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"Professional" tips for your home studio
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| Sanguis Mortuum |
Ahh, Tad Donley, his videos have been doing the rounds on DoA a bit lately. The guy clearly hasnt a ing clue what he's talking about :haha:
Actually, watching this one he does make some sense, he's just talking about how he uses carpet on the walls, which can act as acoustic deadening, albeit pretty crap, and the room isnt completely deadened so there's still some reverb, which you probably do want some of in the recording room, just not so much in the control room where the monitoring happens...
Ive heard some of the stuff he says in the other videos is just plain rediculous though... |
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| Beyer |
| lol yeah! I wasn't really commenting on this one in particular, just a general impression of all his vids. :D Amazing that a guy who makes a living from this could be THAT clueless. |
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| Eric J |
This guy is funny as hell!.
"I couldn't get a big BOOM!"
Get a big BOOM! |
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| kopi_luwak |
Ha, that's disturbing!
Kopi =o. |
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| Beyer |
I'm not planning on making more out of this thread, but I'd just wanted to share a cd cover I found with this dude.
His music is actually not that bad imo. Funny cover though! :D |
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| RichieV |
| i'm pretty sure that guy is just a music store lackie and not a " professional " |
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| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sanguis Mortuum
Ahh, Tad Donley, his videos have been doing the rounds on DoA a bit lately. The guy clearly hasnt a ing clue what he's talking about :haha:
Actually, watching this one he does make some sense, he's just talking about how he uses carpet on the walls, which can act as acoustic deadening, albeit pretty crap, and the room isnt completely deadened so there's still some reverb, which you probably do want some of in the recording room, just not so much in the control room where the monitoring happens...
Ive heard some of the stuff he says in the other videos is just plain rediculous though... |
Seriously, do you even know what you're saying?
Monitoring in a dead room? Worst idea ever. Who told you that it is desirable?
Monitoring should (preferably) be done in a well treated room. But never in a dead room. It sounds unnatural, and will make your track sound unnatural, and it's an unpleasant evironment to work in. In short, far from recommended.
Dead rooms are very nice for recording though. But so are the rooms with the light reverb. It really depends on the type of recording you're aiming for.
On top of that there are a few Behringer products that ARE good. I've seen their compressors and limiters being used at multiple radio stations here in the the Netherlands. There must be a reason for that :).
Last but not least, from the 3 links posted thus far... The guy is actually saying some intelligent and usefull things:
* Pay attention to headroom
* Dampen recording rooms for better/different results
* Cheap dampening methods can be just as good as expensive ones
* protools sucks and nuendo is the shiznit (j/k)
I don't know anything about the behringer convertors, but just as a guess, I don't think they're that bad at all. How he brings it is kind of funny/strange though. But he's aiming for a different market than ours...
I've seen some other video's which made me laugh far more than the ones mentioned earlier. Overall he's very biased :D |
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| Sanguis Mortuum |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
Seriously, do you even know what you're saying?
Monitoring in a dead room? Worst idea ever. Who told you that it is desirable? |
I didnt mean it should be entirely dead, but you need bass traps and deadening to reduce standing waves, I just meant that simply putting carpet on the walls wont be good enough for the monitoring room, whereas it can be acceptable in a recording room...
As for the 'intelligent' things you listed, yes, paying attention to headroom is a good idea, but all the actual advice he gives about headroom is complete nonsence:
"If you start pushing a little bit too hard, it starts squawking like a chicken, if you go too low it starts squawking, you have to work within a certain realm, otherwise you get zapped either way, so you psychologically start bringing your headroom down lower and you do not realize it but after about 3-4 months, you got it in this place for you in the small certain limited band, you don't have this big sound, you don't have this sound, you can't get the big sound. I try to get a boom out of the bass drum, in one of my albums, my CD, boom, I try to get that big boom, I could not get a big boom, I paid bucks, and could not get the boom"
What the is all that supposed to mean? |
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