Exciting Day
Jun. 12th, 2011 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillToday I am going to test out some things for recording.
1) I have a line on a used Rode NT1-A mic I think I can afford. I have thought about good mic vs good earphones and decided that the mic comes first in the recording process, and I can get good earphones later if necessary and tweak my mixes with them, but if I don't like my mics I have to go all the way back to the beginning and re-record.
I'm very excited about having my own Rode NT1-A: we used its predecessor(s) the Rode NT1 and NT2 on the first three Echo's Children CDs and were very happy with them (but they belonged to the sound engineer so I couldn't take one with me.) Now that I am my own sound engineer I think it is reasonable to get one.
2) I plan to test out using my Zoom as an audio interface for my computer. Not sure yet if I'm going to go this route generally, but I'd like to know if I can make it work and what the results are like--at least in terms of whether the interface can be worked from the Zoom (in which case I could leave the computer outside the padded room and run the cord under the door, thus leaving the fan noise out of the equation) and what the latency issues (delay in playing the sound being recorded compared to the sound being played to sing to) are.
3) I will also check whether the Zoom can feed the sound from the Rode NT1-A into the computer. Because the manual seems to imply it (talking about how you can set phantom power, which you need for an external condenser mic, while the Zoom is set up to be an audio interface) but I'm an untrusting type and want to check.
Does anyone have any idea why the Zoom lets you record with effects already on, rather than recording dry and adding effects after the fact? The problem with recording effects and all is that if you later decide you don't like the effect, you can't remove it. I'm wondering whether recording with effects is somehow easier on the Zoom's modest brain than adding them later?
1) I have a line on a used Rode NT1-A mic I think I can afford. I have thought about good mic vs good earphones and decided that the mic comes first in the recording process, and I can get good earphones later if necessary and tweak my mixes with them, but if I don't like my mics I have to go all the way back to the beginning and re-record.
I'm very excited about having my own Rode NT1-A: we used its predecessor(s) the Rode NT1 and NT2 on the first three Echo's Children CDs and were very happy with them (but they belonged to the sound engineer so I couldn't take one with me.) Now that I am my own sound engineer I think it is reasonable to get one.
2) I plan to test out using my Zoom as an audio interface for my computer. Not sure yet if I'm going to go this route generally, but I'd like to know if I can make it work and what the results are like--at least in terms of whether the interface can be worked from the Zoom (in which case I could leave the computer outside the padded room and run the cord under the door, thus leaving the fan noise out of the equation) and what the latency issues (delay in playing the sound being recorded compared to the sound being played to sing to) are.
3) I will also check whether the Zoom can feed the sound from the Rode NT1-A into the computer. Because the manual seems to imply it (talking about how you can set phantom power, which you need for an external condenser mic, while the Zoom is set up to be an audio interface) but I'm an untrusting type and want to check.
Does anyone have any idea why the Zoom lets you record with effects already on, rather than recording dry and adding effects after the fact? The problem with recording effects and all is that if you later decide you don't like the effect, you can't remove it. I'm wondering whether recording with effects is somehow easier on the Zoom's modest brain than adding them later?
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Date: 2011-06-12 03:33 pm (UTC)The other possibility is that they couldn't figure out how to squeeze mixing with effects into the Zoom's tiny UI.
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Date: 2011-06-14 01:49 pm (UTC)Also--I don't know if you're using a Zoom but if you are, I noticed from the NT1-A manual that it will work with +24V phantom power (it's not obvious from what's on the web about it), and that setting conserves power on the Zoom which may be useful if you're running from batteries.
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Date: 2011-06-14 02:47 pm (UTC)My Zoom is an H2, which doesn't support external mics, so it's not an option.
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Date: 2011-06-15 10:33 am (UTC)