Dexter Inferno
Serious error
ALWAYS track every bass and guitar track through a quality DI in addition to the miced amps.
ALWAYS!
With the current project I'm mixing, this has saved my arse on several occasions now.
A couple of tunes, the bass player insisted it was a great idea getting some drive from his amp.
Well, let me tell you that a cheap Ashdown combo (with no tubes in it) does sound like absolute shit when overdriven.
On a couple of other songs, one of the guitar players' EMG equipped guitar would overdrive his Boss multi-fx unit. Digital distortion going into his amp. Very nice.
And on one in particular, the lead didn't have enough gain on it to hide his less than stellar technique.
I ended up compressing the living fuck out of that lead and running it back through his amp (which he fortunately left behind for a few days) on STUN. And....a very happy band in the end.
Then there's the times where you might get mic positioning wrong or use the wrong mic/preamp for the job.
DI and reamping quite often can salvage a shit sounding track, allowing to keep a good performance.
Make it a habit, and save yourself a whole lot of grief come mixing time.
FTR, the passive Radial JDI is probably some of the best money I've ever spent.
Not cheap, but sounds amazing.
Thank me later.
ALWAYS!
With the current project I'm mixing, this has saved my arse on several occasions now.
A couple of tunes, the bass player insisted it was a great idea getting some drive from his amp.
Well, let me tell you that a cheap Ashdown combo (with no tubes in it) does sound like absolute shit when overdriven.
On a couple of other songs, one of the guitar players' EMG equipped guitar would overdrive his Boss multi-fx unit. Digital distortion going into his amp. Very nice.
And on one in particular, the lead didn't have enough gain on it to hide his less than stellar technique.
I ended up compressing the living fuck out of that lead and running it back through his amp (which he fortunately left behind for a few days) on STUN. And....a very happy band in the end.
Then there's the times where you might get mic positioning wrong or use the wrong mic/preamp for the job.
DI and reamping quite often can salvage a shit sounding track, allowing to keep a good performance.
Make it a habit, and save yourself a whole lot of grief come mixing time.
FTR, the passive Radial JDI is probably some of the best money I've ever spent.
Not cheap, but sounds amazing.
Thank me later.
