Alpha Sonic Studio

I have a upcoming drum recording session for which I have to choose the drum mics. In particular the snare and tom mic choice is mostly dependend on how much the mic can suppress the cymbal bleed. Common knowledge is to choose a pickup pattern where the nulls match the bleed sources. Images in courtesy…

So Chalk played the Südsee Open Air recently. In addition to indulging in post hardcore riffs I took some photos of the performance. Check them out here. But first some BASS. Slap like now. I may have made a few more pictures of Lukas because I know him 😀 The performance was really energetic. Just…

Recently I visited an old abandoned “Kegelbahn” near Brunwick. It’s similar to a bowling alley but the lanes are smaller expanding to the nine pins. The bowling balls have no holes though. Anyway since the building is easily accessibly, I had a look inside. It looks like it’s been trashed in the past. The graffiti…

In my validation of the loadbox setup I used my mesa boogie single rectifier from the 90′ as a point of reference and discovered that the loadbox behaves very differently to the actual speaker. There’s a small Q boost at around 100Hz which the loadbox didn’t model properly and smaller differences in the mids and…

I have made some IRs from the vertical Mesa Boogie 2×12 with 16 Ohm V30 speakers with the method described here. TL;DR: The picture shows the microphone position relative to the speaker that were used. Additionally the positions were also recorded at an approx. 45° angle towards the centre. For the center mic that means…

The HX series of devices feature an IR Loader Block which can be used to apply convolution to your signal. Or – less boringly worded – simulate your mic’d guitar/bass cabinet sound. 🙂 In my other article I wrote about how the convolution program influences mostly the length and windowing of the IR. With that…