Hi group,

I'm going to record a rockband in a very decent studio next weekend.
They have a nice collection of preamps, some of them I've never worked
with before.
Since I don't so much time, I'd appreciate some suggestions on which
pre might work best with which signal. The pres a

- Telefunken V72a
- Telefunken 676a (4 of them)
- Amek 9098
- Custom-built 70ies-neve-clones
- Symetrix 528
- The ones in the board, a recently recapped TS24

For mics, I will use the whole bunch of Neumanns and Gefells they have
there (U67, U77, U87, SM69fet, UM57, MV692 w M70, M93, UM70) and other
pro-studio-standards (c414, SM7, 421, 441, M88, SM57, MBHO...)

Any special ideas?
Style is punkish rock

TIA, Sebastian

On 1 Dec 2004 04:20:46 -0800, (Sebastian Becher)
wrote:

Hi group,

I'm going to record a rockband in a very decent studio next weekend.
They have a nice collection of preamps, some of them I've never worked
with before.
Since I don't so much time, I'd appreciate some suggestions on which
pre might work best with which signal. The pres a

- Telefunken V72a
- Telefunken 676a (4 of them)
- Amek 9098
- Custom-built 70ies-neve-clones
- Symetrix 528
- The ones in the board, a recently recapped TS24

For mics, I will use the whole bunch of Neumanns and Gefells they have
there (U67, U77, U87, SM69fet, UM57, MV692 w M70, M93, UM70) and other
pro-studio-standards (c414, SM7, 421, 441, M88, SM57, MBHO...)

Any special ideas?
Style is punkish rock

TIA, Sebastian

Damn, you have just stumbled into recording heaven! Almost everything
in that studio is more expensive (and, we hope, better) than anything
I own! As long as you don't let anything clip, you are in a no-lose
situation. And even clipping transients on a guitar signal might not
sound that bad on those tube preamps ...

Advice from a bottom feeder:
If you are like me, you are probably used to close-micing everything
because you've mostly worked in crappy-sounding rooms. This is likely
to be a good-sounding room. Back off, give those guitar amps a little
room to breathe. Same with the drums.
..
DO NOT drop any microphones on the floor!

Enviously yours,
Mike T.

I second the recommendation to give things some air. I'd reserve the Amek
and Neveclone preamps for drum overheads and kick. and think seriously about
making those the only drum microphones. In that room, you probably can get
away with it, and you'll love the sound.

Peace,
Paul

I second the recommendation to give things some air. I'd reserve the Amek
and Neveclone preamps for drum overheads and kick. and think seriously about
making those the only drum microphones. In that room, you probably can get
away with it, and you'll love the sound.

Peace,
Paul

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I'm going to record a rockband in a very decent studio next weekend.
They have a nice collection of preamps, some of them I've never worked
with before.
Since I don't so much time, I'd appreciate some suggestions on which
pre might work best with which signal.

If the studio has all those nice preamps and mics, and you've never
worked there before, they aren't going to just hand you the keys to
the door, they're going to give you a second engineer. Ask him or her.

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In article writes:

I'm going to record a rockband in a very decent studio next weekend.
They have a nice collection of preamps, some of them I've never worked
with before.
Since I don't so much time, I'd appreciate some suggestions on which
pre might work best with which signal.

If the studio has all those nice preamps and mics, and you've never
worked there before, they aren't going to just hand you the keys to
the door, they're going to give you a second engineer. Ask him or her.

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo