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[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='693200' date='Dec 24 2009, 10:08 PM']Matching a mic up to a voice is as simple as trying them both and going with whichever one you think suits your voice better. When you listen back do you like the sonic qualities of you voice through that particular mic? To me the Nt1 is a little brittle and brings out sibilance in a bad way. However, I mixed an album recently where this mic was used for the Saxophone (lead instrument) and I thought that sounded phenominal. The Se2200a I think make poor vocal mics in general however, I was recording a guy with quite a throaty sounding voice and the mic worked better than the Rode NTK, AKG Solidtube, Se5600, AKG c414 etc... I also had lurking about. So, you never know whats going to work and by having a few to try out you can narrow it down to a select few. Good luck, its not easy but rest assured that these days you wont go too far wrong with the usual brands and a little research. G[/quote] +1 If your voice is a bit ready/thin already most of the modern budget condensers arent going to do you any favours as there characteristic tends to be on the bright side. The ADK A51 is a useable dark budget condenser. Otherwise, go with a trusty Shure SM58 and spend the extra on a reasonable preamp. The Rane MS1B is the best budget pre I've come across. The FiveFish audio pre is great if you can manage a bit of DIY.

[quote name='Oscar South' post='690834' date='Dec 21 2009, 05:35 PM']Hey, i've been looking for a specific tool for a job, these two piece of hardware pretty much fit my requirements exactly only they're both discontinued and there doesn't seem to be anywhere to get hold of one. Does anyone know if there are new product lines out at the moment that do a similar job/have similar functionality to these or know anywhere I could get hold of one of these? Cheers, Oscar.[/quote] Take a look over at Digital Village: www.dv247.com They also have an attached forum with a bunch of keyboard heads who'll be happy to help you out

Best budget bass DI i have come across is the BSS AR 133. It too is at the clean end of the scale. If you wanna pitch in more than that the A Designs Reddi is hard to beat (unless you can get your hands on an Evil Twin). I gotta say though if I were you I'd keep an eye on fleabay for a used FMR RNP . At around £350 new you get two great DI's and two great genuinely professional quality preamps. You might get one for a couple of hundred second hand in the current market. And don't forget the old adage, buy cheap buy twice. It's incannily reliable when it coems to pro-audio.

[quote name='bassjamm' post='685766' date='Dec 15 2009, 09:43 PM']Hey mate... 1. Probably about £150 2. Ideally bass, vox, guitars etc, but if i find a nice bass pre/DI i'd make do for now. 3. Yes, the main reason for having the UX2 is for audio interfacing, not modelling. Thanks for all the other suggestions people... J[/quote] Sorry for the delay. Long sessions all week. Ouch. that's a tough one. To be frank you arent going to get a decent valve pre for that price. Anything in that range will be what's known as a starved plate design (which really means the valve isnt actually doing anything anyway). To be frank though, the whole valve thing is overblown. By 'warmth' people generally mean a mild but pleasing distortion being added to the signal. Many solid state designs do that at least as well. Even the next level up of valve equipment, such as the Art Pro VLA (which can be pretty useable on bass especially if you swap out the valves for mullards or the like) are really not much good for vocals etc. So, reasonable pres at that pricepoint? I can think of only two: the Rane MS1B is a bit of a giant killer. Pretty amazing for the price point but is at the cleaner end of the spectrum; or in the alternative, if you can manage a bit of DIY the Fivefish audio kit is amazing value and provides excellent quality. Alternatively, save up a bit more cash and buy yourself an FMR RNP. This is a genuine pro-level pre. You'd be astonished by the results you can get with it. Hope this helps.

[quote name='bassjamm' post='685498' date='Dec 15 2009, 06:06 PM']Thanks for the input guys. Would be cool to hear some thoughts on some more Studio-esque gear though.[/quote] Some questions for you: 1. What's your budget 2. Is the pre/DI you are after only intended to be used for bass or do you mean for running other signals through? 3. Is the toneport also acting as your audio interface?

When will it be completely finished? Who knows. The live room is now in use (working out of the old control room). There's still a control room and 3 more booths to be built and a lounge and kitchen to be refurbished. If I had to guess when it will be I'd say about a year's time.

Window frames finally get fitted to the booth: and another: Glass coming soon!

Thanks guys. Booth windows are (finally) going in this weekend! Pics to follow!

After a very long wait, booth door finally arrived and got fitted:

I helped a friend set up a little home studio and after a bit of research I believed the motu 8pre to be the best bang for buck and the nice thing if you are a mac user is it's really just plug and play.

Thanks guys. The pic is about 4 feet x four feet. Studio is moving slowly at the moment as I've been really busy recording and mixing with a couple of big projects. More happening soon. Keep watching!

Sorry for the long delay guys. Been crazy busy. Here's one to keep you going... someone asked if I planned to put any art up around the place. I had a couple of things painted when I was i Thailand last year which I kind of planned to use in the lounge but my wife has decided she wants to put at least one of them up in the house. Here's a photo of it in situ: What do you think?

re bookshelf diffsors, search FrankGIK on the subject on DV forums. He explains more eloquently that I ever could why they can actually make things worse. [quote name='GM10' post='619643' date='Oct 7 2009, 03:07 PM']thanks for all your suggestions, they're all appreciated. I won't be doing that much vocal, acoustic recording so here's my thoughts from the suggestions. Rockwool in the corners to act as bass traps. I've seen the pictures thanks to Rimskidog. Material over the rockwool for aesthetics. I think this would help sound quality whilst mixing. A couple of hooks on the ceiling in one corner of the room to hang a quilt on and use a reflection filter for vocals and acoustic. Stating the obvious here but the quilt would only be in place for the recording. If there were still issues I would look at a stage 2. any materials in stage 1 could still be used so i'm not wasting any money. Does that sound logical?[/quote] that sounds very logical. You might also want to consider a rockwool panel at each reflection point. That will help significantly with imaging while mixing and can double as gobos when you are recording

Oooh. Misrepresentation abounds! First of all... forget foam and forget bookshelves. Foam in the corners does not trap low frequencies (which are the problem ones). At best it will trap lower mid frequencies. Cheapest way of doing this is rockwool. Loads of the stuff. Corners are the place to start... with superchunk traps made of rockwool. How you treat it after that depends how much you actually record in the room or whether it's rpedominantly a mix room. A number of us have spent quite a lot of time putting together useful information and busting fallacies on this stuff. You can find lots of useful info, picture diaries on what you can usefully do here: [url="http://forums.dv247.com/acoustic-treatment/"]http://forums.dv247.com/acoustic-treatment/[/url] I'd suggest you read these, see what other people have done, then post what you are thinking of doing for comment.

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='610606' date='Sep 28 2009, 09:49 AM']I used my Ns10 yesterday. Its a bloody good technique to have up your sleeve. Have either of you found the SubKick emphasizes the pitch of the drum? I have used them once and found it was doing something strange (maybe overtones or harmonics?)... I have never had the chance to a/b the Ns10 and Sub kick though and wondered what you guys thought. Ps - my earliest attempt was with a 12" driver. Oddly enough the kick drum hardly tickled it.[/quote] You really got to experiment with where you place it in relation to the drum head. Some time it sounds best right up to the skin, other times it works better if you make some kind of a tunnel (I have a few pieces of rockwool of vairable lenghts I use.) Placement in the room, size of drum and the player can all affect the result.

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No need for it to be in a tom shell. Mount it on a stand

[quote name='99ster' post='608724' date='Sep 25 2009, 03:56 PM']I'm pretty sure that's exactly where Yamaha got the idea for the Sub Kick - as folks were doing exactly that with NS10 woofers & they saw that & decided to make a posh version to sell...[/quote] That's absolutely right. I had a home made job for a long time. I didnt 'buy' a subkick until that one died.

[quote name='51m0n' post='607118' date='Sep 23 2009, 09:22 PM']Thats a very cool thing indeed (details of the magic done by your guitarist would be appreciated!)[/quote] Www.tunecore.com is pretty much the cheapest/best approach to digital distribution I'm aware of. Some studios/indie labels/management companies etc will take a lot more money and then just use tunecore and profit from you. I always just recommend tunecore. Good luck!

anyways... Took a proper camera down today so thought I'd give you some better pics. In the first you can see that the booth still has a lot of work to be done. Windows need to arrive and be fitted (I have just cut some 4 inch blocks of rockwool and placed them in the aperture for the time being) as does the door. Inside the framing and trapping still need to be done. Electrics and lights also need to be finalised): On this next one you can see that the ceiling is painted, the fire alarm sounder and strobe has been fitted, and one of the cheap bulbs I put in has already blown: And finally, this one's just a slightly better quality version of a shot you've seen above (save the kit isn't mic'd etc this time). It does give you a pretty good perspective on the height of the room though:

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='603135' date='Sep 19 2009, 08:43 PM']i know, you did say.[/quote] Maybe I didn't understand your question. You said: [quote name='EdwardHimself' post='600565' date='Sep 16 2009, 06:43 PM']...Okay cool i expected you'd have some sort of isobooth given everything else lol.[/quote] ...and I was just trying to clarify. If that wasn't what you meant, what did you mean?

[quote name='WinterMute' post='601898' date='Sep 18 2009, 01:48 AM']Sadly not, we have an Otari Elite, a Raindirk Symphony and a stack of the Audient ASP's which are very decent desks for the little money they charge, we also have Digi C24's and a few Mackie DXB's. Our main problem (as ever) is financing big desks, I can build a couple of new rooms fully fitted for the price of a decent API. I've used API desks in pro-land, lovely chunks of kit that they are. You can see some of our rooms here: [url="http://music.tvu.ac.uk/index.php/virtual-studio-tour.html"]LCM Studios[/url] These are a few yers old now, and we have updated the labs and some of the other rooms, but not the website as yet, we don't have the Sony desks anymore.[/quote] Not three bad at all man. I know that Olympic's Audient is back on the market and is going for a very good price right now.

[quote name='WinterMute' post='600100' date='Sep 16 2009, 12:49 PM']Looking good mate, the API is a cracking desk to run PT through, makes the 192's sound good![/quote] are you running an API then? Which one?

[quote name='WinterMute' post='600100' date='Sep 16 2009, 12:49 PM']Looking good mate, the API is a cracking desk to run PT through, makes the 192's sound good![/quote] are you running an API then? Which one?

Sweet! I actually have a pair of bm5a but don't use them. There's a big hole in frequency response right at the crossover point. My mentor introduced me to the Adams a few years ago and I never looked back!