JodyBigfoot
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I am currently in the process of recording my first bunch of finished LSDJ songs to the computer. I am recording them track by track all hard panned to the Left. Once inside Logic I am using the Gain plug-in to invert the right channel and make the track mono, this cancels all noise out from the recording as a pissbox does and allows me to EQ each layer of music separately, and add reverb/delay to four different tracks rather than my previous restriction of 2 tracks.

Anyway I had two questions i'd like to see what the community thinks about recording and mastering at this level, and also possibly adding drums to the logic project from a place that isn't a DMG, do people think its a cool idea to get a higher quality sound at the end of things, or are there purists who think straying too far from a DMG is not what they are about, obviously everyone has a right to an opinion on how they think something should be done, and no one has a right o dictate how someone else does something but I'm just simply curious about peoples thoughts, cos I've been thinking a lot about it myself.

second question is, has anyone done production like this before? any tips?

peace

egr
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It's funny that you ask because the pissbox was inspired by a thread from EvilWezil on doing the exact recording process you're describing:  http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6976/ … inversion/

I made the pissbox to do the inversion in realtime and to save a step in the recording process.  Also for performance but that has turned out to not be an issue now that I've got several shows under my belt.

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e.s.c.
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and honestly, the noise reduction built into audacity sort of works the same way on stereo recordings, you just need a little lead-in/lead-out of what is supposed to be silent (but is really just any noise youd be getting on the recording from the device/cable/imperfections in your soundcard)

JodyBigfoot
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interesting!

SketchMan3
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Just do whatever tf you want. "Higher quality" is subjective.

For example, reverb on chippytunes generally makes me wan to barf (especially when it's done in a DAW like flstudio and stuff) but some people love it. Just do whatever sounds cool to you.

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Yea verb is highly subjective.. i like a little slap just to give a sense of space. Noise reduction tends to give too many artifacts for my taste, im happy with a simple noise gate and let the mix bury any noise.

SketchMan3
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i've found the default setting on audacity to be sufficient without having any glaring artifacts. If i run it multiple times instead of adjusting the settings it removes as much noise as i want without it sounding like it's underwater.

Last edited by SketchMan3 (Feb 6, 2015 5:33 pm)

JodyBigfoot
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yeah its interesting what I'm doing with chiptune because the whole point is reverb and delay, i'm learning how to make it work at the minute, but its with a physcial analogue reverb, through and actual spring.
Someone said to me in another thread Disrupts reggae riddim album made on a gameboy was too simple and LSDJ tecniques were not good enough giving a very simple sound, but that is kind of exactly what reggae riddim is about is simplicity nailed, with good bass and good lead and good delay/reverb.

Also in regards to audacity the reason i do it this way is for mixing and mastering - it's just a little better to do in logic with the mixer and the buses etc

e.s.c.
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you do realize you can export as wav from audacity and import into logic for multi-tracking and mastering, right?

JodyBigfoot
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yeah of course maybe just lazy, i'll try tomorrow and compare the results