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I've voted... B does have a good drum sound, but it's all drums! While it's a nice ego trip for me being the drummer, I didn't think it was as well balanced as some of the others. There's some really creative stuff on these mixes. It makes me regret not playing about more, especially with the intro.

OK, I have a short list but don't want to vote yet. I have to say, I'm not a big fan of 'A' but jesus what a massive bass sound! Nice one whoever A is! How long do we get to vote?

We shipped out a parcel containing 2 boxes a couple of weeks ago. The customer got a parcel with one box in it. The courier has re-packed the parcel after f***ing it up. To get any recompense I had to spend half an hour on their online claim form, explaining to them that they damaged it themselves and the damaged remains were probably in their depot. No reponse yet. I guess they make it as difficult as possible to put people off claiming

I'm not really aware of the theory, it's just I've been told in the past that changing the wires round on one end of a jack cable would flip the phase... and I honestly thought I'd had it off a lecturer at uni. Oh well, it's not the first time I've found out something I learned at uni was bollocks.

good call Bigwan Why wouldn't flipping the wires around on one end of a jack lead work to flip the phase?

I don't think that's the case at all. It must be more to do with what's interesting to talk about. The beauty in music - how it makes you feel personally, is not easily expressed or shared, where as comparing gear and "chops" is...? could be talking bollocks

could be a phase thing? EDIT: Oh, beaten to it. It's an easy test anyway, if you have an old jack lead you can take apart.

Thanks for the George Massenburg video Si, I got around to watching it yesterday, it's very interesting

I've always used my dirt and comp pedals in the loop of the NS-2 with delays after it

It's not just about price. I've seen people regurgitate advice they've read online, on forums like this, without even trying it for themselves. Judge your gear with your ears, or in the case of a bass with your hands too. Obviously durability is important too, but if you take care of your gear, it should be fine. Apparently the behringer plastic pedals are very durable indeed, but I don't own any so wouldn't know. I would buy them if I allowed my pedal addiction to grip me again

I don't know any blenders with a phase control built in but I'm sure there are some specialist ones around. So, in that respect, the LS-2 will be on a par with all common blenders. The LS-2 allows you to mix two chains of effects together (among other functions), which is sometimes a lot more useful than just a clean blend. I have a barge concepts blender, and a SFX mixer thing, they all sound similar to me! edit to say - I'm not sure a phase inverter switch would be that much use, you might as well just make a jack lead that flips the phase

oh dear, I hope everyone else has submitted their mix, they're getting some great tips here! I'll have to play about with a hat mic once i'm in my new space, which should be nice and dry

I always got the impression you were more bothered about how cool the bass looked, rather than how good it sounded? I like a bit of both, but yeh, not bothered about minute details as long as it makes a big noise, who cares?

[quote name='mcgraham' timestamp='1363783808' post='2017498'] I'm all about simplicity. Just ask Shep! [/quote] Obviously you need another 2 levels of dirt at least, plus an envelope filter and a couple of delay pedals. That would be simple!

very sw***y mcgraham but you've not left much room for expansion!

it's ont of the Red Audio overhead thingies that come with the drum set... always sounded fine as an overhead. I wonder, would a dynamic mic work better on the hats? What do you use?

If you've got the money it's a good mantra!

I don't think I used the hat mic at all Si. In fact for the whole album I recorded a hat mic but didn't use it 'cos it didn't add anything. Is that my positioning do you think?

well I love the sound, but I record a lot and it took me about 6 months in that room to get happy with my mixes. Now i'm looking at moving to a smaller/drier space and that's scarey - I'll have to find reverb plug-ins that I like for drums!

yeh it's a massive room with huge reverb sorry!

When mixing drums, I generally get the overheads sounding nice, which might take a bit of EQ and compression, and then I solo each individual close mic and work out where a mid-cut should be. So, on the snare top, a cut around 600Hz might sound good. On the bottom, a cut around 1K or 5K. On the kick around 200Hz etc etc. Then I like parallel compression on the whole kit, and probably individual compressors on the kick and snare

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1363697602' post='2015962'] +1 for overlcockers, i got all the componants for my last pc build there, the processor and mother board bundles are always pretty decently priced imo, and saves hassle trying to find the ones that pair up [/quote] Yeh their support isn't bad either I have used Novatech in the past who were cheap - on a par with Ebuyer I guess. I've never had to deal with support/customer service from any of these

ebuyer tends to be very cheap. Overclockers do some good "bare bones" systems which always save time and hassle. Those are the two I use Your system sounds like a dream come true, I wish I could afford the same! EDIT: I should say, I regularly record 10-20 channels of audio at 48Khz, 24bit, all to external USB drives, so you should be fine without going SSD

Oh god, now I'm nervous... these "rush jobs" are going to be better than my months of agonising!

Some bands I love so much I happily play for nothing. Other bands i'd find it hard to keep turning up if there was no money. Some are like pure passion, others are like a job. So, it depends why you're playing the music!