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[quote name='guildbass' timestamp='1337706508' post='1664339'] I'd love to find a room that worked well but without such a luxury it's much nicer to record 'dead' and put the room on afterwards. We recently set up in a house and as soon as I cranked up the old MD409 the room just crushed everything...the ceilings were too low for starters. I've tried in churches too...It IS lovely but you need a time to get the 'room' mic'd up as well as the talent... [/quote] Agreed. Finding a good room where you can let rip is (that you can afford) is a complete swine. Guerrilla recordings are great fun if you can find somewhere good though.

[quote name='guildbass' timestamp='1337706079' post='1664329'] Well, the SPX900 was a revelation when it came out and was an industry 'go to' effects unit in the 90's. At the end of the day we are talking about a powered 24bit desk with mastering and a full effects suite for sometimes well under £300. Mine was used by Steve Wilson to record porcupine Tree's live stuff off the FOH desk and he's pretty fussy about sound... [/quote] For a hardware device of '90s era it was one in a long line of perfectly good multi fx devices from Yamaha (loads of project studios had them I agree) but in the 90's it was all about Lexicon for reverb and Eventide Ultra-harmonisers for modulation fx. Since Bricasti hardware solutions turned up they've consistently been 'the best' for reverb although a lot of people still love that Lexicon sound. The Eventide stuff is still outrageously powerful too. What I'm trying to say is you can get a taste of that Bricasti sound for free right now [url="http://www.samplicity.com/bricasti-m7-impulse-responses/"]from here[/url] running them in this here [url="http://www.knufinke.de/sir/sir1.php"]free vst[/url], and it will sound incredible (promise, I use that exact set up for a lot of reverb requirements). Another amazingly superb free vst reverb is the [url="http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/"]Varety of Sound Epicverb[/url], which is every bit as good as the Yamaha ever was. If you want a great plate reverb try [url="http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products/tal-reverb"]Tal II[/url] All free, and sound fantastic in their own ways.

There is nothing industry standard about the Yamaha SPX reverb..... Compared to a convolution reverb impulse from Bricasti (free) running in SIR (free convolution reverb impulse plugin) the Yamaha SPX reverbs will tend to sound very very last millenium IMO.

[quote name='Teobass88' timestamp='1337692597' post='1664036'] In my humble opinion...absolutely no! MarkBass is appropriate only for pop.... [/quote] Errr no....

If there is anything to the graphs that are on there then [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-10-Pencil-Condenser-Microphone.html"]the matched pair of sdc[/url] look incredible for the price:-

They have some [i]really[/i] interesting kit on that site:- 7 micro SDC's for $99 anyone? [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-Micro-Silver-Bullet-Drum-Pack.html"]http://www.karmamics...-Drum-Pack.html[/url] Or a matched pair for $34? [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-Micro-Matched-Pair.html"]http://www.karmamics...tched-Pair.html[/url] Or a matched pair of SDC's for $129? [url="http://www.karmamics.com/shop/K-10-Pencil-Condenser-Microphone.html"]http://www.karmamics...Microphone.html[/url] I'll be looking into these for sure, either of the matched stereo pairs would be great with my Zoom Hn in 4 track mode. Ta!

If you want a cheap ribbon then do yourself a favour and get a[url="http://www.cascademicrophones.com/cascade_FAT_HEAD_II.html"] Cascade Fathead II[/url] with the Lundahl transformer mod, absolutely gorgeous sounding mic, for guitars, OH, voice (esp a shrill female voice that you need to control), metallic percussion (tames the transients perfectly).

Still better than fabricating that much cable/multicore yourself, costs more in my time to make it than it does to buuy it (for all that I can make it without any issues, #1 solder soldier me)

He is a particularly dapper fellow, we all feel dowdy by comparison

Have a top time all of you, wish I could be there....

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1337607307' post='1662629'] I have the red audio drum mic set and it is indeeed very versatile! I tend to buy my mics used on here or ebay, i've not bought a dodgy one yet actually the most annoyingly expensive bit for me were the stands and cables... you don't really think about them until it's too late. [/quote] Wait till you need a decent multicore and patchbay....

"You dont know what day it is" ROFL - priceless, what a c**k!

[url="http://www.red5audio.com/acatalog/Drum_Kit_Mics.html"]Red 5 Audio do some really good mics[/url] (for the money). If you go their drum mic set you'd have a pair of small diaphragm condensors (good for the guitar and piano) 3 tom/snare dynamics (also good on piano, cajon, bass) and a kick mic (good on kick or bass, [size=2][i]but IMO not on both at the same time in one mix[/i][/size][size=4])[/size] Their valve condensors are also v nice for the outlay. A lot better than much of the cheap Chinese mics you can find out there.

Doh! Nice effort, be a good chap and take that back down please.....

[quote name='BigBeatNut' timestamp='1337254655' post='1657861'] .... and why use two mics for bass and guitar when you can do both with one mic ? (I wish I could find a link to the article where Gabe Roth talks in detail about his approach to recording) [/quote] See attached....[attachment=108156:sh*tty2.pdf] Hmmm, attaching a pdf is proving to be a PIA! [attachment=108158:Gabe_Roth_S_is_P_pt2.zip] OK thats a zip file containing the Gabe Roth Pretty Is Sh***y Part 2 article. Best of luck, you may have to save it and rename it to a .zip then open it (wtf is the site up to?)

R.I.P Donna, totally world class act, Moroder and her redefined dance music completely, everything else was stale the minute I Feel Love was released.

Well done chaps! Starting to get the sweats and the uncontrollable shuddering happening - standard withdrawal symptoms..... <GEEK>Strictly speaking CTRL F5 doesnt clear your cache, it refreshes the page from the server, the rest of your cache will remain unaffected.</GEEK>

Over my cold dead body

God Damn boy! You sure dun played that nice.... Hyuck Hyuck! (Jolly good effort old bean, top drawer and all that )

Who needs more than one mic for a drum kit then?

Its like a shop window, its huuuuge!

That is 'kin cool! Found them live here, which is just a mahoosive groove:- [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzCZHtTJL9w&feature=related[/media]

Thats lovely mate. Really enjoyed it, ta!

[quote name='joegarcia' timestamp='1337118929' post='1655940'] Ah, but you can roll it in glitter. [/quote] The herpes of craft materials....

Possible 90dB, Jeesus! New studio moto:- "In CircleStudios live room, no one can hear you scream" Well, if you make a pickle of the patching anyways! Dont know why but that reminds me of recording a lady singer who was pretty green when it came to studios, we had her all set up ready to go, take 1 is in the can, we all listen back at war volume and right before the song starts you could clearly hear her fart, [size=2]"trumpppppppphhhhhwheeeep"[/size]. She never lived it down