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| Re: EDS1000 as general system card? [message #76263 is a reply to message #76262] |
Tue, 21 November 2006 13:07   |
Ed
Messages: 199
Registered: February 2006
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>I listen to contemporary CD's - jazz, rock, R&B, C&W, you name it - and
hear
>beautiful, bright snare drums that make my RTA bounce around in the 16K
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>20K range. I can't make that happen without a ton of EQ. I usually use
>a Crown CM-200 (electret condenser, kinda like an SM-57, but flatter and
>cleaner to my ear) on snare, but I've tried a Neumann KM-84 and I still
>need to crank the EQ to get that sound. Is that just what it takes? Are
>there snare drums that naturally generate higher harmonics than most? Is
> it something to do w/ the drum head? I've had the priviledge of recording
>some pretty great drummers, but I still need to reach for the EQ to get
>THAT snare sound!
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>Any thoughts?
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>Thanks, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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>GanttOr maybe one of those "Transient desgner" boxes. Anyone ever use them?
gantt
"Aaron Allen" <know-spam@not_here.dude> wrote:
>You're probably listening to an aural exciter of some kind I'd bet, perhaps
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| Re: EDS1000 as general system card? [message #76299 is a reply to message #76265] |
Wed, 22 November 2006 08:24 |
PN
Messages: 21
Registered: August 2005
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; at the bottom of the page) with regard to the list
> of "plugins", well some of 'em ain't exactly plugins!. I'll
> paste that list in & run through it in the order they mention
> the items (my comments in parenthesis below):
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> *MasterVerb Pro (a pretty nice-sounding reverb, IMO. Not raving
> about it, necessarily, but it sucketh not).
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> *Optimaster (this is something like Izotope's Ozone... a Multi-
> EFX mastering app. It's got a Compressor, a limiter, expander,
> all multi-band (3 bands). It's not as versatile as Ozone, and
> doesn't have a stereo spread section (or a reverb, but that
> would be your "MasterVerb", above), but it sounds pretty good,
> I think - very smooth. The limiter is either totally incapable
> of brickwaling, or I haven't figured out how to get it there,
> because I've had to adjust the master level down to avoid overs
> even when using this. It has a bunch of presets (not all of the
> plugins do), some of which seem pretty useful as starting
> points. I wouldn't want to run a Mastering house using this
> application, so their choice of name may be stretching things a
> bit, but if you want to strap something nice & smooth & clear-
> sounding/uncolored across your Pulsar mixer's 2-buss, then this
> would be the one to use).
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> *Vinco Vintage Compressor (a one-trick pony dead-on (at least
> as far as I can tell from what I've run through it so far)
> emulation of an 1176, but cleaner - maybe a little
> less "attitude". I've never found the '
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