RishiP
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Recording speakers in a room
#970646 - 17/02/12 03:13 PM
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Hello
A lot of times when I'm A/B'ing tracks I've made with commercial
recording I cannot seem to get the right "space" that the reference tracks have using
reverb plugins.
I was wondering if anyone has experience or has seen people do
this during a mixing or mastering. Playing a track through speaker, hopefully in a nice
room, and recording that (minus things like bass, kick drums). Then using that audio to
further process (or not).
Another thing I considered toying with is phase
reversal. i get a sense, especially when on headphones, that elements like kicks, leads,
bass pump out the speaker, but things like pads and other background elements seems to
suck into the speaker. I hope someone knows what Im talking about.
Thanks
Rishi
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The Elf
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Joined: 14/08/01
Posts: 8214
Loc: Sheffield, UK
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Re: Recording speakers in a room
[Re: RishiP]
#970661 - 17/02/12 04:29 PM
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Quote RishiP:
I was wondering if
anyone has experience or has seen people do this during a mixing or mastering. Playing a
track through speaker, hopefully in a nice room, and recording that (minus things like
bass, kick drums). Then using that audio to further process (or not).
This has been happening since the very first
dedicated recording studios appeared. Many studios used chambers below ground level (hence
the number of 'chamber' presets in digital reverb devices), or would even use a stair
well.
My first studio was in an old ambulance room and the long, shiny
corridor did a great drum reverb. We had an enormous organ amp/cabinet at one end of the
corridor and a couple of PZM's at the other. We would move the cab and mic's for different
timings and sometimes would open the outer door for other flavours. At the time, due to
the low track counts of tape, we had to run this live at mixdown, but these days you'd
simply record it for mixing later.
Quote RishiP:
Another thing I considered toying with is
phase reversal. i get a sense, especially when on headphones, that elements like kicks,
leads, bass pump out the speaker, but things like pads and other background elements seems
to suck into the speaker. I hope someone knows what Im talking about.
I'm not convinced you're actually hearing what
you think you're hearing, but why not simply flip the polarity on your pads and see if it
sounds better to your ears - that's the only way to judge.
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