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Sound Advice / Re: Computer Software - What's Best for recording tunage?

« on: July 16, 2007, 07:53:38 PM »

I have pro tools, cubase & soundforge. They are all good & terrible in there own right.
I tend to use pro tools for most things, but it does become a hassle when you have to keep bouncing tracks down or having things on seperate pages because it can only play a maximum of 30 tracks @ one time. However protools is real easy to use.
Cubase has the advantage of being able to run as many tracks as your pc can handle but I find it less user friendly.
Of course if money is NO ISSUE then Pro Tools HD is where it's at  , if you have a spare $30000 

Hopefully getting the new Linux recording program soon just to have the best of all worlds. 

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Sound Advice / Re: How do you get a great onstage sound?

« on: July 16, 2007, 07:44:10 PM »

A quick tip I found on the Andy Sneap website if you are really lost or just curious is to run the kit through a pitch shifter. If you find a pitch that seems to fit better, then just re-tune the kit  within that range. He says it is not 100% but gives you a guide & saves him a whole load of time when using equipment/brands that he hasn't used before. 

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Sound Advice / Re: How do you get a great onstage sound?

« on: July 06, 2007, 08:05:24 PM »

With our old drummer Jack we used to have a real issue with his 1st tom as the tom would cancel out the guitar or the guitar would cancel out the tom, wierd . Re tuning the kit slightly higher fixed the problem. Usually it isn't an issue but this was damn obvious & off putting.
I have noticed that toms with too much resonance & guitars as well espescially bottom end resonance in either can affect eachother.

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Sound Advice / Re: How do you get a great onstage sound?

« on: July 02, 2007, 08:25:18 PM »

Hey Aidan speaking of onstage mixing nightmares, has our & Malgnant Monsters new bass player Shawn spoken to you about his other band project. If not ask him about how many instruments they will have going @ once & how many vocalists, I swear you will wet yourself laughing @ the thought of whoever has to mix them (as long as it isn't you). These guys will be every live engineers nightmare  

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Sound Advice / Re: Greetings and welcome to the new 'Sound Advice' section on WF

« on: July 02, 2007, 08:18:12 PM »

Hey don't knock radio mics  Although almost every mixer hates us because of ours 

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Sound Advice / Re: How do you get a great onstage sound?

« on: July 02, 2007, 08:08:41 PM »

Here is another tip for guitars that has served us well.
If you are like Aidan & prefer to be able to hear your guitar more than the other guitar then this is definitley not for you. However if you & your other guitarist like to here eachother @ an even volume across the whole stage then this will work.
You will both need heads that have 2 8ohm outputs & both cabs will have to have 2 8ohm inputs. You will need 2 speaker leads each, one that will reach from your head to your cab & one long one that will reach from your head to the other side of the stage to the other cab.
We have found this setup extemely user friendly for us as with our songs there are specific sections where we need to be able to here the other guitarist for cues, also we can move around on stage as much as we like & the mix stays the same. It also helps with feedback as all the volume isn't coming from one small pocket of the stage.
This setup also forces both guitarists to balance out their tones & volume levels. Just be sure that you hook up the speaker lead on your side of the stage to the bank with your best sounding speaker in it & make sure the mic is in front of the correct speaker bank otherwise you will get 2 channels of the same guitar & none of the other.
This setup does not work for every band & if you dont have it well balanced it will make the front of house engineers job PURE HELL, I know because we have set it up all wrong in the past, however once you get it nailed you get praises from the engineer on how easy your sound was to mix.

Also as Aidan said, take the time to write or print out a list of all the bands requirments & hand it to the engineer ahead of time. Keeping multiple copies in your guitar case is a good idea as you can't forget them or forget to add something to the list, also some sound engineers misplace your list so it is handy to have some backups. 

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Sound Advice / Re: How do you get a great onstage sound?

« on: June 28, 2007, 09:49:56 PM »

Just to weigh in here. I find up front amps aimed forward are to looud & amps aimed side on can't be heard espescilly @ Capitol as the first 2 rows ARE behind the pa. The few bands that have aimed there quads on a 45' angle have sounded awesome no matter where you stand. That way if you are up front & to one side you arent blasted by only one guitar, if you are in the middle then you can here both guitars & drums, as you walk away from the stage the guitars slowly blend out & the pa takes over. It also helps with any phasing issues & because of the 45' angle the guitars can be loud but not too loud as they will feed back to a point that even the best noise gate won't be able to reign in, so this helps with the balance of the the mix in the entire room.
If you are still getting feedback & you have a gate & the volume is down then you need to look @ where your tone pots are set. 

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Sound Advice / Re: Greetings and welcome to the new 'Sound Advice' section on WF

« on: June 18, 2007, 06:57:02 PM »

  Here is the section I have been waitn for for ages. Good on you Aiden for offering information for noobs to the engineering world such as myself. 

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Western Australia / Re: That crazy mother fucker at Pathogen gig, at voltaire 2 weeks ago...

« on: May 29, 2006, 09:57:30 PM »

Dont worry, I'm sure your a very attractive woman... He probably just didnt know how to ocmpose himself infront of a lovely lady. In any case yes I am only 16 but had I been there at that gig and seen this go on, I would have rallied a few friends to ask him what the hell was going on... You woulda had my full support! But I'm lucky it got sorted out none the less...

ah kids these days, trying to pick up chicks on the net, its so cute!

ahh c'mon, give the kid a break....they gotta start sumwhere!

@ least he has the right attitude.

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Ask Ormsby / Re: Buying a guitar, what do you want??

« on: May 29, 2006, 09:22:19 PM »

Pickups: 2x humbucker with coil split,

Bridge:  tunomatic and string through

for trem models: floyd rose,

pickups: black (for hums)

tuners: locking,

Inlays:  sharks

Frets: jumbo

Frets: stainless steel

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Western Australia / Re: That crazy mother fucker at Pathogen gig, at voltaire 2 weeks ago...

« on: May 29, 2006, 08:39:23 PM »

What a fuckhead. Pity I didn't catch it happening, there is a little dark room right near the stage door I coulda dragged him into by the throat & held him til Dave got off stage hehe.
That is one guy who I would have been glad to see the bouncers throw down the stairs. 
I hate cunts like this, they fuck up someones night, but if a bouncer throws em down the stairs they wanna sue the venue.
If you see him @ a gig, pass the word around so I & hopefully others will make his mosh pit experience a painfull one he wont forget. 

MOSH PIT JUSTICE

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Western Australia / Re: Perth Local Metal CD?

« on: May 13, 2006, 07:13:47 AM »

I have also toyed with the idea of doing something similar to this by using live video.
Use 1 camera per band member + 1 room camera. Record the whole set & pick out one song. Do this for a whole load of Perth metal bands & sending it out as a live promo dvd.
Also putting it up on the net as a free download for those who have broadband & don't mind chewing up their monthly bandwidth. Or the video could be segmented up as seperate performances to keep the downloads smaller. Have a flash style opening put in front of ea one showcasing all the bands in say 1 or 2 minutes as to allure people to download all of the performances.  

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Western Australia / Re: Perth Local Metal CD?

« on: May 13, 2006, 07:05:30 AM »

I'm in.
If the rest of the band don't wanna cough up I will cough up our share myself,but I can't see em complaining.
Someone in Adelaide did this a few years ago. Basically free local compilation, apparantly there were 3 times as many burnt copies in the end, but free exposure is free exposure official copy or not.

I say do the cd, but take a step further & also offer it as a free download. The free download address could also be placed on the bottom of flyers & all band related promotion & advertising.
Which means all the bands are helping to promote eachother without much if any extra effort.  
Humans tend to lock onto the word FREE. So even though they may not come to your gig that you handed them a flyer to, the FREE word will more than likely get them to download the album & who knows thwy may hear the band on the cd & decide to show up @ the gig after all.