this thread is for producers, recording engineers, or anyone who takes pride in what they do with audio. This is not a thread based off of performance. this is solely for recording, mixing, and mastering. post your set ups, experience, tips, tricks, and/or questions

my small set up
-powerbook G5 with a gig of ram
-160 external firewire HD
-mbox w/ pro tools LE
-Audio Technica 2020 condensor mic (some company fucked up and sent me it for free)
-some casio keyboard from the 90's with a midi hookup
-reason 3.0
-countless cords
-access to my schools full studio with a ridiculous set-up (where i mic drums)

i have been into it for over a year. my highschool had a studio. i do all my friedns work, all their bands and solo shit. made some $. going to school for it now.

feel free to post any work you have done

I don't understand what you're saying.

this is what i got

http://www.sae.edu/

FFTT lp next summer

yea wrote that too quick. i ment that the thread seems to be more based on the musician. like, the guitar player would say "this is what i recorded." now he didnt actually record, mix or master it, he just played the guitar. this thread is for the recording engineers and what have you.

Well I take my recordings serious enough. I'm no professional though.

no no i didnt mean you. like, to me, the thread seemed to be based off of performance of music. not the recording of music. this thread is for recording. not performance.

So I fit in here?

if you yourself record stuff and take pride in your work, then yes.

Stamos, you are making no sense at all.

Really.


p.s. Aaron, delete me off your buddy list so I can contact you.

i blame it on the Draino cut blow

are we going to get songs before this?

oh yeah...!

just saying..ep/demo (whatever) sometime soon. it actully shoudl be done by now..but it just so happened that last 4 fucking weeks in a row dird broke a string the night before recording...no joke. and as we all know, you just cant record with new string..those bitches gotta get broken in.


summer... hopefully sae will take care of us...for freeeeeeeeeeeweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

















you see what i did there? did you see that..? i turned free into weeeeeee. to sound like i was having fun.... when your having fun you must refer to yourself and other people. of coure.

I'm majoring in Music Industry and Technology with options in Music Business and Recording arts.

I have a 12" Powerbook G4 1.5GHz
I will hopefully have an MBOX by New Years.
I'm comfortable in garage band and pro tools
I need to buy some Shure SM-57's and throw away my worthless dynamic radio shack mics and put a piece of gum over the microphone hole on my laptop.

delicious

Didn't Zeke know how to record well?

zeke! oh man...he came in. destroyed. became a ghost.

He said my stuff sounded too digital and that he would help me.

57's are good, but i have herd realllly good things about the AKG c-1000's. supposed to be better than the sm57s. i think im gunna get a shure drum mic set-up, but for that im gunna need an octopre or something. 2 inserts arent enough.
Zzounds
great prices on gear. they did fuck me over kinda, but it was a fluke. still a good company.

that confuses me...

i did about a half hour ago. you still cant get me? ill try to im you.

I hate your AIM. I've been out of contact with you for nearly a year now because of it.
We were pretty tight too.

fags

Dr. Obvious.

Booooo at pro tools LE!!

Hopefully i will own one of these before xmas.



This is the Real shit. I will run it with nuendo 2.


This is my Audio setup so far. As you can see its just monitors, an amp, and a PC. My current soundcard is pony.



Software wise i use;

Nuendo 2
Reason 3
Acid pro 4 (only for getting the exact tempo of a track for mixing)

what kinda monitors are those? a friend of mine runs nuendo. never got a chance to play with it. how is it compared to pro tools?
edit: just read up on that motu. pretty sick box. tell me how that is if you get it.

Ok, depends how serious you wanna get really. Pro tools is awesome. But Pro tools LE is not. Its like the Squier of Fender.
Nuendo 2 is the one up from Cubase SX. It has extra's like 6.1 surround mixing and a few extra's i dont use, and Cubase SX doesnt have.

But Nuendo is really stable. I think it crashed once for me, but my pc was full of bugs and viruses.
I had lots of trouble with Pro tools on the PC when i borrowed my friends M-box.
Nuendo is expensive though. But i'm sure you can get a "Demo" online

My monitors are Tannoy Reveal X's. They are nearfield monitors. They sound great, if a little bassy, but thats the acoustics of my room i believe. Also they are closer than desirable, but when i designed my room, and built that wall to my left, i didnt think about the size too much, just so i could fit in comfortably.

The motu is alot better than the digi 002 racks aswell. It has 8 preamps, one for each channel, where as the 002 only has 4.

Right now im actually deciding between the
Motu 896HD

and

Motu 828mkII

The 828 is considerably cheaper, has pretty much all the same features apart from the inputs and outputs are 1/4 jack rather than XLR. Although it has 2 XLR inputs on the front with preamps. I probably will get the 828 thinking about it. It looks amazing. I will definately let you know! Should be this weekend.

I wish this baby sounded as good as my squier.

ESPs don't sound good?! WTF?

torrentspy has nuendo 3.0. i've been downloading it for the past week and i'm barely past 90%...i really hope it fucking works. how'd you get yours?

Want me to record it?

It sounds nice clean, but the distortion sounds so lame.

Actually I'm surprised that my esp just dissed me. It's never sounded this good.

It really made me look like a fool. The distortion now sounds better than the clean. wtf?
OK well here it is anyway. ESP vs Squier.

ESP is first.
The squier's clean is definately alot better than the esp. They both have used the same exact settings through the pre-amp.

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1WG8HGJ...KJ0VTQHB0WDFRZP

I might try to record something with the esp and see how it turns out. I'm definately going to use the esp for leads now. The sustain pick ups are alot cleaner with lead.

here's your problem

there's no optimal universal setting for clean and distortion on a given setup

I play a Les Paul Studio with EMGs and a Fender Japanese Strat, pretty much polar opposites, through my Sunn Model T. There's a sweet spot for both, you can't treat your guitars the same. You have to determine the best tone to highlight the personality of each instrument. For example, when I want a really dirty bluesy crunch with my strat, I turn up the send and return of the FX loop but don't engage any of my pedals. This gets the preamp tubes for the second channel running hotter and makes a world of difference.

Really? Does this happen with any tube amp ?

Brian, the ESP = SO much better.

no, what do you play through?

I understand that. But I don't know what settings are best for each one for me to compare, so I just used the same ones.

An Ashdown "Fallen Angel" 60watt Head, with Ashdown Cab.

I'm so getting flamed for this. hahahahaha

Everything you hear here is all done by mouth. The walrus like sound is my friend. I did everything else.
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=17HYK3W...ZP26EZRI3PYMD3W

pro tools is really stable for macs. it has yet to crash on me. i wouldnt get the 002 rack because it only has 4 preamps. my old highschool had a 002 rack and an octopre. pretty pointless when you can just get to motu. the only problem is im very very comfortable with pro tools. i can get around with other programs, but i was taught with pro tools. for now, the stuff i do sounds pretty good, even if i am using PTLE. considering i havent had this set up for too long, im gunna keep this for a while and upgrade later. i still want something with more than these 2 shitty preamps i get with the mbox. eh...ill make due

www.myspace.com/aaronsprojects

eesh

I'm tired of seeing your butt.

Sounds like you're trying to sound like Blink 182. Ignoring the fact that you slightly resemble Tom.

so...i now have nuendo 3.0 but am having trouble composing. can anybody tell me how to locate something similar to the piano roll in fruity loops? i've found the instruments, but i can't seem to find anything that will let me record them or arrange them.

if you can sort me out with that copy of nuendo 3 then i will tell you all you need to know

I cant find a working version of 3.0

EDIT: Ok i just found a torrent for an apparent "working" version.

anyways, add a midi track. Then click on the pencil on the toolbar at the top, then you just have to draw a boxon the track you made.. then double click the box and you'll have the piano.

so, uh.. which song were u referring to? 'cuz one is a ska song, and the other sounds nothing like blink 182. except for the fact that i'm playing chords on a guitar.

guess who's getting a mac mini or ibook for christmas?

me!

i'm gonna record stuff like a mo fo on that, i'm so excited

That makes no sense. Effects loops go after the preamp and before the poweramp. I think you mean it gets the power tubes running hotter, but the same effect would be achieved by cranking your Master Volume.

my uncle produced an album for these gusy called sons of dust. well its his first full lenght big time production and it sounds great. he says he has an extra mac laying around with programs on it he'll give me...we'll see how legit that is...