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Post by yotonic on Feb 8, 2022 22:20:03 GMT -6
If you are recording yourself then use your ears. Find the place in the room that you like best. Start with absorption behind you first. Experiment it doesn't cost you anything.
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Post by yotonic on Feb 6, 2022 19:15:44 GMT -6
Finally found something great the old fashioned way in a small guitar repair shop. Don't know how I slept on the Gibson Firebird. This baby is a 1990 and it's so fun to play with Allen Collins tone for days.
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Post by yotonic on Feb 2, 2022 20:49:05 GMT -6
1968 Gibson SG. Still struggling with whether or not vintage guitars are worth the premium anymore...to me.
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Post by yotonic on Feb 1, 2022 23:45:16 GMT -6
I've been watching The Brokenwood Mysteries a TV show out of New Zealand and the music is excellent. So many great Artists and a string-centric, rootsy sound that puts most of the country here to shame (in my opinion). I've been sleeping on New Zealand.
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Post by yotonic on Jan 27, 2022 16:21:34 GMT -6
I often end up with the DI doing a lot of the work (the best bassists I've recorded usually just went with an API DI) but when amp tone is key I find it's very dependent - 57/421 for growl, sometimes a condenser but never been near a FET47 unfortunately. One of the best amp tones I ever got was a B15 mic'd with an RE20. This is my GO-2. With a Wunder PEQ for DI.
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Post by yotonic on Jan 12, 2022 23:37:58 GMT -6
70th Anniversary Broadcaster. Plugged it into my vintage Fender Vibro Champ and hated it. Didn't play it for a week. Plugged it into a vintage Fender Bassman and it was a different ballgame. Songwriters delight....
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Post by yotonic on Jan 9, 2022 17:46:52 GMT -6
This is life. You didn't get this far the first time without strength and perseverance. Believe in yourself and the resilience of the human spirit. You got this. Thanks brother. How's the touring business? Starting to recover up there yet? We came out pretty strong, just now starting to see some cancellations mainly because of tour personnel getting COVID. We've had free testing at all of the shows which was working well until Omicron.
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Post by yotonic on Jan 9, 2022 10:20:01 GMT -6
This is life. You didn't get this far the first time without strength and perseverance. Believe in yourself and the resilience of the human spirit. You got this.
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Post by yotonic on Dec 30, 2021 3:41:59 GMT -6
I've spent a huge amount of money on Reverb over the last 10 years, and I am careful to protect myself as I know they aren't too concerned about me. I bought some drum hardware from a scumbag store that I should have cross checked on Google. The guy is a crook and he sent me hardware that was broken and not as described. I knew enough not to ask for a refund because then Reverb will not allow you to warn fellow members with negative feedback. I left an honest and accurate review of this guy, that is consistent with others and Reverb gave him the opportunity to respond whereupon he left a COMPLETELY fictional reply that must be his standard come back. I never spoke to the guy, I knew better to even bother over a vintage Ludwig boom stand after I looked at his history. Reverb is involved in rackateering where they are abetting disinformation and limiting the ability of Buyers to warn others about bad actors. I'm leaving the platform and taking my $100K in spending elsewhere. Just another scumbag software company that is interested in profits only. Sadly symptomatic of our times.
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Post by yotonic on Dec 19, 2021 23:58:39 GMT -6
I use the orange Lehle.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 30, 2021 21:15:10 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Nov 28, 2021 14:51:14 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Nov 26, 2021 14:08:53 GMT -6
And that chart topping music sounds like garbage live. I've been in the electronic game since the start and have all sorts of touring electronic acts in my venue. The guys that still produce using analog gear (even if they show up with a USB stick) have the best sounding tracks by far. I go to my office and hide when these lap top idiots come through. They also call themselves EDM.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 26, 2021 1:17:39 GMT -6
Most good electronic music comes from analog gear, drum machines, synths, etc. There is software to imitate all of these classic machines but the emulations sound thin and flat in comparison. You can't make electronic music without considering how it's delivered on a dance floor or live concert venue. Most times that's where software production comes up short. Etienne De Crecy has some cool studio videos you can watch. They are less about copying the latest dance, hit in logic with plugins and more about composing real electronic music from scratch.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 21, 2021 14:50:47 GMT -6
I'm just bummed that I consistently form my opinion of vocal mics based upon first impressions of a singer's voice without the context of a mix. For me the 2 mics I like the least sounded the most "radio-ready" mix-wise. And those were the JZ and TLM103. Both mics seemed to occupy a similar band range with the right amount of presence.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 21, 2021 0:47:46 GMT -6
I'll wait for the reissue.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 20, 2021 14:54:45 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Nov 19, 2021 12:40:36 GMT -6
That AnalogR kid over pays for Neve stuff all of the time on Reverb and drives up prices with crazy prices. And he's not a tech who is refurbishing gear.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 14, 2021 21:52:47 GMT -6
Chasing that James Gang "Funk 49" mojo with a pre-CBS Fender Vibro Champ
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Post by yotonic on Nov 14, 2021 14:43:14 GMT -6
Four takes, comp... If there is anything left to fix, punch, and done
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Post by yotonic on Nov 12, 2021 22:11:56 GMT -6
That mic channel is cranked, and it also sounds like it has an 1176 on it. Obviously doubled, and great control over mouth noises etc., because it's hot. He's singing in the classic "conversational style" of a lot of pop vocalists; Rob Thomas etc.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 12, 2021 20:45:48 GMT -6
Don't forget that in those days, studios had Engineers, and guys rode the faders on vocals, still the best way to get a present vocal, better than compressing.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 9, 2021 21:05:24 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Nov 8, 2021 19:35:16 GMT -6
I was just listening to "Shelter" by Ray LaMontagne and remarking to myself how much more soulful his voice sounded through the SM7 on that record as versus his "God Willin The Creek Don't Rise" where vox were through a Neumann M49. Too crisp. If you have the right voice the SM7 is the tool. But you have to give it a chance and lsten to it in a mix. It's a little bit of an adjustment after all of these LDCs.
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Post by yotonic on Nov 6, 2021 17:08:15 GMT -6
You could own 46 Behringer preamps for that.
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