r/recordingmusic

Hi Reddit, currently I record, mix and produce music from a single large live room. I have a drum recording session coming up in a month and need advice or feedback regarding bleed with this particular session.

The artist I’m working with is new to recording and isn’t comfortable with using a click track but is comfortable with drums. The song is fantastic and is a folky number so I was looking at my options for recording without a click. My first idea was to have the artist play the song in the room with the drummer, but have them positioned as far away from the drums as possible. They would also be separated by a tall and wide baffle that could act as a partition.

I am working with max 8 inputs, 6 are taken up by drums, leaving only 2 for an acoustic/vocal guide. I am used to doing live band recordings but as I’m going to be working with limited inputs, I was worried about capturing a nice clean acoustic and vocal with 2 mics in the room with drums so I relegated this to being a guide track with the intention to re record acoustic and vocals after.

My questions are, if I’m only using the acoustic and vocal recorded with the drums as a guide, and even if I can reduce the source/direct acoustic and vocal from bleeding into the drum mics with the baffle, could I see problems with bleed in the reflections picked up by the drum overheads and room mics?

Also, would this negatively affect the sound of the acoustic and vocal, or would any reflections captured just add a little depth to the recording? Could I encounter phase issues?

Any feedback would be very much appreciated.

for vocals. im a teen without a job so pretty low budget. i hear condenser mics are pretty good but pick up on bg noise and im gonna use it in like my bedroom without sound absorber things so that may not be good

I recently started getting into home recording and music production, mostly just messing around with vocals and some basic instrument tracks at home.

I kind of assumed it would be fairly simple at first ,set up a mic, hit record, and do a bit of editing, but I have realized pretty quickly there’s a lot more going on than I expected.

Even basic things like room noise, mic placement, gain levels, and getting a clean vocal take without it sounding off take more thought than I thought they would.

Right now I am mostly just experimenting and trying to figure things out as I go, but I feel like I am probably missing some fundamental workflow habits that would make everything sound more consistent.

So last year at school I wrote a song that I wanted to have with lots of classical instrumentation but I could only use the free pro tools xpand2 instruments that don't really have those options, does anyone know any good plugins that have solo violins, cello and double bass? The ones I've seen look like they don't have options for solo instruments.

I bought a M-Audio Fast Track Ultra Interface and when I use it, outputs 1 & 2 are not separated. When I hard pan something to the left, I can hear it in both outputs 1 & 2. This doesn't happen with the other stereo pairs, like outputs 3 & 4, where 3 corresponds to left and 4 corresponds to right. When I hard pan on 1 & 2 the signal just gets softer. Can someone help diagnose the issue so I can attempt to fix it myself?

Im new to engineering, What’s yall recording chain look like ? I been watching alot of videos on YouTube , about Compression/Eq , what plugins come first etc.. so much information to take it .. so I’m taking it step by step , This is my recording Template ..

What Yall think ?? To much , Add more ?? Give me some tips/Advice

Recording Chain :

NS1

DeEsser

Autotune

Scheps 73

ProQ4

For thousands of years, music was a lived experience. Then, in the mid-1920s, it became an object.

In this video, we explore the forgotten history of the American Federation of Musicians’ (AFM) campaign against "Canned Music." From the "Robot" propaganda ads of 1930 to the total recording strike of 1942, musicians once waged a full-scale culture war against the very technology we now take for granted: the recording.

As we face the rise of generative AI, the arguments of the past, that machine-made art is "soulless," "artificial," and "fake",are returning with a vengeance. By looking back at how the world reacted to the first "recorded" sounds, we might find a path forward that preserves the most valuable part of art: human presence.

I worked really hard to put this together, took about 20-24 hours of my time to Research, Cross Reference, Think of Assets, Generate Assets, Refine Generations, edit it all together in Adobe and about 50 dollars in credits spread across gemini, OpenArt, Suno, EllevenLabs

I also have an irig duo

Hi! I'm struggling to record decent sounding music, and I honestly don´t know where to start... Everything sounds slightly off to me, I can´t tell if I'm doing the recording wrong, maybe the EQ is lacking, or what... I'd greatly appreciate any feedback to make recording at home more efficient for me! Thanks

You can check the Track here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17KpYNBFNeab9Zkvp9acjBl9Y7PNmMLV6?usp=sharing

Well im js starting off, dont have anything big yet. So yeah i cant guarantee you success. But i can guarantee you a lotta fun. I write em, sing em and shi. You do the producing. At least help me with it cause idk ball. Imma try to get it on Spotify. Anyone in? We can negotiate these roles. Dm me :>

(My songs are a bit like those new indie opo artists? Think clario. Some say they give billie eilish vibes too? Im not really sure)

Not too sure if this is the right sub to post about my issue with this interface, but i saw a few posts about the M4 on here so i thought i would give it a shot and see if anyone can help me fix my problem.

I recently bought a MOTU M4 to power a Shure SM7dB and when i went to connect the XLR cable to the interface i initially thought the lack of a signal was a firmware or driver issue, but the last seven hours have taught me that was not the case.

For some reason there is absolutley no signal being transmitted from my microphone to the interface; however when i tap the microphone there are noticable bumps from a lack of activity that I can see on the on board monitor, but no amount of speaking, or screaming will illicit the same response.

This is my first set of proper audio equipment so i am a total noob when it comes to this space, so im not even sure which part of this setup is faulty; or if it is just a user error. I have made sure to update my M4 to the latest firmware, registered my product, and just about everything i can see on their website. There seems to be no posts about my issue that i can find online, and im not too sure where to go from this point, because i dont have another interface, xlr cable, or mic to troubleshoot and find the root of the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi!

Im building a studio in a pretty small room (3x6m) and have trouble deciding between the Neumann KH80 and KH120. Also considering getting the KH750 sub but not sure if my room will be too small for it. Would KH80 + KH750 sub be enough or is it worth getting the KH120? Can I skip the sub if I go for the KH120? I mostly make acoustic stuff but I also love electronic music and will probably do some heavy bass stuff with vintage organs and keyboards.

Would love to hear some input from people more experienced than me on this. I've found there is quite a steep learning curve when starting to build a studio and figure stuff out.

Best regards

For context, I'm in a post hardcore band with a couple friends, with our main influences being At The Drive-In, Thursday, Fall of Troy, and a couple second wave emo bands like Cap'n Jazz and Sunny Day Real Estate. Right now we're wrapping up writing for our first EP, and starting to record some of it. We're currently messing around with mic setups for the guitar and bass, and we're running into one consistent problem. The guitar setup I have is an HSS Strat with the tone and volume at 10 running through a JOYO California overdrive pedal going into the clean input on my VHT Special 6 amp. When listening in the room it gives a powerful distorted mid section, with a really clean high end, which works great since a lot of my guitar parts are mostly power chord riffs with a couple chord extensions added on top. The problem is that when listening to the close mic recording (slightly off center Sennheiser e609) the distortion seems to even out across every frequency, so the mids don't feel as powerful and the twinkly high end is pretty much gone. How would we go about recreating that room tone via mic setup. With the gear I have right now we can record 4 mics at once (and due to some of the riffs we'd prefer to get as close as possible before doubling and eqing), and have access to 4 other mics than the Sennheiser, those being an RB100, a CM25 MK II, a PDMIC78, and a PDMIC58.

Hi, I’m looking for a frequency splitter or crossover that is capable of sending two signals, one hi Frequency and one low, out to 2 separate opto compressors for tracking bass. This can be either VST or hardware, with the two mono signals summed upon return. There is no latency issue as I can do it post production if I have to but wanted hardware solution ideally.

NOTE - it must be phase coherent or even adjustable, I’d rather not spend too much.

Can anyone out there offer any advice ?

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