h2o2 wrote on Tue, 09 March 2010 08:34 |
grantis wrote on Mon, 08 March 2010 14:18 |
h2o2 wrote on Mon, 08 March 2010 14:10 |
mcsnare wrote on Mon, 08 March 2010 11:55 | Adding eq and compression at the recording stage is standard operating procedure and not would I refer to as pre-mixing.
Dave
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Alright, Compression is often done at recording to save time. I believe adding EQ at recording time, apart from EQ controls of guitar cab or lowcut is not that common practice however. Regardless it is common or not, this pre-processing is detrimental to IMP idea.
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Common to EQ to tape over here.
And I'm struggling with the idea that cutting EQ to tape is detrimental to this exercise. Please explain.
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In case of struggle it is good to ask yourself questions and develop logical thinking. For example: why it is not allowed to submit early? which reason?
I believe non-destructive editing did bet destructive one?
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One reason for not submitting mixes early is so that people aren't copying each others mixes.
Getting the sounds 'right' while recording, is definitely the ideal. Leaving decisions until the mix, is something to be avoided in general. Yes, it has become common practice to not eq and compress until the mix, but that's a recent trend and just makes it harder to get a great mix.
Having the sounds close to the way they'll be in the final mix, makes adding overdubs much easier, as you know right away if the new sound is working in the track.
I'm very grateful that I started recording on 4 and 8 tracks and spent the first 8 years professionally recording to 16 tracks.
I started with a fairly small number of quality mics, great monitors, decent desk, a pair of reverbs and delays and one dual channel compressor. You have to learn to get things right as you go. Lots of decisions to make like, which tracks get the compressors while tracking and which ones in the mix.