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

ShortWarning said:
Very nice!

Must have cost a few quid. :p

My only hardware purchase is a countryman DI.

I think I'll be able to get better guitar tones via software than a 5w combo.

Have a friend coming in to track some vocals on Saturday, should be good.
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Lowe said:
TBH you can get cracking tone from a 5w amp. Depending on the room, sometimes having a huge amp/stack can work against you, especially if you're trying to push the amp hard. One of the best tricks in smaller rooms is to have the guitar amp as quiet as you can possibly get away with. This way the energy from the amp/speakers isn't lighting the room up and muddying the tone. You get a much more focused sound as a result.

As for the HD upgrade - that little lot was north of £10k :o
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I have a few smaller amps in my studio...In fact I have just finished my dual Amp wall :p

I'll post pics tonight.

Lowe is right you don't need masses of volume to get big sound from small amps

Layla was recorded using a 3-watt tweed Fender Champ combo from the 1950s

10 Huge Sounds Recorded on Small Amps

http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/10-huge-sounds-recorded-521.aspx

small is better in the studio...I have a 1970's Fender Champ all valve and its sounds incredible with my Deluxe strat :D
 
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Fender Blues Deluxe
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Fender Super champ XD
2 x Vox 15R


Buzz Electronics made me this pedal that allows me to drive 4 amps at the same time and switch between them

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SexyGreyFox said:
But the bass drum looks flat on the floor (1" rise at the front), no front skin and you've got blankets in it!
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Yep

Its raised at the front....No front skin and a blanket in it

It's the sound I want

If it sounds good then it is....That is one thing I have learnt in this process...


There are no rules in recording....

The foo fighters recorded snares with tea towels draped on the drums...
 
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ShortWarning said:
Thanks! I'd recorded it really badly, I may as well have put the mic inside the body (live and learn). Took a lot of messing to get it sounding okay.
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I record acoustic with two mics

One about 12 inches from guitar pointing at the 12th fret

The other the same distance overhead pointing directly down between saddle and sound hole

works well:)
 
Anyone got a Reason 1-8 so I can upgrade to Reason 9 on the cheap?

I'm using protools but Reason 9 looks like it come come in useful for a sketchpad for me to quickly realise song ideas....
 
Lt_Red said:
The props are pretty stringent on previous licences. I cannot for example sell you my previous licence now I have upgraded to 9 because my serial for the reason upgrade is tied to my previous licence. Therefore I will loose access to my upgraded software.

I do however have an NFR licence for Reason 6 which is separate, however I cannot transfer my NFR licence to you because it is tied to my account and anyway you would not be able to use it to upgrade.

So asking for someone to give you a previous version is really not going to happen unless they want to sell up their licence entirely.

Read here: https://www.propellerheads.se/suppo...ts/buyingselling-used-propellerhead-products/

At the end of the day its a 300 quid bit of software. Its also a pretty incredible bit of software. Careful, you may find you prefer using Reason to Pro-Tools/Cubase/Whatever. I certainly did and now its my primary DAW. I occasionally receive mockery for this and frankly I don't care ;)

I worked for a well known music magazine and had access to literally everything for literally nothing (hence the historical NFR licence for Reason). At the end of the day (at least for my modest ongoing needs) I chose Reason. Its awesome.
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They should offer a Subcription

I get Protools for 6 quid per month with everything
 
Lt_Red said:
Perhaps you are right. The licence situation with Props is pretty stinging to be honest. I have spent a fortune on Rack extensions (most of them brilliant to be fair - some unique that you wont find in the VST world such as Selig Leveller) and I cannot sell them even if I sell my licence! Its dead money unless you use Reason in that regard, so don't buy any unless you want to commit.
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It would be nice to have 3 DAWS and just pay a sub

Most people who use Reason...actually mix in protools using rewire anyway...

Reason would be good for quickly getting ideas down and using it like a sketchbook.
 
Cheers,

I'll have to have a think...I installed reaper tonight, Installed the commalla 5 skin and Adobe audition and, quite frankly its blown my socks off.

Finally a DAW I can use instinctively.

Reaper is so fast! and easy to use!

I was getting frustrated with Protools, It would crash quite a bit, and go weird on me.

Reaper has been solid all night, I love the fact you can tweak it so much aswell

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I want to try a hardware compressor like the Art VLA PRO II .

How do I wire it up ?

My main stereo out are going to my monitors...

How do you feed the compressor and record the result ?

I'm new to outboard gear other than mic pres...

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Outputs main are going to my studio monitors
 
Lowe said:
A sound card only has control over its IO levels, and like I said is geared towards working primarily in the box. Yes it has a mixer in the general sense, but I'm talking about you adding a hardware mixer that's designed specifically to work with other pieces of processing kit. You'll notice that you don't have any insert points on your sound card.

The only way you could fudge it is by the method I suggested in my previous post. However, it's really not an ideal way of working.
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Ok ,

I'll get a mixer...

I'll borrow one for testing purposes...

What do I do?
 
Lt_Red said:
If you want to compress your entire mix then yes. You can use the Ocatmix patchbay to route software and hardware inputs signals around as you see fit so its pretty flexible.

I think you could use the patchbay to use the compressor as an insert effect on an input signal (or a software output for that matter) with a little fiddling I think. Basically route a hardware input directly to outputs 3 and 4 and select the return channel as the track input for record in reaper. If that makes any sense.

Most software will allow you to organise your inputs and outputs to use any outboard hardware as insert or in some cases even send effects. In Reason its just a case of plugging the cables at the back of the rack into the right hardware interface ports. I'm not sure how to do it in Reaper but I'll be surprised if you can't.
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Lt_Red said:
OK so I have done a bit of reading Reaper has a device called ReaInsert which I think you use a bit like any normal VST effect plugin. You can pop it into a track as an insert or pop it into the send bin and it basically allows you to route audio out of the your interface and straight back in at the point in the signal chain where it is placed.

This means you can use your compressor as a direct track insert effect or, lets say an external reverb effect as a send and send different degrees of levels across all tracks to it using the send control appropriate to each channel.

Note the effect wont be captured when you bounce the mix down to an audio file using normal bounce down, so you'll need to follow Lowe's advice above and capture it to a separate track before bouncing down. In which case you may as well just bounce down the whole song in real time to a seperate track. You can easily do this within the Octamix patchbay.

Sorted.
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I'll have a play with it...Cheers for the research...I've been looking at this myself and I'm thinking a mixer might be a better way and give me more options...I might want to add hardware compression to individual tracks after I have recorded them...I'm guessing this can only be done with a mixer?
 
Thanks

Been looking at this

But not sure how I would benefit?

Just looked at the manual

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Will I just be adding more noise to the chain?

As far as I can see I can add outboard FX easier put I still have no option to apply these without re-recording them?

Would I have the octa capture before or after the mixer?

I don't need more than 8 IO
 
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