What am I doing wrong? High gain recording questions.

[Funkfingers]

Re: What am I doing wrong? High gain recording questions.

Some of the audio artefacts described in the OP remind me of the "pumping" effects associated with the noise reduction compansion systems found in cassette-based home recording machines of the Eighties. (Record with dbx II, playback without. Horrid! Record without, playback with. Almost as bad.)

sounds like I'm playing through a SS Crate amp from way back. I have the ass end tightened up alot, but I still can't get rid of this fizz.

The fizz is either digitising noise or aliasing. Either of these suggests a defective A/D or D/A converter somewhere along the signal chain.

 

[wahwah]

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The fizz is either digitising noise or aliasing. Either of these suggests a defective A/D or D/A converter somewhere along the signal chain.

I wouldn't think so. He said in the original post that he was getting good clean sounds. That wouldn't be possible with faulty converters.





Cheers.......................................... wahwah

 

[DankStar]

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cool mic tips, I'm writing those down!

karp - have you tried double tracking, hard panning l and r and then listening? sometimes things sound weak and weird when it's one guitar mono, but for some reason when you get two blazin' and maybe some drums are going with it, it actually doesn't sound as bad as your first thought.

 

[uOpt]

Re: What am I doing wrong? High gain recording questions.

People spend as much time experimenting with mic placement as they do with pickup experiments.

Also try two mics. One in the classic position off a speaker's cone, one further away, maybe not even turned to the amp, then mixed in lightly (not stereo but not mixed right on top of each other either). It gives it much more 3d.

 

[karpathion]

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Thanks for hte input guys. I'm gonna get started back up today after lunch.

I'll try everything mentioned.

 

[El Dunco]

Re: What am I doing wrong? High gain recording questions.

This kind of goes against my own rules because using lots of VST plugins steals valuable CPU resources and you really should get this right before tracking, but there is a program from Melda Productions called MAutoAlign. It detects the phase and utilizes delays to automatically pull them in phase in real time. You can also assign groups so you can have group A on the drum overheads and group B on your room mics.

What it is good for is you can put all the mics where they capture the best 'air' and not have to worry about the capsules being aligned. Of course I prefer to have the ambient mics far away enough that they rise and fall far away from each other to not have any phase issues and "spread the transients" over the stereo field like I mentioned earlier.