Recent content by madmuso

Those guitars sound great, if thats Andy's "off the mic/no post processing" guitar sound then im gonna sell all my recording gear tomorrow!

Hey guys, thanks for the reply's and video links, etc. Have checked out the ez mix stuff from toontrack, killer stuff but it deals mainly with "fit in the mix" end result type stuff which I wont really learn too much from. Who knows what tracking/processing has taken place, its too hard to...

maybe the main man will see this and kindly do a quick bounce of some tracks for us?!!!! wishfull thinking hey! I also forgot to ask, does anyone know what his go to mic preamp is for recording guitars? I'd like to know his signal chain right leading up to the DAW. thanks!

Hey guys, Its been a while since I last visited, great to see things really happening in here! I was wondering, has Andy ever posted, or would he consider ever posting short samples of guitar sounds from actual albums he has recorded and mixed straight after the tracking stage? No post...

cool stuff. does anyone know what Andy fav vocal chain is, Mic choice and preamp?

Hey guys, I recently watched some sound on sound vids with Russ Russell and Andy and was surprised to hear that Andy compresses vocals during tracking, does anyone know what he uses, and if he's actually compressing or just limiting slightly to tame the peaks to avoid clipping and get some...

great, thanks for the reply. Im also wondering what type of reverb (plate, large hall, etc) he likes for drums, during that section it sounds like its a large hall type but then when the song kicks in again it sounds as though smaller reverb types are doing most of the work. Interesting...

Hi all, Its been a long time since ive visited here but I am getting back into music production so i thought I'd start visiting again and found this thread really informative. Some great stuff. I have a few questions relating to the drum reverbs on "my apocalypse" during the "breakdown"...

Queensryche- Empire.

just remember, we (as muso's/producers/engineers/whatever) arent here to please everyone, so as long as you truly know that somewhere someone will dig it then you've done your job. Im sure that all of us here can name a shitload of albums that production wise arent very good but we still love...

yeah 10db was probably a bit much, especially if you were using a high ratio, at least you've sorted it out!

can you post the intro part your talking about? I play keys and may be able to help.

the pumping is caused by the attack and release settings. Use slower or medium attack setting so the transients gets through and while the fast part is playing stuff around with the release setting. How much db of gain reduction is happening during the fast parts? What ratio are you comping at?

I like using a 57 as a close mic and letting the drum overheads (usualy SDC) fill in the rest of the picture. I find that it gives good seperation if mic'd well too. Move the mic to 2 or 3 different spots and record a snipet of each one, mark the spots on the floor as you go, pick the best...

thats the only one I have which is compressed, I selected that particular hit out of this clip: E902 halfway sinside soundhole: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1528360/sammys%20homemade%20samples/e902/e902%20wav/inside%20half%20way.wav heres others, E902 Close to batter head...