Twigman

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1364512374' post='2027661'] Haaaaaaaaaa Sorry but I looked at a GT86 a few weeks ago and didn't think it was possible to get anything bigger than a very small briefcase in the boot. [/quote] Marshall 2 x 12 in boot of GT86 (not mine)

Sad to see the choice is so limited....... I am itching to do this again......please, someone offer something up. I would if I could but record company copyright issues restrain me....

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1365083620' post='2035033'] From what I've read, it sounds as though the KRKs accentuate the highs and lows at the expense of mids. I have a mate with KRKs, I'll check them out tonight. [/quote] that might explain why my mix of your song sounds boosted in the mids on other systems then? I have fallen foul of the KRK curse then..

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1365081651' post='2034985'] Twigman - I've heard a lot of bad things about the KRKs, do your mixes seem to translate to other system well? [/quote] So far mostly yes - however the Sapere Aude mix I did for your competition seems to be far more mid heavy when played back through both my poxy office setup and through my home hifi than it sounded in my studio room through the KRKs. This is the first mix that has happened to though, others have translated to other systems as expected......

I love my KRK G2 Rokit RP6 monitors £329 per pair here: [url="http://www.dv247.com/studio-equipment/krk-rokit-rp6-g2-active-studio-monitors-pair--68122"]http://www.dv247.com/studio-equipment/krk-rokit-rp6-g2-active-studio-monitors-pair--68122[/url]

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1365069722' post='2034754'] Given time I automate vocals, I never ever cut out the breathing altogether, it kills the feel for me, however if you compress the vocal to add punch and 'spit' as it were, you bring the level of the breathing right up, and the only way to really precisely control it is to automate pulling the input level into the compressor down for every breath. A track like this it would take about 20 minutes to do one vocal channel really well (you actually have to listen to every bit of every phrase in the song repeatedly to get every breath right). [/quote] That's what I did.....pulled the level down for each and every breath and used a slow curve envelope on the automation to bring each breath back to level... i also edited out that clang on the guitar after the Sapere Aude vocal bit where the strummed acoustic and 'normal' vocal refrain come back in.....It just sounded like it was timed poorly and superfluous...I heard it was still there in many of the mixes. [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1365069722' post='2034754'] I left the acoustic in, but the eq had devastating amounts of cut in it. [/quote] Yes I eq'd out a lot of the bottom end of the acoustic particularly in the appeggiated parts - I suspect the player's thumb was a little heavy on the E string.... [quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1365069722' post='2034754'] the snare was ducking the guitars[/quote] As I said above I tried this but found that I got too much 'pump' on the guitars so abandoned the idea.... I loved doing this - I can't wait to get cracking on next month's ....

[quote name='Pow_22' timestamp='1365058595' post='2034582'] I know this will cause some major abuse on here but i gigged last week using the headliners Orange bass terror. Have used them before so as soon as i saw it i though ''ohhhhhh bollocks''. To me they just sound like someone has put an angry bee in an empty ale can and stuck a micropohone next to the hole. Horrible things [/quote] One of these was provided as backline when we played in Berlin last November....could I get a decent sound out of it? Could I f***. Awful things IMHO

Mix H - which bizarrely seemed to have the most plays - perhaps as it was top of the list - I do hope not that many folk were put off by it thus not venturing to the better executed efforts further doen the page. I went for a wall of sound from the guitars which is probably why the mix sounds very mid heavy and muddy. One thing I did which I don't think others did was edit out all the breathing in the vocal...i thought that sounded horrible...but then perhaps the vocal sounds a little sterile as a result? I found the acoustic guitar in the bit after the intro to be really difficult to control. Without it the section sounded empty, with it it sounded too busy and had a tendancy to overload the meters. Yes, I did have a 'huge snare ring' I bussed all snares together and then whacked quite a lot of compression on it....this was in an effort to get the snare to cut through the mush of guitars - i bussed the guitars and considered for a while sidechaining the guitars to the snare but that put too much pump into the guitars.....I found it really tricky to get the drums anywhere but 'at the back' of the mix. I am really looking forward to the next one whatever that might be.....I am afraid I won't be able to provide any stems as our record company are somewhat traditional when it comes to copyright issues and to be honest my home demos are not the greatest performances in the world.....

Ampeg SVX for bass sims

Stage Presence - do I have any? nope not a lot - although I make a point of catching the eye of someone in the audience and coaxing them into a staring contest while i play.....I always win

NI Guitar Rig?

I think it is intersting that Mix H 'looks' the loudest when all the waveforms are shown together but isn't, I do see what you say about mixB now.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1364917294' post='2032594'] Heh, I set this up and cant remember whose is whose (I can recognise mine, but have nolonger got any idea without referring back to my original set up scheme who did the rest). Doing my head in too! [/quote] I know which is mine. It is obvious to me.

Vote Vote Vote Ha Ha Ha This is weird when you can't tell folk which to vote for!!

None of these look brick wall limited to me when i look at the waveforms.....

I confess also to mixing through a compressor on the Master buss...[psp Vintage Warmer to be precise] I always do...old habits die hard. is the voting still open? I'd like to make some specific comments about things I did and things I found difficult but don't wish to influence the voting.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364887904' post='2032103'] Rolling Stones at number six. [/quote] whoops I'm not wearing my specs

No mention of The Clash.....London Calling has got to ne up there..... nor mention of the stones.... no van morrison? astral weeks has laways been up there... seriously flawed list

The drums on mix B sound the best....I found them really quite difficult to deal with...but mix B does not get my vote as the vocal singing the title of the song has been omitted completely....

Magic

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1364512374' post='2027661'] You could always try removing the passenger seat? [/quote] It should get in with the rear seat folded flat.

Do one of ours!!! I give you Cowboys - always great fun to play!!!! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqOXR2O5vs[/media]

I am amazed at how different they all sound from each other. It's reassuring to hear that some others obviously struggled with the same things I did....

I loved my Sessionette 100 4x10 combo....... but my Carlsbro Cobra90 head was as sh*te as a visit to the can after a night on guinness, curry AND kebabs with extra chillies and chilli sauce... Edit: nearly forgot the Marshall MB150 in our rehearsal room is almost impossible to get a decent tone out of. If the room we're in has that in when i turn up without my own rig, it is immediately swapped for something [anything] else.

Debuted the H1 at rehearsal tonight attached to a mic stand in the middle of the room with the input level down at 10/100, recording 44.1/16bit....came out marvellous after running it through audacity's compressor when I got home to bring it back up to reasonable levels. Bunged a 32GB Sandisk micro SD card in it so should be good for a fair few rehearsals. Well chuffed The quality is astounding. Now I will have no excuse for not remembering that new song we played 6 weeks ago......oh well can't win 'em all. thanks chaps