Interesting experiment last night....

So I was browsing through youtube vids last night when I stumbled on a channel aimed at making really "vintage" sort of lo-fi style recordings. The guy was using an old pioneer sr101 tube reverb as a tube color stage without the reverb on before recording back to his daw. It sounded really cool, so I decided to pull out my old 70's JVC receiver. My JVC isn't tube, but I remember really liking the tone of that thing, especially with the cool slider eq's it has. I ran audio out of my Apollo into the aux in. Since there are no outs on the receiver besides the speaker connects, I used a trs to ts/ts insert cable, and ran the audio out of the headphone jack back into two heritage 1073 di's. After some experimenting with gain staging I was rather impressed with the JVC imparting it's tone and color onto my recording. Instead of my monitors sounding like my daw, they reminded me of listening to music through that old receiver. Looking at the audio in voxengo span showed a very sweet roll off of high end (even with the highs boosted on the JVC) from about 10k down. Very pleasant compared to the daw mix which rolled off closer to 20k. The JVC also added a really pleasant distortion when gain staged properly, and a crazy disgusting kind of cool overdrive when pushed really hard. I can't see myself using it that often, but for adding "analogue mojo" or "warmth", and all the other gearslutz buzzwords around here, the JVC got me pretty close to nailing some of those tones I know we all chase at some point while recording. I'll post some audio later when I get back to the studio, but I just wanted to share my experience while I had it in my head. Here's a link to the youtube channel that inspired me in case anyone is interested.



http://ift.tt/1MuySUw

Interesting experiment last night....