Hello, I have heard them all a dozen times, but have always wondered if I'm listening to stuff the right way. For instance does a mono source sound more accurate to the real sound with the mono button in on my mixer, both channels panned center, 1 channel off and the other panned center or in stereo? I was listening to the bass session this morning and played around with my mixer and got completly different sounds.

Man the John Hardy M-1 sounds amazing on bass!!! It's the only preamp I don't hear buzzing and finger noise on, perhaps its the performance but it sounds super and punchy.

I also thought I'd suggest people load the files into a DAW and eq, compress and maybe even work a song around them using your gear, then when load all the parts in and listen to how the pre/mic combinations work with your pres. I eq and compress them A) because I get off on shit like that and B) to hear how different gear sounds when EQ'ed and compressed.

I just got the idea this afternoon that it would be cool to load them into wavelab and look at the samples with all the funky meters expecially the spectrum analizer. This is not only a good way to see the eq curves of certain gear but also to train your ear what certain instruments sound like with and without certain frequencies that each mic and preamp picks up differently.

Those are my ideas. Anyone got any more to add to mine? I hope dot can answer my "whats the best way to listen" question.

So long.

-Dusty

[This message was edited by Dot on 12-11-03 at 06:39 PM.]

Oh, I should note that the reason I started messing with pan is because I put on some can's because my room was making more sound than usual (water pipes or some shit driving me nuts). And some of the pre's make me "winch" when all the sudden a note seems panned to one side. Different notes seem to be in different places, and both on the monitors and the headphones the fret buzz seems to be completly on the right side.

Can anyone explain these effects?

-Dusty

I can't explain it, but I have a question for ya Dusty.
You say you listen through your board. Are you able to by-pass the eq on that model or do you bring them through an aux?
I couldn't by-pass the eq on the one I had from that company, and it made things noisy. That's why I ask. (And that's why it's gone.)




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Yeah I can bypass the eq's with a flick of a switch. I can also bypass the preamps... but as of this point this is still "voododic" to me because 2 channels might be setup completly the same but one bypasses the preamp gain-trim knob and the other doesn't.

This makes the board frustrating to use. Someday I'm going to just sit down and dick with it until I figure it out. Or call Behringer.

-Dusty

I was just wondering. Like I said , mine drove me nuts. I gave it to some friends though and I actually used it recently to record their practice so they could hear some new songs. For every day, couldn't do it. It was a lot less board than your though.




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