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While other studios might only use "modeled emulators" for their "plugins" - I've often preferred instead to use the real deal, whether tube, transformer or tape, whenever the coloration of these has been desired. While it's super rare that I do layback to tape, for this album of contemporary afrobeat I did last week, where the client name checked the likes of Fela Kuti, Antibalas, along with some albums I did for the likes of Budos Band, Sharon Jones, and St. Paul & The Broken Bones, as the vibe they were wanting for their digital mixes - recording their tracks first onto 1/4" 15ips 2-track analog reel via my Otari MX5050-B2 has been just the thing to bring out some sweet sounding grime, saturation & punch that works perfectly for their goals. Shout out to local South Austin tech Tim Allen for getting this machine purring recently. And for any out there looking for a similar funkification of their mixes, give me a holla.
Busy Busy
Today is Sunday. The last day of May, 2026. It is about quarter past 8:00am and it is 48 degrees out. It is warmer than it was for most of the day yesterday. Thanks for nothing, mother nature.
I have a home owner type project going on this weekend that is both overwhelmingly intimidating and completely kicking my ass. That’s probably why I am writing this post rather than actually working. That’s okay though. I guess. Maybe?
We are doing a long term sort of thing. At some point later this year we are going to upgrade our HVAC system. We had a guy out to do some routine maintenance on the AC unit and he told us it’s pretty much at death’s door. Shit. The upgrade is going to cost a fortune, but Massachusetts has some solid rebate and loan options if you qualify. Now in order for us to qualify we have to have some work done on the house to bring us up to code.
One of those upgrades requires me to clear a three foot wide path around the outer walls in the cellar. Unfortunately for me, about 60% of those walls is made up of storage and closet space, all of which is full to bursting with crap. I have to clear all of that out which wouldn’t be too bad except that our cellar interior is also full of crap… well, crap, a laundry room, an office space where I do my morning exercise and my music stuff, and a living room. Basically, I have to pull everything out of storage but the only place that makes sense to move it to is already full of stuff. Shit.
The solution then is to purge. We’re going to book a visit from a junk removal service. They are going to take as much of the shit as I can pile up. Then we’re going to book a second visit and they will take the rest of the shit when I pile it up where the first load of shit was piled up. After that I just have to move furniture away from the walls. It’s going to suck to the high heavens, but it is worth it. We have all of that storage space (which was a huge selling point when we bought the house) but it’s all full. Now it will be cleared out for the most part and we can get to work filling it with new useless shit. Bonus!
So that’s my big project for this weekend. My smaller, less important project is already finished. On Friday night after work I mixed two songs. I wrote them on Monday, Memorial Day (I think the last time I wrote about them in a post here I said I wrote them on Sunday, but it was Monday). I had the bass, drums, and rhythm guitars done on Monday. I put the vocals on both songs on Thursday morning before work, and put the lead guitars down on Friday before work. Then I mixed them and uploaded them to my alonetone.com account before bed on Friday. For the first time in ages I submitted something to the RPM Challenge’s Record Every Month challenge thing.
I accomplished something musically. That felt good. Maybe next week I can accomplish something photographically too. That would also feel good. Creativity is good for my soul, or something like that.
Okay… time to start my day and see if I can’t get some stuff done. Happy Sunday, everyone.
#Guitar #homeImprovement #homeOwner #Music #Recording #Songwriting🧵 … still on the trip to #DynamicMic (for instruments, mostly)… #Beyerdynamic #M201 vs. #DieterSchoepfAudiotechnik #Addy2 on plucked string instruments. (I only have two of these myself, and I can play only one of them in a decent manner.)
There is no recommendation to be given here. Both mics are excellent. They sound a little different on instruments, with the M201 having lower output but it bit more high end. The Addy2 is actually more honest, not emphasizing high end so much. It is a matter of taste.
The M201 seems to work well with the #KlarkTeknik Mic Booster #CM1 (a cheap #CloudLifter copy / inline mic #preamp), while the Addy2 doesn't like it.
The Addy2 on the other hand is very good mic for vocals / speech, too, while the M201 doesn't even have a pop killer foam delivered with it.
🧵 Continuing my quest to a good #DynamicMic for instruments (mainly), I am having a little detour to inline #microphone #preamp|s. Most people know the #CloudLifter, this little thingie that uses 48V phantom power to make a quiet signal louder without introducing too much noise. But will it alter your sound?
Now #Behringer, in disguise as #KlarkTeknik here, offer something like this for below 30€, while all the competitors go nuts with their prices, the #TritonAudio #Fethead is one of the less expensive ones. If you ask the web for a #diy Fethead, you'll find a couply of simple circuits with less than 10 components…
After some testing, there's only one truth for me & myself: It depends on the mic-preamp combination!
The impedances of preamp and mic might be more relevant than the product. So the KlarkTeknik CM-1 works for the #Beyerdynamic #M201, the FetHead makes it sound worse, but the CM-1 doesn't work so well for the #DieterSchoepfAudiotechnik #Addy2.
Not Fun and then Fun
It is 3:30pm and it is already the longest day in the history of the universe.
I went to sleep at about 10:30pm last night. Later than I would have liked, but earlier than most days over the past month or so. I woke up at about 2:15am needing to go to the bathroom. I’m old. It happens. Deal with it. When I was done I fell right back to sleep.
Then at 3:51am my phone rang. It was work. The overnight staff were dealing with a customer issue that was causing the customer a lot of stress. I knew what the issue was but I wasn’t sure how to find the process that was causing it. Fortunately the overnight guy I was on the phone with mentioned one little detail which set off a trigger in my teeny tiny little mostly still asleep brain and I knew where I had to go to set things right. By 4:15 I was off the call. I took a few minutes to write a message to all of my staff members who would be involved in the follow up during normal business hours and I went to bed. I didn’t sleep much before my alarm went off at 5:30am, but I did manage to snooze a little.
All of that was not fun. Not fun at all. It was a lot less catastrophic than it could have been, but it is never fun having work call in the middle of the night. I’m just glad I was able to help. Even though the situation was not fun, I felt pretty good about myself when it was over.
By 6:00 I was out of bed and starting the day. By 6:15 I was in the cellar starting my daily exercise. The ball was rolling. An hour later the fun part of the day was starting. Guitars, babie!
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On Monday I wrote two new songs and started recording demos. Bass and drums were MIDI instruments, rhythm guitars were the real thing, the melody was sketched out on a keyboard and lyrics were written stream of consciousness style to fit the melody. Yesterday before work my laptop and I drove to an empty parking lot in town and I recorded the vocal tracks for both songs. Today before work I recorded the lead guitar parts. Normally the lead guitars are my favorite part of the song demo process but right now I am so out of playing shape that there are no calluses on my finger tips and playing for more than a few minutes hurts. The strings start to feel like razor blades, especially when you play like I do and you bend strings all over the place. Ouch.
Still, despite the pain, I was able to finish tracking both new songs. Now all I have to do is mix them so that they are somewhat listenable (relatively speaking, of course) and then they are done. A few years ago I was writing 10+ songs each month over the course of the whole year. Last year I did the RPM Challenge in February (write and record an album’s worth of music all within the month of February) and then nothing for the rest of the year. This year was starting to look the same. I finished RPM in February and then it wasn’t until Memorial Day weekend that I even thought about doing anything more. Now that I am feeling like I am back in the saddle again, or some horse shit like that (get it? Saddle? Horse shit? Oh, come on!) I am thinking about trying to write a bunch in June and then do the fifty ninety challenge over the summer (that challenge is to write 50 songs in 90 days between July 4th and October 1st). We’ll see if I can stick to that.
So on this fine Friday in May, in fact the last Friday in May, the day started off not fun, and then for a little blast of time it was fun, and then it was just the usual… right up until about an hour after lunch when the lack of sleep caught up with me and now I am completely out of gas with 93 minutes left in my work day.
It’s going to be a long afternoon.
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#Guitar #iphoneography #Music #offHours #photography #Recording #Songwriting #Stress #work🧵 … and the winner is…
I just quickly hooked these up to some #RME #OctaMic2 and talked into them while listening via headphones.
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference in an A/B blind test between the #Beyerdynamic #m201 and the #DSaudioservice #Addy2.
The Addy2 however has an integrated pop filter, while the M201 doesn't even come with a separate one.
Both mics are made in Germany. The Addy2 is handmade by #DieterSchoepf and more expensive. It provides a little higher output.
Off-axis rejection feels quite similar, and after all this is for me the most prominent reason to go for a #DynamicMic instead of a #CondenserMic: The stronger rejection of higher frequencies off-axis.
I need to check #recording some instruments flosting around here.
After this first quick test I'd say the Addy2 is more flexible because it is explicitely designed for vocals *and* instruments, while the M201 is instrument-only.
#EventTech #Veranstaltungstechnik #microphone #mikrofon #DieterSchoepfAudioservice
44 years ago today, May 29, 1982, Ricky Skaggs debuted at #52 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “I Don’t Care”. It went on to peak at #1 and spent a total of 18 weeks on the chart.
I liked listening to this song on the radio, which inspired me to go buy it to add to my treasured music collection 4+ decades ago.
#vinylcommunity #traditional #music #45rpms #legendary #vocalist #singing #countrymusic #epicrecords #musician #1980s #recording #classic #vinylcollection #musicislife
I spent my morning at #DieterSchoepf's #studio place, who happens to be the drummer of my experimental trio #UniversumORS. We listened to live recordings of ours, planing to release some excerpts as a video.
Interesting to #recording nerds might be that Dieter only uses microphones he builds himself, and they sound great. So all our recordings are based on mics by #DieterSchoepfAudioservice.
I'm currently testing new dynamic mics for my #EventTech business, and so Dieter gave me this “Addy2” of his, I'm excited.
His website is stuck in older days, he just doesn't find the time and energy to do something about it since he's busy developing and building mics, preamps, and even classic real #reverb plates (yes, huge things made from metal, like in the 70ties), but his clients don't care… http://ds-audioservice.de/18.html
Sarah Brightman didn't care either when she used one of his mics for recording.
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