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"Whats people take on the mix bus?" i'm to the point now, where i KNOW, if i don't mix into a 'mastering chain', too many things change during my mastering. so, i have a customized "MASTERING" chain that i MIX into, a mastering chain, that i put on my MAINS channel. i have a MASTER channel, that all my individual tracks route to, either directly or more likely thru a SUB BUSS channel for each grouping of instruments, guitars, bass, vox, drums, etc. so tracks>>Sub bus>>Master bus>>MAINS. on my MASTER channel, i mix into a G Series SSL Compressor. set very lightly, no more than -2db reduction, it's a 'glue compressor' at this point. but i have on the MAINS, a parametric EQ, Pultect EQ, another SSL compressor, Waves L2 set with a ceiling of -0.3 and doing only 1.0 db of reduction, fast release, to just catch the first peaks that get thru, then a Waves L3 multi band limiter, for the final limiting, that i set the ceiling for about -1.0db, and push it til i get to the LUFS i want, usually about -10 to -11. then i turn that all off, when i bounce my actual mix, and that target it K-18. this is working currently for me, better than what i did before. but it's constantly changing. just cuz.

one of the great things about the Iridium, is it's simplicity. the jfet front end makes it feel right.

thanks for listening Ross! appreciate it.

wow, thanks markno999! playing thru the Strymon Iridium, just makes the process so much less 'engineery' and more musicy. if you know what i mean. so the playing just becomes more easy to get to, and then i'm just trying to find that vibe. watching these grand prix races kinda jacks me up, and playing after watching one, well, this is the end result.

it's super easy to do in studio one. look up 'pipeline'

MAN, what a race!

Thanks freddy Appreciate the comments

dont forget to watch the race this weekend!

hi Rik! thanks for listening! it was really fun tracking this thing...

thanks tom! thanks for listening. i was trying to capture the vibe, you know, the energy.. i'd love to make that trip myself. maybe one day.

HEY, this week is the Monaco Grand Prix! nice to revisit this tune

and with the Monaco Grand Prix this week! timely

ha! thanks lynn yea, i was looking forward to the italian grand prix last weekend, alas, global warming. heheh what's coming up? MONACO, baby. https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/bullet-train-to-monaco

thanks mark! that album (elemental) uses just about every version of tone that box (iridium)could put out... i mean, it's really an infinite number of tones available, but i'd say, i used every 'common' variable... fender deluxe clean and dirty, same for ac30, same for marshall 100 watt plexi, both with pedals and straight. quite the experiment, for sure. i feel like i mastered it at this point.

usually, ignoring a thread is equal to a shrug.

you're right, the palmer was my original method of going direct. i ran the mesa hot, using a weber attenuator, and the full output of the amp bypassed the weber into the palmer, the attenuator was just for my in-session monitoring. but in 2020, i bought the iridium, and created an entire album based around the sound of the Iridium, i was stoked with it. it's an all instrumental album, 10 tracks, called "Elemental" https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-album i did a vid, for the one tune that had the highest gain stuff going on, that's here:

hey mark! thanks so listening, i got very little feedback on this one, and i worked so hard on it!! i'm not sure why you would be surprised about this being a strymon iridium recording... i've been using nothing but the strymon for the last 3 years! seriously, anything you've heard of mine in the last 3 years, was done using the Iridium. it's a wonderful machine! my mesa boogie mark IIb head and cabs are just sitting silently, rarely do they ever even see the power button on. my pedalboard that goes into the Iridium from my guitar: i've got boost, and 3 levels of gain available, plus compression, univibe, and wah. the wah is a Budda Wah, one of my most favorite out of about half dozen wah's i've owned. i run the iridium output into a Boss DD-200 (when i want time effects) and that goes stereo into my RME Babyface Pro interface. the feel of the Iridium is what sold me on using it. that, and the quality of the amp models. it feels even more immediate than micing up my boogie. i think it's got less latency than the mic distance, time thru the cables, thru the interface, into the monitoring. it's the FEEL of the iridium that i love. it's immediate. they really nailed the front end of that pedal. plus, it's dirt simple. i set it up with whatever cabinet/mic combo i'm looking for (i use York Audio IR's), and i just twist the little knobs til i get what i want! i don't even bother using the 'favorite' preset, because i change it all everytime i plug it in to do tracks. i never use the same setting twice.

your best bet, is hearing aids. WIDEX is what folks like Steve Lukather use. https://www.widex.com/en-us/

last attempt to push this one for listens, time to move on

Weekend bump

Thanks Andy I appreciate the kind kudo

hi mark! thanks for the comments funny how the wah just works its way in there....! LOL

HEY THANKS KRUPA! I MISSED this one way back... yea, there's some really good racing going on this season, but verstappen is just slaying it. lewis is in the record books, as is fernando, max is writing a new book.

cool tune! i dig the whole thing, but have a couple of suggestions on the mix... vox too hot. needs to sit back in the mix a bit, it's just a bit caberet drums too weak, the kick almost disappears. other than that, i dig it! reminds me a little bit of hendrix's 'merman' tune. got that spacy otherworld

it's been a while now, since i used the boogie. prolly should knock the dust off of it