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Originally posted by Jules
Jon,
Can you detail the benefit you feel you are getting from having the Mic Pre's out in the live area? Did you do an A/B?
Are you doing this with most things you record these days?
Inc vocals?
Do you feel let down by the studios existing wirieing? Or is it 'just one of those things'
Seems like a PITA.
Do you ever add EQ out in the live area (to a mic pre / eq) and listen to it in the CR?
Hi Jules,
I go for the shortest, simplest route during sessions I produce, which usually includes connecting 1073s next to the mics with 1-foot XLR cables...and sometimes running out to the live room to tweak EQs (if needed) and even compressors (I don't mind not sitting in the CR chair all the time) which are patched directly into the Studer. It's not a PITA, it's a part of the job that I like.
Nevertheless, many free-lancers don't do it; they just use the fixed studio wiring...and I don't blame them...if I'm engineering for a client (not producing), and if the time budget is somewhat tight, I tend to do what is quickest too...whatever that may be.
I haven't A/Bed it and the difference might be inaudible. The Mogami studio wiring is very good. It's just a question, for me, of preferring the shortest signal path from mic to pre, and the most direct one after that to tape...when I can.