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Post by jeremygillespie on Oct 7, 2023 17:46:01 GMT -6
Do they happen to be the black faced Langevin units with the 2 sliders? I don't know! Which units are you talking about? Do you see Langevins in some of those pictures? My mistake I spoke before seeing the pictures. I was talking about the Langevin 251a eq’s.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Oct 6, 2023 22:01:12 GMT -6
Do they happen to be the black faced Langevin units with the 2 sliders?
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Post by jeremygillespie on Oct 6, 2023 17:14:05 GMT -6
Not sure how I’ve gone this long without having one of my own, but grabbed a mint 121 for a great price from a buddy that never used it.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Oct 6, 2023 15:22:00 GMT -6
That’s a bummer. The ssl room I was at had a ramp to access the second floor that was ADA compliant. As were the bathrooms and all doors that needed to be accessed.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Oct 4, 2023 6:54:35 GMT -6
Side question: How many of you all are recording/mixing drums in mono? I never strive for a mono thing out of being old school or whatever, but have found myself with a mono OH with spot mics on the drums now and again. Toms get panned like 15% to each side and the Blum pair of ribbons in front of the kit give the sides the idea of space.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Oct 2, 2023 16:01:50 GMT -6
2 - fathead II’s for room 2 - Soyuz 0-13’s for OH 3 - Beyer M88’s kick and 2 Tom’s 1 - audix i5 snare top.
That gets the job done for me. I am going to hassle the hell out of the drummer to balance the ride and hat volume though.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 29, 2023 18:23:20 GMT -6
can never understand why all gibson j45 sound different … and many sound plain bad … i mean, a guitar that costs more than 2000€ should ALWAYS sound great. than off course i know its a particular sound. not a shiny prima donna guitar sound but its intended to sound great with chords, rhythm and a few i have played sounded great. all strings equally loud, beautifullly compact sounds but some sounded dead like a 500€ epiphone … I’ve played 2 newish J-45’s that weren’t shit. It’s amazing how bad the majority of them are when the select few can be so fantastic. I screwed up and figured I’d come back the next day and pick up a killer example at a guitar center that is always totally empty. It was gone when I got there the next day. Oh well. Just another one that got away!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 23, 2023 8:14:37 GMT -6
Stam offer full tested 16 spare tube sets for a fair (lel) price. Joshua also tells me that in six years there has not been ONE issue with the MK1 tubes. Enjoy your Stamchild and do yourself the favor of getting a spare set of tubes from him. Who knows what the price of them will be in 5 years.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 22, 2023 11:32:17 GMT -6
Hope you guys can get hotel rooms.....and food. Mayor Adams is saying that 50% of hotel rooms are booked with illegal aliens ( oops.....migrants ), and Adams is saying that they (NYC officials) are about to "lose the city"....his words not mine. Crazy times in NYC. Just stay in Jersey! Quick and scenic 10 min ferry ride across the Hudson river and you can be in Jersey City with great food, great bars, and a great view of the city.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 17, 2023 20:48:47 GMT -6
Joe is a deep and wide. The fretboard journal podcast has an episode of Joe and Crosby interviewing each other and taking questions from a live crowd. Some fantastic back and forth between them. A must listen for anybody that enjoys music and humanity. There could be dissertations written about any of Joe’s songs. Goosebumps every time I listen to his records.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 8, 2023 6:25:14 GMT -6
I thought this thread was going to be about text books. LOL Modern Recording Techniques, anyone? Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook?
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 2, 2023 21:35:17 GMT -6
I did the top and bottom snare mic thing for years simply because it’s what I watched the big boys do when I was an intern and assistant. Came to realize…. Man why do I always track a bottom mic on the snare I literally put the fader up and immediately hit the mute button cause it brings nothing to the overall picture. not that I'm accusing you of this . . . but some people sometimes forget to flip the phase on the bottom mic and can't figure out why they don't find it useful. Come on now, I’ve been around the block a few times hahah. I think it’s the style of music possibly? Idk, bottom mic is wasted on me. Side bar - I think too many players and engineers spend way too much time trying to get rid of snare rattle. It’s part of the sound of the kit. So, tighten the snares too much, and you wind up choking the sound of the drum and now yeah, that bottom mic is possibly needed as part of the sound. I’m a fan of wide open let all the things ring. Except for when you need a little tea towel Ringo action. It even then, don’t choke those snares!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 2, 2023 18:25:22 GMT -6
441 seems really popular on bottom snare, but almost feels like a waste of a good mic. On the side of the snare. Either the 441 or a KM84. Get that CRACK!! I'd much rather use the right mic on top, or a couple, and a side mic for crack than have the fizzy crap a bottom snare brings. If you get the top right, IME, I don't need the bottom. Or maybe 1 in 20 times. Of course YMMV.... I did the top and bottom snare mic thing for years simply because it’s what I watched the big boys do when I was an intern and assistant. Came to realize…. Man why do I always track a bottom mic on the snare I literally put the fader up and immediately hit the mute button cause it brings nothing to the overall picture.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Sept 2, 2023 6:36:04 GMT -6
What a fantastic interview. If I were an artist, he is one of two people I’d choose to be in the room guiding the process. Joe Henry would be the other.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 29, 2023 7:20:10 GMT -6
Get Rx to do the amount of reduction you need, then copy the plug setting, open it up in Audiosuite, select the squeak areas and apply the plug-in parameters. That way you don’t lose the top end on the entire track, just effecting the actual squeaks.
If you notice it while tracking, have the player run their fingers alongside their nose. Greases up your finger tips and gets rid of the noise. Elixers work but I don’t dig their tone. The Nanoweb is better than the original ones, but I still prefer a regular or coated Daddario.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 27, 2023 15:35:49 GMT -6
I took a road trip from Jersey to San Fran and back about 7 years ago with a buddy. We definitely didn’t have the right bikes for that ride but we were young and optimistic. He was on a Triumph Thruxton and I was on an SV650. After we learned to cope with being uncomfortable it was a trip that won’t be forgotten. I haven’t taken my bike out for almost 3 years since we got our house and have been in full reno mode. No time honestly. Hopefully next summer I can get new rubber on the bike and use it more often.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 23, 2023 12:13:48 GMT -6
Amazing on vocals, I’d take it over an 87.
It’s too dark for my tastes on my Martin, but that’s why I have the 0-13’s. On a brighter Taylor or maple body I’m sure it would be great.
Fantastic on upright bass.
Just get one you won’t be upset about it.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 21, 2023 15:46:42 GMT -6
Anyone who can afford a console is going to have their favorite character comps to patch in on select tracks. I agree, in general. But here’s the rebuttal that comes into my mind…Most people are recording to DAW, and will be doing at least some processing the daw. You want transparent compression, there you go. My idea at least is that everything that goes into the design has to pull its weight - no fat, every single feature needs to be great. All killer no filler. I can’t manage to get excited about a bunch of transparent VCA compressors and put those in the “killer” column. But I have been wrong before. 😂 Whatever is used in the channel comps on the ssl k series, duality, aws etc - those things slap and are fantastic on drums.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 21, 2023 15:43:41 GMT -6
Countryman DI pre pedals, and it mostly only gets used for when I have to edit something super tight and the overdrive or crazy distortion they have happening at the amp makes it hard to see what’s going on. Really easy to land cut marks in a DI signal, group everything with it and edit away. I’d say less than 5% of the time it gets sent back out to reamp, if need be I’ll use something in the box off the di track. I always end up with ground loops using the approach. What is your first pedal or any other secrets, please? Batteries in the pedals, or pedal board and amp plugged into the same circuit, ground lift on the Countryman, and those little grey ground lifts on the amp or pedal board if needed. Any combo of those things gets me to a reasonable spot. Sometimes you plug it in and it’s dead quiet, sometimes there is an old beat up fuzz that screws the pooch no matter what you do. If that’s the case when the massive barrage of sound starts up I forget about the buzz.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 21, 2023 12:22:09 GMT -6
Countryman DI pre pedals, and it mostly only gets used for when I have to edit something super tight and the overdrive or crazy distortion they have happening at the amp makes it hard to see what’s going on. Really easy to land cut marks in a DI signal, group everything with it and edit away. I’d say less than 5% of the time it gets sent back out to reamp, if need be I’ll use something in the box off the di track.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 21, 2023 9:29:06 GMT -6
My preference, and my EFFORT, is to get 80-90% of my entire kit sound from the two overheads, and kick drum mics. After that, it's just a little support from the other mics. Of course, this demands that the drums sound good, and are played well and balanced. So close mics - especially toms - are just there for support backup. My OH mics are never envisioned as "cymbal" mics. A lot of the time you don’t get to choose. I prefer 2 overheads, kick, snare, at least floor Tom, and room mic(s) and will crank the overheads in the monitor mix. The track I just mixed was 1 mono overhead, snare, 1 mono overhead over the rack toms, floor tom, room, and kick was from a digital kit and a sample. common still is 2 overheads, Tom close mics, with kick and snare being samples and you have to remove the pad sound from the overheads. Man… that is really unfortunate and I feel for the guys that have to deal with xxxxed recordings and crap like this. Not something I’d be willing to put up with honestly.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 13, 2023 14:12:29 GMT -6
Heck I waited over 2 years for mine when they were first released.
You’ll get it in time.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 13, 2023 14:10:54 GMT -6
Headphone hanger? Any recommendations? I use the lights on my Furman PL-8. How have I never thought to do this?!? Thanks for the solution that was staring me in the face!
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 11, 2023 16:00:44 GMT -6
Great Robbie guitar work on this tune. That entire live album is fantastic and has some really freaking great moments by The Band sans Levon, he was fed up with the booing and went home halfway through the tour.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 11, 2023 15:58:04 GMT -6
I have the opportunity to buy : - a racked pair of NTP 179-120 (with JS in & out transformers, metering, and a bypass and link functions added) - a racked pair of TAB u373a - a racked pair of Neumann PE eq I can't afford them all right now. I can buy two out of the three. What should I buy ? Has anybody have any experience with the NTP 179-120 ? Same quesiton with the U373a. I already have Neumanns OEV eqs, so is it a good idea to go for a second pair of these eqs ? The PE are pretty similar if not identical, is what I read. Any help appreciated !! Neumann pE are cool on the mix bus if you don’t mind the larger steps.
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