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So here's one of the jams from a couple weekends ago, (Feb 7). This was the fourth song of the evening. The one preceeding it was pretty much the same except for a variation in Ian's guitar riff and this ones addition of Dan singing.
Recorded with an Apex210 Ribbon mic into Ableton from Dan's Roland workstation. We set it up behind me n Dan, I'm pretty sure on figure 8. It actually picks up the sound great for just one mic. I'd like to get it properly hooked up to Cubase instead of running it through the Roland and out to Ableton using AUX cables. There's some clipping in some of the songs, I'm not sure about this one, it should be fine cause there's no drums, that's when the levels went nuts.
We recorded the whole 2 1/2 hour session in hopes of some cool stuff and I'd go and chop everything up after. Well, we got some cool stuff and I went and cut it all up and edited it so the songs aren't so long. Uncut, most songs are at least 7-8 minutes long. I spliced them together, removing repetitive parts and/or the time it took us to get into the groove. It usually doesn't take that long, but it's time that could be spent listening to something proper.
Who's Playing What:
Me-Guitar(sounds like bass cause I'm playing so low)
Ian-Guitar
Dan-Bass and singing
I like this one. Certainly has a 54-40 quality to it, mostly because of the chord progression. I like the vocals things Dans doing in this one as well.
Recorded with an Apex210 Ribbon mic into Ableton from Dan's Roland workstation. We set it up behind me n Dan, I'm pretty sure on figure 8. It actually picks up the sound great for just one mic. I'd like to get it properly hooked up to Cubase instead of running it through the Roland and out to Ableton using AUX cables. There's some clipping in some of the songs, I'm not sure about this one, it should be fine cause there's no drums, that's when the levels went nuts.
We recorded the whole 2 1/2 hour session in hopes of some cool stuff and I'd go and chop everything up after. Well, we got some cool stuff and I went and cut it all up and edited it so the songs aren't so long. Uncut, most songs are at least 7-8 minutes long. I spliced them together, removing repetitive parts and/or the time it took us to get into the groove. It usually doesn't take that long, but it's time that could be spent listening to something proper.
Who's Playing What:
Me-Guitar(sounds like bass cause I'm playing so low)
Ian-Guitar
Dan-Bass and singing
I like this one. Certainly has a 54-40 quality to it, mostly because of the chord progression. I like the vocals things Dans doing in this one as well.
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It's funny that you would present yourself that challenge, cause that's exactly what I did last year. At least the creating of the challenge, not the actual execution of. I had read about some band that instead of putting out an album every year or two, made it upon themselves to make an EP every month for an entire year. Upon hearing this I decided to try and do the same.
I too wanted to write an albums worth of songs by the end of february, but just never could. That's where my EP that I've been doing forever came from. Me dragging on the february challenge for a year, and I cant say I'm satisfied with the results so far. If it's not my guitar being in the shop, or work eating up 80% of my day, it's my computer being a dick and not letting me record solos cause the cpu keeps freaking out, which it's doing on a increasingly consistant basis.
Then ya, as of late I've not had the motivation to sit down and get it done, I'm too easily distracted. I've been working on it for so long I just can't focus on it.
I too wanted to write an albums worth of songs by the end of february, but just never could. That's where my EP that I've been doing forever came from. Me dragging on the february challenge for a year, and I cant say I'm satisfied with the results so far. If it's not my guitar being in the shop, or work eating up 80% of my day, it's my computer being a dick and not letting me record solos cause the cpu keeps freaking out, which it's doing on a increasingly consistant basis.
Then ya, as of late I've not had the motivation to sit down and get it done, I'm too easily distracted. I've been working on it for so long I just can't focus on it.
Ya man, the current set up is less than ideal. I plan on trying to run it straight into Cubase next time through my audio card so I can set up a limiter. With the Roland it's got nothing to stop it from clipping, and since I'm playing, I don't notice it until a bit into recording. Luckily tho, there's a bit of play in the red on the Roland, but not much.
I got rid of what I could in the other tracks in terms of clipping, hiss and crackle using X-Noise and X-Crackle, but there's some heavy clipping in there. It's not a huge concern, it's not going on a disc or anything, just listening back to ideas. Not having it would be great, so it's something I'm gonna make a conscious effort to fix/prevent.
I did try to see if I could max out the threshold and reduction on X-Crackle, turn it on difference and then reverse the phase to get rid of and popping/crackle, but it didn't really work all that well or at all for that matter. I've not had much luck cancelling things out that way. We had learned about cancelling stuff out that way it in school, like recording just the hiss of a guitar amp and reversing it to cancel it out on the main guitar cut. I don't think we ever really tried it, just learned the thoery of it, so I never got to hear it in use, but maybe I'm doing it wrong or something.
And with the guitar, I always thought, well how would that work, cause in order for it to be completley reversed, it would have to be the exact same signal for it to go against, and recording a completely hiss only take would give you a different waveform and not line up right with the original. I dunno, I'm told it works, although I'm not etirely sure how.
I got rid of what I could in the other tracks in terms of clipping, hiss and crackle using X-Noise and X-Crackle, but there's some heavy clipping in there. It's not a huge concern, it's not going on a disc or anything, just listening back to ideas. Not having it would be great, so it's something I'm gonna make a conscious effort to fix/prevent.
I did try to see if I could max out the threshold and reduction on X-Crackle, turn it on difference and then reverse the phase to get rid of and popping/crackle, but it didn't really work all that well or at all for that matter. I've not had much luck cancelling things out that way. We had learned about cancelling stuff out that way it in school, like recording just the hiss of a guitar amp and reversing it to cancel it out on the main guitar cut. I don't think we ever really tried it, just learned the thoery of it, so I never got to hear it in use, but maybe I'm doing it wrong or something.
And with the guitar, I always thought, well how would that work, cause in order for it to be completley reversed, it would have to be the exact same signal for it to go against, and recording a completely hiss only take would give you a different waveform and not line up right with the original. I dunno, I'm told it works, although I'm not etirely sure how.
Check out Izotope Rx - it's way better at fixing noise / clipping. I haven't been impressed with the Waves noise removal set... The only thing I'm finding I like from them really is the L3 Multimaximizer.
The phase inversion works - but... you have to record the exact same line noise that's happening at the same time and invert it. I'd still vote for just using RX.
Using pretty much any effects on a track will fuck with your phase.
If ya run in to more issues I'll chat with ya after I get back on my own computer.
The phase inversion works - but... you have to record the exact same line noise that's happening at the same time and invert it. I'd still vote for just using RX.
Using pretty much any effects on a track will fuck with your phase.
If ya run in to more issues I'll chat with ya after I get back on my own computer.
Ya man, the L3 multi is usually the only thing I use from Waves and occasionally some multiband EQs. It's on my default plugins list for mastering in Wavelab, great for opening things up. I'll have to see about acquiring some Izotope stuff. I might even have it on my HD somewhere when I got a huge bundle of stuff from one of my teachers, I know I have something by Izotope.
With the phase cancellation, I had the main track open and had it duplicated and running the X-Crackle at full power, turned to difference and phase reversed, and it didn't do too much to reduce anything. I could tell it was reversed tho, cause it had that audible, unsettling feeling that you get when shits outta phase.
With the phase cancellation, I had the main track open and had it duplicated and running the X-Crackle at full power, turned to difference and phase reversed, and it didn't do too much to reduce anything. I could tell it was reversed tho, cause it had that audible, unsettling feeling that you get when shits outta phase.
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