recording moogers (preamp?)

Duke Foog · Post by **Duke Foog** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:52 pm

I'm a guitarist so my experience is with miking cabinets and experimenting with microphones and preamps to get good sounds. what about foogers. are there good preamps for recording synthy stuff with lots of lows and high frequencies? would you mic a speaker? or go direct into a preamp?

any help here is greatly appreciated.

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:21 am

Depending on what im using my Ring Mod with, I woudl usually leave it at the end of the chain and run it into the DIgital recorder that way.

Normally I would use it for the Rhodes, but if i wanted a little delay or reverb I would run it into this little bass amp that i have and then straight into the multitracker. I usually keep my audio in the headphones and the only time i really use a mic is for either vocals or recording percussion.

THe only time My Ring Mod is not at the end of the chain is if its going into the voyager prior to going straight into the recorder.

Duke Foog · Post by **Duke Foog** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:52 am

hey thanks for the reply man.

yeah, this is what i'm doing already also. but i'm wondering if there are other ways. i'm wondering what the big recording studios use. are there any good line level analog or tube preamps that can warm up the sound a bit before it goes digital. not that these things are not warm already but i know i've heard recordings of phat synths that are warm and transparent. i don't think this can be totallly in post production.

lg · Post by lg » Fri May 12, 2006 1:01 pm

Duke Foog wrote:hey thanks for the reply man.

yeah, this is what i'm doing already also. but i'm wondering if there are other ways. i'm wondering what the big recording studios use. are there any good line level analog or tube preamps that can warm up the sound a bit before it goes digital. not that these things are not warm already but i know i've heard recordings of phat synths that are warm and transparent. i don't think this can be totallly in post production.

i've been really happy the few times i've run my mf's straight into a summit audio 2ba-221 mic pre. it has a fairly flexible signal path for a box in its price range ($550 street)...normally, though, since i play in an ensemble situation most of the time, we tend to prefer to mike cabs.

http://emusician.com/mag/quickpick/emus ... index.html

Duke Foog · Post by **Duke Foog** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:48 pm

thanks man i'll check out the summit audio. sounds cool. I'm looking at the Universal Audio 610 pre. sounds promising but it's friggin pricey.

hieronymous · Post by **hieronymous** » Fri May 12, 2006 2:16 pm

I use an Alembic F2-B bass preamp. I'm mainly a bassist, but I've used it to record my Rogue as well. My favorite thing about it is that it has two channels, so I can record separate tracks and EQ and process them differently.

lg · Post by lg » Sat May 13, 2006 5:43 am

Duke Foog wrote:thanks man i'll check out the summit audio. sounds cool. I'm looking at the Universal Audio 610 pre. sounds promising but it's friggin pricey.

UA makes great stuff. i don't think you'd go wrong there. which one are you looking at, the 2-610 or the solo 610? i guess there's an LA-610 channel strip too, which has gotten some pretty nice reviews.

Duke Foog · Post by **Duke Foog** » Sun May 14, 2006 6:19 pm

I'd love the 2-610 cause i always use these foogers in stereo. These things are just so darn expensive. I was talking to a sound engineer friend of mine on the weekend and he mentioned that using a good compressor might get me better results right now

lg · Post by lg » Mon May 15, 2006 10:14 pm

Duke Foog wrote:I'd love the 2-610 cause i always use these foogers in stereo. These things are just so darn expensive. I was talking to a sound engineer friend of mine on the weekend and he mentioned that using a good compressor might get me better results right now

i picked up a couple of those FMR RNC1773 "Really Nice Compressor" units built into a funklogic single-space rack setup a while back. for the price (about $400 street) you get two really nice true stereo compressors (four channels) in one rack space. with this setup you could squash your foogers in stereo (although you need to put the compressors in your board's insert path) plus have two additional channels of compression for other goodies (like snare & kick, or snare & bass, or...). they also have a sidechain input for de-essing & stuff like that. and if you don't put it in a rack, one RNC makes a pretty nice paperweight...

http://www.fmraudio.com/productspage.htm

http://www.funklogic.com/