u/mastermemeskywalker

Hi! I’m 19 and just got accepted in uni for a sound engineering degree. I’ve been playing live gigs ever since I was 14 so I’m kinda familiar with the field, I know how tough the industry is and how though it is to get stable income. I would love to work with audio or acoustics, do you think getting a major in acoustics or something along those lines would get me a stable income?
I love audio, I would LOVE to work in an audio company like audio technica or something like fender in some random department
Would love to hear some feedback from people who are experienced in the field

I love Californication, who doesn’t? This won’t be neither the first or the last time this is talked about on this sub but idc.
Californication is THE album, it’s actually insane, so many hits in just a single album some of them right after each other like scar tissue and otherside. Frusciante had just came back from rehab and all those years of substance abuse so his playing was simpler and that made the entire album, the solo on easily and Californication reflect that really well, yet they fit like a glove.
An amazing album really and the only thing pushing it back is the mix. The songs are loud and compressed but not mixed properly, the chorus on Parallel Universe suffers a lot from that since there’s only one guitar in the middle making it so it doesn’t have the impact it needed. Quixoticelixer’s outro is amazing but mix-wise it’s all fucked, everything’s mashed together
Nonetheless this is an amazing album, for me summer only begins once I listen to this album beneath the sun, it’s just a shame it wasn’t as well mixed as, for example, BSSM which for me is the greatest album oat

Ok so Ive been desperately trying to get both Self Titled’s and Rated R’s bass tone, funnily enough the guitars were pretty straight forward but I cannot say the same for the bass.
I’m using a Yamaha with P bass pickups and amplitube, I’ve done everything I could’ve but the only help I see online is the SFTD tone. I’ve been running the bass through an ampeg SVT with cracked gain, master and mids but I can’t get the distortion right any pedals I add just make the tone awful even after tweaking everything.
What should I do? The Self Titled tone has loads of distortion so I can’t use the same one for rated r
Any tips? If you know anything about amplitube that would also be great

I have a Focusrite Solo 3rd gen but often I like to record some live acoustic covers in my bedroom every once in a while but since I only have one XLR and one jack input I can only use my condenser to record both Vocals AND guitar at the same time making it so it sacrifices quality.
I like the Focusrite but I feel the inputs are limiting my recording freedom hence the question. The Behringer has 4 mixed inputs and that would really help me, that way I can plug an SM57 to record my acoustic guitar and my AT2020 to record vocals (or the other way around it doesn’t really matter lol).
Is it a downgrade? I also record other stuff where I don’t need the 4 inputs, I also mix and master them, is the headphone output better on the Focusrite and is Behringer a bad choice?

The only thing we know for sure about his gear are his guitars, since he can’t hide them lol. I’m thinking about buying a Josh Homme style guitar since the only thing left in my collection is a full body humbucker/p90 guitar (I have an ES335 a strat and a Kurt signature jag)
I’m thinking about buying a Yamaha revstar since his Ovation is really hard to find and the belair is REALLY expensive
Should I buy the humbucker or the p90 version to play queens?

I’m 19 and I’ve been actively listening to RHCP ever since I was 12, I know just about everything about them and I love them to death. I fell into a really deep depression when I was 15 and if I needed “comfort” I would listen to John Frusciante’s solo stuff and if I needed a mood boost I would put on either Californication or BSSM, and if I ever wake up a bit more down those albums gave me the mood I needed everytime, music heals and RHCP are my healers

One thing I don’t see mentioned as much is the work of the engineers behind the records, I’m making an EP covering the self titled and I noticed the drums in You Can’t Quit Me Baby are panned hard right and it’s been a total headache trying to recreate that effect without the song sounding “hollow” or lacking. The same is done in Song For The Dead, a fast paced song like that would suffer a lot from having the drums panned hard left, but they made it sound really good and I like that it makes Dave’s playing more clear and present
Monsters In The Parasol also has a very interesting riff in the chorus and it doesn’t sound as if it’s less than the rest of the song, which logically would make sense since the verses are played with a really present guitar, taking that guitar away in the chorus would supposedly “tone down” the chorus but it totally doesn’t.
The entirety of Like Clockwork is insane in a producers POV (musically is also really rich)
“You Got A Killer Scene There, Man…” also is a really well produced song
I could go on and on about this but the thing I love about queens is, I’ve been a fan for about 4 years now and they never cease to amaze me, the more I over analyse their songs, the more stunned I get
god bless queens, their old members and the engineers behind making this beautiful sounding band even more beautiful.

I love RHCP with all my heart and this does NOT apply to all songs but I’m tired of pretending some songs are about anything at all xD

I see people here (and even Anthony himself for example in the SA doc) saying X song is about Y, for me he just wrote what he had in mind at that time and it stuck

Of course there’s good lyrics and songs with real meaning like Tearjerker, If, My Lovely Man just to name a few

Meaning or not, RHCP wouldn’t be RHCP without Anthony and I’m dying on that hill.