know what you did after the poll!
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Post by donr on Jan 30, 2023 23:53:33 GMT -6
Wiz, I've always liked your artistry, voice and recording chops. My frustration with The Troubadour is the chorus vocal and slide guitar compete in the same frequency register, and I can't really understand what you say in the chorus. I know you often sing in that key so this is something new to me, your previous recordings that I know feature your vocal clearly, as they should, since your voice is your calling card. Hey Don thanks so much for having a listen and providing the feed back on the clarity of the vocal vs the slide.... I will definitely look into it as the lyrics are important...I am a habitual mumbler....8) thanks again mate, hope you are well. cheers Wiz Peter, I'm drawing breath and still well. I value meeting you and your wife at RGO's first, and to date only, meetup in Nashville, too long ago! I carry that for all met at that event. At my risk of giving mix advice (Do I sound like the guy from the ad agency or the label?) amidst a board of many professional AE's, perhaps gently compressing the vocal to sit a bit more forward in your mix without disturbing the dynamic, and/or ducking the slide w/ the vocal until you notice it, then backing it up 'till it's natural? The release swell of the slide level when the vocal pauses might be musical. (I'm thinking of Mike Shipley's recording of Allison Kraus and Union Station [God I miss that guy!].) Not sure if it's the best recorded representation of Union Station, but it's certainly pleasing to the ear. Shipley was a master. Personally, I REALLY enjoy audible effects of compression in studio recordings. They only need to be artful. Over my time on the planet, the small speakers have gotten better, but they're still small. The job for recording engineers/mixers IMO really hasn't changed. Apologize for the degree I've hijacked the thread. I tend to do that, when I've got free time to post!
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Post by donr on Jan 30, 2023 22:51:04 GMT -6
Wiz, I've always liked your artistry, voice and recording chops. My frustration with The Troubadour is the chorus vocal and slide guitar compete in the same frequency register, and I can't really understand what you say in the chorus. I know you often sing in that key so this is something new to me, your previous recordings that I know feature your vocal clearly, as they should, since your voice is your calling card.
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Post by donr on Jan 30, 2023 18:15:29 GMT -6
I would not, could not, did not, ever, use ADATs for a project... stuck to analog tape 24 track and a tascam midiizer to sync a separate 8 or 16 track machine as needed plus a Power mac running a 4 channel pro tools and midi system.... but I *DID* use the DA88s! Those were 100x better as you state. I engineered a record that received a Grammy for an artist on Quincy's WB label using my D&R desks, MCI JH24, a modded Trident desk, and an API desk with MCI's at O'Henry's - and a few overdubs at Bill Schnee's. It sounded great, and won a Grammy. Great sounding record. The next record from that artist that came hot off that win and was done on ADAT's with an 02R for the majority of smaller overdubs, then the same larger studio's and their consoles with ADAT's for the big ensemble stuff. The sonic difference is astounding. Astounding in the bad sense. As mentioned, no love for ADAT;s here. Great story, Bill. My question is, who engineered the ADAT takes and where? I'm guessing it wasn't you. Didn't Chuck Ainlay or someone of his stature do some recording with an O2R with some famous artist? Probably sounded ok.. : )
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Post by donr on Jan 28, 2023 12:47:42 GMT -6
As long as computers are powerful, there's no downside to keeping millions of low play bedroom artists' music on streaming services. The average consumer/subscriber will never know it's there, and the artist and their friends and family can listen to their hearts content. It's not like the data storage, search or book keeping is a problem, is it? The streamers do promote some artists over others. Apple Music is particularly annoying in that regard. I find Spotify's curation and suggestions for me better, but it's always someone signed to a label, in my experience. It would be useful for a chart or playlist of completely unknown artists the curious could sample easily, but given the millions, how could Spotify possibly rank or keep up with that? I wonder if AI could possibly suss out really good music from millions of submissions. Couldn't hire enough humans, betcha. In reality, nearly every piece of recorded music you've ever liked only reached your ears due to some kind of promotion. And nobody makes money streaming until the plays are seven digits. It’s beyond promotion and pr now Certain genres like electronic music are almost 100% payola on Spotify Black metal has a ton of payola on YouTube music too There’s a ton of articles about the streaming services unethical business practices. There’s a good book called Chokepoint Capitalism that deals with their back door arrangements with the majors and stuff like Ticketmaster. As far as streaming, I can only speak to my legacy music over time, and today's streaming has erased and reversed the devaluation of recordings caused by the Napster phase of the internet. It was payola originally, that got classic rock artists play on FM, even established artists. Once a critical mass of exposure was reached, the public came along. I imagine it's the same today with today's distribution. Everybody's got their hand out when there's money being made. And conversely, there's incentive for monopoly and vertical integration by the players.
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Post by donr on Jan 27, 2023 11:10:31 GMT -6
John I've heard you sing that line a dozen times over the years. There's something a little strained sounding in the loud parts here.
Dunno, maybe your voice wasn't yet opened up?
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Post by donr on Jan 27, 2023 10:58:43 GMT -6
notneeson, how'd you get that pitch warble effect at the end of the Nuzzle tune?
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Post by donr on Jan 27, 2023 10:55:31 GMT -6
I know this has been covered before in other threads . Going through some old demos , My 20 year old adat recordings sound better than my pro tools-apogee daw set up . BY FAR . depressing . I'm not talking about performance , the basic sounds of individual tracks explode out of the speakers . I have much better mics and preamps ect now but jeez , stuff seemed to sound better quicker back then .
I get better clarity now but man there is no punch . all in the box mind you . Back then it was mackie and 421s and AT 4033s .
Ugh
True. May not be hifi, but my old Mackie/ADAT demos sound more 'analog' than anything done solely in the DAW since. Is it the ADAT or the Mackie mixer? I mixed to DAT, too!
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Post by donr on Jan 25, 2023 19:12:38 GMT -6
I tend to lean wet but there's a big difference in end result between adding after the fact and having the effects push through the same mic as the dry. Indeed. Can't think of any reason you'd deny a player whatever is preceding his/her amp jack. Then you can always hedge your bet with something like the Locomotive ZCAR. (which I magically just saw a banner ad for on RGO!) www.locomotiveaudio.com/zcar
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