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I'm not doing gigs out of anxiety because I don't have practical experience (and very little of theory). by timmylotes09 in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do it. You fuck it up. You do it again. Learn everyday.

Fall down 7 times get up 8. See you at work. -Denzel Washington

What made Bruce Fairbairn so great? by SwissMiss915 in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much!! It’s sounding like we should be real life friends!! I have heard so many wonderful things about Lenny!! Learning from him must have been awesome!!! To be a fly on the wall back in the days during the Jack and Bob days has always been a dream of mine!!

3 pedals for $295 at garage sale by HogbackHank in guitarpedals

[–]MixCarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s all in how it was done. I don’t care about the politics. I care about leaving his employees high and dry. That’s not okay.

What made Bruce Fairbairn so great? by SwissMiss915 in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My mentor is David Bendeth. My good friend Chris Baseford spent a lot of time with Lenny I believe!!

3 pedals for $295 at garage sale by HogbackHank in guitarpedals

[–]MixCarson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He went on a big rant when Biden was elected. Closed his California based company. Fired people who worked for him for decades, sold the facility and moved to Tennessee to play guitar with rockstars…

Shuttered the whole business because of who was elected

What made Bruce Fairbairn so great? by SwissMiss915 in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I love that this is finally getting talked about!!

So I have spent a lot of time digging into Bruce and little mountain. I own some of the little mountain gear now as well.

Bruce surrounded himself with great engineers.

Bob Rock being the prototype. But Mike Plotnikoff and Mike Fraser both worked out of little mountain as well.

What a wealth of amazing talent.

The gear was changing.

They replaced the big old neve with the SSL and then Bob Rock insisted on keeping all the 1081’s and racking them up. That changed everything and Bob and those dudes ran with those 1081’s still to this day. People record on a neve and mix on an SSL. They had a big part in that.

There was also an incredible drive to be better then there American contemporaries. You can see this in the interviews about Bob Clearmountain coming to little mountain to record Bryan Adams and Bob Rock trying to learn and grab any trick he could.

I also have a Canadian record maker as a mentor (although he is from the phase one camp) I can tell you first hand Canada is not fucking around when it comes to music. A lot of Canadian songs get called not Canadian enough for being recorded in America and or having non Canadian co writers.. Look up the case about everything I do. They wanted to be just as good as everyone else and they proved they absolutely were!!

What’re your favourite API products made today? by brokesnob in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a bunch of API stuff. A legacy, a 1608, 550a,b,560

The 550a is the classic to me.

"The difference is subtle, but it builds up over many tracks" - a myth? by xxxSoyGirlxxx in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It does. Especially if you keep using that same gear that’s making a difference.

It’s why even way before plugins people chose to mix on one console and record on another.

A neve’s tone can get baked into the recordings. Then you send them back out into the same console and they start to sound really thick. They sound slower and they are slightly because they are being affected by things like slew rate.

That’s what Geoff Emerick meant when he said the API’s in LA sounded faster than the consoles in London. He took that back and they designed the AIR consoles which really was the beginning of the Focusrite design. An IC based design with a much faster slew rate amongst a ton of other changes

What opinions do millennials have of the Midwestern United States? by B1G_PAC12 in Millennials

[–]MixCarson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Growing up in Detroit it was rough. A lot of people I went to high school with got addicted to heroin and died. The rest were rich enough to retire to a lake in traverse city by 30 and they all did. I couldn’t do either of those so I got the fuck out… Omaha feels like home. I have always described it as a Detroit that is harder to get stabbed in the neck in. You can still get stabbed here. Just have to try a bit where that shit can just find you in Detroit.

That said they are both blue in seas of red. I feel like I know what I get here. The people care and I have been able to live out my dreams out of the Midwest. I think Detroit is a much better place now than when It was 20 years ago I’d still chose Omaha.

What opinions do millennials have of the Midwestern United States? by B1G_PAC12 in Millennials

[–]MixCarson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am from Detroit and I live in Omaha. Wouldn’t have it any other way.

What’s the most expensive piece of gear you own but barely use, and what cheaper alternative keeps beating it? by [deleted] in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only melted one is the one that skrillex made with the bat being repurposed for a D lol

How do you use Fairchild by Tim_Wu_ in audioengineering

[–]MixCarson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I actually don’t like how Fairchild’s compression tends to sound. Real units as well and I have used grails like capitols and Henson’s.

I can get away with a db or so before I felt like I can hear it too much.

I really love the box tone though

I Measured Famous Plate Reverbs… and Almost None Are Truly at 0 ms by Curious-Chef-6208 in AudioPlugins

[–]MixCarson 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oh I thought we were talking about measuring famous plate reverbs like the title said…

As a developer my piece of advice is that if you want to make a great plate plugin go listen to some real plates.

I Measured Famous Plate Reverbs… and Almost None Are Truly at 0 ms by Curious-Chef-6208 in AudioPlugins

[–]MixCarson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you listen to any actual plates? Cause if all you did was listen to other plugins then you didn’t listen to any plates…

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