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Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2026 1:40 pm
by penningtron
Kniferide wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 1:27 pm
Pretty simple thing but if I double track anything, guitars, vocals... anything really. I will lo pass or shelve off a lot of the high end on one of the passes. It keeps all the chorusing down in the mid and low range and get rid of the hi phasey shit so it gets thick but not 90's acoustic guitar jangle. If it feels dull you can play with the hi of the track not Lo passed and it makes balancing the whole thing easier. Helps with uneven picking chatter a lot too.
Yeah, I’ll try all kinds of things to differentiate the tracks somehow: different mics, more distance with the double, record it at slightly different speed, etc. It’s only when 2 tracks are too close in nature that they start competing with each other.
A related thing: I aggressively low pass delays. I find I can use more of it without getting overpowering or artificial sounding.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2026 3:57 pm
by Kniferide
penningtron wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 1:40 pm
A related thing: I aggressively low pass delays. I find I can use more of it without getting overpowering or artificial sounding.
Yep. also I sometimes will duck the Delay (or reverb) return with the dry signal so the delays don't step on the dry.. unless I want it to.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2026 11:51 pm
by llllllllllllllllllll
losthighway wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 9:55 pm
When I was recording with J Robbins last year he always summed a multi mic'd guitar amp to a single track.
Did he sum before the recorder?
After I had a weird phase issue that only showed on the E (of all the notes) when I was doing a di/amp thing, I will always sum before processing from now on. Love a fake tape workflow.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 7:19 am
by BrendanK
Yeah, we recorded with J and I remember him doing a lot of summing before tape (multiple guitar mics, also multiple drum mics, etc...)
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 7:25 am
by losthighway
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 11:51 pm
losthighway wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 9:55 pm
When I was recording with J Robbins last year he always summed a multi mic'd guitar amp to a single track.
Did he sum before the recorder?
After I had a weird phase issue that only showed on the E (of all the notes) when I was doing a di/amp thing, I will always sum before processing from now on. Love a fake tape workflow.
Yeah. It went 3 mics, 3 preamps, summing box, single track to DAW.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 1:07 pm
by llllllllllllllllllll
losthighway wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 7:25 am
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 11:51 pm
losthighway wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 9:55 pm
When I was recording with J Robbins last year he always summed a multi mic'd guitar amp to a single track.
Did he sum before the recorder?
After I had a weird phase issue that only showed on the E (of all the notes) when I was doing a di/amp thing, I will always sum before processing from now on. Love a fake tape workflow.
Yeah. It went 3 mics, 3 preamps, summing box, single track to DAW.
By the way, do you remember what the summing box was? I quite like the 2:1 Radial thing and it seems like there’s a big price jump after that, though the others usually have way more inputs.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 2:11 pm
by losthighway
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 1:07 pm
losthighway wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 7:25 am
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 11:51 pm
Did he sum before the recorder?
After I had a weird phase issue that only showed on the E (of all the notes) when I was doing a di/amp thing, I will always sum before processing from now on. Love a fake tape workflow.
Yeah. It went 3 mics, 3 preamps, summing box, single track to DAW.
By the way, do you remember what the summing box was? I quite like the 2:1 Radial thing and it seems like there’s a big price jump after that, though the others usually have way more inputs.
No, and I kind of wish that I did. It was a two or three rack space thing with a few big knobs. I was too distracted by mic placement notes and trying not to sing/guitar like an idiot.
**Edit***
I found it on his site. It's a custom jobby that Brooks from his band/War on Women built. That guy has a custom amp shop in a room attached to the studio called Big Crunch.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 2:28 pm
by losthighway
^ Also the Little Labs and Black Lion Audio boxes look handy. Not wicked pricey, still hundreds of $ for utility pieces isn't really fun shopping.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2026 2:28 pm
by Kniferide
losthighway wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 2:11 pm
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 1:07 pm
losthighway wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 7:25 am
Yeah. It went 3 mics, 3 preamps, summing box, single track to DAW.
It's one of my arguments for buying a cheap analog live sound board like an allen heath, Midas Venice, Crest etc. For a home recording set up. They can be had very cheap, have a bunch of pres and eqs, direct outs and a bunch of group and aux buss' to sum stuff and do parallel processing with. Super useful and affordable tool.
Re: Fun/weird recording/mixing tricks for home recording.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 7:23 am
by adavidmackinnon
I haven't used it myself but have heard good things about this -
https://www.audio-technica.com/en-ca/at8681