Hi again !
I misses depth and three dimensions in my recording. I can get two dimensions -
high and wide sounds - but its hard to get any kind of depth. My recorded guitar or vocals often sounds flat and lifeless. So I take the flat and lifeless
sounds (missing body) and put them in a room made up of a digital reverb. Its still flat and lifeless (without body) - but now in a "flat room" inside the
computer, in lack of a better explanation. This is difficult to describe. Shoulden`t it be possible to make the singers head bigger - like a real head was
singing to me, instead of this onedimensional voice? In my one work I misses instruments/voices that almost popps out of the speaker or that their in this nice ambient that glue it al together. And because I read to many magazines on sound and commersials, I`ve come to think; I got to buy better; converters, word clock, reverb, delays, mics, preamps etc. From your answers I understand this is a big topic.
1. Stereo recording (micking) 2. Better
converters 3. External word clock 4. Arrangement 5. Eq - panning -
masking 6. Room acoustics 7. Enough dsp power (freeze ableton)
1. Stereomicking. The
thing that got me wandering about recording and the lack of the third dimensions or depth, was that my liverecording with Edirol Field Recorder had a nice depth. A depth I often misses on my mac/motu recordings. The fieldrecorder has a stereomic and the recordings I make with it, has the sound of the liveroom. This recording technique is limiting - its just one track.Like Straschill
writes, maybe stereo micking can get me some of what I am missing.
2. Better converters - external word clock. I read inBehind the Glass II - Howard Massey, that top producers uses a external word clock (Ricard Sales also). Many uses Apogee Big
Ben, even Pro Tools users. This opens the mix and makes depth. Whats this?
If one is using just one interface, is there a benefit of using external word clock or this a thing for studios with many interfaces and hardware units?
The latest Apogee 16x AD/DA interface has Big Ben word clock
build in. I am thinking - maybe buying Apogee 16x AD/DA would get me what I misses, greate converters and Big Ben word clock and open mixes with depth? Any thoughts?
Sales, your not happy with Apogee, are you refering to Apogee 16x AD/DA or earlier models? I read greate things about Apogee, but I will check out Lynx, like you recommanded.
A silly question? When Big Ben is intergratet in Apogee 16x, is this a word clock
good enough, or is external the key thing? Is the important thing a great word clock, or is external important?
7. Freeze functions - Ableton (enough power for plugins - making depth). Boysen, is it possible to use freeze functions even when rendering the final
mix? I have to admit - I have come to think I need to buy better reverb unit then oxford plugins, maybe the tc 6000. Any thoughts?
best regards Rune F. | 
