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Post by mjheck on Apr 5, 2018 8:41:21 GMT -6
Take a listen to Jason Isbell's 'Speed Trap Town' - one 4038 on guitar, one on vocals and a big live room. It's certainly not an 'impressive' sound, but man...it is honest! That is quite an album and quite a team. There are some pretty good interviews with Dave Cobb on the internets. I'm just guessing, but my sense is there is a lot of room mic on that album - almost to the point of being startling when I first listened to the album, as it is such a departure from what the rest of modern releases sound like. We're bound to have someone here who can add something more useful, but yes - I agree - crazy honest and real album.
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Post by happychap on Apr 5, 2018 10:17:37 GMT -6
Let's say you have $5k for gear to record acoustic guitar and vocals (yes, at the same time), what would your chain look like? Thx! I’m just spitballing Vocal Mic - Samar TF08/Used Blue Kiwi AG Mic - Soyuz SU-13 CAPI VP28 Chandler TG Opto Focusrite Clarett I've emailed Mark about the Samar and it seems to be in a perpetual 4-5 week wait period. I'm not sure if that means they are built to order. The Soyuz 013 is on my radar, for sure, as is the new Sony c-100. I used a Mojave 301fet recently and that was brighter than I usually like, but I grew to like the sound.
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Post by happychap on Apr 5, 2018 10:21:48 GMT -6
The Welch/Rawlings stuff has a lot of ambient 'stereo' bleed from the other mics. Probably sounds quite different if you isolate it. the harrow and the harvest is a masterpeice of sound and music. That record sounds so good (Dark Turn of Mind is stunning), that I stopped using it as a sonic reference for DIY recording. It's not an attainable sound for me or for many other DIY acoustic artists, imo. Better off spending $5k on studio time with the fella who recorded it (Matt Andrews). That said, I'm more in the early Taj Mahal vein of music and getting the sound of 'Cakewalk into Town' is certainly within reach.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Apr 5, 2018 10:41:39 GMT -6
I went and listened to Dark Turn of Mind, and the overall quality I noticed was the silence. There's lots of space and it's dead quiet. That's one thing that's very difficult to get in my NYC apartment!
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Post by happychap on Apr 5, 2018 12:24:47 GMT -6
I went and listened to Dark Turn of Mind, and the overall quality I noticed was the silence. There's lots of space and it's dead quiet. That's one thing that's very difficult to get in my NYC apartment! Yeah- RCA studio B. A classic room and the perfect storm of talent, gear and engineer. I'd settle for a cloudy day with high winds...
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