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9th March 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2005
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Thread Starter | What do you guys think of David Grisman's studio sound?
Specifically the acoustic based Tone Poems series and the most recent Tone Poets. This kind of sound eludes me, and it sounds like something I'd like to at least achieve to some degree or the other. It seems, according to his own liner notes, and the great article in Fretboard Journal, Grisman does most of the mixing and mastering himself. He used a mixture of neutral Neumann mics, through his MCI JH416 console, and eventually into analog tape at 30ips. How does a guy keep an old MCI console sounding so good? |
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10th March 2006
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| One with big hooves  Joined: May 2002 Location: Earth, NYC metro
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Well, that and being able to record great musicians playing great music! That'll make ANY console sound good.
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10th March 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2005
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Ok your right. Good players are more important than good preamps. Why can't I get this through my thick skull and quit trying to copy this stu  ff...?
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10th March 2006
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| One with big hooves Joined: May 2002 Location: Earth, NYC metro
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Yeah, from time to time I have to remind myself of that too. Like last week when I was mixing a pretty bad live thing I kept hearing this voice go through my head...a mastering engineer that I knew eons ago once said when faced with a rather 'interesting' record; "Everything that's wrong with this isn't you."  If there's one point that was really driven home by doing FOH it's that the musician really is in control. With someone like a Del McCoury, Sam Bush, Tony Trischka etc. at the helm all you really have to do is stick a mic somewhere near them, turn it up and maybe roll off some bottom or whatever and you'll look like a genious. Well, maybe a little compression or some 'invisible' reverb can't hurt too much but 90% of the sound is coming from them. Once you realize and wholely accept that as truth, the rest is usually easy. |
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10th March 2006
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| Head of Bumping Security (B.S)  Joined: Feb 2004 Location: in the hills of Southern California
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The Garcia "Pizza Tapes" sounds absolutely beautiful. Of course Jerry Garcia and Tony Rice might have something to do with that.
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10th March 2006
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| Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2005
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