Where's My Engineers At?

ImTheFireMan said:

ya thats a good technique. i forgot the name, but i remember reading this in some book.
the mic placement part anyways, i have a bunch of old handouts from school that have a bunch of techniques on how to mic in different situations for different sounds.
and i remember this being one of the first ones.

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mexiblunt said:

Another engineer here! Good info guys, I can't remember alot this stuff so I won't have much to add to this thread but one thing about recording is once you have the basic understanding of it all you can let your ears do the work.
How many of you guys have spent an hour bobbing and weaving your head around a room in order to find a sweet spot for a mic?
We were taught on pro-tools but I have used a bunch of other pc based sofware since, I still find pro-tools the easiest especially as one poster mentioned the bus system.
I like to get blazed sometimes and kinda come up with my own effects for certain stuff, like one time I made my own tremolo/echo effect with lots and lots of copy paste but the neat thing was I would procces different eq/verb/phase into the copied pieces in different patterns that would give it a sound unlike any other effect combos. Took hours/days but it was like doing a painting for me.
Rock on!!!!!

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Sgt. Floyd said:

Sounds cool. One thing I realized when I started messing around with this stuff is that mixing and engineering and all the stuff that goes into making records is as much of an art form as writing the music.

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Sgt. Floyd said:

I wish I had some formal training. I'm just a hobbyist but man is it a fun hobby.

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mexiblunt said:

Another engineer here! Good info guys, I can't remember alot this stuff so I won't have much to add to this thread but one thing about recording is once you have the basic understanding of it all you can let your ears do the work.
How many of you guys have spent an hour bobbing and weaving your head around a room in order to find a sweet spot for a mic?
We were taught on pro-tools but I have used a bunch of other pc based sofware since, I still find pro-tools the easiest especially as one poster mentioned the bus system.
I like to get blazed sometimes and kinda come up with my own effects for certain stuff, like one time I made my own tremolo/echo effect with lots and lots of copy paste but the neat thing was I would procces different eq/verb/phase into the copied pieces in different patterns that would give it a sound unlike any other effect combos. Took hours/days but it was like doing a painting for me.
Rock on!!!!!

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mexiblunt said:

Yep, but there is a downside to having knowledge in sound engineering, you loose respect for some of your fav bands and give it to their producer. And it can suck to engineer and produce your own band cause once it's done you can't stand hearing it for a couple years... kinda.

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ImTheFireMan said:

but i see what you're saying, an artist is only as good as the engineer makes them sound.

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