- Jun 30, 2009
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I was searching the internet, as you do, and came across this. Thought some people may find this interesting....although Terry Date isn't talked about much around here.
Thoughts? Anyone used two 1176's like that before?
"I was lucky enough to attend a mixing/mastering seminar last week where he was the guest speaker. For those of you who don't know his name, he was probably the biggest hard rock/metal producer of the '90's (even though he describes himself mostly as an engineer) - he did all the Deftones records, all the Soundgarden records except Superunknown, everything by Pantera, all the Limp Bizkit stuff (love 'em or hate 'em, those were the HUGEST sounding albums), Mother Love Bone, White Zombie, Smashing Pumpkinds, Staind, etc ...
Anyways, somebody asked him how he records vocals and he said that 90% of the time it goes about like this:
SM58 (yes, a Shure SM58 over Nuemanns and the like)
Neve preamp (didn't mention which one, but PLEASE UA, we'll be your best friends if you start doing preamp plugins)
1176 on 4 or 8, with Input and Output set at "10 and 2" (10 and 2 being hands-on-the-clock positions, not values on the knob)
2nd 1176, again on 4 or 8, Input and Output set to "2 and 10" (reversed from the first 1176)
To tape
I thought the use of the SM58 was interesting, as was the series of 1176's on different settings. He just said one of the 1176's was at 10 and 2 and the other was reversed, so it could be 2 and 10 followed by 10 and 2. I wish he had described more things specifically like this, but hey, I'll take it. One other thing I got was this: when he does big, distorted rhythm guitars, he like to do double tracking, then pan them hard to either side and sometimes add a bit of reverb/echo to each one and pan it to the opposite side (so the reverb from the right guitar is on the left and vice versa). So yeah ..."
Thoughts? Anyone used two 1176's like that before?