[LAD] [Bulk] Re: Digital Effects

Lieven Moors lievenmoors at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 19:27:30 UTC 2014


On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:01:31AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 15:37 +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > One thing I told years ago by a gnarled old recording engineer was 
> > always put plenty of reverb into the vocalists monitor. I took this 
> > on-board and while I always record may parts as dry as is practical, I 
> > always have plenty of FX in the monitor. I find it makes me sing better 
> > and play better/cleaner.
> 
> Sometimes the psychologically effect does help, but in general this is a
> mistake.
> 
> Drawing a picture large and making it smaller for the release usually is
> better than drawing a picture small and enlarge it for the release.
> 
> > For my instrument parts reverb or echo multiplies the tiniest of 
> > mistakes and therefore I concentrate a lot harder on not making them
> 
> That does only work, if you are within one scale, your music is based
> much on clock of keys. If not, the result likely is terrible, reverb or
> feedback delays could be disastrous.

Oh Ralf... you are SO cool.


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