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Dorkfest. Recording junk. May include lengthy details of electronic circuitry or the innane. (Just like every other blog) Mostly the whatsit and whosit of whatever audio and recording related things I'm working on but I want you to participate. |
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wFriday, October 31, 2003 |
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studio maintainance day.
with the new sytek in now, i wired it into the patchbay - and also reconfigured and relabled many of the connections so it's a little more user friendly. i also did a little mic-pre shootout to revist what i had - here's what i found:
sytek regular - very clean and natural
sytek jfet - not as colored as i thought they'd be, a subtle difference from the regular channels
soundtracs - suprisingly good. it made me feel pretty good about the console. a little color perhaps, but quite good.
aphex 107 - also decent, with slight coloration of tubes
dmp3 - more on clean side but very usable
focusrite - brittle shit. i don't know why i ever used this as a preamp. it sucks.
neotek 1e - sucked. there's gotta be something wrong with the cards. total high end and brittle - unusable. i pulled it out of the patchbay until further notice.
found the "problem" with the console not passing audio was an accidental insert of the 2 track outs into the master insert channel. resolution: plug 2 track in proper outputs, and console is restored.
noticed the recurring "oscillation" problem with the tape machine. asked some questions - no answers yet.
need more pathbay cables.
tried out vocals a la norman - nevaton > sytek jfet > rnc > tape as close mic and at 4041 > sytek > quadraverb delay > tape
on soloing/bypassing the quadraverb i noticed how much the tone shifts through the electronics. the patch hits a graphic eq first, which i can't figure out how to bypass - so i just have flat. it's not so flattering. i should look into that tc electronic delay greg has.
new black
mix tommorow. mastering scheduled for nov 12. that reminds me - i have to gather the rest of the found sound i want to use. all kinds of deadlines coming up to get that to Thick.
Release date: Feb 16 europe, feb 23 US - catalog THK-97.
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two tickets to paradise at 7:52 AM
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wWednesday, October 29, 2003 |
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my new (used) sytek pre just came - i have to build a bunch of cables for it now. everything i've heard about these things has been fantastic, and it sounds great on patti's guitar, so i'm excited to try it out.
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two tickets to paradise at 12:09 PM
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wMonday, October 27, 2003 |
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studio day 3: vocals @ studio greg studios III
i woke up hungover and crabby, since i was out till 3 with patti at the just a fire show. it was cool to hang with her, but we drank too much. liam went home early becuase he was afraid of being hungover and having to sing becuase "i have the most annoying voice, and there's nothing worse than hearing myself when i'm hungover".
at any rate, we picked up patti and went to twisted spoke for breakfast. that helped a little - but overall i still felt like shit.
we got to greg's house, which is way on the south side - just as one of his friends was showing up to get a tour of the place. we sat around and watched tv. i enjoyed not doing anything but just sitting there.
eventually we made our way downstairs around 2 or 3 pm to get started. greg set up 2 mics for vocals, a gefell UM70 for the close mic and an audio technica 4051 for an ambient mic.
both mics went to the console's john hardy preamp cards. greg's console is cool because you can put these 3rd party parts in it, like custom EQ or preamps or whatever. the UM70 went to a dbx160 x compressor. the room mic got a 30ms (may have been 10 or 15ms also, i'm not sure after a couple days - i should have written this earlier) delay through a tc electronic m-one.
not a lot to say about it other than we recorded a lot of vocals. greg's tape machine is a MCI JH-24. it makes a cool ramping up vvvrrrrmmm sound every time you press play, as opposed to the studer which is just almost instantly ramped up to speed.
i also found out that the EQ curve used was CCIR/IEC europen curve - which is a little flatter than the NAB curve.
we stayed late, added trombone overdubs that were awesome, but may not make it past the mixing stage. rachel emphatically said, "i will NOT have trombone on my record" we'll see, maybe on a b-side. overll - a lot of fun again. we had dinner at the archview, and stayed until about 3:30am. thank god for daylight savings time. liam and patti had to work - i felt sorry for them.
next to come: mixing
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two tickets to paradise at 2:11 PM
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