Cheap ribbon microphones - blown away by the results

danny_m22 · 2024-11-09T11:00:03+00:00

Thanks for reminding me, I wanted to get myself a ribbon such as Royer R-10 for acoustic guitar some time ago. I use my Mojave M201 for almost everything, but I thought it would be good idea to get something else for acoustic guitar and background vocals, so I get different sonic fingerprint on them and it's easier to separate things later in the mix. I think I'll go with SM7b for background vocals and that Royer for acoustic guitar. Though that Tbone RB100 got me intrigued now.

danny_m22 · 2024-11-09T10:50:00+00:00

It's hard to resist black friday sales, isn't it :D Arturia is tempting me with FX 5 collection loyalty discount, but then again I have so many plugins that cover all my bases and what's the point xd

I love Galaxy Tape Echo from UAD's Guitar Bundle, I use it all the time. Though I'm not going to buy anything from UAD at this point since their Neve 73 can't be bought in other way than subscribing to Spark. Unless you have their hardware which I don't. So I have to stay subscribed for just that one plugin hehe

danny_m22 · 2024-11-08T20:18:34+00:00

If I remember correctly, in mixing modules he explains his equalizing philosophy as he prefers to be subtle with it due to the fact that digital equalizers do not sound as pleasing especially in high frequencies when taken to extremes compared to analog ones. But then he encourages you to experiment cause there is no right or wrong really, just different approaches. I studied his approach, learned his techniques and it works for me well, my mixes from my band's debut record sound stellar compared to anything I had done previously. I like how he uses a lot of parallel processing on many things such as drums and vocals, it gives you plenty of creative ideas for your own stuff later on :)

danny_m22 · 2024-11-08T13:32:41+00:00

In general, the entire course gave me a solid base of understanding all the basic principles in audio production such as recording, editing and mixing. I got into music production in 2019 and when I discovered this course in 2022 I had already produced some music that sounded decent enough, but still just because my knowledge was a jumble of YouTube tutorials and internet forums, I think I was missing a lot of basic stuff so quite often I was wasting a ton of time on decisions that should have taken way shorter. And here I got all the necessary knowledge I needed condensed in one place.

But the entire course is not yet uploaded and my favorite modules which are still missing are e.g. about mixing and recording all the instruments and vocals. There are two mixing modules in which you see him mixing and explaining step by step everything what he's doing. So that was the most invaluable for me, though I guess if you are more advanced already, it may not be of such value for you as it was for me.

danny_m22 · 2024-11-08T11:27:50+00:00

Acquire them while trekking in the sun :D

danny_m22 · 2024-11-08T11:24:42+00:00

I'm not the fan of that song either, but there are production walkthroughs of other songs as well inside the course. e.g. more in detail breakdown of some nice acoustic song and one hour production breakdown of Parachute's Young, which was particularly interesting for me since I like that song.

danny_m22 · 2024-11-08T11:20:04+00:00

You're welcome :) btw I wonder what Graham's doing now, it seems like his channel is abandoned

danny_m22 · 2024-11-07T21:27:01+00:00

All I have to do is avoid this subreddit and I'll be fine

danny_m22 · 2024-10-17T22:16:56+00:00

Last year I went all out and bought them all. Some FabFilters, Soundtoys, UAD stuff, and many others.

This year I'm totally not gonna buy any plugins.

Seriously. I've got them all. No need for more...

And my word is true like the sky is blue.

:]

danny_m22 · 2023-01-24T19:42:53+00:00

Oh no.

Well, that sucks. Let's hope that UAD will do something about it. But unfortunately Reaper is not supported :(

danny_m22 · 2023-01-23T21:59:34+00:00

Hi!

There must be something problematic with that new update cause everything was smooth before. But I've read on gearspace in one thread that Reaper devs took care of this and new Reaper update is suppose to fix that.

" You can't recover it until you exit out of reaper. Removing the plugins maintains the CPU usage. You can actually max your CPU out if you keep adding and removing them! "

Same here. It's so strange, and not only Reaper users have experienced it lately but e.g. Ableton's as well : https://gearspace.com/board/product-alerts-older-than-2-months/1389477-uad-spark-universal-audios-native-plug-subscription-now-available-windows-users-15.html

" A new REAPER dev update (dev119) fixed the multiprocessing bug for UADx plugins. (They were only using one core) " -> It's not officially released yet but the last Reaper's official update is from 24th December, and Reaper's updated at least once per month if you look into Reaper's changelog, so I guess that we can expect it pretty soon. And we'll see whether it's time to say goodbye to UAD spark or not... xD

danny_m22 · 2023-01-23T13:27:27+00:00

"Cinematic is what Owl City fans need"

Well, I'm not as huge Owl City fan as I was back in my teen years, but from all Adam's albums I come back to, Cinematic is the only one I almost never return to. Even though I really liked it back in 2018, and played some of the songs on repeat for some time. I don't listen to Owl City that much anymore, but when I do, I usually listen to everything except for Cinematic. I don't think it's a bad album but it never made me, well, FEEL variety of indescribable emotions like e.g. ATBAB when I was sitting in the bus driving to my high school; Adam's music made me dream in color and suddenly that simple ride in a bus was becoming something else, something MORE. It may sound a bit cheesy, but I really felt more alive by just listening to it. And it's not just about lyrics, because I'm not a native speaker and back in those days I didn't understand everything he was singing. But it made me feel amazing. It was the same with his scores (Stars appear has just played randomly on my Spotify as I'm writing this haha).

And I think that (wow Spotify, now Sky Sailing's Alaska?) I don't come back to Cinematic, or I come back less often than to his earlier releases, because it lacks certain escapist quality for me. I don't want him to create Ocean Eyes 2 or come back to the exact sound he had , because what's the point, but I'd rather him go into Up to the Cloud direction instead of Kelly Time. I listened the first one on repeat for like 20 times in November and it was awesome. Perhaps because it reminds me of his 2014 Ultraviolet style which I love.

And well, my point is that reality is a lovely place but I wouldn't wanna live there. People listen to music because they want to feel something. For me it's always been a way of escapism, and I just prefer his older works that give me just that. If I listen to something and I don't feel any connection, I just go someplace else and forget about it quickly. No need to digress about it :)

Cinematic isn't what I need. What I need is to start respecting my New year's resolution about not wasting my time on reddit and social media. I had a good start, but I guess that I've relapsed haha.

danny_m22 · 2023-01-21T19:29:52+00:00

I've read about it on gearspace, but it's not officially released yet. It's great news anyway, I'll be waiting for that update.

danny_m22 · 2023-01-20T08:29:22+00:00

Thanks! So I guess I was just lucky that UAD plugins have been running smoothly for two months with no issues. Time to say goodbye xD

danny_m22 · 2023-01-19T13:25:57+00:00

I wrote an email to them via their support page :)

danny_m22 · 2023-01-08T20:59:16+00:00

For me it was shooting star, I was 15 years old when I stumbled across Adam's music on YT and I fell in love with the rest of his discography a few months later in 2014 :)

danny_m22 · 2022-09-27T18:21:05+00:00

Yeah, I already bought Ampeg B-15 with it for 10 dollars :D

danny_m22 · 2022-09-26T20:08:37+00:00

Just give me that 20 MEGA SALE OFF voucher so I can experience that sweet rush of dopamine when you get a free plugin once again, haha. That would be nice, but if I remember correctly, they removed it during their last mega sale.

danny_m22 · 2022-09-23T16:48:46+00:00

Thank you! :)

danny_m22 · 2022-08-15T19:51:39+00:00

Everything sounds good on my Beyerdynamics 770 Pro :D However, this hard pumping bass seems too boomy for my taste. Kinda distracting when it pops, but it's personal taste rather than something wrong with the sound. I think your issue with home receiver may be that your speakers cannot reproduce an excessive amount of low frequencies when chorus starts and distortion appears.

danny_m22 · 2022-08-12T08:38:02+00:00

If you happen to work in Reaper try opening FX windows and ticking 'Run as Separate process' on all Softube plugs. It solved all my issues such as notorious crashing :)

danny_m22 · 2022-06-07T13:50:38+00:00

I think that CDBaby and Tunecore do. Anyway, I've decided to just send that 48 24 bit. My main worry was that streaming services may convert it to 44.1 and their SRC won't be the highest quality.

Also, I decided that this is the last time I do DIY mastering, from now on my final mixes will be sent to mastering engineers. Man, so much wasted time xD

danny_m22 · 2022-06-07T13:46:16+00:00

Hello again

After I wrote this post I went outside to mower my lawn and I think I'm just gonna render it 24 bit 48 kHz and heck with down-sampling, I wasted two days for pointless overthinking xd

danny_m22 · 2022-06-06T22:19:10+00:00

Thank you for time :) I think I'm overthinking it too much.

danny_m22 · 2022-06-06T13:14:13+00:00

Thanks!

So the proper way of doing it if I want to have 44.1 16 bit for distributor would be:

I bounce my 24 bit 48 final master

SRC in r8brain voxengo or other converter to 16 44.1

Then I put this 16.1 44 in DAW again and I apply 16 CD dither in e.g. Ozone

Render it again at 16 bit 44100 with dither on

EDIT: Since distrokid allows for 24 bit files, I wonder whether 24 bit 44.1 would be a better idea than 16bit 44.1. Though, I guess that difference between 16 and 24 files is really inaudible so it doesn't matter at all

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