05-11-2014, 07:32 PM
Thanks pauli! Good tips!
I have used double-tracking on a few of my songs, and it's effective indeed, I just didn't recognize that this could have helped here.
For the guitars, I quite like the stereo delay on the Kemper, it's part of the sound I dial, so it seems natural to print it. I never print the built-in reverb though, but yes, I understand that having stereo sources can be more challenging, I should probably try to go without - on my latest songs, I've also tracked a parallel DI so that I can re-amp at will.
The volume difference is not something I mind though, I'm usually mixing as I go, as I arrange and record new things. The drums tracks in the files provided I've bounced them from Superior Drummer, so this is the level it is outputting them, I don't think it even goes through the build-in mixer for that which could have been more balanced as I had already dialed the levels.
I didn't realize it could be a problem, sorry, I'm afraid all the multitracks I've sent to Mike will have this problem at least.
As to pre-amps, I'm using the built-in preamps of my audio interface (RME Fireface UCX) which are very clean and have a very low noise floor.
I've tried using a GoldenAge Pre-73 MkII but I hated it, it was adding a lot of noise for much improvement in the sound, so I've sold it.
I have used double-tracking on a few of my songs, and it's effective indeed, I just didn't recognize that this could have helped here.
For the guitars, I quite like the stereo delay on the Kemper, it's part of the sound I dial, so it seems natural to print it. I never print the built-in reverb though, but yes, I understand that having stereo sources can be more challenging, I should probably try to go without - on my latest songs, I've also tracked a parallel DI so that I can re-amp at will.
The volume difference is not something I mind though, I'm usually mixing as I go, as I arrange and record new things. The drums tracks in the files provided I've bounced them from Superior Drummer, so this is the level it is outputting them, I don't think it even goes through the build-in mixer for that which could have been more balanced as I had already dialed the levels.
I didn't realize it could be a problem, sorry, I'm afraid all the multitracks I've sent to Mike will have this problem at least.
As to pre-amps, I'm using the built-in preamps of my audio interface (RME Fireface UCX) which are very clean and have a very low noise floor.
I've tried using a GoldenAge Pre-73 MkII but I hated it, it was adding a lot of noise for much improvement in the sound, so I've sold it.
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