Bought the mic last week from Sweetwater, really love it on vocals. Does great with rejecting room noise. Really excited to put it on a snare when I get the chance to do that.
I bought 2 of these a month ago. I. LOVE. THESE. MICS...period. Has become my desert island mic, hands down. I have a vocal session setup next week and plan to use it as the second (clean) mic with a tube mic of some sort as primary. Very much looking forward to the results and mix possibilities. Thanks for the work on this, Warren. Outstanding results.
Great job, to all of you. I suggested a couple of weeks back if we could get an insight into how drums were being recorded in the good old days. You immediately replied, saying this video was on its way. So I've been looking forward to this one. You're spoiling us, mr Huart! Thank you!
@@petesawchuk At this stage of a locked down world, I would be willing to see musicians naked on the stage if it meant that I could experience live music...;-)
Warren, I took those wonderful tracks into my DAW and my brain just blew up! LOL This sounds so good on its own! Great tracks to mix with. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
My immediate impression was relief that the mic didn't have the brashness many budget large diaphragm condensers do. Very nice! I found the handclaps or finger snaps or whatever they were very distracting in the mix though. When I first heard them I actually looked around thinking something was wrong!
Regardless of how good your gear is, the performances must be great. The singer is amazing, the musicians are all world class... If you recorded this with an old Realistic cassette, it would still sound good.
I Use a Shure beta 52 on kick inside. A Sm57 on outside kick. SM57 on snare. Beta 56s on Tom's. SM81s for overheads and the Lewitt LCT 140 air on hi-hats.
@Zack Darce when I was looking to buy a kick mic. I did a bunch of research and watched a bunch of mic shootouts. The D112 sounded paper thin compared to the beta52. The Audix kick mic sounds good as well but is to clicky when dry. I bet the perfect combo would be to blend the beta52 with the Audix D6. Either way you can pretty much make entry level mics sound amazing with the plugins we have today. For me I would say my setup is a mid grade setup. I'm getting amazing results so I'm happy and I'm the pickiest SOB when it comes to recording.
Hey Warren. I went to my local store the other day and tried to buy one of those orange external hard drives. It was sold out. Turns out, YOU own ‘em all!!!😂😂 Thanks for your great content and have a marvelous day🤘🏻 Cheers from Denmark.
First thing I thought is that they were Reese's peanut butter cups....! I was thinking we now knew the "magic ingredient" that keeps the high production standards alive and well here in PLaP-land!
Nice job, Warren! This song was so much fun to work on w/ Jesper on his "Warren & Eric's birthday version" of a few weeks ago. A few observations: - I'm not sure you can find 2 more different vocalists than Steve Maggiore & Marc Bolan! I would've liked to hear Steve mix a little more G natural in with the G# on the "blue notes", but that's just me. Also, Steve's just too good a piano player to go "full caveman" like the recording. ;P - Bari sax is the freaking bomb in general, and it lifts to yet another dimension when played in it's high register; Dave Rollicke [sp?] just kills it. - Loved Blair's wide-panned claps! - BASIC TRACKS: According to Tony Visconti, he & the band laid down basic tracks @ Wally Heider's in LA while T Rex was on the road. "Hot Love" was a #1 single following quickly on the heels of "Ride A White Swan" which had made it to #2, but there wasn't a T Rex album ready to release so they had to do whatever they could on the road, mostly in NY & LA as you'd guess. - OVERDUBS: These were done back in London at Trident Studios; Ian McDonald from King Crimson played the saxes [one bari & 2 alto tracks, according to Visconti] with Rick Wakeman likely playing piano, or at least the piano glisses. From Wikipedia: "Wakeman pointed out to Tony Visconti that the record did not actually need a piano player. Visconti suggested that he could add a gliss. Wakeman said that Visconti could do that, to which Bolan replied, "You want your rent, don't you?" Wakeman did, and earned £9 for his efforts." - With Bang a Gong, T Rex may have been a "one-hit wonder" in the US; that one hit made quite an impact, though!
Love the song. I'm downloading the tracks now so I can have a look at what you've done with the vocals. You mentione the whisper trick and the vocal mixing video. I went straight to the description for a link but couldn't find one. Any chance you could point us in the right direction? I'd love one of these mics, never mind four! I really want to get out of this damn pandemic. I've learned so much from the academy in the last year and really want to spend some time with other musicians! I want to record our drummer!
Great track Warren, Question: why no cymbals was that an artistic decision or did you choose not to record cymbals because of possible high frequency limitation of the microphone?
@Produce Like A Pro I have to know what the chord voicing you are using for the "lead" part. I've never played it that way and upon all my research (re: youtube guitar lessons) no one plays it that way... however your voicing sounds so much closer to the album
very solid drum sounds with a very flat sound if you just want sturdy punchy and accurate. They are not coloured in any way. Maybe if you had more mics of the same type I am sure you could get even a better sound and get the filters set good. And you can still mix to add all the production tricks. And all the sounds you got were pretty amazing as a quick start.
I'd love to hear a "Bands That Changed Music" with a focus on T. Rex. Also, Children of the Revolution is my favorite song by them. Just killer! Went ahead and submitted a mix on PLAP!
Hmm, The Lauten 208 and 308. I took a look at these mics, mainly because Darrell Thorp used them on drums on the Recording Course featuring Robert John and the Wreck. They're relatively cheap, but there are 1000 things that are relatively cheap out there, and I can't afford all of them now. Good vid. Also, this was, imho, one of the better covers in this series - well done :-) PS, I'd love to win this mic
Hey Warren I met you at the Naam 2020 when you were just leaving the Luna booth and stopped you Introduced myself and asked a out A Sub in My Monitoring section,you were so kind and took time for me to answer my question Thankyou so much! I was wondering if I could reach out about A legendary Producer that hasn't interviewed in longer than 11 years,but hes working again and could really be an asset to interveiw,
Great all around performance Mic and great song... But I liked the previous reviewed Mic from Austria (former AKG)... Specially in the Drums which felt more punchy.
It sounds great! I did a side by side shootout with an EV RE20 and with the 10k low pass switch ON on the 208. Results were fairly close with a subtle but noticeable 1-2 db lift in the upper mids and highs on the 208. Nothing too crispy but just something a little extra that the RE20 just can't deliver. Without the 10k low pass, the 208 is substantially different in character...as would be expected with a condenser vs dynamic.
i never realized how using the same mic for all the drums makes them sound flat... hate to say it. I love the channel. The band is awesome. the guitar is tight, Warren. but that mic, it sounds great on kick and snare, but not both at the some time, u know? also, the over heads are super bright. i was listening to some Static X the other day and a lot of the 90s metal used intense bright overheads. cool mic though. def a good addition to the closet
Jeez Erick! Why you slacking man?😂😂 great video BTW Warren. As always you're such an inspiration to me! Never stop doing what you love man because you have inspired me in so many different ways and can't begin to thank you for everything you have done for me with out even realizing it! Well done Mr. Huart! Well done!
