Speculum Speculorum
Power User
So up until today, I was recording guitars DI and listening through my Adam A7 monitors. I was always happy with my sound, and thought that I was pretty much doing everything right. A while ago a forum-ite here talked to me about how even though it's FRFR, the speaker/guitar interaction was pretty important to recorded tone. "Okay" says me. "I've got some sound coming out of the speakers. Sounds good." And he's right, of course. It did make a difference. I'd been recording with my speakers on, and I didn't really think much of it.
Until today ride:, when I rather drastically increased the level of my playing. I can still talk over my guitar, but I increased the signal by about 10db. What a difference. The mids really opened up, the high end was way less congested, and the lows really balanced out. When I mixed the guitars in back low again, it felt like the guitars had a good deal more depth and space to them, even though they weren't as loud. I definitely didn't understand how important this was before. So my lesson is this:
Record with a little extra volume on hand if you can. Then use a gain trim plugin (like Logic Pro's native plugin) for mixing. Much better sound, in my humble opinion. :encouragement:
Until today ride:, when I rather drastically increased the level of my playing. I can still talk over my guitar, but I increased the signal by about 10db. What a difference. The mids really opened up, the high end was way less congested, and the lows really balanced out. When I mixed the guitars in back low again, it felt like the guitars had a good deal more depth and space to them, even though they weren't as loud. I definitely didn't understand how important this was before. So my lesson is this:
Record with a little extra volume on hand if you can. Then use a gain trim plugin (like Logic Pro's native plugin) for mixing. Much better sound, in my humble opinion. :encouragement: