River19
Senior Member
So far with the new studio setup I have completed maybe 40 tunes or so......been pleased with the results so far but occasionally I have hated how much attic I was getting from the 12" tom.
I chased down the "thwap" a little bit by swapping out clear EC2S for a Coated Emperor, ok a little warmer not bad but still when mixing with cleaner sounds (ie. clean guitar not a wall of overdrive) I was still annoyed with the attack.
Meanwhile, I wanted to add a room mic, so today the AKG 420 came in, nice mic especially at that price point. So I got that setup and was running through some sound samples.......and there was that annoying attack sound. Went through each track and like normal it seems like it was my Overhead Snare side that seemed to always have the annoying frequency. As I was soloing it....I was like "you know it really isn't picking up much hihat or snare etc........but man that 12" tom"...... wait.....could I have mislabeled the "Tom" and "OH Snare" tracks all along?
Yup......now wonder when I made sure both overhead faders were the same the "attack" of the tom was too much for me.......because it was the friggin SM57 on the tom NOT the damn Overhead. Quick edit on my track template and problem solved. Dickhead.
So yeah, I am an idiot. Sounds great now......no issues.....nothing to fix with EQ, at least not that particular large issue.
It is what it is.
I chased down the "thwap" a little bit by swapping out clear EC2S for a Coated Emperor, ok a little warmer not bad but still when mixing with cleaner sounds (ie. clean guitar not a wall of overdrive) I was still annoyed with the attack.
Meanwhile, I wanted to add a room mic, so today the AKG 420 came in, nice mic especially at that price point. So I got that setup and was running through some sound samples.......and there was that annoying attack sound. Went through each track and like normal it seems like it was my Overhead Snare side that seemed to always have the annoying frequency. As I was soloing it....I was like "you know it really isn't picking up much hihat or snare etc........but man that 12" tom"...... wait.....could I have mislabeled the "Tom" and "OH Snare" tracks all along?
Yup......now wonder when I made sure both overhead faders were the same the "attack" of the tom was too much for me.......because it was the friggin SM57 on the tom NOT the damn Overhead. Quick edit on my track template and problem solved. Dickhead.
So yeah, I am an idiot. Sounds great now......no issues.....nothing to fix with EQ, at least not that particular large issue.
It is what it is.
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