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[Solarflares]

Naturally, record each mic to it’s own track in DAW.
Then you can fix it all later, if initially unsure. 1ms is huge at that distance. An 800hz sine-wave is a good tester for alignment at sample-levels of resolution.
Don’t forget rear and ambient miking too, and maybe one down the street for good luck, and to get some ‘crowd noise’!

 

[Alex Kenivel]

maybe one down the street for good luck

This reminds me of time I was recording drums in my living room and decided to stick a microphone way up in the skylight. It wasn't that useful but it was interesting and fun to extend my custom boom stand to its limits

 

[Solarflares]

This reminds me of time I was recording drums in my living room and decided to stick a microphone way up in the skylight. It wasn't that useful but it was interesting and fun to extend my custom boom stand to its limits

Sounds like Led Zeppelin recording “When the Levee Breaks” at Hedley Grange.
Bonzo was trying a new kit in the hall, and the band were on the balcony above. Rest is history.
Unless you’re Robert Plant, in which case it seems like only yesterday, man!

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Sounds like Led Zeppelin recording “When the Levee Breaks” at Hedley Grange.
Bonzo was trying a new kit in the hall, and the band were on the balcony above. Rest is history.
Unless you’re Robert Plant, in which case it seems like only yesterday, man!

A little bit of this, and a little bit of Blood Sugar Sex Magic

 

[Solarflares]

Blood Sugar Sex Magic?
Was that Jimmy Page in his top-hat and Crowley cape, with a naked Lori Maddox bent over the balcony - eating her 5th Mars Bar?

 

[Solarflares]

Which reminds me.
My dog came up to me yesterday and said “Is that a female XLR on your new rack compressor?”
I said “Are you blind? It’s a Jack socket.”

Just goes to show, you can’t teach an old dog Neutriks.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Which reminds me.
My dog came up to me yesterday and said “Is that a female XLR on your new rack compressor?”
I said “Are you blind? It’s a Jack socket.”

Just goes to show, you can’t teach an old dog Neutriks.

I cant decide if I want to cringemelt or write this down!

And BSSM is a Red Hot Chili Peppers album. They released a Documentary on the recording of it called Funky Monks. I need to re-watch it, it's been a while.

 

[FrankD77]

@solarflare
I would use a ruler with a distance block (?) To get the main mics "perfect" most of the time it works great and you don't need any adjustments.

The slate takes this is a step further by using the plugin you can emulate several famous combinations. Like a sm57/121 or 421.

The sound quality might not be 100% of the original mics but it gives me a lot more options than with the mics i own

And although I love genome and proper IRs the sound of a cab with 2 mics blended (for me) has much more dynamics and oompf.

For 90,00 i say get it if you can

 

[Solarflares]

@solarflare
I would use a ruler with a distance block (?) To get the main mics "perfect" most of the time it works great and you don't need any adjustments.

The slate takes this is a step further by using the plugin you can emulate several famous combinations. Like a sm57/121 or 421.

The sound quality might not be 100% of the original mics but it gives me a lot more options than with the mics i own

And although I love genome and proper IRs the sound of a cab with 2 mics blended (for me) has much more dynamics and oompf.

For 90,00 i say get it if you can

It’s quite simple to set up a mixing template in something like Cubase, where you have channels for each mic input, and can apply an oscilloscope - where you can overlay live test-tone traces, and time-trim them, before returning to your recording scene..

I’m fully aware of modelling tech, and all the gear. It has no place in my head. I record natural sounds, and always stick to that doctrine as much as is possible. I use the gear I have, and get the best results I can. Drum samples are a necessary evil here, but the rest is honest analogue and field-recordings. I sometimes program from the ground up with FM synthesis, if the mood takes me.

I think IR’s are frankly ridiculous. They belong with modelling, cheap guitar copies, all Chinese equipment, and lack of talent pretending to be something it is not. IR’s are the sonic equivalent of putting a mic in a paper bag, and claiming it was recorded in a sweet shop.

I own one highly-modified valve condenser mic, usually driving a Joe Meek VC1 and VC5. I pair it with an SM57 into its own Joe Meek for my 1x12 cab. It is what it is.
With all respect - I have a highly revealing, very transparent monitor system. It takes no prisoners, and neither do I.

 

[FrankD77]

agree to a part.
However IRs can sound great especially if it's impossible to run a tube amp on high volume.

I have some own hammer and BHG and they sound great.

The slate digital ML1 on its own on the cab sounds better for my taste. I see the modelling on the mic software more as an EQ in mastering

I like to know the sound is a real sound wave recorded by a mic. If someone else hears it. I doubt it