The Muso Equipment Nerdery Thread 🎸

[danski]

 

[savoloysam]

He's using a lot of old gear too.

The best gear.

 

[klang]

Studio move ahead....32 channel desk, emt plate, piano, 3m rack tower, rock wool clouds/ baffles, organs, several drum kits, keyboards, miles and miles of cabling.

 

[klang]

Plan is to in the meantime record lots of hair metal bands with muscles and tats on the cheap to owe me favours.
Skinny little pale indy outfits or depressed singer songwriters are no good to me for the time being.

 

[ska invita]

Plan is to in the meantime record lots of hair metal bands with muscles and tats on the cheap to owe me favours.
Skinny little pale indy outfits or depressed singer songwriters are no good to me for the time being.

Roughly where will the new studio be?

 

[klang]

NE London. Totts

 

[klang]

Luckily we found something of roughly the same size for similar rent.

Still pain in the arse and kind of sad

 

[ska invita]

Luckily we found something of roughly the same size for similar rent.

Still pain in the arse and kind of sad

I can imagine..... Can bring new energy though.... Happy to help with lugging

 

[klang]

Luckily we found something of roughly the same size for similar rent.

Still pain in the arse and kind of sad

I'm not one to get too depressed about things I can't change....times change and we had a very good 15 years run at the old spot.

Still, would rather stay put.

 

[klang]

Happy to help with lugging

Need metalers rather than clubbers.

 

[klang]

Need metalers rather than clubbers.

Thanks though, might well get back to you on that!

 

[Fez909]

I visited Abbey Road and went into some of their 'reverb rooms'. The plate reverb was just a big room with a couple of large flat metal plates down the middle. . . the signal went into a speaker in the room, then another microphone in the room would pick the reverberated sound up. . . you couldn't mix it, there was only one channel. Reverb or no reverb.

The above pic must be of a more modern desk than the ones I was looking at.

I've been using the Abbey Road reverb 'trick' recently on my tunes and it works well. I didn't know there was no mixing on the real thing, which might explain why the trick had to be used.

It's just a reverb on a send channel with a high pass filter set at 600Hz and a low pass set at 10kHz, both before it hits the reverb unit.

Makes things sound lovely even when sending a lot of signal, without it all sounding muddy.

Obviously Abbey Road used plates, but it works well with other types, too.

And because of the filtering, you can send anything - drums, bass, vocals - and it "Just Works".