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GEAR NO ENGINEER SHOULD BE WITHOUT PRO AUDIO Gear for the Working Ear: Five Tools Every Engineer Needs Who knows how it happened? Maybe the band chose you to record their DIY releases. Maybe you’ve been sketching demos out your whole life. Maybe you inherited a panoply of gear from your quirky uncle Alfred. Whatever the case, you’ve already got the bases covered (the interface, the computer, the midi-controller, etc.), but now you’ve got a real problem: you’ve been bitten by the bug—the engineering bug. You want to improve your skill set and your efficiency. Youneed to procure a tight ecosystem of gear that’ll get you from point A to point B as expeditiously as possible. You feel this deeply, in your bones, and the question quickly becomes, “What do I buy next?” Arranged into five categories, here are some basic tools no engineer should ever forego. A Workhorse Microphone Think about supplementing your main excellent EQs, dynamite compressors, suit- 1 If you’re going to be recording monitors with a pair of Auratone 5Cs or able limiters, and comprehensive metering anything in your studio—anything a single 5C Super Sound Cube for mono- sections, the latter being especially important at all from drums to guitars, checks, because if they’re good enough for for expediting mixes. from vocals to the sound of your Quincy Jones, they’re good enough for you. The common consensus on the metering radiator rattling (sound design!)— within most DAWs is that it leaves much to be you’ll need a microphone you can Diagnostic Tools desired. The same goes for stock plug-ins: count on, one that’ll work when 3 There is one absolute some are loved, but most are commonly re- everything else fails, be it aurally or law of every studio situation, viled. These plug-ins, however, are vouched for. mechanically. For many engineers, and that law is Murphy’s that mic has always been the Shure SM57- Law: anything that can Stuff You Already Own LC, which in addition to working on guitars, go wrong will go wrong— You’re not going to find any links to drums, and even vocals, also makes a pretty 5 usually when you’ve got a gear pieces or landing pages here, because good paperweight and decent hammer. deadline. In these situations, chances are you already own a ton of stuff you Seriously, you can use this mic on anything. you need to get granular and you need to act didn’t know you could use. Case in point— fast. This is where equipment such as cable room treatment: bookshelves make excellent Alternative Monitoring Options testers come in handy. diffusers, as the porously-paged books lining 2 By now you have a fair idea of how your If you’ve got a million cables set up but no them differ randomly in width, length, and usual monitors sound, and yet your mixes sound coming out whatsoever, you need to height. Those extra carpets you’ve got lying never feel right when you give them a listen at know which cable is causing the headache. around—why not line every inch of the floor a friend’s place or in your car. Why is this? Two For this task, check out the Kopul CBT-12 - 12- with them? You can get quite creative with reasons: the sonic signature of your room, in-1 Cable Tester, one solid-metal unit which this. When I was a wee lad, I stacked all which might influence what you’re hearing for can test twelve different cable connections. my unused clothing in the corners because the worse, and your speakers themselves, to I couldn’t afford bass traps. Were they a which you’ve become inured over time. Software perfect solution? No! Of course not! But they Look, you’ll have to address your room 4 Chances did reduce unwanted bass-bloom enough to somehow. You’ll have to treat it, or you’ll are your DAW allow me to judge what I was hearing. have to learn its deficiencies so deeply that came with Besides your own two ears, the best thing you you can overcome them; most likely it’ll be some stock already own is your entire music collection. a combination of both. In the meantime, plug-ins and, The tunes you know are the most important alternative monitoring options will do wonders yes, some tools in furthering your workflow. How? They for your workflow: if the drums sound great on of them are become your references: if you need your your speakers, a secondary speaker system, quite good. snare to sound like Dave Grohl’s, then you and three sets of headphones, chances are While pros should probably slap on Nevermind or In they sound great—period. such as Dave Pensado and Jaycen Joshua Utero and tweak your snare till it competes. can get titanic tones out of the stockiest soft- Put on your favorite record. Does it sound ware, it can take years of ear-training to coax like it did when you were a kid? No? Then beautiful sounds out of middling algorithms. you know you’ve got more work to do on In the meantime, check out Izotope Alloy 2 or your room. Conversely, listen to your favorite IK Multimedia T-Racks CS—affordable soft- record through a new pair of monitors. ware bundles publicly praised by engineers Can you hear more details than you ever like Pensado (in the case of Izotope) and Dave remembered? Then maybe those new Kutch (in the case of T-RackS). Both feature speakers will provide a useful perspective. www.BandH.com 271 PRO AUDIO LARGE DIAPHRAGM CONDENSER MICROPHONES Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphones A go-to mic choice for tracking vocals, voice overs, string instruments such as acoustic guitars and violins, percussion, and more, B&H carries a wide variety of large diaphragm condensers to suit a variety of needs and budgets. Available selections provide polar patterns ranging from supercardioid (very narrow pick up path) to omnidirectional (360 degree pick up), while many can handle SPL levels as high as 150dB for use on louder sound sources.