***The Official Home Recording Studio Thread***

Merlin5 said:
Thanks easyrider! Well firstly, it's great that the Presonus software is so comprehensive and of course I'll try it all out. But I like that you said Mixbus can get me a great sound very easily, as I might struggle otherwise with my lack of experience in mixing.
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I have tried Pro tools, and Studio one, reaper and I now just use Mixbus,

Its cuts out the bloat and paradox of choice that can be overwhelming. When recording Acoustic Guitar I dont want faff...with drop down menus and pop up windows showing endless EQ choices.

I can just EQ straight on the mixer in mixbus and it sounds amazing.

Then you have Tape saturation on the busses..It really is the bees knees :D
 
easyrider said:
I have tried Pro tools, and Studio one, reaper and I now just use Mixbus,

Its cuts out the bloat and paradox of choice that can be overwhelming. When recording Acoustic Guitar I dont want faff...with drop down menus and pop up windows showing endless EQ choices.

I can just EQ straight on the mixer in mixbus and it sounds amazing.

Then you have Tape saturation on the busses..It really is the bees knees :D
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So from what you're saying, a pretty much complete beginner such as myself would find Mixbus has a much easier learning curve than other DAWS such as Studio One, Cubase, etc. I watched a couple of videos of Mixbus on youtube. It looks nice but no less bewildering to me than any other DAW! :p But I get what you're saying that it has less things to confuse the user. PS. I have no idea what tape saturation is/does, lol.
 
I've used pro tools, logic and ableton. In my experience they all have similar learning curves (I've never used mixbus).

If you've never used a DAW you could flip a coin (or more sensibly look up tutorials on youtube and see which one looks like it would suit you the most). :)

I'm pretty sure every DAW comes with a load of stock plugins these days, more than enough to get you started.
 
Merlin5 said:
So from what you're saying, a pretty much complete beginner such as myself would find Mixbus has a much easier learning curve than other DAWS such as Studio One, Cubase, etc. I watched a couple of videos of Mixbus on youtube. It looks nice but no less bewildering to me than any other DAW! :p But I get what you're saying that it has less things to confuse the user. PS. I have no idea what tape saturation is/does, lol.
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You'll get an amazing drum sound very quickly with mixbus and that presonus...

Tape saturation adds warm of analogue tape mulitracks of the past.

Mixbus is a revelation ...it's ace :)

Get a couple of Ribbon TBone RB 500s as overheads and get ready to get moist :p
 
easyrider said:
You'll get an amazing drum sound very quickly with mixbus and that presonus...

Tape saturation adds warm of analogue tape mulitracks of the past.

Mixbus is a revelation ...it's ace :)

Get a couple of Ribbon TBone RB 500s as overheads and get ready to get moist :p
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Well I'll at least play around with Studio One and Studio Magic to begin with since I'll already have it, before I buy Mixbus. I can get myself familiar with the way it works and see what I come up with. Then no doubt I'll be running here asking for help :p

Heh nah, those ribbons look sweet but are too expensive for me considering I need to spread my budget for the interface, cables, mic stand and mics. :)

But I'm considering two options. Buy the Samson 7 mic kit which includes a pair of C02 overhead condensers for maybe about £120 (I've got my eye on an auction listing),

or,

these t-bone DC 1000 mics for £77

https://m.thomann.de/gb/t-bone_dc_1...Nn0rJFXRN6X0alDEuSIM7jRs2WDObqXhoCTPgQAvD_BwE

and a pair of Samson C02 separately for £79. I've got kick and snare mics sorted already so only need tom and overhead mics. Just wondering which tom mics might sound better out of the Samson Q toms and the t-bone dc 1000?
 
Merlin5 said:
Well I'll at least play around with Studio One and Studio Magic to begin with since I'll already have it, before I buy Mixbus. I can get myself familiar with the way it works and see what I come up with. Then no doubt I'll be running here asking for help :p

Heh nah, those ribbons look sweet but are too expensive for me considering I need to spread my budget for the interface, cables, mic stand and mics. :)

But I'm considering two options. Buy the Samson 7 mic kit which includes a pair of C02 overhead condensers for maybe about £120 (I've got my eye on an auction listing),

or,

these t-bone DC 1000 mics for £77

https://m.thomann.de/gb/t-bone_dc_1...Nn0rJFXRN6X0alDEuSIM7jRs2WDObqXhoCTPgQAvD_BwE

and a pair of Samson C02 separately for £79. I've got kick and snare mics sorted already so only need tom and overhead mics. Just wondering which tom mics might sound better out of the Samson Q toms and the t-bone dc 1000?
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How many tom mics do you need ?
 
easyrider said:
EV PL 35
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I'll have a look into those, thanks. I've seen an ad for a complete set of Audix mics, the DP7, for only £600 and he's taking offers. But still out of my range if he took £500. I've asked him if he'd split it and sell me just the D4 and both D2s for £200. Probably won't but worth asking :D. Audix are really the only mics I want. They're just so damn expensive.
 
Merlin5 said:
I'll have a look into those, thanks. I've seen an ad for a complete set of Audix mics, the DP7, for only £600 and he's taking offers. But still out of my range if he took £500. I've asked him if he'd split it and sell me just the D4 and both D2s for £200. Probably won't but worth asking :D. Audix are really the only mics I want. They're just so damn expensive.
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Always get the best mics you can afford. The audix are great tom mics :)
 
I bought an audio interface from Merlin5. Device is working fine, but on my PC, I have 2 USB 3.0 ports, but it only likes one of them! The first one I used it kept dropping out all the time. Would stay on for about 5 minutes then completely disappear, didnt even get the USB disconnecting sound. Tried the port next to it and it works fantastically, so there is nowt wrong with the interface at all.

All of my drivers are up to date, so was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what could be wrong with that port? The board is 5 years old.
 
robfosters said:
I bought an audio interface from Merlin5. Device is working fine, but on my PC, I have 2 USB 3.0 ports, but it only likes one of them! The first one I used it kept dropping out all the time. Would stay on for about 5 minutes then completely disappear, didnt even get the USB disconnecting sound. Tried the port next to it and it works fantastically, so there is nowt wrong with the interface at all.

All of my drivers are up to date, so was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what could be wrong with that port? The board is 5 years old.
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Could be a number of things....Power fluctuations getting to the port...Wear and tear of the port itself. Have you got the port settings to never turn off to save power option in device manager?
 
easyrider said:
Could be a number of things....Power fluctuations getting to the port...Wear and tear of the port itself. Have you got the port settings to never turn off to save power option in device manager?
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I don’t him it’s worth the effort tbh. If the other one is working fine that strongly suggests the port has wear and tear to me. As long as the other one works fine, that’ll do me.
 
I've got a set of 8 drum mics winging their way to me.

And they've arrived. :) So I've got the laptop and the mics. Now just waiting to see if the Presonus will go below £287 this Friday.

 
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ShortWarning said:
Recorded some tracks for a band I know. 80's styleee.

Any constructive criticism/feedback welcome!

https://soundcloud.com/projectmay/by-the-hour/s-qMTQZ
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I think you did a great job, it sounds really good! I suppose the snare could be a bit louder or shall we say bigger sounding, as the kick is ever so slightly overpowering it. But I personally wouldn't want to hear any less kick because it's nice and punchy just as it is. I'm nitpicking though. Overall you've got a pleasing sound and balance.
 
ShortWarning said:
Recorded some tracks for a band I know. 80's styleee.

Any constructive criticism/feedback welcome!

https://soundcloud.com/projectmay/by-the-hour/s-qMTQZ
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The drums are lost imo. To much mid range Guitar and no definition in the bass guitar and drums. :)

I've been using the grey compressor lately in my eleven rack and its changed the way I view guitar. I have for years been just turning it up...when in fact the gray compressor means I have so much punch but have to to turn the output down.

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easyrider said:
The drums are lost imo. To much mid range Guitar and no definition in the bass guitar and drums. :)

I've been using the grey compressor lately in my eleven rack and its changed the way I view guitar. I have for years been just turning it up...when in fact the gray compressor means I have so much punch but have to to turn the output down.
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Thanks for the feedback!

I think I'm too used to making "wall of guitars" type mixes (metal) that maybe doesn't work as well for this.

May try chucking an la2 on the guitar bus see what it does.
 
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