Just wondering how you guys are recording your LP sounds into your daw, you setting up stereo tracks? i can’t help but think it doesn’t sound Phat enough and am considering selling it and buying the voyager. Any tips appreciated
If the LP does’nt sound phat enough to you when recording, I suspect the Voyager won’t sound any fatter. The LP is crazy fat, huge basses. It sounds like however you have it setup is hindering the sound, not the intstrument itself.
Though I’m not saying don’t buy a Voyager.. there awesome, I recommend having both.
How are you setting yours up? I simply run mine in through a audio cable into my fast track pro, hooked up to Ableton. Sounds phat as hell.
Edit : I don’t settup stereo tracks either. Depending on what path your using or what sounds ur making, it can be phat as hell.. if you wanna go bigger and the overdrive does’nt do it for you.. you could always try stereo, or have a splitter vst or something (I use ableton, so i just go by all the crazy vst’s it comes w..)
Curious though, are you mastering your tracks yourself? Are you looking at how phat it is by itself, or how its sitting with a track? EQ and Compression goes a long way in getting the sound you want too. But the LP and Voyager both on their own are crazy phat. I’d even stick my neck out to go as far to say I feel my LP is a tad phatter than my RME.
I record my LP mono into Ableton Live, and then I often throw a stereo delay on it. Stereo doesn’t automatically make things phatter, in fact I often find I get a phatter mix if, after I think I have everything dialed in, I turn off all the effects on everything and listed to the whole mix totally dry. Then dial stuff in… it will gel and slam a lot better… then bring your effects back in to taste. Usually takes less fx than I thought I needed the first time. ![]()
You want the LP to sound phat, give it room in the mix, record it well, and turn it up. Phat city.
Before you get a Voyager (not that they aren’t awesome), might want to look at your audio interface. What are you recording with? Good A/D converters can make a huge difference - every sound source you have will sound better.
I run my LP into a Mackie 1202-VLZ3, make sends for it and go out to a EHX Memory Boy into a MF-101 (lol overkill), and another send goes to a FMR RNLA for some more color/compression.
I mix those around until I have a good flavor, but most of the signal is dry, fx are only maybe 15-25% mixed in.
If the LP doesn’t sound huge, my guess is that your mix is too busy. The trick behind huge bass (if that is the phat you desire) is usually more simple mixes, and careful eq’ing. You can’t have 60 tracks and expect one instrument to jump out. Look at drum n’ bass… it’s usually a fairly thin kick, with lots of attack, a heavy snare, and some hipassed loops. a few samples and high pitched synths… the rest is some nasty MS-20-type sass whipping your a$$.
Less is more with this kind of stuff.
not phat enough? my fetty is on diet ![]()
edit:
what kind of a music do you play ?