I was telling Dave Hawk ( dvdhawk ) this weekend about one of my wishes. And that is that I wish I had the talent, knowledge and ability to design and build gear, ya know, boutique type stuff like opto and tube compressors, EQ'S, mics, guitar amps, ...

I've been researching the methods and gear of the classic age of Motown.

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This is all I've found.

October 27th, 2015

I thought I'd start a new thread, discussing songs we like and dissecting the recording and mixing methods used that lent heavily to the ultimate sound of the song.

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With the advent of classic gain reduction units in software/ plugin form, I thought I would start a series of threads explaining how these original classic units worked - kind of a "what makes them tick" series of threads, for those who are using emulations from companies like UAD, T-Racks/IK Multimedia, Waves, Bomb Factory, Steinberg, etc.

I reached out and found Greg Hanks recently and found that he has relaunched his BA-660 mic preamp with some differences from the old version. I was pretty impressed by the last one while reviewing it. It'll take me a bit to wade through the new one. I'm just giving you a heads up.

Regards,

Ty Ford

*posted this also another location on here. Sorry if i posted twice. really do not know where to ask this question at.

I was recording last night with a new preamp that I built (Telefunken V-72) and I am getting pretty good sounding recordings now using Pro Tools. When I add a compressor using the various plugins that come with Pro Tools LE it seems to me that they are actually degrading the sound and reducing the gain.