The remodeling of the new studio thread!

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Thanks guys, the studio is definitely coming together. Man rock guitar tracked to tape is THE sound. I am so happy.
 
We we spent the afternoon doing a quick mix on a tune and then stemming out audio to 10 tracks and 4 tracks of effects to the Chandler Mini Rack Mixer. This was fun and a great way to hear for myself. I spent some time at a buddies studio last week doing this and was really into the Chandler but until you get it in your spot and start hackin through it you just don't know.

So we took an old song and stripped everything off of it, the original mix was super deep and I just wanted a simple rough mix to listen to today. We spent about an hour leveling it off and doing some basic eq and compression. We got it sounding pretty good, then we stemmed it out to the Chandler and dialed in our levels. For me the tone I heard instantaneously brought joy to my heart. The Chandler for whatever reason agrees with my guitar playing and sense of guitar sound. Anyway we did a bounce summed OTB. Then we set the session back up for ITB and calibrated the levels and did an ITB bounce, set them up side by side and listened back and forth for about an hour with a room full of people. F'n cool, then I did a burn and took them in my car and listened back and forth on my way home from the studio. The results for me were really exciting, the OTB mix was where I want my music to sound and to think that it was a 1 hour rough mix that wasn't even mixed into the unit in the first place, I can only imagine the potential of this setup.

This is in no way a shootout or a scientific experiment, this I did for myself because I'm on a quest for tone and this has been nipping at my heels. I uploaded the files a 192 mp3's and a video.kfhkh



ITB:
SoundClick artist: James Lugo - page with MP3 music downloads

OTB:
SoundClick artist: James Lugo - page with MP3 music downloads
 
Today we really dug into the new system and had such a great time. I'm so happy with the tone we are getting, so much more weight and muscle then before. The Chandler Mixer is just a fatness beast, the more you drive it the more it gives. I like the clarity retention when the unit is pushed. The EM PEQ is not just adding low end on the 2 buss but it has a tone and adds urgency and gurk to the bottom end. We've been using my SSL buss compressor and Nail on the 2 buss along with the Hammer for a little 10K lift.

The other thing that is nice is with the 2nd DA16X we're able to normal the Chandler Mixer into one of them and the CLASP into the other, way simpler setup and way less wiring.

The other cool thing is bumping heavy guitars at 1.5 with the Electrodyne's, my God they just pop. La3a's on the heavies too. 1176's and 1178's on vocals and guitars and CL1B and Little Devils on guitars. We've also been digging on the mpressor for ITB compression.

It's been a ride for sure...

 
My God you guys should here guitars with these badboys! YIKES, SO INTENSE.

 
James Lugo":29gynpb7 said:
A thing I'm experiencing is that we are able to really open the amps up more then when tracking straight to digital. Meaning you read old articles with Eddie Van Halen about the early VH records talking about how he set up his Marshalls and how he would dime everything, last year I used an old Jose Marshall quite a bit and realizing how bright it was and I thought 'man this is so bright when recorded' but now going to tape we are able to open up the amps more because there's not as much top end on the recording with tape and the top end there is sounds great and so much better then the top end in a computer. So now we can open these amps up and let them breathe and man what a difference. We have 3 amazing Marshalls, '71 Super Tremolo, '74 and '76 JMP and hitting tape with those amps is like an out of body experience when you've listened to them hitting straight to hard drives for years.
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like driving a sharp spear into soft ground versus frozen concrete.

soft ground receives the full depth of the strike with little resistance and molds around it precisely, the other deflects most of the energy and leaves a shallow imprint of the event.

i can hear the playback difference in your "30 days" tune over youtube/camera mic!
analogue phatness brothah!
 
Props to ya, James... NIcely done - and long time coming too, eh??

V.
 
Some fun from today, unfortunately the video is so distorted because the amp volume just wasted my camera. That's a drag. I need to learn how to lower the input recording volume on my camcorder.

 
James Lugo":3suehk0u said:
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Yo James...where did you pick up the SVT head at? It's awesome. Do you still have the Boogie head, or are you going with the SVT instead?
 
luxxtone":d1pcf3es said:
James Lugo":d1pcf3es said:
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Yo James...where did you pick up the SVT head at? It's awesome. Do you still have the Boogie head, or are you going with the SVT instead?
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Got the SVT from Bob Dixon, she is sweet. Dumped the M9, not my thing.
 
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