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Chips O'Toole

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  1. 9 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    Thanks for the advice, @G650 & @Chips O'Toole.  I'll look deeper at the options and resources you've suggested.  Unfortunately, my space is a 12'x12' room that also has to be my office, so I have tried as much as possible to not have to dick with microphones.  Aside from space limitations, its not set up well acoustically, and I have no ability to isolate anything.  So it is not a professional recording setting by any means.  That's why I used an Ox Box when I was using real valve amps and now use an AxeFX3 exclusively for electric recording, and I'm very happy with it.

     

    12' x 12' is tough for sure.  My office is like 10' x 17' or something and is full of guitars, piano and gear.  Dicking with microphones in here is the best part.   I do have some sound absorber panels I can move around to cut down on reflections.  Also I have space outside the office to work with that you wouldn't have if you are using the detached building.  For $650 you can get a single used KM184 which is a standard in pro studios, and is very easy to work with since it is so much smaller and lighter than an LDC.

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  2. If you like that sound, it might be worth a shot.  It will at least sound more natural than recording an acoustic direct.  I prefer a condenser a bit farther away, usually an LDC like G650 but SDC's sound great on a lot of recordings.  If you are doing a lot of fast or delicate picking, SDC around the 12th fret is a good choice.  It depends a lot on the guitar, the room and what you are playing.  I usually have to listen to 2-3 mic's before I decide what I want to hear, and then move them around a bit.   I have no idea about that attachable condenser, it might be good but it seems like it also might not be very versatile.  Those recordings have a lot of reverb which is irritating.

    It was very challenging to mic an acoustic until I started to understand what to listen for when positioning the mic.  I'm only OK at it now.  

    I forget where you are Goredho, but having a gear rental shop nearby is a great resource.  I've rented a ton of mic's from RnR in Austin, sometimes just to try them out and see how much better a $1000 mic would sound over a $2-300 one.  Like any gear, mic's can become a bit of an obsession since they all sound different and add different things in a mix.

    C414 is a classic, I think the more recent revs (XLII, XLS etc) after 2000 are a bit hyped on the top end which sound overly bright to me.  The prior models (EB, B-ULS, TL) can be found for around 900-1k used, so they aren't super entry level but they also don't really lose value.  The guy who recorded my band's first album almost 20 years ago favored this mic on acoustic, and I am still trying to get a sound as good as he did back then.

    I am a fan of a company called 3u Audio, I have 2 mic's from them and will be purchasing another one this year.  The factory is in China, but they ship/sell out of Australia.  The components are much better than you might expect from that type of outfit, and the owner/engineer is very helpful, he even listened to some clips of my voice to give an opinion on which mic would sound better.  Their Warbler MK1 mic sounds great with acoustic guitar and even sounds good in comparisons with a U87 I have heard.  

    A site I found helpful is https://www.audiotestkitchen.com/ which has a shitload of mic's they have used on a few songs of different styles.  It lets you load up some mic's and swap between them and solo out guitar/voice/whatever.  I played with it for a couple of days and got a better feel for what kind of sound I liked.

    I think you should have at least one condenser mic in your room.  You can mic your guitar cab with it and add some depth to your tracks as well.  If you are happy with your sound, I won't tell you to change it, it's working.  But I would recommend spending the money on a good LDC to have around rather than a mic that you can really only use for close mic'ing the acoustic.

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  3. 13 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

    “Physical:100”.  It’s a Korean athletic competition with different types of athletes competing in different physical challenges.  The kicker is to turn on English dubbing.  It is sublimely hilarious.  

    I only watched one episode, but it is entertaining enough to see what happens.  The first 30+ minutes was just contestants walking into the room and meeting each other, so that could have been cut down.  The Squid Game aspect of it is gimmicky but I don't blame them after how popular that show was.

    If the editing of the challenges remains the same with the double cuts, I will probably not make it through episode 2.  That shit is so fucking lame and annoying.

    I've never heard people talk about each others' physique so much, that was pretty weird.

  4. My wife and I have been saying how obvious it was that Fessy doesn't even know Moriah and just got her to be on the show to give him a better chance to win.  He's trash and incapable of being honest with anyone.  He isn't even being honest in the confessionals which should tell producers that he is not worth having on the show at all.

     

    Maybe if he wins one he will go away but I doubt it.  

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  5. Fessy was already one of my least favorite contestants prior to last night, but his bitch-fest weeping about how he never gets to win (like Bananas and Jordan) has dropped him to all-time shittiest person in the challenge outside of the ones that were banned for various misconduct.  What a fucking unlikeable turd he has been since the beginning.  

    This is only his 4th challenge and he got DQ'ed last season for fighting less than halfway through.  And he made it to the final twice and couldn't win either time, so wtf is he crying about?  I'm pretty sure it took Jordan and Bananas at least 3 seasons to win, but I'm not fact checking that shit just to make a point about Fessy being a bitch which is 100% verified by that display last night.

     

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