cheddatom

heh, I don't know, i'll take a picture later. It's not a well known brand, put it that way!

Can you really blow a pre-amp from driving it too hard? I didn't think so!

Don't get me started on maplins staff, or their website, or their prices, or the junk mail or....

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='1028052' date='Nov 18 2010, 03:35 PM']Beware of what Cheddatom said because he's wrong![/quote] But I can plug my bass into a distortion pedal, turn the gain way up, and plug it straight into a power amp. This way, my distortion pedal is the pre-amp. It doesn't matter if the pedal has a valve in it or not. I don't mind being wrong, but could you clarify a little more why there's so much difference between a clipping pre-amp and a distortion pedal?

[quote name='51m0n' post='1027969' date='Nov 18 2010, 02:40 PM']Do absolutely anything you like to the signal to the cans by all means! But note that at some point you will get that wrong and print it (see the point about the big swooshy reverb I accidently tracked ))[/quote] I'm using VSTs so it's pretty impossible to "print". Maybe that's one of the features of Reaper? Still not tried it at least it's because i'm too busy with music, rather than too busy with work!

[quote name='MythSte' post='1028022' date='Nov 18 2010, 03:18 PM']T-racks is a great quick-fix mastering plug in that might be a good place to start Chris, There is a lot of automation on it that will, generally speaking get you 60% of they way there. I found it useful for working out if I was heading in the right direction with my mastering techniques [/quote] Really? I hated it!! Did you have any guidance or did you just play?

Surely clipping the pre-amp is the same as using a distortion pedal.

OK, thanks!

would you never use fishing line Si? Also I have some un-opened partners twine from the early 70s. Is this worth anything?

Yeh I never use outboard on the way into the PC but that doesn't mean I can't compress it, EQ, add reverb etc for the performer's headphones.

I'd deffinitely have a look for some sort of controller so you get a bit of that "hands on feel" back.

What would I do with the ferrite rings? What's weird to me is that it seems I can run the exact same chain but using my rack of pres instead of my desk, and it's radio free. The desk is a cheap POS I bought off here for £20ish so perhaps it's that?

Is it not everyday? You should have a thread containing all your recording tips! EDIT: Not kissing ass, it's just your advice has been very helpful

Thanks, i'll watch those videos tonight.

I really like plug ins, but when you're trying to do something very precise, it's nice to have a sturdy knob to grab hold of (hehe). Perhaps a midi controller of some sort to give you manual control of plug-in parameters would help.

heh, I did a guitar take the other day with one of those flat AKG mics right up against the cab grille, facing the wrong way!! It's got FRONT written on it!!

I was watching a 6 string on here for ages. The BCer put it on ebay eventually and I was there last night, credit card in hand, sweating my tits off trying not to bid. I managed it, but this morning I felt so sh*t I decided "I must need a treat, let's check out the pedals for sale on BC" - WTF?!? I didn't buy the bass to save money FFS. So yeh, it's hard, good luck!

Cheers. Just to try and clear it up a bit - I get the radio through guitar amps and PAs etc anyway. I can normally get around this when recording. However, now it seems it's been coming through my mixer all along, which is no good when I want to record acoustic stuff.

We've always got the radio coming through guitar amps in my music room. I've been recording here for a while, but it's normally pretty loud stuff. Anyway, the other day I did some acoustic stuff and you can really hear the radio coming through. It's only on mics i've run through my desk. I use a seperate rack of pres for my condensor mics, and there's no radio interference on these. Any ideas on what to do?

[quote name='matski' post='1026818' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:55 PM']What mod?[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=108450"]this mod[/url]

[quote name='matski' post='1026815' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:53 PM']I'm surprised to see that the Digitech Whammy is fairly popular - are people actually using them in a live situation or just pissing about with at rehearsals?[/quote] Well mine is an XP-100. I use it for chorus, wahs, octave down, octave up, and the very occasional whammying.

Sorry, I really wouldn't know - I try to not look at gear I can't afford. TL Audio do nice valve compressors, and i've seen them in lots of studios, but they could be sh*t for all I know

It depends, are you trying to master your mixes? Or do you mean for using all the time when listening? Some sort of mastering outboard wouldn't be a bad idea. I've had real trouble trying to get plug-ins to give me the master compression i'm after. If I could afford i'd have a nice stereo multi band compressor and a proper standalone CD burner for mastering.

I quite often forget to double check the gain at every stage and end up with clipping drums that I have to re-do! Also drummers tend to knock mics - don't forget to move them back! Turning headphones on with the volume set insanely loud. Forgetting to tune everything to a digital tuner. Forgetting to tune the drum kit! One I do quite often which might be specific to me, is come back to my studio where everything's still set up, and plug my PC in. I plug in the soundcards the wrong way round, and record snare onto the vocal channel, kick on to the bass, no vocals etc... just because I get two plugs the wrong way round and don't double check before hitting record. Another mistake we make quite often is getting drunk during mixing.

If you got a cheap mp3 player and opened it up, you could wire the play, pause, skip track controls up to footswitches. It'd be cheaper!!