Recent content by jackobme

I mic'd an Orange 4x12 in a garage and it sounded awful. So then I built a sort of sound barrier around it, and it still sounded awful. Could've been the garage, but I think alot of it was that damn Orange.

everyone always says "it's different for every mix", but this is nice to get an idea of the ballpark

You could always master while you mix...

ROOM ROOM ROOM i once tried re-amping in a garage… yikes. I suggest somewhere with carpet, any hard flooring is going to give off too much room sound for guitars! I'm thinking most likely what you're not happy with is because of the room.

never thought of using transient designer to REDUCE attack, but it worked perfectly! thanks for the tip! and marshy i miss picking your brain on putney's secrets

Yeah it's Slate 5 blended with 17. I was trying to get that "airiness" sturgis does so i had a high shelf boosting the air frequencies but i took that off. I have a clipper I'm playing around with, so we'll see how that goes. Never had much success getting Slate snares to sound fat, don't know...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfnyctqzwzwyoct/Prestige%203%3A6.mp3?dl=0 I always have the problem of too much initial snap on the snare, idk if its my compression or what, but i've played with it for hours. In need of some outside ears.

I tracked bass recently with really thick strings and the tone was just not clanky like i was hoping. I've tracked bass again with stock strings tuned way down, and hot damn theres the clank. Try some thinner strings!

Damn this is cool. I was actually able to find a really cool sample that did it. But good to know the other tricks. I do have a reamper but i mostly track guitars in my room, so i don't want bring an amp in here.

Is there some sort of trick here? I've got podfarm, and i've seen people put the guitar up to their monitors to do so. Ideas?

Here's what i've got so far, any tips? https://www.dropbox.com/s/jnn6afg3ggr47s5/Drums.mp3

Damn that sounds sexy. A good room would be nice. I tracked this band with a Blue Baby Bottle in a garage about 8 feet from the kit. Ill post the drums once i get them finished in the next couple days or so.

Definitely does :rock: Good to hear that opinion on the room rather than trying to recreate a different room.

People dont tend to post about real drums much here, at least not for the questions im asking. Im wondering if anyone scoops room mics? I always try to get my drums to sound as close to slate drums as i can, they are so polished. And when people scoop, what frequencies do they aim for and do...

Ouch! I'm a noob dude, we talked about this. 0 Schooling. Just learning from the interwebs. Only been at this about a year.