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29th June 2004
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| Gear addict  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Hollywood
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Thread Starter | YOUR secret weapon? I guess it won't be secret anymore, if you tell us all. But with so many working people here, tools that are considered "essential" might be a useful thing for others. Especially if I ask you to only pick ONE please! Mine if the JBL/Urei 7110 compressor - similar to a Distressor for a fifth the price. It has good sound quality - well-built. They are pretty common to find, and JBL still has the optional balancing transformers - you wire them in to give balanced output. I love the way it offers nearly ANY shape and really works fast (unlike other vintage compressors) to tame things down. It has a sidechain input, so I connect a 31-band graphic to make it frquency-selective too. As this is sidechain, you don't need a good quality graphic. This combination lets you DeEss or remove any bump or odd ring in a signal. REALLY powerful combination that no one seems to offer... |
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29th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Phoenix
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29th June 2004
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Oct 2002
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| My Ears.  Ok, in gear it would be my pair of Requisite Audio Pal Plus units.  |
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29th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Knife, Fork, Bottle, Cork
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29th June 2004
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The Netherlands (yes that's the country surrounding Amsterdam!)
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29th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Sep 2003
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| My love truncheon |
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29th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The Lone Star
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| making a habit of listening (in a wide variety of environments, but especially my studio) to great music, recorded and mixed by geat engineers, produced by great producers... when was the last time you just sat in your studio for a few minutes with the lights dimmed and just absorbed the playback of a legendary track or three. i think it sort of tunes (maybe equalizes? ) your imagination.
__________________ "Hope doesn't float. It sinks to the bottom... You need more than hope. You have to believe." |
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29th June 2004
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| Gear Head Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Rancho Californio'
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I sat down in my studio just yesterday and totally absorbed "Tapestry" by Carol King. I just love that record. It has brilliant songs. You can hear flaws, overdubs, hiss, punch-ins, thin sounding acoustics, poor drum sounds etc. and the record is still pure genius holding it's weight with great performances and songs. Secret Weapon? Tuning drums. Well. | |
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29th June 2004
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| 3 + infractions, forum membership suspended.  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: South Florida
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| My secret weapon is to always stay in record especially if the artist thinks he/she is just "warming" up. Never know when that perfect performance will happen. |
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29th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South East England
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| If I told you it wouldn't be secret would it ? But I do love the plastic battery powered Marshall amps with a LDC in front !!! Jam |
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: chicago
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| Here is the ultimate secret weapon against any foe, friend, flora, or fauna:  |
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30th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: washington dc
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| My turd polisher.  |
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30th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ans (Liege) Belgium
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| a waterproof pen that can write on CDR's so I can keep note of which ones are the demo mixes printed and which ones are the masters  
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30th June 2004
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2004 Location: canada
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| my secret weapon. 1. i believe in the old school...try and cram lots of hooks into a song. its tough to do of course. i think up loads of songs - the muse never leaves me. soundclick.com/bmanning ,,,eg 50 songs - try old folks sleepin' in the streets or the wrecker, or whole of london town is crying. my problem is getting the engineering right !! 2. a great multitracker for 29 bucks called powertracks. great features and good built in effects so i dont have to spend lots of money on plug ins. i also love magix music studio for same reasons(based on samp). peace |
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30th June 2004
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| ATM25s on toms. They make any tom miced anyway sound great. David |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Space
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30th June 2004
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Long Island, New York
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  | I'd have to say either the Labtec Computer mic or Earthworks SR69. Both of those have a very weird sort of magic for me. |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Knife, Fork, Bottle, Cork
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30th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: NJ
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| An Ibanez TS10 Tubescreamer i grabbed for $20 at a garage sale and modded back to original TS808 specs... pretty incredible on growling/aggressive male vox (think hardcore or extreme metal), phattening up a snare drum, reamping a bland guitar track, bass fuzz etc. Lives on an aux send 24/7. |
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30th June 2004
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Worcester Ma
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30th June 2004
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Toronto
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Pacific Northwest
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THAT's Funny! Mine: Apple Juice for voice talent. It get's rid of the lip & mouth noise. The secret's out.
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30th June 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: London UK
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1st July 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: uh..... Hollywood
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| #1. walking away from the studio I shared with some friends and going 100% location based. I get a better recording in one hour on location in a good room than I could in a month in a studio. Works EVERY time.
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1st July 2004
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chi-town, a BlueState
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| Beat quantizer (www.beatcreator.com) and drumagog (www.drumagog.com) and a HUGE CD collection for: samples, inspiration, and therapy? jeffrey
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1st July 2004
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| Gear Head Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: London
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| Re: YOUR secret weapon? Quote:
Is this JBL/Urei good for fattening up snares (in a 1970s funk kind of way)? I've been considering getting a Distressor but if this can do what the Distressor can do then I'd love to know more about it. Is it a mono compressor? Also, what kind of money would you pay for one second hand? Your opinions/knowledge would be greatly appreciated.  Geo | |
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1st July 2004
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| Gear Head  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Netherlands
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| V-Tube from Dadev; perhaps the only plugin I use |
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1st July 2004
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2003 Location: Hollywood
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Thread Starter | DEFINITELY. It loses a tiny bit of high end. Which I prefer to adding some edge or losing low end. I see them for between $150 and 250. The transformer is about $40 from JBL... |
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1st July 2004
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| Gear Head Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: London
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Transformer?? Do you mean the Power Supply Unit? Sorry for my apparent ignorance...  | |
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