BAD HABITS

[burnthair donethat]

i'd like to know what bad habits you've had to or are constantly trying to correct.

I've grown up on digital recording. i've had the chance to watch engineers on the analog workflow when i just started but from arms length only. one day i was at a gig where i had to use an analog board. i had to force my self to conform to a different workflow on an actual gig a few hours before the show. the impulse i noticed was my eyes were always looking for a graphic representation for EQ that i would be doing. for a while, i was struggling reconciling that i couldn't see what i was doing. from then on every time i mix ITB i put a towel over the computer monitor once i'm done editing and ear it all the way. it was like walking a tightrope at first but i'm getting the hang of it.:(

[pauly]

i find the screen to be the biggest drawback to recording, many people are more occupied with looking at the monitor than actually listening to the music. i want more than anything to have a great desk and a radar system and not even have a monitor to look at mix time.:D

i personally much prefer to turn a nob and listen to the energy change without looking at what i'm doing.

i have also heard a hundred times from people that if the waveform looks big than it must sound good. really nice :moon:

[burnthair donethat]

i find the screen to be the biggest drawback to recording, many people are more occupied with looking at the monitor than actually listening to the music.

i have also heard a hundred times from people that if the waveform looks big than it must sound good. really nice :moon:

tell me about it. just last week i stepped into the studio while somebody was editing on PT. i was there for about ten minutes looking for something and never did i hear a sound. it turns out that he was sound editing without sound!:eek:

[Seb Riou]

keeping the monitoring level under 90dB for more than 20 minutes is still a struggle for me.

Lucky me i don't have mains , only nearfields ;-)

[Mixwell]

Turning the Phantom off with the monitors at full tilt

Pulling a Patch Cord with the monitors at full tilt

Moving a microphone with the monitors at full tilt

Clicking a Fader up to Zero DBFS with the monitors at full tilt

Basically - don't do anything with the monitors at full tilt

i was struggling reconciling that i couldn't see what i was doing.

Problem - Watching the Waveforms, and listening to the audio.

Solution - Watching the Audio and Listening to the Waveforms.

[Tomasz]

Basically - don't do anything with the monitors at full tilt
Huh?... what did you say?.. don't disengage the input pad with monitors set to stun? Too late, now I'm hearing crickets for a day!

Problem - Watching the Waveforms, and listening to the audio.
Solution - Watching the Audio and Listening to the Waveforms.

This is an amazing concept - even easier if you've been recording since before you could SEE the waveform

Problem - stereo imaging seems to be off
Solution - take that bluetooth outta your ear:finger:

[Mixwell]

Its also important to note than when volumes are louder, frequency content will become more even to your ear.

[Halfway Competent]

I don't pay enough attention to the sound of the space before I throw mics up and hit the red button (I mostly do location work). Bit me in the ass once... Recording this great singer in her bedroom (acoustics were actually quite decent), and upon listening back to the recording, found the vocal mic had this odd, high-pitched ringing noise in it. After scratching my head and going WTF, I stepped into the room and just stood there... And then I heard it. It was the lights on a dimmer... The filaments were all ringing. But several days later when we went to do a re-take of the vocals, she had new stresses in her life and fumbled all the takes. The take with the ring was the golden take. Good news is, it's a constant noise and so something like X-Noise might fix it up.

So, I guess the bad habit... I never sat still in the room long enough for my ears to adjust and really HEAR the room... Otherwise I'd have heard the lights singing. (Subsequent tracks recorded in that room did not have that problem. :D )

[burnthair donethat]

Problem - Watching the Waveforms, and listening to the audio.

Solution - Watching the Audio and Listening to the Waveforms

this is just fucking gold, man.