May be just wishful but jammed it (svt) for over an hour and no issues. Moved across the room so I plugged direct into the wall. Did stick a fan behind it.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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From my experience providing a Di allows to much room for someone else to F it up after i leave.
Chances are they'll run it through a fake svt with fake cab and a fake mic anyway.
Why not use the real thing?
Smoke'em if you got 'em.
Only been in a real studio a couple times but I never got along with anyone who fancied themselves a "producer". But an engineer is my best friend.
Just heard that. Sounds great seriously cool tunes. At least I'm assuming it's what's on Bandcamp?
Exactly.
Fortunately, this particular engineer is a friend from another doom metal band who I've done shows with. So he knows what's what.
The first hour or so was all mic placement (mostly for the drums; only small adjustments were needed for bass). One of the best recording experiences I've ever had.
Those mics are probably really expensive.
Yep, that's it
Wish we had the $ to track all the rest of the songs too but hell, 3 is better than nothing.
Drum mic placement is so important. I don't don't know the first thing about doing it right, except that it takes time and careful listening. When I see an engineer set up drum mics in 10 minutes I just kind of mentally shrug "ok, it's going to be one of those sessions."
Seems like you had a good one though \m/
Ive tracked drums a few time with 4 mics using the Gyn Johns method. Doesn't take long to set up and my results have been satisfying - was just for my bands demos. Takes longer to set up the drums than the mics lol but I am by no means a professional.
you want un-doom? I don't have a pedal board.
8string bass... humm... never had one, hard to come by, mostly... weirdo aestheticly....
I'm thinking stoner bluesish stuff.
Ravish Sitar is not what I'm looking for. Maybe the bass Signal thru a "scooped" sansamp-style pre (I have a Dr. J) and octave up (Mooer Tender) with a sh*tload of distortion will do the trick.
shouldn't have sold my akai unibass.....
I think Zuam use a lot of the rav sitar.
I really don't know how else it could be useful.
I do the parallel rig and send my upper octave through a Vox. Oddly enough if you only do single notes, an analogue octave up sounds more natural without coloring via eq/gain, but they don't always track as well. I use a low pass filter to take off some of the harsh pick attack on the octave up from my digital octaver. Here's the best example I can give at the moment. Novasun.bandcamp.com this was my band when we still had the guitarist with us. Anything that's not the lead is me.
Edit: wrong url my bad guys
CL400's got it right IMO.
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Re: mics n' stuff.....speaking as an engineer, there are a lot of good sounding mics out there for not a lot of money, like the Cascade Fatheads which are really good sounding ribbon mics that only go for a few hundred. Neumann mics usually get top dollar and probably are the most venerated, but if you have skills you can get really close to the sound of a high-dollar mic for much less cash.
Of course, all of this really hinges on a few other super important factors - does the instrument sound good? Is it in good playing condition? Is the amp good quality, working right etc? Are the drums/cymbals constructed of total chit? Do the drums sound good in the room/space they are being recorded in? Is the person playing the instrument well-rehearsed/capable/strung-out/emotionally fragile/etc?
Kraap in = kraap out, a $5000 mic won't make you sound like Elvis.
Of course, all of this really hinges on a few other super important factors - does the instrument sound good? Is it in good playing condition? Is the amp good quality, working right etc? Are the drums/cymbals constructed of total chit? Do the drums sound good in the room/space they are being recorded in? Is the person playing the instrument well-rehearsed/capable/strung-out/emotionally fragile/etc?
Kraap in = kraap out, a $5000 mic won't make you sound like Elvis.
Ha! I'd pay 5K not to sound like Elvis...
Meanwhile, the on-going craigslist comedy hour continues. I got turned down for an audition because I 'didn't have enough experience'.....which was funny to me because I started playing bass in the late '80s. I called the guy out on this and his song changed to 'you don't have enough stage presence'. Get da fu outta here.
Stage presence
, whats with some clowns?, the worst ad Ive seen is where the band requires that the auditioning musician "must" have long hair or need not apply .
Why not? It worked for Danzig.
