Editing Instruments

The editing process involved mostly outboard equipment, for the kick we used the Focusrite gate with the TFpro P38 compressor set to mimic the 1176 vintage compressor having a ratio of 4 to 1 with a fast attack and a short release time to create a pulsating effect.

              The snare has the same treatment applied to in but instead of the 1176 we used the Focusrite compressor with a slightly higher ration and threshold, also the release time is higher to capture the ringing of the snare and the makeup gain is boosted to about +6dB. 

               Both of them are being daisy chained and used as an insert. I used the MPX 1 set to be on the first aux of the desk where I send the snare and then I experimented with the electric guitar. The MPX was straightforward in terms of settings, I gave it a short pre delay with a reverb tail of around 0.7 sec and the dry/wet mix set a around 36% gave it the boost needed to fit in the mix.

The connection was in mono for the MPX1 effects unit but a good gain structure was achieved.

                 Everything was rerecorded a couple of times at different gain level and with different setting in order to have spear takes. Unfortunately, I had a surprise and my booking was cut in half and also the room was different and I had plenty on background noise and I could not do much having only 4 hours at my disposal with the working guys breaking bricks on the next floor.