The button/setting you forgot to adjust.....

gemini8026

gemini8026

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I just blew my mind, at my stupidity............

It's one that boggles me even to think about it, so hopefully you guys can share some similar stories.

I have been having MAJOR bass tone issues for the past id say 2/3 months. Ive tried everything, and getting VERY fed up with my results.

Anyhow, long story short, I realised that on my preamp that I share with my guitars, I had the high pass filter on. So anything under 75 hz was getting cut off.

Blammo, hit the switch, go into my bass presets, problem solved. Making me feel like a total boob.

Can anyone relate?!?!?
 
Yep! When I first got my tubescreamer I was checking it out after first pulling it out of the package and made sure the switch was set to TS and not Overdrive. Somewhere in between that and trying it out with my amp it got switched and, after half an hour of shit tones and feedback I got fed up and let it sit on my desk for a few weeks before looking down at it one day and realizing what was up. It's been sweet ever since.
 
was micing up the ol 5150 to do some recording one day
miced it up all real nice
set preamp gain
dialled in some settings
hit record in nuendo to see if that was in the ballpark
nothing.
fiddled with some shit
checked the mic was plugged in properly, blah blah
went crazy for 10 minutes
turned out the amp was on standby. FUCKEN FACEPALM.
 
I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with the monitors in a particular studio before I realized I had forgotten to hit the record button that allows one to monitor through an Alesis Masterlink. D'OH! I fucking hate those things.
 
Spend 2 Days Troubleshooting why my Digi 003 was not getting any signal in channels 7 and 8.

Realised the "Aux to 7-8" was pushed in.

Pissed me off savage.....
 
I've done that tons of times. Mixing a song, wondering why everything sounds weird, spending an hour equing everything that I normally have no issues with, only to realize I left a multiband compressor chrushing the shit out of everything on the master bus. Turn it off, and voila.

You can replace multi-comp with just about any other plug-in that one might throw on the MB just to see what it sounds like, and that's happened too. WHY IS EVERYTHING CLIPPING oh yeah it might be the HUGE DISTORTION PLUG ON THE MASTER man come on
 
Spent a full day rewiring most of my studio in 1997 just to find out that I didn't have the power cable on an additional mixing board plugged in (I had rented that thing) ...

Yes, I was a total n00b back then. Good guitar player, but no clue about production and basically helpless without the live sound engineer of my band who had volunteered to "check on me every now and then" ... needless to say he laughed his ass off when he held up the powercord ... :D
 
recently ... couldn't understand why my latest mix was running SO FUCKIN HOT. It was at -3 on the analyzer that I just started using. I had everything setup like I normally do, driving the mix a little and shaving no more than 2db at the peaks with the bus comp. Everything sounded fine but the analyzer had me freaked out big time. Spent an hour just going in and readjusting levels and everything else until I got it all down to about -12

only then did I realize the analyzer was set to "peak" not "rms"

FML
 
On one of the song I'm mixing right now, I was having major bass problems... It sounded like there was nothing above 150hz... Which was weird cause the other songs were fine, and they'd been recorded the exact same way. It took me 15 minutes to realize that I solo'd one band on my multiband compressor... Felt really stupid, especially since I was ready to accuse the band of doing shitty work :)
 
gemini8026 said:
I just blew my mind, at my stupidity............

It's one that boggles me even to think about it, so hopefully you guys can share some similar stories.

I have been having MAJOR bass tone issues for the past id say 2/3 months. Ive tried everything, and getting VERY fed up with my results.

Anyhow, long story short, I realised that on my preamp that I share with my guitars, I had the high pass filter on. So anything under 75 hz was getting cut off.

Blammo, hit the switch, go into my bass presets, problem solved. Making me feel like a total boob.

Can anyone relate?!?!?
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I actually tracked the bass on this snip with the highpass filter accidentally activated on the Radial J48 DI-box (the box says its -6dB@80hz), but to be honest, I think sounds like tits: http://www.ahjteam.com/upload/bass_example.mp3
 
Once when mastering a project I fiddled with the eq and wondered why I needed to make so drastic boosts/cuts to affect the sound. Once I got it to my liking the eq curve looked like a rollercoaster. After a while I found out that the eq was off. But I'm sure I heard the changes in the sound :D Strange..
 
Decimator said:
Once when mastering a project I fiddled with the eq and wondered why I needed to make so drastic boosts/cuts to affect the sound. Once I got it to my liking the eq curve looked like a rollercoaster. After a while I found out that the eq was off. But I'm sure I heard the changes in the sound :D Strange..
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I think we've all Done that!! Lol

The Best one is when you see a Dickhead Live Guy spending half an hour Tuning his system with a Graphic EQ Looking all pro and then having the thing Bypassed haha
 
theres been plenty of times I'm tweaking the eq or compressor in solo, only to later realize it was for the channel beside what was soloed. Doh!

There's also been a few times I've finished a mix send it to someone and didn't have the effect returns routed to the mix bus. I hear it fine, it's just not being printed to the track. *facepalm*
 
i dont normally make these kind of mistakes, but i have done some unrecoverable "damage" before.

example: select a guitar clip at the end of the song, you're gonna edit it, but wait, you heard something else before this part as it was playing back
you scroll to earlier in the song and forget that the last two guitar clips are still selected
you hold shift and begin to select something else to delete
you hit delete
you save and go to lunch
you re-open, and now there's no guitars at the end

and now you've gotta waste time going through the pool and building that clip again

AHHH
 
I fried a ribbon mic recently. I didn't forget to disable the phantom power but I forgot to wait a few seconds before pluging the goddamn XLR.
Lesson learned.
 
~BURNY~ said:
I fried a ribbon mic recently. I didn't forget to disable the phantom power but I forgot to wait a few seconds before pluging the goddamn XLR.
Lesson learned.
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Hmm, yeah, I guess you gotta wait for it to drain - so you turned off phantom power and then immediately plugged the mic in?

And Joey, that little scenario is giving me PTSD :erk:
 
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