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Post by andyhowell on Feb 15, 2019 8:35:03 GMT
I'll bring my VOX Clean Amp Headphones. So much easier than being plugged to an amp. If they still let me in to the country, that is Just bring food parcels with you ...
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 15, 2019 8:32:51 GMT
Thanks for all the good comments posted here! For my purposes, I think I will go for a basic digital recorder. Any thoughts on the Zoom H1N and the Tascam DR-05 V2? Which one would be better for fingerstyle recording? Regards from the sunny Lisbon! If you can stretch to the Zoom H2N then have a crack at that. Otherwise, either of these will do. These little machines are stunning really. I use Zooms and inthe past Edirols but I reckon you cna rely on Tascam to be pretty decent.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 15, 2019 8:31:15 GMT
I doubt it is worth it.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 15, 2019 8:30:09 GMT
I'm with Keith. I always have good intentions to take down a quick recording or so on but rarely do. Things stick in my head. If the tune has gone in the morning it's gone and that is usually an omen, though I think I've lost one of trwo great tunes and brilliant bits of lyrics!
I find when something really works it begins to dominate everything else in my little head.
When I'm on holiday I do sometimes take my Zoom H2N but very rarely use it! \1
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 15, 2019 8:27:51 GMT
bellyshere I find this recording thing leads to a certain obsession (at least it does for me). It brings out my inner geek ! I underdstand your dilemma. You have a certain sound in your mind that you want to find. I suspect it is something to do with the dynamic range of digital which rather easily sounds harsh. If you have all the Waves plugins I would try using the Schepps 1076 and the Kramer Master Tape, both of which I hear great things about (thoughn I have only tried them im demo). The 1076 I was very impressed by. By far the best pluguin I have found is the Dyone Mulitband compressor from Leapwing Audio. With this everything is aplied in parallel and it can be very subtle and very 'musical' sounding. It's not cheap though!
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 14, 2019 14:54:20 GMT
bellyshere But often it is not that different. Of course, if you were mixing for vinyl you had to limit the length of the side and your base could only be in mono :-) As has been said plugins work pretty well and if you have the whole Waves collection then you have a lot to play with (maybe even too much!) I have a friend who is a pretty good engineer working with jazz and classical musicians. He will often record with multiple mics (which can be mixed later on). The signal goes to a tape deck and doesn't record but comes straight back out and into Protools on the computer. In other words one tape head is recording and the other playing back into the computer. This gives you an analogue effect and the sound of that tape. This stuff sounds sonically amazing to me but you sholud see his prices! He makes a TNAG guitar seem like something your grandad bought in Woolworths! I saw something similar to this set up recently on the Sound on Sound You Tube channel. This is two episodes showing how a leadingnew York studio records piano. fascinating if you really want to stretch your inner geek!
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 14, 2019 11:05:23 GMT
You can never beat an old time classic ;-)
The thing is Paul,this was written for you two :-)
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 14, 2019 11:04:10 GMT
This thread is getting a bit mis-leading!
The great thing about digital is that it is so clean. The bad thing about digital is it is too clean! We prefer things that are a bit messy and a bit distorted.
There are some great saturation/distortion plugins out there which might set you back 30 to 40 quid without having to buy a tape machine. Some of them are straight emulations of tape emulations. I haev a plugin from Waves which emulates the tape delay from Abbey Road and it's pretty cool.
I really don't buy this analogue is better argument, at not least for much of the stuff we would produce ourselves.
I was having a conversation with a recording engineer friend about this a few months ago. He referenced Wish You Were Here as his favourite mix. I flawed him by asking which mix. This has been remastered at least four or five times over the years.
The clincher in this conversation was Scorpio's point. At some point it all has to be converted back to analogue and you are only as good as your A-D conversion.
Top engineers have many individual ways pf doing things but some of the best mixing engineers today choose to work exclusively in the box to minimise the amount of D-A conversion that they have to do.
I might produce a video on distortion or saturation.
There is a superb article in the current Sound on Sound magazine which features one of the most in-demand re-mix engineers who is taking old classics and remixing for high resolution, 5:1 and so on. Sometimes he is working from original multi tracks, sometimes from comped down tracks and sometimes from an actual album itself. This is a very funny article. Apparently one of his biggest problems is the original artists asking if something can be changed as they never liked this or that. But it is a classic album and so should sound more or ess as it always had! well worth getting hold of this.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 12, 2019 8:14:04 GMT
Newtone mediums for me.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 11, 2019 10:21:36 GMT
All of this stuff is just a fad. Torrified tops may make sense but this stuff is pretty dreadful and I suspect is another example of people have more money than sense.
One the the joys — for me at least — of owning a great, new, guitar is to both hear the change in tone as it play in and also to appreciate the visual development of the instrument as the woods slightly darken, the varnish settle and a natural patina develops. That way the guitar begins to be comfortably aged.
I never have problems adding scratches, scuffs and dings. That come naturally if you play the thing :-)
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 11, 2019 10:18:36 GMT
There's a big gap in the market here for true aficionados - "the fully aged package" relic finish and the guitar with unplayably high action needing a neck reset. That's no way to talk about leoroberts ;-)
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 11, 2019 10:16:54 GMT
It is going to be a bit of a beast Oscar schmidt originally did 12 strings with a 26 1/2 scale, the only company to do so originally I believe, but it allows for the low tuning yet powerful sound that came from blind Willie mctell and leadbelly and the like That certainly makes sense!
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 7, 2019 15:13:42 GMT
Off to see them soon. There's always a Gretchen Peters moment.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 7, 2019 8:43:33 GMT
He was simply superb as a stage performer.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 7, 2019 8:42:40 GMT
In the diary.
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