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Post by sean on Dec 23, 2022 11:20:41 GMT -6
I prefer a Telefunken 251 on hi hat Why does anyone mic the loudest, most annoying thing on a drum kit at all? I fantasize about making drummers use a hat trigger, but I know then I'd just have a loud thwhacking noise bleeding into the snare mic instead. It’s not always necessary but at least in Nashville the increased popularity of dead, dark, quiet, $600 trash can lid cymbals played with corn stalks or chop sticks having a spot mic can save the day
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Post by sean on Dec 23, 2022 9:22:55 GMT -6
I bought a new one MANY years ago. Interesting mic, square diaphram capsule, kept trying to find things it worked really well on. I asked my second engineer how he was getting along with it and he replied "its a great hi hat mic". I sold it. But a Beyer 201 is a better hi hat mic I prefer a Telefunken 251 on hi hat
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Post by sean on Dec 23, 2022 8:27:08 GMT -6
i understand the frustration but Ii believe you just need a little daughter board that accepts the pin out of the cell( circular) but has its own pin out that mates with your comp. You could even hardwire this and just heat glue the cell in place. The tech just needs to get the leads by pin out right. Yes plug and play it ain’t, so yes you must understand the frustration. So can you get me the pin out and instructions please so I can get some use out of these increasingly expensive units. I also spent £ 700 on UTC xformers so it’s been a costly project triggered by bad research and marketing on bLA’s part. How old is your ADL-1500? There was a circuit board change at some point and it's possible Anthony is no longer using the traditional/more universal "cans" at some point. Hopefully he'll be understanding and share that information with you...I doubt he'd share a schematic, however. Have you tried the compressor with original opto's and new transformers? I wasn't a fan of the "box tone" of the ADL-1500 so had the input and output transformers replaced, but the response of the opto seems pretty identical to my LA-2A. I was actually thinking about getting a pair of the "fast" opto's from Kenetek just to make it a bit different.
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Post by sean on Dec 22, 2022 17:22:03 GMT -6
I was pretty disappointed in my SCM12's. I've kind of given up on my search for monitors and settled on some NS-10M's to use when I'm at home. I think of all the readily available powered monitors I get KH310's... But not sure how the latest Adam's perform, or HEDD. JBL 708i Heard some horror stories of the powered versions failing. Probably could be had at a decent price used/demo model
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Post by sean on Dec 21, 2022 11:16:13 GMT -6
How long ago was that? It’s amazing, the swing of things… How everyone is all into bright, clear, punchy mics for 10-years and then it switches to something else, like linearity, and then it switches again to something else. Put it on a clean guitar amp, brass, strings, sides of an M/S setup, or on anything you want to sculpt, and you’ll appreciate it more. I’m always looking for microphones I can use on acoustic instruments that have really good rejection from vocals/surrounding instruments or good off axis sound.
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Post by sean on Dec 20, 2022 19:23:52 GMT -6
I bet you’ll love it! I thought I bought mine for $800 way back when. Recently realized I bought it for $400 and sold it for $800. Now they’re twice as much again! Loving this new 60! I paid $1000 which is the cheapest I've seen one in a long time...probably should have stayed strong and saved up for some vocal microphones I've had my eye on but always curious to try other multi-pattern condensers.
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Post by sean on Dec 20, 2022 19:06:10 GMT -6
Ordered a Milab VIP50 of eBay...always interested in these!
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Post by sean on Dec 20, 2022 16:13:52 GMT -6
IME, that's an insanely GREAT price. Too bad you're not closer to me. LOL. Is the market really that competitive in NVille? I don't see how studio's can stay alive at those rates. But MORE POWER TO YOU!!!! Very nice environment to make a record. You don’t want to see what studios go for here in Portland, lol, insanely cheap. I think the MOST expensive room in town is $400/day (no engineer). But I can book some really great spots for as low as $200…I lived here for 5 years, and coming from LA I’m still amazed. If Flora Recording is $400 a day I’d be shocked. Because the studio is north of Nashville that deters some clients who don’t want to drive 30-45 minutes each way (experienced that this week so we worked at another studio) that keeps the price down…but I think once we finish the lounge and make a couple other upgrades (I need to suck it up and get a HDX card and maybe find a deal on a real B3, and a better headphone system beside the Headback rig) I’d like to bump it up to $400 a day (maybe with a small discount for multiple day bookings). Also if you are coming from out of town hotels and air B&B are 75% cheaper by the studio compared to Nashville proper…you can save a lot of money 😆 But if I raised rate honestly it be so I could afford an assistant. Setting up and tearing down and labeling headphone boxes is getting old 😂
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Post by sean on Dec 20, 2022 11:18:27 GMT -6
Looks like a really great studio. I love the bright vibe. If you don't mind me asking, what are you typically charging for a day rate? Well, it’s a bit of a sliding scale. Since it’s semi-private (we don’t rent it to outside engineers, you have to hire me or Mark with the room) it’s often people we know and try to work within their budget. I try to get at least $300 for the studio itself per day, and then what Mark and I get paid is whatever we charge above that.
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Post by sean on Dec 18, 2022 15:45:10 GMT -6
I spent a decade on Yamaha HSM80’s and they took an absurd beating…I mean leave the room, ceiling tiles shaking loud playback sessions, and they never failed. JBL 4408A’s last about a week before a tweeter was blown
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Post by sean on Dec 18, 2022 7:47:58 GMT -6
Great looking site. One thing I miss is images of people playing/recording there. I think it helps potential clients imagine themselves in the space and also makes it look less inhibiting for noobies (a lot of my clients are) I recently overhauled my studio website and added a load.. its the most visited page according to google stats. www.soundcasterstudios.com/studio-galleryAlso using Squarespace … it was pretty easy to put together. Getting ranked on google search is another matter though …. still fighting with that. That's a great idea, I did that with my personal site but I should ask around and get some pictures from various sessions and make a gallery page
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Post by sean on Dec 18, 2022 7:45:31 GMT -6
Everything is fantastic; it looks like a dream come true!! I've always wanted to know, but I've always been afraid to ask: how does one build something like that (without being rich to start with) these days when studios do not bring in the money they used to? Just by quickly looking at the gear list, that must be at least half a million in equipment. I'm slowly building a gear collection using my day job earnings, which works, but I wonder how other people do it. Well, first, the studio doesn't really make that much money , but we have very little overhead. In this case, the structure was already on the property and Mark built it out mostly by himself, which saved a lot of money. I don't know the exact cost, but for example we are wanting to build a 16x12 addition so there can be a lounge area and on the high side we're looking at $10,000. If that was hired out, it probably be 3 to 4 times that. Mark and I also did all the cabling and do most of the equipment maintenance and repairs. We probably spent $500? wiring everything (all Mogami), which compare that to what most people who hire that out or bought pre-made cables which would be at least $10,000. We used a lot of repurposed wiring...people practically give away snakes and bulk wire in Nashville. Gear wise, this is my career and has been for almost 15 years now (I'm 35) and Mark has be a professional musician and engineer for over 40, so it's been acquired over a length of time, not all in one chunk. I put a lot of what I make back into the studio/equipment (I have a very small mortgage by Nashville standards and we don't have children). I also buy and sell a lot of gear for a profit and use that towards stuff. I'm also incredibly frugal so everything you see in those rack was bought at a deal price. For example, I paid $250 for the Wurlitzer, got the Rhodes for free for helping a friend sell some equipment, and the Hammond M3 and Leslie were free from someone who was moving. And all the work they've needed (new tine, felts, tuning, oil, whatever) we do ourselves.
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Post by sean on Dec 17, 2022 19:42:30 GMT -6
www.tractorshedstudio.com/I’ve never been one for self promotion but since partnering with a new studio I figure it’s time to have a website. I’ve slowly been chipping away at pictures and details of the equipment…I also appreciated the educational tidbits studios like Electrical have so trying to put a little of that for each microphone and instrument in the “gear” section. A fun thing to do at 6:30 in the morning when the dogs wake me up Dope spot man. Killer. What are you using to make the site? Squarespace
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Post by sean on Dec 17, 2022 17:44:03 GMT -6
Looks great, really impressed with the site actually. The only two things I’d note are: 1) make it so you can click on the pics and have them enlarge. When viewing on my phone it’d be nice to see bigger pics. 2) add a floor plan layout of the studio to the pics. That would really help me if I was looking to book your spot. Other than that great job! Hey that’s good advice on the enlarging pictures, and there’s probably a drawing of the floor plan *somewhere*
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Post by sean on Dec 17, 2022 11:18:35 GMT -6
Nice! Can you speak a bit about those horizontal basket-weave diffusors(?) in the pics? They look quite excellent. -09 They are actually the cut offs from ceiling trusses!
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Post by sean on Dec 17, 2022 8:45:24 GMT -6
www.tractorshedstudio.com/I’ve never been one for self promotion but since partnering with a new studio I figure it’s time to have a website. I’ve slowly been chipping away at pictures and details of the equipment…I also appreciated the educational tidbits studios like Electrical have so trying to put a little of that for each microphone and instrument in the “gear” section. A fun thing to do at 6:30 in the morning when the dogs wake me up
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Post by sean on Dec 12, 2022 7:44:54 GMT -6
Picked up two Radial SGI guitar interface systems...I often have to toss amplifiers in other rooms for isolation and these make a noticeable difference.
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Post by sean on Dec 11, 2022 11:44:09 GMT -6
Microphones definitely are what you should put your money in first…unless of course you are primarily a mixer.
Even when I work at commercial studios I bring a lot of my own microphones…mostly because I trust the way they sound and I know they are maintained…and if a client needs to recut a vocal or punch in down the road we can do it pretty much anywhere.
I will say of all the hardware I own the Overstayer Stereo Voltage Control does something I’ve not heard in plugins…mostly adding harmonics in a pleasing way. Sometimes it really takes a mix from good to great for me
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Post by sean on Dec 11, 2022 11:22:55 GMT -6
Honestly, since pretty much everyone expects instant recall, I think a good vocal tracking compressor is really all I feel that I need/want 99% of the time. But there are times I’m working with experienced singers and they aren’t required.
Everything else is sort of a luxury, and the problems that compressors can help when tracking can usually be solved with microphone placement/choice.
Of course if you have the luxury to set up your hardware and use them like plugins with hardware inserts that’s a different story…
And this coming from someone with a literal wall of compressors 😂
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Post by sean on Dec 11, 2022 7:43:39 GMT -6
Like new condition, comes with original box. A really wonderful vocal compressor with steeped controls, feedback or feedforward compression, side-chain filter, the "K Comp" section which is a separate compressor focused around 3K to tame harshness, along with a parallel EQ2 equalizer section.
It's a really incredible box, but I need to invest in some microphones. $1700 shipped (cost $2595 new)
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Post by sean on Dec 10, 2022 13:11:44 GMT -6
Got a better price quote for a new one from a dealer but they haven’t had any luck getting much response from Upton about actual availability (been on order since March and no response from them in over a month) which doesn’t make me confident in the company…I mean Upton’s website is barely operational with most links being dead.
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Post by sean on Dec 10, 2022 12:06:15 GMT -6
Ordered a Josephson e22s…going to give them another chance after owning one years ago Love those mics, only ever used them on drums though. I had one for a couple years and sold it awhile back…I personally prefer 414’s on toms but I still haven’t found something I really love on snare drum (mostly looking for weight) and thought I’d give it a try. Also, I think it be a good banjo microphone
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Post by sean on Dec 10, 2022 10:26:32 GMT -6
I’m not paying $600/year and buying avid adda Besides UAD I believe most popular ADDA have a HDX option. Also $600 a year isn’t a big deal for something you use every single day But it’s all relative, of course. Not a fun thing to spend money on but I’ve spent $600 on things I haven’t turned on in years…
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Post by sean on Dec 9, 2022 17:35:38 GMT -6
Ordered a Josephson e22s…going to give them another chance after owning one years ago
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Post by sean on Dec 8, 2022 13:21:04 GMT -6
EchoBoy does 15 seconds…Valhalla 20 seconds…Eventide Blackhole I think is infinite?
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