Collective questions for Mr. Sneap -thread

[cobhc]

Actually, you got me there, that was a Peavey Triple X with a pre sonus parametric in front of it (eq3b I think) into a normal sized boogie cab with one 57. Check out the set up, this album was not glamorous!

Thanks for that, I'm assuming the EQ3B was in the loop? That's the little blue thing that I think Lee still uses live?

 

[AdamWathan]

Thanks for that, I'm assuming the EQ3B was in the loop? That's the little blue thing that I think Lee still uses live?

He said in front of so I'm assuming not in the loop, probably set up as a boost + EQ for the same sort of purpose he normally uses a TS for

 

[Gustavo_Loureiro]

Hey Andy, thanks a lot for the answers!

 

[GarethSE]

How do I mix drums? thats a bit of a vague question, do you mean what perspective? Crowd perspective.

I never thought I'd ever say this to you but
SON YOU NEED EDUCATIN'

 

[Jaymz]

I usually get told that putting duvets/blankets around guitar cabs gives a cloudy/woofy/boxy tone, whats your take on this? If your low on cash throw a blanket on? *If your in a un-treated room I mean..which I am*

 

[Jaymz]

I never thought I'd ever say this to you but
SON YOU NEED EDUCATIN'

HAHAHAHA!!

 

[GarethSE]

Also, can you remember what reverb you used on The Godless Endeavour's snare? Right at the very start of born, that's some fucking epic reverb.
Were the clean tones on that album recto too btw?

 

[ahjteam]

Yeah, the ¯\(°_o)/¯ how do mix drums? is a legendarily vague single post by JohnStorm in the production techniques subforum that ended up as being so awesomely bad question, that various people from this forum went to the point that they ended up getting t-shirts from it, including me:

 

[cobhc]

He said in front of so I'm assuming not in the loop, probably set up as a boost + EQ for the same sort of purpose he normally uses a TS for

Yeah, I completely read that wrong haha, thanks for clarifying.

 

[abyssofdreams]

who's that?

 

[Andy Sneap]

I never thought I'd ever say this to you but
SON YOU NEED EDUCATIN'

youre confusing me now...

edit....oh I see, I guess I missed something here lol

 

[kev]

Also, can you remember what reverb you used on The Godless Endeavour's snare? Right at the very start of born, that's some fucking epic reverb.
Were the clean tones on that album recto too btw?

Really big +1 on the reverb question :danceboy: P.S I was overjoyed to find your farm the other day Andy, i've got some friends who live up the road in Crich and they pointed me on lol!

 

[Andy Sneap]

I usually get told that putting duvets/blankets around guitar cabs gives a cloudy/woofy/boxy tone, whats your take on this? If your low on cash throw a blanket on? *If your in a un-treated room I mean..which I am*

Yeah but this was no ordinary duvet, these was special acoustic panels with magic properties made out of every sofa we could find on the second floor of the rehearsal studio. Basically the room sounded so bad, and it was tiny so it was damage limitation time.

 

[Jaymz]

Haha well seeing that setup and hearing the finished product, it sounds immense! Everything is so in your face, id never have guessed it was at such a ghetto location

 

[Erik Monsonis]

From what I know, he uses D-Verb on all his snares, but I may be wrong

 

[ahjteam]

who's that?

¯\(°_o)/¯

 

[NickL]

I've thought of a few good ones

In the booklet for Opeth's "Deliverance" you're credited as "mix engineer and savior" or something along those lines. Opeth's one of my favorite bands but I've heard a few times that their studio knowledge is not exactly cutting edge How crappy were those tracks before you got to them? Did you have to do anything really insane to get it sounding right?

I've always thought some of the sound design on Doomsday Machine was really cool (as well as the mix, of course). I really dig the grinding machine noises at the end of Nemesis. Did you create this from scratch? Got any info on it?

Who's your favorite band to work with?

Thanks again, great information here

 

[Andy Sneap]

Megadeth bass set up for you

the grinding noise on Doomsday was some ship that cleans the bottom of the harbour in Halmstad, Sweden, Daniel recorded it, sounds great doesnt it.

 

[LeSedna]

Hey seems there is a lot of good information for me, quite a beginner. thanks to everyone.

I have my own questions from France :
- how do you process to have a distorded bass tracks if any ?
- in what proportion do you use plugins or hardware ?
- what is your typical processing chain (in terms of plugins or hardware) for a guitar/bass/vox track ? (the question for drums is obviously stupid). I mean, what are the plugins or hardware you would ALWAYS put on the tracks, independently of the "today" take, the things you already know in the beginning of your day that will be in your mix ? And, why ?
- what freebies do you really like because it surprised you ?
- what speakers do you like for what use ?

 

[kev]

Hey seems there is a lot of good information for me, quite a beginner. thanks to everyone.

I have my own questions from France :

- what speakers do you like for what use ?

If you didnt know about guitars - "V30's predominatly & standard 75's from Marshall 1960 cabs although finds them a bit phasey"