Early Bono and full-throttle Adele might just make it work in an unamplified concert hall but Billie Eilish and Gentle Folkie Types would start a shooshing war. I refer you back to the original question. I'm not suggesting NO amplification. Just small amplification, for instruments/voices that use ...

Sam Spoons wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:44 pm Mike's right, it's good to see you back even if it's only an occasional visit.

I'm deeply touched.

Nazard wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:52 am I would have chosen the Queen Elizabeth Hall, but the RFH is probably judged to be more prestigious.

Perhaps they thought they could fill the RFH. Did they?

In the old days, Wombat was around a lot... now a very occasional visitor, well, poster, anyway. Good to see him back, at his provocative best! :lol: The website redesign put me off for a bit :lol: It's about 60 years since I first started playing around with 'sound on sound' recording, using my El...

If you are making these with a view to legal action, remember the court will be interested in a recording of what you actually heard, the actual nuisance, not a processed and enhanced version.

A solo piano or string quartet can successfully perform unamplified in the Royal Albert Hall. Why can't a small PA system on stage be just as audible?

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:14 pmYou see, as a non-musical person, this blows my tiny little mind.
They're the same notes! In the same order!

If you're a 'non-musical person', why are you bothering your pretty little head over music theory?

What happens next? Does it stick on a G tonal centre or go straight back to C? Maybe it overall modulated to G. But there's no need to read all the secondary dominants as modulations. | F / / / | Gb°7 / / / | G / / / | Ab°7 / / / | | A / / / | C#°7 / / / | D / / / | C / / / | Interesting choice of l...

Is this really necessary? You're dealing with commercially recorded material, doubtless already heavily compressed. There aren't going to BE any unexpected peaks.

I’m increasingly baffled by how backwards looking/traditionalist a lot of the audio industry is, especially regarding music.

Because now little skill is required for the mechanics of recording, it all comes down to the music. Which is frightening!

In what respects are your present board holding you back?

Most every DAW I've seen has some kind of "feel" "groove" "humanizer" settings, surely Studio One has such a thing?. Also, play some of your tracks live with a controller. Be careful. Software designers sometimes think Human Feel=Random Wrongness. They are mistaken. Th...

Interesting sound at the beginning of 'Ballad'. Sounds like an acoustic piano with a REALLY noisy action! Did you conceive it or discover it by accident?

If I rip to a Wav file, what would I use to playback and what lead would I need? I have an iPod but to be honest I have never had success with it nor my iPhone. I have never been able to either get stuff off my phone or put stuff on it. Not trying to be nasty, but if you haven't managed to get over...

You can improve things by getting a mic closer to your mouth, maybe (as suggested) a headset mic. But the real answer - sorry if it's too obvious - is to NOT be in the same room as a loud TV.

radical surgery of the bass might go against some principle of mixing Radical is fine! But you ARE flouting one basic principle - the one against over-prettifying just one instrument's sound in isolation, before the full arrangement is in place. It's not an unbreakable rule. If it sound's good.... ...

While using your favourite headphones, press the cups a little closer to your ears. The difference in sound will probably be an order of magnitude greater than the difference between different models when trying them out in the shop.

It's not the whole story. But just sayin'.

tea for two wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:07 am I had vivid dreams of me performing infront of tens of thousands at prestigious concert venues.
In these dreams I started out carp which is true thereafter I launched into virtuoso astounding the audience.

Not being carp was a good move. If nothing else, the strings get rusty.

If I pan them all to one side they will fight with the double tracked guitar. So do we have a basic problem with the musical arrangement here? Write them something that DOESN'T fight with the guitar. Panning can enhance a good arrangement, but it can't really fix a bad one. Need to hear the entire ...