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I just do that to record. I pan both channels center for the finished product.
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At this point, my left ear is totally gone and I have a hearing aid on my right just to be able to keep up with conversation. The FetHead bothered my son so much he was going to give up on using the SM7B, but he doesn't mind the Cloudlifter at all. He normally uses an AKG 414 with his closet functioning as a sound booth, but he uses the SM7B for remote audio when he has no control over the acoustics. At this point, for me this is mostly a hobby. I don't want to sing in a closet or drape blankets on the walls and set up bass traps. I just want to record myself and post some YouTube videos for a handful of friends. And I want it to sound as good as possible within those constraints. |
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If it's a solo performer, I might do a very slight pan, say enough to balance the bleed so the result sounds centered (something less than +/- 10), but when you bus the tracks to separate stereo reverbs, it spreads out to give a more natural feel. At least that's what I'm trying to do in that case. But, if it's a bigger mix, I might want the guitar panned further if there's something to balance. (Several videos I've done with a friend who only plays guitar have my vocal centered, but the guitars are panned. It's not super wide panning, but it doesn't feel unnatural to watch, even with headphones, at least nobody has ever said anything about it!) P.S. This is a video of my friend & I recording in my/wife's untreated family room with the kind panning I'm talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtpt...TnHOFE&index=7
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Did you get this 2 channel model... https://www.cloudmicrophones.com/cloudlifter-cl-2 Or this one... https://www.cloudmicrophones.com/cloudlifter-zx2 |
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The people I know who claim to be able to hear like that can't hear music in a normal, useful way, or communicate productively with musicians. Be glad that you're in recovery.
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Lol! I could definitely hear like that! I could turn it off and just enjoy music, but when I went into “audio engineer mode” I could pretty much tell you how many cents something was sharp or flat, or how many milliseconds the timing was off. I could also dial out problem frequencies on an EQ by just going to them. By the time I quit doing sound, I remember people coming up to me and asking “what’s that buzzing?” “What buzz?”...I couldn’t hear it! That’s when I started concentrating on guitar. You can be half deaf and still be a really great musician: just ask Tommy Emmanuel, Doyle Dykes, or Ed Sheeran. You need your hearing to be a sound guy! |
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I normally love sound jobs, but I couldn't wait to get out of there. |
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Recording guitar and voice with separation
My experience (both with myself and other sound techs) is that we aren’t aware of how much our hearing is deteriorating. We remember abilities we had as young men and are convinced we still have them long after they are gone. I used to be able to EQ on the fly, but towards the end of my career, I had to ring mics out thoroughly at soundcheck because if there were issues during the shows, I could no longer tell what frequencies they were.
To make it worse, as your hearing deteriorates, you tend to turn things up to compensate, and that makes acoustic problems and client complaints even worse. It took me a while to realize I had a problem, but once I did I started using an SPL meter all the time to keep myself from turning things up. Between that and ringing out the mics with an RTA loaded on my smartphone, I stretched out my run a few years longer than I should have. Many times, the audio guys that are the subjects of horror stories were actually decent at it in their prime. No longer being able to hear well enough to mix properly is one of the main things that got me back into guitar. I can still tell when the sound is good, but I can’t hear well enough to set it up. I hear well enough to play guitar though! Last edited by lkingston; 10-15-2020 at 07:20 AM. |