How ya doin? Been a while. Spent the last month in acquisition mode. Anyway back to the Mackie 1604 and tracking.

We had been having a discussion before about the limitations of the Mackie ie. wanting to record cmore sources than viable with 16 channels. So I'm wondering about the outboard pre scenario.

What if?

Time to start another little discussion on tracking with or without compression.

In the analog world the need for comression while tracking is fairly obvious. You need compression to help mask the tape hiss. As tape and analog improved compression became more of an effect.

I've used a few different mics for tracking Sax. I'm wondering if I missed the best one ?

I am in no means a pro, but with a little help, maybe I can get close.
A couple of questions about tracking.

Hey gang . . .

Talk to me about double tracking vocals.
What is your approach?
How do the big boys handle this?

What gear is everybody using to track bass guitar? I'm mostly talking about going direct. What signal path, and gear is everybody using to get the killer bass sound?

Please list the gear, and style, with a short discription of tone.

Thanks

Darren
http://www.dixondigital.com

I am a dance music producer looking for something to track my synths through before dropping them into my DAW. I run a MOTU 1224 system with Logic Audio, which ain't the best but suits my current budget. I then spit the outs through a tasty old AMEK console I have, with various bits of outboard.

hello all.

i feel like a dweeb for asking, but all the many methods i've tried for this in the past have given me only limited success:

i'm tracking this weekend a rock band, and the singer / acoustic guitar player will be playing along with the band while we track drums (at least that's my focus.

I'm thinking my life would be much easier (and cheaper) if I didn't bother with recording stereo pairs of anything, even overheads. I'm working with 1/2" 8 track, so preserving tracks before I have to bounce is of interest to me, but I could see for rock and pop stereo Micing could be unnecessary.

ok, so here's my question/discussion topic...

how do yall deal with the fact that extra steps of A/D conversion make yr product suck more and more?