Bapu

Disco?

Yup.

I imagine he was afraid to stand next to you in a pic, you being so buff and all. ?

Last weekend I recorded my newly tuned drum set with my drummer, Ron, from our high school cover band and who both went on to play with Chas Sandford for about 2 years before he went on to become famous. Ron always wanted to play Theme For An Imaginary Western in our cover band but we never got "a round tuit". Since Citizen Regen did a cover version (of course with the great Hugo Ribeiro on drums) I decided to give Ron the opportunity to give a go with his take on the song. Ron has not kept up with playing for a few years so he was a bit rusty. After a couple of mic test takes of maybe the first minute of the song or so, he did three full takes. As it turns out his first take was the best overall and so all I needed to do was fix about 3 or 4 kick hits over the whole song. They were just a 32nd too early for my taste, being the producer and all. For the techies, I used my AEA R88 for overheads, Earthworks DM20 on snare top, SM57 on snare bottom, Shure Beta 91A mounted on a shock system in the kick, Shure Beta 52A on the kick hole and a Solomon Sub mic on the kick resonator head. Sennheiser e604 on toms and e614 as spot mics on all cymbals (hats, closed hats, ride and three crashes). I used my Sphere mic, in stereo mode, as a room mic and mixed the room using UAD's U47 modelling on the Sphere. All the mics were run into my 3 UAD Apollo 8xp units (I needed 19 inputs in total). During mixing I felt my Mapex Birch/Walnut snare had just too much ring and so I made the decision to use Trigger2 from Slate and I found a better snare sound that fit the song (for my taste). Ron like the results. Here is the final mix. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8um1b4cj1kjvnq0n0tcqi/TheForAnImaginaryWestern-RonDrums.mp3?rlkey=8fjxn3p5p4lc40d3s7tdct2vx&dl=0 This was the make or break test on whether I was going to keep the drums and all the mics. I'm sure with a more solid drummer I'll get even better results. Conclusion: I'm keeping everything. But will be looking for a couple of alternative snares to keep on hand.

Cue a) Fire - Arthur Brown b) Fire - Jimi Hendrix c) The Fire Down Below - Bob Seger My vote @bitflipper

Installed!

@bitflipper how did the gig go?

Installed!

Fifty years ago I'll get me coat

This is more like the one I saw Uli play live. He fiddled with those knob on the top alot. God some pretty wicked sounds I tells ya.

I saw Uli Jon Roth play one of those sky guitars for about 90% of his show.

3. DO NOT LINK TO THIS WEB SITE OR ANYTHING ON IT FROM ANYWHERE

Yup.

They both do that. Hover your mouse over both and ypu see the hint popup "go to the first unread post"

Installed!

Is that you ctaigb?

It's true, it's true!

It's still an empty folder?

So I buy the Studio 4 MAX upgrade back when I posted the OP. Today I get an email form IKM telling me that as an owner of Studio 3.5 MAX I'm eligible for a Studio 4 MAX upgrade. I'm convinced @Peter - IK Multimedia showed them posts of me admitting to double purchasing other VSTs in the past (that I had forgotten I'd already bought) ?

@Marina had to tell me. Which was cool of her.

The biggest deal you missed @cclarry was telling me the SSL DeEss went on sale for $29.99.

Yes, I am, but more importantly, The King is back in the house.

If I didn't already have the UAD version, I'd buy this one.

And Bob's your uncle.

Hold my beer......