Ever feel like a complete idiot?

[Matt Smith]

Last night I was scrolling through some sounds on my D4, and I kept thinking, "Dadgum, why does this sound so much better than I remember?" So I pulled up my samples on the computer and compared them head to head, and somehow every sample I'd recorded from the D4 over time had been pitched up a degree (the D4 has a setting where you can raise or lower the pitch of the different samples by 3 or 4 degrees). Nice job, Matt!

Respect my genius!!!

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

 

[LynchpiN]

Oh my god hahahahaha :hotjump:

Once I was asked to mix a demo from a thrash metal act, and while working on it, I taught: "I don't recall them tuning this low".

After some hours working on it, I decided to compare it with the rough mix that I got from the recording studio, and I finally realised that my project sample rate was different from the audio files!

The band was actually sounding better.

 

[006]

Didn't it slow it down as well then?

~006

 

[LynchpiN]

Yep.

 

[~BURNY~]

Ever tweaked a plugin and wondered why it sound so subtle until you realize it was bypassed?

 

[metalkingdom]

It's kinda funny that you mention this. Just the other day, while messing around with DFH2, I pitched the samples up and they sounded a helluva lot better!

 

[Kazrog]

Ever tweaked a plugin and wondered why it sound so subtle until you realize it was bypassed?

More times than I'd like to admit. Hasn't happened in a while though.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Ever tweaked a plugin and wondered why it sound so subtle until you realize it was bypassed?

yes.

I've also recorded with my guitar tuned slightly sharp by mistake, and loved the tone so I spent a long time fooling with the other tracks to raise them.

 

[black sugar]

Ever tweaked a plugin and wondered why it sound so subtle until you realize it was bypassed?

Yup.

I've tweaked plugins and thought, "Man, that sounds so much better!" then realized they were bypassed or on a different channel.



I swear half of audio engineering is learning to not fall victim to placebo effect, i.e. it sounds better because you convince yourself that it does.

 

[metalkingdom]

I swear half of audio engineering is learning to not fall victim to placebo effect, i.e. it sounds better because you convince yourself that it does.

That's so true! Here's a (another) quick tidbit -

I once worked with a famous producer/engineer, whose name I won't mention, that wanted to add some "air" to the mix by boosting 16k on a GML 8200. He did some tweaking and after a few minutes proclaims with a British accent "There! That should do it!" I didn't hear shit, so I looked over at the GML and noticed that it was BYPASSED. I really respect the guy, but man I was cracking up inside! I've been lucky enough never to fall victim of the "placebo effect" (I like that!), but I have done a couple of big time no-no's that are far worse than this story.

 

[LynchpiN]

Once I was doing live sound for a couple of bands in a festival, with a PA that was tiny, powerless and plainly crap.

Then comes the gig promoter, drunk, saying "hmm, the kick drum is sounding weird, let me solve it", pushed me aside and started tweaking in the mixer - in the unused channels. After some tweaking, he goes "aaah, much better", and left with the biggest smile in the face.

The placebo effect is a trick that can be used often with whiny clients.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Lee, don't read this message :

Sometimes you have a musician from a band saying "Can we raise this or lower that ?", but you really don't want to, so you move the fader too much, listen, agree with the musician it's not good so must try again, then I just go back to where it was and get a "Yeah, that's it ! That's how it's supposed to sound".

 

[Lopes]

Or you give someone a knob that isn't really connected to anything and tell them that it controls the "snarl," "bite," or "fatness" and let them twist and turn until they've got it right where they want it.

 

[Razorjack]

Lee, don't read this message :

Sometimes you have a musician from a band saying "Can we raise this or lower that ?", but you really don't want to, so you move the fader too much, listen, agree with the musician it's not good so must try again, then I just go back to where it was and get a "Yeah, that's it ! That's how it's supposed to sound".

I've done that so many times with "producers" who can't tell you the difference between compression and reverb!!

 

[Kenneth R.]

Or you give someone a knob that isn't really connected to anything and tell them that it controls the "snarl," "bite," or "fatness" and let them twist and turn until they've got it right where they want it.

brilliant

 

[xmidihcx]

That's so true! Here's a (another) quick tidbit -

I once worked with a famous producer/engineer, whose name I won't mention, that wanted to add some "air" to the mix by boosting 16k on a GML 8200. He did some tweaking and after a few minutes proclaims with a British accent "There! That should do it!" I didn't hear shit, so I looked over at the GML and noticed that it was BYPASSED. I really respect the guy, but man I was cracking up inside! I've been lucky enough never to fall victim of the "placebo effect" (I like that!), but I have done a couple of big time no-no's that are far worse than this story.

you can't blow up andy's spot like that on his own forum!

 

[Frank'nfurter]

Hehehe....would be interesting what the great Sneapster has to say about this issue

 

[Razorjack]

you can't blow up andy's spot like that on his own forum!

Andy doesn't have an English accent, he's from Derbyshire





*Says the Mancunian*

 

[Matt Crooks]

I just purchased the Dangerous Music Monitor ST (monitor contorler with remote www.dangerousmusic.com ). One of the buttons on the remote is "PPI", it stands for "Producer Pacificatino Indicator". The manual says you cna use it to have the "Producer" pick between two mixes, even though they're really the same thing!