There’s a downside to everything
Posted on | November 26, 2008 | No Comments
I can’t get over how good these preamps are.
The downside, of course, of having clean, high-gain preamps on a non-terrible mic is this, though: I am picking up EVERYTHING. Vocals, yes. But also the water heater running two rooms over. And the cats chasing around upstairs. I’ve got a fair amount of acoustic treatment, and there are things like “walls” in between me and the noise sources but…damn, high gain indeed.
I did a vocal take of something I’d already recorded…wow does it already sit better in the mix. It’s a subtle change but daaaaaaamn it makes a difference.
The other downside is that now I want to sit around and twiddly with my new gear, but it being thanksgiving, I have other filial duties to attend to.