Recorded a nice beat with LXR just got it running yesterday

owensands

Just a little excerpt of what this beast can do. Tracked into burl mothership through a stereo pair of great river pre amps using external ins from analog 4 for some FX. Overdubed about 8 tracks here into ableton. Quickly mixed down with a smart research buss compresser into dangerous bax EQ itb hit with sonnox inflator.

#TECHNO! 

LOVING THIS THING!!!! Thanks Julian!!!

djversus01

Sounds brilliant!

 

I'm currently looking into building some preamps and just out of curiosity how do you deal with gain staging when running a drum machine through a preamp. I've only ever used preamps with mic's not line level sources. Thanks!

rudeog

Nice! Did you add the delay or is that LXR?

erwanone

thats great! Good techno all over your soundcloud thanks for the share.

owensands

Sounds brilliant!

 

I'm currently looking into building some preamps and just out of curiosity how do you deal with gain staging when running a drum machine through a preamp. I've only ever used preamps with mic's not line level sources. Thanks!

I run the LXR into my mackie onyx line ins first and then the the main outs go into the DI of the great river 500 preamps. So I can attenuate if need be from the master fader. This way when I overdub all my hardware that is connected to the mixer they all go through the pres. :-) I used to record line level for years. Then I tried sending all synths through a nice DI/mic pre. It's a nicer tone depending on the pres you use.

 

owensands

Nice! Did you add the delay or is that LXR?

The delay is from the analog 4 using its external inputs. I have the alternate outs on my mackie board piped into the analog 4 so for any channel on the board I can hit the alt 3/4 out and then the sound gets routed to my A4 and back into the board. Its like having another outboard FX processor, and I find the FX on the a4 to be pretty nice.

owensands

Thanks man

thats great! Good techno all over your soundcloud thanks for the share.

djversus01

Sounds brilliant!

 

I'm currently looking into building some preamps and just out of curiosity how do you deal with gain staging when running a drum machine through a preamp. I've only ever used preamps with mic's not line level sources. Thanks!

I run the LXR into my mackie onyx line ins first and then the the main outs go into the DI of the great river 500 preamps. So I can attenuate if need be from the master fader. This way when I overdub all my hardware that is connected to the mixer they all go through the pres. :-) I used to record line level for years. Then I tried sending all synths through a nice DI/mic pre. It's a nicer tone depending on the pres you use.

 

Thanks for the info! So in this case you are more using the great river as DI not necessarily to amplify the signal? I only ask because in addition to the di part some preamps impart their tone when adding a fair bit of gain, which you couldn't really do with the lxr without attenuating beforehand like you are with the master fader on the onyx.

owensands

Yep and this is why I like to attenuate before it because I am using the gain on the great rivers. About 20-25db in fact and I also change the impedance and load settings as well for different tones(as well as soft clipping the inputs, the great river has excellent metering on the front). The great river pres have a real nice DI and actually use the same signal path as the mic pre section. A lot of DI's on mic pres do not do this and actually have a different signal path then what the mic pre section has(its usually a different input section and output sections are the same). You would normally want a separate DI box and then go into a mic pre of your choice when tracking but since the Great river had the DI with the same signal path I opted for them to kill two birds with one stone. And they sound amazing. And they are also amazing vocal mic pres. Hope that helps. 

Tebbes

Cool track! I'll have to check out those pre's