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Originally Posted by scorpiwoman  Well, I was told that I didn't have a "real" studio till I get a couch..... Ouch! |
Don't underestimate the importance of a couch!
I had a session where two bass players were in attendance. The first bass player I tracked through a Robbie DI. Not a great bass DI, but not terrible. No noise, nice mids, decent lows. The next player comes in. He wants to track through his Radius into the mic input of the Robbie. I said it wasn't necessary as the Robbie has a built in DI (not to mention a higher quality one at that). We plugged it in the way he wanted, and there was some pretty heavy noise in the signal. So I said, I'd like to give it a shot using the Robbie DI, and his response was "You know I do this too." Meaning, he considers himself an engineer because evidently he tracks through his Radius at home. I switched the signal chain arround while he wasn't paying attention which got rid of a lot of the noise and improved the fidelity of the signal. Then I handed the session over to another engineer who was present and left. Next time, I'll just let him record himself. See if he can even figure out how to open Pro Tools.