Here is a fucking challenge that I bet you can't meet.

[Loren Littlejohn]

Here is the thing though.

This desk uses VST plugs so we could have better plugs (3rd part etc) if we wanted (and why we don't is fuck all to me they spent well over 12k on this board alone). We also have an 003 pro tools LE 7 setup but most of the plugs that are included with PTLE are not installed. But I hear they are developing that more into something more usable and are busing over more inputs from the mackie to get the setup up to snuff.

Let me see if I can find some pics of this studio:

Live room (well a small part of it)

Old picture of the rack

mix/edit room (the CRT you see is now a LCD, and they replaced that small ass desk)

You know though even if you scoff at this setup, I only pay $300 out of pocket every semester.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

If I remember I will post up some current pictures when I go to mix again.

 

[Metaltastic]

Nice Tannoys

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

That'd suit me fine actually - I use Sonar, and I use the channel eq and Sonitus compressor and gate all the time. The main thing I'd miss is better reverb controls, but for the most part any effects I use are in the guitar chain and not in the box.

And for the record, your college is decked out better than most of the studios where I live. The most popular choice (admittedly because it's dirt cheap) record entirely on a 24 track Roland desk.

Steve

 

[DevilJaw]

yeah the problem with the daw is there is so much to screw up your sound,i try to get the best possible sound from any source and mic it up, with a few tweaks with simple tools and you got yourself a nice mix.

im a big fan of working with little as tracks as possible, i like to work a little old schoolish, by mixing and premastering while i go, then bounce tracks.

because when i get a really good mix feel, i dont want to screw it up, i dont want to tweak it to find out something if i know it sounds good, then it sounds good. i always try to limit myself, for me at least it makes me concentrate of the whole mix better as well as getter a better feel for what the artist was trying to accomplish.

i also try to use as little eq as possible to achieve a tone, i only use eq to cut if absolutely necessary if it changes the tone of the sound for the better.

i spent the longest time trying not to eq guitars because i wanted get the best out the the recording chain to get my final tone.

 

[JBroll]

I think some of the best guitar advice I've gotten is that the recorded sound should be at least 95% of the way there - and that low only for a bad sound - and that the EQ should comprise of low- and high-passing and making room for other instruments, if not just the first two. Bunch of fucking headaches, but I know how to dial a guitar sound now...

Jeff

 

[Aaron Smith]

GuitarGodgt,
your a lucky man! haha you should see the piece of shit my college just bought for us to do a load of mixes on. its some Yamaha thing, with one screen in the middle (equivalent to the first ever gameboy screen(yes, black and white and extremely pixilated, roughly 6 inches) with the cheapest sounding compressor, verb and EQ. i will find out what it is and post it up...

Sounds like an O2R...

 

[GeertSamuel]

This is actually what I always did before I got Metric Halo Channelstrip,....

 

[jesterroot4]

Sounds like an O2R...

lol not quite as good haha

this desk is smaller , i shall look now for it lol

 

[jesterroot4]

here we go the screen is wider than i remember, although i've only used it once haha

its such a fiddly little shit

 

[Metaltastic]

Ahahahahahahahaaha, I think the term "desk" might be a bit of a stretch there dude...

 

[jesterroot4]

lol yup! its just a little hard drive recorder that can also burn down CD's haha!
what a peice of junk...

i mean, it could be cool for certain situations... but what am i gonna learn from using this? we already have a rack mounted Fostex hard drive recorder

stupidness

 

[scorpio01169]

Here is the thing though.

This desk uses VST plugs so we could have better plugs (3rd part etc) if we wanted (and why we don't is fuck all to me they spent well over 12k on this board alone). We also have an 003 pro tools LE 7 setup but most of the plugs that are included with PTLE are not installed. But I hear they are developing that more into something more usable and are busing over more inputs from the mackie to get the setup up to snuff.

Let me see if I can find some pics of this studio:

Live room (well a small part of it)

Old picture of the rack

mix/edit room (the CRT you see is now a LCD, and they replaced that small ass desk)

You know though even if you scoff at this setup, I only pay $300 out of pocket every semester.

hey GuitarGodgt...thats a Mackie Mdr or Hdr 24/96 24 track hard disk recorder. and the thing about the DXB is (if you have that kinda money), you can daisychain two of them for up to 48 tracks

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

It would be badass if they did but I am pretty sure they are not gonna. 24 tracks was fine I ended up using 23.

Also: I used md421 mics on the guitars and loved it. I always thought that mic was dark from what I read, but it ended up being perfect.

 

[colonel kurtz]

wow dude, your college is ghetto

there's no pics from the school i just finished up at because they're re-doing the studio page...but anyways, they're running PT HD2 with the 24-channel D-command, shitloads of top-notch outboard and mics, and a fucking massive live room with some good iso booths to boot

best part, it was only $54/semester...it's $71 now since the classes were bumped from 2 units to 3 - but still...

but yea, before the HD setup was there, we had a d8b with the HDR24...not a bad setup, but totally terrible if you were stuck using the onboard plugins, which weren't 3rd party at the time. i was able to get some good mixes thanks to the awesome outboard we had...but if it wasn't for that, i would've been pounding my head on the board until i had fader imprints on my forehead

 

[Sloan]

I completely try to stick to Reaper's stock plugins as much as i can. the other plugins i use are just delay, saturation, and reverb.

 

[scorpio01169]

i own two of them for 48 tracks

 

[colonel kurtz]

i originally looked into getting a mackie HDR or something similar, but the fact that it's a completely closed/proprietary system was a total deal-breaker for me

 

[scorpio01169]

i originally looked into getting a mackie HDR or something similar, but the fact that it's a completely closed/proprietary system was a total deal-breaker for me

what do you mean closed/proprietory system? if you mean it will only work with certain board hardware....thats not true....the beauty of these and the alesis 24/96 you can record with 0 latency and then transfer your files to a daw for mixdown or editing which i do all the time....if you look at the pic above i am running two of these, and on top of the unit you'll see a M-Audio Firewire 410/ Nuendo that i used as as another 8 tracks for a total of 56 dedicated tracks and sometime i transfer all my tracks into Nuendo and do my mixdown and use the fx in the daw. i am not trying to tell you that it's what everyone SHOULD be using but what i'm saying is that it will work with anything...if you know how to use it.

 

[colonel kurtz]

i don't know...i just remember that at school, there was no way to import tracks from outside their studio into the HDR/D8B setup, which totally sucked