I started out on an analog 4track about 25 years ago. I think alot of people recommend tubes for warmth, but I think alot of the sound people call warmth in older gear comes from transformers not tubes. Bass through a decent pre-amp and skipping the sims can help. Recording guitars by with a microphone in front of an amplifier can help alot. One dirt simple thing I do is simply roll off high end on alot of stuff to mimic the frequency responses of older equipment. Combining them all together results in a super bright, too articulate, plastic sounding mix. The out of the box sounds and presets on all this stuff has a really hyped high end.
and record guitars and basses through amp sims.
Steven slate vcc or otb analog summing full#
I notice many people looking for warmth are trying for a full 'rock/pop' band sound with virtual instruments for drums, bass, piano, etc. I do listen to samples here and in other forums and get the idea. I find the idea of a perpetual search for 'warmth' distracting and for the most part dont understand it. The total investment will still be a fraction compared to all-pro big-house stuff. Your wallet will be lighter.and your spouse might actually notice the difference and approve. You will be more than pleased with the native sound of the digital sound (which will surpass tape with impactful accuracy).and you will be equally pleased that it reproduces the sound of analog precisely, as you desire, by using well-chosen plug-ins or by bouncing the mix out to reel and back. Perform all four of these alterations and you will be in the realm of big league sound. You will experience audio nirvana, and your clients will be euphoric. Bingo, 100% of the performance (if not the versatility) of a major studio's signal chain (well, excepting those $10,000 monitors). You'll spend $1000-$2000, and will make superior decisions during the mix. We're 90% there.Ĥ) Feed the S/PDIF main output of your digital interface into a studio-grad DAC for subsequent monitoring (Cranesong, Zodiac, Benchmark, Apogee, etc.). Add an external stereo AD (Analog to S/PDIF) box in the $1000-$2000 range for your two most used inputs and your sound will become downright realistic, airy, and reproduce the sheen of the original (Apogee, Benchmark, Drawmer, Black Lion Sparrow, others). Regardless, either modify or upgrade, and you are now performing at 80% of major studios.ģ) Properly sampling analog inputs is more challenging that you might think. An alternative is to purchase an interface that is factory designed to perform among the best (Halo, for example).but this is a large investment. Especially important when you consider that a single send/return will pass the signal through several analog and digital stages.
Steven slate vcc or otb analog summing mods#
Their mods will add transparency to the raw signal as it comes in.as well as send it out unaltered. There are firms that do this (Black Lion Audio is one). You are 50% closer to the big guys, and you'll notice it immediately.Ģ) Modify your analog ins/outs (500-$1000). Opens up the sound, extends transparency, reveals transients, and eliminates subtle jitter-induced phase cancellations.
This may be the biggest improvement that those using an inexpensive all-digital chain can make. Starting with the most significant -ġ) Drive your digital boxes with a super accurate word clock ($500-$1500). There are four ways to improve these devices, however, and come darn close (in fact, almost indistinguishable) from the big studio rigs (acoustics excepted, of course). In fact, I once discovered after switching out analog circuits that the muddiness in my mixes came from the original analog sum amplifier's inability to resolve detail in thick mixes. And it isn't just the digital section.all of those analog inputs and outputs don't perform anything like a major studio's analog section, either. This is true of an all-analog chain as well as a digital interface.ĭigital interfaces that cost less than $1000 have significant limitations simply to bring the price within reach of most of us. The quality of audio has less to do with the medium and more to do with the sophistication of the equipment. In my experience, digital is given an unfair indictment. Many of us have gone down this long road of digital discovery.
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