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[quote name='MythSte' post='1028022' date='Nov 18 2010, 03:18 PM']T-racks is a great quick-fix mastering plug in that might be a good place to start Chris, There is a lot of automation on it that will, generally speaking get you 60% of they way there. I found it useful for working out if I was heading in the right direction with my mastering techniques [/quote] Really? I hated it!! Did you have any guidance or did you just play?

Surely clipping the pre-amp is the same as using a distortion pedal.

OK, thanks!

would you never use fishing line Si? Also I have some un-opened partners twine from the early 70s. Is this worth anything?

Yeh I never use outboard on the way into the PC but that doesn't mean I can't compress it, EQ, add reverb etc for the performer's headphones.

I'd deffinitely have a look for some sort of controller so you get a bit of that "hands on feel" back.

What would I do with the ferrite rings? What's weird to me is that it seems I can run the exact same chain but using my rack of pres instead of my desk, and it's radio free. The desk is a cheap POS I bought off here for £20ish so perhaps it's that?

Is it not everyday? You should have a thread containing all your recording tips! EDIT: Not kissing ass, it's just your advice has been very helpful

Thanks, i'll watch those videos tonight.

I really like plug ins, but when you're trying to do something very precise, it's nice to have a sturdy knob to grab hold of (hehe). Perhaps a midi controller of some sort to give you manual control of plug-in parameters would help.

heh, I did a guitar take the other day with one of those flat AKG mics right up against the cab grille, facing the wrong way!! It's got FRONT written on it!!

I was watching a 6 string on here for ages. The BCer put it on ebay eventually and I was there last night, credit card in hand, sweating my tits off trying not to bid. I managed it, but this morning I felt so sh*t I decided "I must need a treat, let's check out the pedals for sale on BC" - WTF?!? I didn't buy the bass to save money FFS. So yeh, it's hard, good luck!

Cheers. Just to try and clear it up a bit - I get the radio through guitar amps and PAs etc anyway. I can normally get around this when recording. However, now it seems it's been coming through my mixer all along, which is no good when I want to record acoustic stuff.

We've always got the radio coming through guitar amps in my music room. I've been recording here for a while, but it's normally pretty loud stuff. Anyway, the other day I did some acoustic stuff and you can really hear the radio coming through. It's only on mics i've run through my desk. I use a seperate rack of pres for my condensor mics, and there's no radio interference on these. Any ideas on what to do?

[quote name='matski' post='1026818' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:55 PM']What mod?[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=108450"]this mod[/url]

[quote name='matski' post='1026815' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:53 PM']I'm surprised to see that the Digitech Whammy is fairly popular - are people actually using them in a live situation or just pissing about with at rehearsals?[/quote] Well mine is an XP-100. I use it for chorus, wahs, octave down, octave up, and the very occasional whammying.

Sorry, I really wouldn't know - I try to not look at gear I can't afford. TL Audio do nice valve compressors, and i've seen them in lots of studios, but they could be sh*t for all I know

It depends, are you trying to master your mixes? Or do you mean for using all the time when listening? Some sort of mastering outboard wouldn't be a bad idea. I've had real trouble trying to get plug-ins to give me the master compression i'm after. If I could afford i'd have a nice stereo multi band compressor and a proper standalone CD burner for mastering.

I quite often forget to double check the gain at every stage and end up with clipping drums that I have to re-do! Also drummers tend to knock mics - don't forget to move them back! Turning headphones on with the volume set insanely loud. Forgetting to tune everything to a digital tuner. Forgetting to tune the drum kit! One I do quite often which might be specific to me, is come back to my studio where everything's still set up, and plug my PC in. I plug in the soundcards the wrong way round, and record snare onto the vocal channel, kick on to the bass, no vocals etc... just because I get two plugs the wrong way round and don't double check before hitting record. Another mistake we make quite often is getting drunk during mixing.

If you got a cheap mp3 player and opened it up, you could wire the play, pause, skip track controls up to footswitches. It'd be cheaper!!

turn the gain down on your ODB-3 to like 7 or 8 o'clock, turn the hi control right down, set the mix to 50%, turn the low control up until you're not losing low end anymore, then turn the high end up to taste. It's not a great pedal, but it does low gain sounds quite well IMO.

I need one to replace the one I just sold to my guitarist, and one for that mod!

the OC-2 is roaring ahead!

use it to run a guitar cab and create a bi-amp rig with a guitar dirt pedal on the hi end!

I reckon ashdown would do the replacement parts if you ask them