hell-o mates.
It sucks major ass when you spend alot of time and effort in a recording and then, during mixing, realize that you have only like 70% of what you could have due to some fucking room!
in this case i wanted to record guitars to one of our new tunes, i didn't/couldn't use the major studio, 'cause i was recording another band in there and every room was packed with percussion-crap (live-recording with like 10 percussionists, bass, vox, piano, special instruments (kalimba, marimba etc).
so i chose to put my stack in the small vocalbooth of what we call "studio B" (it basically is just our office, which is used for some surround and video-stuff, commercials etc....), but it's got that small vox-booth to record some spoken stuff etc.
this fu**** thing sounds like a sauna!
it's about only 1-1.5m^2 and really shut (nothing comes in nor out, neither sound nor air.
and that's the important thing.
when you cranck your amp inside of such a small room there's alot of air moving it doesn't really matter whether you're micing close or not, there are areas of compression and rarefaction overlapping and creating a mess (imagine like a small bucket of water you stirr with a powerfull mixer).
of course that afects the mics membrane as well.
the result is: the guitars sound really small, pushed and narrow and they've got that nasty characteristic to them that will let them stick out in your mix, you can do whatever you want, they won't fit in.
it anoys me so much, that i'm gonna grab my entire stack and rack again (within the next weeks when i've got the time) and record it again in a bigger room.
that's where re-amping comes in handy, i wish i would have recorded the dry signal!!!
here's a little clip showing you what i'm talking about.
i like bass and drums though, but hate that nasty narrowed and weird character the guitars have going on.
small rooms suck
just a ruff-mix of course, as i said, i'm gonna re-record the guitars anyway, so.....
uke:
It sucks major ass when you spend alot of time and effort in a recording and then, during mixing, realize that you have only like 70% of what you could have due to some fucking room!
in this case i wanted to record guitars to one of our new tunes, i didn't/couldn't use the major studio, 'cause i was recording another band in there and every room was packed with percussion-crap (live-recording with like 10 percussionists, bass, vox, piano, special instruments (kalimba, marimba etc).
so i chose to put my stack in the small vocalbooth of what we call "studio B" (it basically is just our office, which is used for some surround and video-stuff, commercials etc....), but it's got that small vox-booth to record some spoken stuff etc.
this fu**** thing sounds like a sauna!
it's about only 1-1.5m^2 and really shut (nothing comes in nor out, neither sound nor air.
and that's the important thing.
when you cranck your amp inside of such a small room there's alot of air moving it doesn't really matter whether you're micing close or not, there are areas of compression and rarefaction overlapping and creating a mess (imagine like a small bucket of water you stirr with a powerfull mixer).
of course that afects the mics membrane as well.
the result is: the guitars sound really small, pushed and narrow and they've got that nasty characteristic to them that will let them stick out in your mix, you can do whatever you want, they won't fit in.
it anoys me so much, that i'm gonna grab my entire stack and rack again (within the next weeks when i've got the time) and record it again in a bigger room.
that's where re-amping comes in handy, i wish i would have recorded the dry signal!!!
here's a little clip showing you what i'm talking about.
i like bass and drums though, but hate that nasty narrowed and weird character the guitars have going on.
small rooms suck
just a ruff-mix of course, as i said, i'm gonna re-record the guitars anyway, so.....
uke:
