on your site i saw that you are using ubuntu studio.
did you have to tweak it or is it ubuntu studio OOTB ?
2011/12/9 Giorgio - Audiophilo <anomalsound@xxxxxxxxx>
tech question : can you tell us a bit more about your workflow?First of all i'd like to start from a consideration: there's a big work to do before recording, even before placing microphones. You must have a clear view of the final result before starting with any operation IMHO.For this work i started listening to the demos and picturing in my mind the sound of this band, then i talked to the guys, change some song structure and arrangements.After this:RecordingDrums: As you can hear from the song the drums sound a bit electronic. To obtain this result i placed few microphones (bass drum, snare, hi-hat, tom 1, tom 2, floor tom, two overheads A/B figure), this because i knew that i would have replaced the snare and the kick sound later so i didn't need great accuracy on those percussions.Bass: From the bass to the mixer and then sound card. Nothing special.Guitars: From the guitars to the mixer and then sound card. This is not a very common workflow, i'll explain later.Synths: I wrote the parts on Muse and used some soft synth and also used some external hard synth.Voice: We made a very hard work on the voice since we put many parts together to obtain a certain harmony. Then the singer recorded with a condenser microphone an at 4040 if i recall wellEditingSince i wanted to obtain an overall electronic sound i wanted the instruments to play very "together" and tight so i did some surgical editing on the tracks with Ardour 2.8.11. I encountered some problem because it's well known that Ardour gets slow (and sometimes crashes) when working with many many regions. To avoid this i reduced the hystory to 10 steps, i often consolidated regions and do some "cleanup unused regions" as well. I also did some voice tuning with Fons Adriansen's Jretune.Once everything was perfectly tight with the grid i started reamping the bass and the guitars.ReampOnce i had the "perfect" guitars and bass takes, i sent the signals out from my sound card to a reamp box (i use this one http://www.radialeng.com/di-xamp.htm) and then to some amps. I recorded them in order to have the bass amp sound summed to the direct one and to have "bigger" guitars obtained with different amp sounds mixed together.Drums ReplacingI did some drums replacing on the bass drum and the snare using ladspa-trigger.SynthsOnce the midi parts were well defined i sent them to soft (Yoshimi, Nekobee, amsynth for example) and hard synths (i had this Yamaha digital piano a Korg 01WFD and a Roland jp 8000) and recorded them into the Ardour session.MixI mixed all the tracks together using many ladspa and lv2 plugins like Invada, Calf and others.MasteringI exported groups of tracks from the mixing sessions and imported them into a new one, then i used some soft eq and external compressor.and also the pitfalls you encounter when using linux apps (like this app is great, but when you do this/that it crashes or does weird stuff or starts to 'suck real bad'Except for the Ardour issue explained above i didn't encounter many weird things.Hope this can be exaustive enough.
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