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Hmm, I never had any issue with it adding noise. Maybe since it does upward compression, it's bring up noise that's already present in your track? Or maybe it's got a bug?

As for if it's really good, it depends! As with most things, it's all context dependent. You're right, it's absolutely not natural sounding, but for certain styles of music, a natural sounding vocal would get completely buried and lost. This is definitely not a technique I would use for a track that called for natural, but for a track that needs something to cut through, this might do the trick.

Yeah, I would sometimes use the D6 in and the 602 out, it sounded great!

Thanks so much!

Glad I could help!

Yeah, I'm almost positive that this would work in Nova!

@@BetterMixes yeah i got it to work

@@tomn4483 Excellent!

Haha oh. Very insightful.

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

Yeah, this isn't exactly one of the videos I'm most proud of! I do still think this is a great technique to know, and it works quite well for some tracks, but yeah, for other tracks, reverb is 100% the vibe (or a combination of both!). I mean, I worked on a Lumineers record a while back; their vocals are absolutely swimming in reverb and it sounds amazing! I think back when I made this video, I was heavily influenced by and trying to emulate a few certain RUclipsrs who were always very definitive with "this is right, this is wrong". Nowadays, that kind of thing drives me nuts as I know nothing in audio is ever black and white. So yeah, if I saw this video today, I'd probably be yelling at me in the comments too 😆

I've been really curious about the Roswell stuff! Haven't gotten a chance to try one yet. And yeah, I've been impressed by every sE mic I've tried. Great value on those!

@@BetterMixes The K67x... It does not sound like a sub $500 mic at all, In my opinion... I like it more than the TLM 103.

Yeah, I don't know! It was on Gearspace that David and Dan Korneff said they used the Pearl Vinnie Paul snare for that song (as well as a Pork Pie brass and I think a DW for other songs on the album). In the actual track, they HEAVILY use a sample, so maybe the sample is of the Ocheltree snare and the live snare was the Vinnie Paul? Who knows!

Half of the ones I used here are analog 🤷‍♂

But there are also a ton of incredibly cool digital pedals too.

@@BetterMixes no I know but to me a digital pedal is essentially the equivalent to a plugin

@@prcption8636 Yeah, it essentially is, but what makes using pedals cool to me is just the hands-on nature of it. Twisting the knobs, even playing the pedal to the part. It's more like a plugin with a custom-made controller! Plus sometimes there's just a cool sound in one of your pedals that you can't get with the plugins you own.

@@BetterMixes this is a probably a big question but instead of buying DI box can I use the product called Eventide Mixlink pro to route audio through pedals and back into the box

So the head is the actual amp. It's got all the tone controls as well as the actual power amplifier. The cab is the box that holds the speakers. And a combo amp would be both of those things together in a single box. I hope that helps!

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!

I'm hoping I can make that happen fairly soon!

This is the gen2. I also have a gen1, and they're very similar. I haven't done a direct side-by-side comparison yet (it's on my to-do list!), but they're close enough that I use them as a stereo pair all the time!

Yeah, they're seriously cool mics!

Hahaha glad I could help!

Oh no… I was doing some extreme experimenting with this… I saved what I did as a different session but now it is affecting the other session I have with same audio file…is there anyway to undo it effect?🤞

@@acceptyourself Hmm...that's strange. I'd need to do a little test for myself tomorrow to see if the pencil tool uses destructive editing. I've never really though about it because almost everything in Pro Tools is non-destructive and I only ever use the pencil tool to get rid of little clicks.

If I recall correctly, they were about 15 feet back from the kit, which would have been approximately in the middle of the room (with the drums pretty close to one of the walls).

Yeah, I just don't have the gate set super tight, so you're hearing the cymbals and snare coming through. Or more specifically, it looks like I was using Oxford Drum Gate, so I probably had it set to have a really slow release for the mids and lows (and fast release for only the top end).

There really are a lot of great free options (ESPECIALLY if you work in something other than Pro Tools. Still a handful of good free options, but less). And yeah, nothing wrong with stock plugins! One of the biggest records I worked on had a TON of stock plugins in those sessions and that didn't stop it from going triple platinum!

These days (and in this video) I typically only use limiting on the master buss. I used to do clipping on the drum buss, so that can totally work too, I've just been preferring it without lately. I will sometimes use a clipper on the snare to shave off the peaks a bit if I feel like it's hitting the drum buss compressor too hard though.

"It's amazing how people here act like we have a choice and fucking defecate money and can afford to just find ourselves a fancy area for vocals" I mean, I literally suggested you record your vocals in like...any other room. Say a bedroom, or a living room or whatever. Nothing fancy or expensive about that. And if YOUR closet is in a spot where it blocks enough noise from the neighbors to make recording possible, than that's where YOU should do it, but as general advice, a closet isn't necessarily going to provide any more soundproofing towards neighbors than any other room. I guess that all depends on the layout of people's houses/apartments. So without being able to see every viewers blueprints, I'd still say that as an overall statement, closets are a bad idea (with the caveat that your mileage may vary depending on your exact circumstances).

Glad you found this useful! 🤘

Glad you liked it!

Hmmm...that seems strange. I'll have to take another look when I'm back in the studio on Monday, but typically for me, the lower range of the gain suggested settings is fairly quiet, and it's not until you get towards the top of that range (or set it to a louder preset) that things start getting up there.

Very cool! I love what the silk does on the RND stuff, so I bet that will be a killer combination!

@@BetterMixes Yes indeed I can’t wait

You can absolutely use a PVC stand instead. I mentioned the mic stand thing because I figured a lot of people would already own an extra stand or two. And yeah, I mean, if the closet is the only space you functionally can record, do whatcha gotta do! If the extra walls of the closet blocks enough noise so you can record without your neighbors complaining, go for it! But I see so many people suggesting you record in a closet for acoustic reasons which, if you have almost any other option, is bad advice.

Hahaha my bad! I typically watch RUclips on 2x speed, so I probably got used to that and talk too fast because of it!

It's a killer speaker! Ive been using it a lot more lately.

Good move!

They're both fantastic mics, and I don't think you can go wrong with either. I use both regularly at my studio. The Vanguard has a little bit of that classic midrange push where as the Lauten has a more modern, relaxed midrange. I'll often use the Vanguard for folk or americana where that rich midrange compliments the style or even for more rock kind of stuff where the midrange push helps the vocal to cut through. I'll use the Lauten for poppier tracks where I want a little more of a clear sound, or it's great on singers who naturally have a lot of midrange in their voice as it helps to tame that a bit. That being said, if I didn't own both of them, either one could absolutely get the job done on most singers.

@@BetterMixes Thank you for your swift reply. Really apriciated. I want to use it for vocal recording mainly, Its in a home studio. I have a Mojave Fett 301 now but we are looking for a possible Tube mic to. If it is not to much asked. Could you take a listen to my voice and tell me wich of the Lauten or the Vanguard would fit better in your opinion . Just click on my profile picture. The song Rode Rozen was recorded at home with the Fett. That is kind of the style I am mostly singing and recording.

Thanks! Yeah, I wish I could get my hands on the Vinnie Paul snare, but (probably because of this record) they're INSANELY expensive for what they are. I originally tried my 14x7 oak snare thinking that would be the closest thing I have, but the oak just didn't have that ring. I thought about seeing if I could borrow a deep maple snare for this video, but my brass snare was sounding pretty darn close, so I figured I'd give it a shot!

But his plugins are insane, especially the compressors

Well, if they mean walk-in closet, word hasn't gotten around enough, cause I see people recording in normal (often smaller than my house's closets) all the time (probably because most people don't have massive walk in closets?). But yes, if you have a giant 10x10' or larger closet, than you could make that into a good booth. Anything much smaller than that, and you'd be a hundred times better off recording in a room with more space.

Not really. Due to all the corners in close proximity (and those corners' proximity to the singer/mic), the biggest acoustic issues in a closet are typically with the low end which is VERY difficult to treat properly (and takes a LOT of space to treat properly...space that doesn't exist in a closet). The larger the room, the less likely you are to have major low end issues so you can focus your treatment on the mids and highs (which are much easier to treat).

Nope, all rimshots here.