#1683705 - 08/15/05 01:44 PM
What You Want To See in EQ in 2006
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Eugene Robinson
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I'm putting together the editorial calendar now.....BUT, it'd be asinine...well I'm no stranger to asinine, but it'd be asinine to NOT ask y'all and sooooo, if you got something you want to see in the mag theme-wise next year that you haven't seen or'd like to see again, well lemme know....or not.
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#1683706 - 08/15/05 02:03 PM
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Not wanting to sound like a kid before Christmas, and asking for very specific things...
...I'll toss out some general wants.
A few articles on the more traditional/core recording methods...and some interviews with the pros that still practice them.
Sure...the DAW/slice-n-dice/ITB studio users may only want to focus on how to best apply 85 plug-ins to one track and still have it sound good...
...but it is the knowledge and use of fundamental recording techniques that is most often noticeable in the pudding.
I also like to read more about production intent with methods used to achieve goals, rather than just a list of the gear that was used during the sessions...
...though when given along with the pertinent info, gear lists are fun to read also.
Am I makin' any sense...?
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#1683707 - 08/15/05 02:08 PM
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J.J. Blair
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More topless women and less topless Dave Navarro?
(Couldn't help myself.)
I agree with Miroslav. More content about technique using the gear you currenly have and less content about the gear you need to buy.
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#1683708 - 08/15/05 02:15 PM
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Eugene Robinson
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yeah. knowing WHY makes sense....now if anybody tells the truth or not? well that's like a separate issue, I guess.....thanks....
more topless women
less topless dave navarro
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didn't you just say the same thing twice?
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#1683709 - 08/15/05 02:19 PM
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Eugene Robinson
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i'm sorry. some one has just explained to me that Navarro is in fact NOT a woman. my mistake.
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#1683710 - 08/15/05 03:39 PM
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How about a cover shot of JJ preening like JJP/Zoolander? (shirt optional)
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#1683712 - 08/15/05 10:36 PM
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I agree with the traditional/core recording methods.
I'd like to toss in studio construction ideas. Along with great gear and fantastic knowledge on how to use it follows superb control of the recording environment. Basement and bedroom conversion techniques would be very welcome. A lot of need to know what toput between the framing and the Aurelex!
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#1683713 - 08/15/05 11:33 PM
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BrianK
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It often seems a littlew advertizer-driven; I know many have commented on the "every review is good" thing, which is also common to Guitar Player and Keyboard. We all know the ads pay for the mag, but I do think that juicy articles on the above (studio construction, traditional techniques) would pull people in - THEN they will read the ads.
I think gear shootouts are fun and quite interesting to people, although somewhat biased and non-scientific.
Personally, I'd like to see WAY more about the psychology of recording (performances, producing, people getting along, getting better takes). And maybe some about the directions in audio: trend-spotters who know their stuff... (Should I sell my DAT machine now???)
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#1683715 - 08/16/05 10:53 AM
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Techniques "before the mic."
An "outside the box" column written by yours truly.
A complimentary subscription.
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#1683716 - 08/16/05 06:42 PM
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Eugene Robinson
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A comp subscription? I'll tell you what....you subscribe through traditional channels and then next time I'm in town I'll take you out to a $15 dinner...
but to the comment regarding "no bad reviews" I call bullshit on that. I've never kicked back a review for being too negative. And that's something we're doing that's different now. We're getting real heads to review stuff. people who don't necessarily give two craps whether or not they irk someone who advertises...if it's good they'll say so and they'll do so with the weight of in-studio-project action on their side. and if its bad, well, you know, build it better next time.
I think y'all be surprised.
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#1683717 - 08/16/05 06:57 PM
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Hey Eugene -- I've explained about the positive review thing a zillion times in the SSS archives. One more time...
Which scenario is more likely:
A. Hey Eugene, there's a really cool new plug-in I saw at NAMM! Can I review it?
or
B. Hey Eugene, I saw this product at NAMM that doesn't interest me at all and doesn't look that groovy. How about I spend a month of my life learning how to use it, then write about it and never deal with it again?
You decide!
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#1683718 - 08/16/05 06:59 PM
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Anderton
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I'd also like to see MORE PAGES. You can't take care of what everyone wants without page count.
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#1683719 - 08/16/05 07:07 PM
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More cool studio pictures. I honestly can't get enough of seeing how other people have put together their rigs and studios. I learned so much about building my own room by observing other peoples setups. Also, it'd be cool to have more interviews with some of the industry heavyweights - Swedien, Lord-Alge's, Brauer, JJP, Beinhorn, etc., with of course pics of the rigs that they tote around the world.
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#1683720 - 08/16/05 07:10 PM
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I've noticed the *thinning of the pages* syndrome, too. It sometimes indicates the downward spiral of dwindling advertisers reducing the budget for the magazine. I have been holding on, hoping the issues get thicker. I have seen 3 local computer mags frop off the planet, these last 10 years. I am hoping EQ has the internal momentum to expand. More pages... would be a good sign!
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#1683722 - 08/17/05 10:38 AM
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I would like to read about the life cycle of individual instruments, from tracking to mixdown. How, say, a bass guitar was tracked including gear, mics, EQ, compression then how it was handled in the mix and the ultimate treatment of its tracks i.e. plug ins, reamps, EQ, compression, doubling etc. This could be a series on a variety of key instruments i.e. kick, snare, overheads, guitars, vocal, keyboards etc. etc. The whole life cycle from cradle to mix would be nice.
Another request is in-depth mastering techniques, not interviews with engineers that talk about their approach of what a mix needs prior to mastering. No magazine has really gotten down in the trenches and talked about the after the mix process, the gear treatment and actual mastering techniques. Maybe some sound examples too. How about typical approaches to EQ? That is the magazines name.
I must have read 5 mastering articles in major magazines this last year and not one provided anything more than, "Don't overcompress your mix prior to delivering it to the mastering engineer". I would like to hear them talk about their rooms, their gear, a typical chain etc. Typical problems with mixes etc., real meat.
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#1683723 - 08/17/05 07:38 PM
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Mike O
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I believe something like the following would be most helpful to beginning - intermediate recordists. It certainly would have helped me twenty years ago. This type of project is VERY ambitious and could easily use 4-6 pages for as many as ten issues. But I assume we do want people to have a reason to buy the next issue.
1) Pick a project - a song to record; maybe a classic four piece band with at least two people laying the bed. Follow the process from beginning to end (song selection, arrangement, studio selection, tracking, overdubbing, mixing, and mastering).
2) Pass parts of the project off to specialists as they are often in the industry. Get them to write these sections with an editor pulling it all together. Although home recordists often do everything in their project studio the all dream of something else and the larger idea here is to get different perspectives on previous steps of the work. Later steps tell how they solve unforeseen problems created in earlier steps.
3) Ensure that each step has at least one more advanced feature. These could be side bars or referenced to other articles. For example: Use of parallel compression in mixing. Note that this is an opportunity for posting before and after.
4) Use a hybrid environment. Perhaps workstation and/or dedicated recorder as medium using a mixer.
5) Get a writer that understand the relationship of the tools at hand to the project. For example: Why we are putting the drums here in this room with this micing technique (ceiling height, isolation, etc.).
6) DOCUMENT throught the process how and WHY the set-up was chosen.
7) At interim steps provide mp3s or similar to show progress. It is important to show before and after. Make sure to illustrate that out of context something may sound "less than steller" but by the time the ODs are done, mixed, mastered etc. the experiened engineer made space for that was to follow.
Just a thought....
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#1683724 - 08/17/05 07:41 PM
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Master Classes with on-line audio examples and/or CD's that can be purchased seperately/optionally. It wouldn't need to be every month. Maybe just a few times a year.
Perhaps a new optional version of EQ Mag. "EQ Mag X-tra" costing a little more.
A few ideas :
Tracking :
Various O/H mic-techniques (J.J. ? X/Y vs. the three-mic technique vs ORTF...close mics...snare position A vs snare position B ...in-phase , out-of -phase)
A 414 vs a 421 vs a 57 on toms.
Acoustic & 'Lectric GTR mic techniques & Tracking techniques : doubling vs. re-amping
etc...
the list is endless.
Mixing Techniques :
in addition to reading about it, you can listen to examples.
Reviews & Shootouts :
How does that Peluso 22 251 sound ? (I can't get it directly here in Canada-I'd have to buy it)
What about educational products such as Golden Ears ? Reviews with small excerpts from the product. Ahhh! that's what it is !Sold !
Vintage Gear
Perhaps some shoot-outs with Lynn ?
Recording Magazine had a thing going for a while called Playback with Dave Moulton. I thought it was very cool.
Call me crazy.
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#1683725 - 08/17/05 08:42 PM
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Well I really enjoy reading about folks that I respect from their work as well as folks I've never heard of...Linda Perry and BT from some recent issues come to mind, respectively. More details and length is always welcome too.
Regarding the reviews & tips and how things work kind of articles the current SOS (Aug 2005) is a template for that kind of thing - details, opinions, practical uses, etc.
Project studio, home recording, field recording and making them all sound balanced and listenable is of prime interest to me. Tools, techniques, and examples are all cool. This is 2005 right? modernize & use all available media - be the king of media! Put some examples up on the internet or send a cd out with each issue. For example: Here's PSPs new MasterQ, here's how it sounds on a track - here's how it sounds on a mix...etc. Have a queue of project studio examples...here's little johnny recording his band with an omni - now here's little johnnies band using the decca tree we featured in last months' issue...etc.
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#1683726 - 08/19/05 11:53 PM
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How about an interview with Terry Manning?
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#1683727 - 08/22/05 02:21 PM
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Eugene Robinson
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cool suggestions....precise. which is fine for stuff from issue to issue but I'm looking for MACRO themes...wellllll....actually if truth be told i'm just looking for the merest shred of justification to do an ENTIRE issue lambasting music I despise and those responsible for it.
which will probably never happen.
but I can dream.
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#1683728 - 08/22/05 11:01 PM
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Well, as a long time subscriber, this last EQ issue is by far the best issue ever IMO. I've been reading it and re-reading it over and over. There was just so much; 'You're not here but here's exactly what it was like if you were here' vibe. I absolutely loved the taking a cheap but respectable mic along side a med priced mic and an expensive (to me) mic and putting them through the paces.
J.J. Blair, you rock! You make me feel about mics the same way Craig A. makes me feel about electronics in an 'I can understand this stuff' sort of way. I'm a late 40s, mostly played guitar and sang in traveling bands through most of my days kind of guy and recorded at home with basic gear and in local lackluster studios. I've never explored the Neuman world at all (except when a bud brought over a TLM-103 which underwhelmed me) but I kinda feel like I understand the lineage a bit even though I've never messed with a U-47. But where was the Peluso????!!
At any rate, keep going like you're going right now. I'm kinda sick of software articles, give me mics and pres and instruments and most of all techniques. Don't tell me I must have this compresser, but tell me how to set the attack and release etc on any compressor to get the desired effect. But if a specific piece of gear has a certain magic if set a certain way, then I want to know about that! Maybe I'll end up with it or maybe get to use it one day.
Another angle is to me; gear as an investment. I'd like to know if something might hold it's value a bit.
What do I want to see? How about a mic pre issue just like this past mic issue? How about a guitar amp issue? (from a recording them standpoint) How about a space issue (cool sounding rooms and why they sound cool to record in); I remember a round stone church in Buckingham England that I went in (when it was empty) and just sang and cursed that I didn't have an acoustic guitar with me. How about a 'Why did 80's synths sound so much better than present day ones' issue. Has EQ examined the smashitus mastering syndrome?
Anyway, from the last issue, you're definately on the right path!
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#1683729 - 08/22/05 11:17 PM
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J.J. Blair
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David, flattery will get you everywhere.
As far as the Peluso, I was actually going to use a Pearlman, which uses a Peluso built capsule. I've heard those two side by side and preferred the Pearlman to the Peluso. The only problem with getting it was, a batch of parts was apparently being held up in the Long Beach docks due to homeland security issues, and David could not make one in time for the article. I really highly recommend the mic from my experience with it, though. I wish I could have put it in the shoot out and heard it against the others.
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#1683730 - 08/22/05 11:36 PM
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Cool. I think eq is headed in the right direction, again, really enjoyed this latest issue.
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#1683731 - 08/23/05 09:03 AM
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Yeah the latest issue was a good one.
I agree with some of the comments already made.
Would like to see more about how to do things and a bit less on the new gear we should drool over.
The fine details of a tracking session and /or of a mix would be great to read about. Regarding the mix- I'd like to move beyond the general pointers and mixing styles to a really detailed dissection of a specific mix including effects used, panning, EQ tweaks, problems encountered and solved, etc.
I also agree that maintaining a good mix of "outside the box" and DAW perspectives would be good.
Cheers
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#1683732 - 08/23/05 12:06 PM
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J.J. Blair
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Eugene, I think you should do an issue entitled "Sonic Bukakke." I KNOW you want to pitch that one to your bosses!
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#1683733 - 08/25/05 05:15 PM
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I would like to see you finally release the article Phil wrote about the Frontier Tranzport. I have one and it is amazing!!! He wrote it months ago. I would like to see what he has for ideas about the use of it.
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#1683734 - 08/26/05 09:34 AM
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BrianK
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I wish I had a copy of the mag. Sometimes I get it. Not this month....
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