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Recording a Folksinger- guitar, harmonica, vox

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Submitted by anonymous on

hey guys,



i'm a folksinger and a songwriter and i'm trying to record my songs so i can get them out to people- i play guitar, mandolin, harmonica and kazoo as well as sing- i have a Boss BR-532 unit, and just recently got 2 MXL condesors, the 990 and 991, and an audio buddy pre-amp (previously i was using a cheap AKG live dynamic vocal mic)



Advice for recording a small folk style ensemble

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Submitted by anonymous on

Hi All,



Firstly, just want to say that there are some great posts going here. I've mainly been an engineer for rock/pop over the years, yet have always appreciated classical music, and I'm looking at using some classical recording techniques to record a few tracks of a group I'm currently working with.



To mixing and mastering folks: Macrodynamics

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Submitted by Alécio Costa on

Let us talk about macrodynamics



Hi!

Lots of things have been discussed concerning compression, limiting, ducking, expanding, which are terms asociated normally to microdynamics.

So let us discuss a topic that pop music nowadays lacks tremendously: macrodynamics...



For example, gain rides...