Amazing Album Recorded & Mixed in Vegas

RobSoul wrote on 11/28/2001, 9:34 AM
Hi!

You've got to check out Debra Soule's new album called "Vapor" if you get a chance. It's on Sunhill Records. It was recorded here at Hypersound (St. Paul, MN) and mixed by Rip Rowan at Square WAV (Dallas, TX) ALL IN VEGAS 2. And it sounds amazing! (It was mastered by Bernie Grundman - Hollywood.)

Check out Debra's site - http://www.debrasoule.com - for music clips. Let me know what you think!

Rob Solberg
Hypersound Music

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jmpatrick wrote on 11/28/2001, 9:44 AM
Sounds good. Was it recorded 24/96? How many tracks were used? Plug-ins? What was the computer setup like? What about soundcard? I think we're all striving for recordings that are that clean...so some background on the process would be most appreciated!

jp


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RobSoul wrote on 11/28/2001, 10:15 AM
It was tracked at 24-bits, 44.1kHz on a Pentium III 800 MHz system with 512MB of RAM custom-built by Jim Roseberry of studiocat.com.

Vocals were cut with a Neumann U67, Presonus MP20 Pre-amp, RNC 1773 compressor, Swissonic AD24 convertor, and into the Dakota soundcard at 24-bits via lightpipe. Same basic signal path for guitars and bass - though with different mics...an E-200 and KSM-32 on acoustic guitars, SM-58 for electric, direct for the bass.

The drums were the only instrument not tracked digitally. They were recorded to a 2" 16-track analog deck and then flown directly into Vegas for mixing.

I only tracked it here. I also played and co-wrote much of the album so I didn't feel I was objective enough to mix it myself, too. I wanted a fresh pair of ears at that point. There's an awful lot of really cool and intricate production going on - thanks to ace Producer Chris Bintliff - so some of the tunes got up around 60 tracks or so.

It was mixed by Rip so I'm not sure exactly what he used on the mix. I know that the plug-ins included lots of Waves and Sonic Foundry stuff.

Hope that helps?
Rob
Zar wrote on 11/28/2001, 3:14 PM
Sounds great! In fact, so good I went and ordered the album. ;-)

Two things though: the free "Amen" track has a glitch at about the 38 second mark. I didn't try the low bitrate version (since I ordered the CD anyhow), but you might want to check that out.

Second, I presume you meant "Vegas Audio", right? It's easy to forget there are two distinct "Vegas" products, even though they have cross-over features.

thanks!
bruce
RobSoul wrote on 11/28/2001, 4:20 PM
Cool. Thanks for the order. You're going to love the album - even if it's just for the cool production elements.

Thanks for the tip on the "Amen" file. I'll check that out!

And actually, I tracked everything in Vegas Video 2.0g. But, of course, I only used the audio!

Rob
yirm wrote on 11/28/2001, 4:51 PM
As far as I know the overlap is that Vegas Video contains all the features of Vegas Audio plus the video features. VA3 will have more audio features than VV3 currently does, but a patch will bring VV3 to par with VA3's audio features.

-Jeremy
PipelineAudio wrote on 11/28/2001, 6:14 PM
Pretty friggin good!
VU-1 wrote on 11/28/2001, 6:40 PM
For those of us who don't have sound on their internet connect computer, is there a downloadable wav or mp3 file or something so we can check it out too???

Thanks.
JL
OTR
decrink wrote on 11/28/2001, 7:35 PM
Lots of nice stylistic variations as well as great sound. Great effects on her vocals to give her a variety of tonality. Lots of soule!
yirm wrote on 11/28/2001, 10:10 PM
Not really my style of music, but it does sound fantastic. I'm very impressed.

-Jeremy
theron3 wrote on 11/28/2001, 11:36 PM
I'm in the subs of the T cities. Do you work with small time people? I think I need some studio help.

Theron.


RobSoul wrote on 11/29/2001, 9:20 AM
You can download an MP3 of one of her songs from this website. On the bottom of the front page just click on "Free download of "Amen".

http://www.debrasoule.com

And thanks to everyone for your kind comments. It's nice, after working so long on a project and not having any sense of objectivity, to get some feedback from people...especially the people here in this NG!

Rob
jmpatrick wrote on 11/29/2001, 9:47 AM
That definitely helps! It's quite inspirational to hear the quality that can be achieved using the same basic tools many of us already have. Thanks alot, and congratulations.

jp

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rrowan wrote on 11/29/2001, 5:46 PM
It was mixed on my Roll Your Own Thunderbird machine in Vegas Video 2.0g. Plugins include the Waves Native Gold suite, Waves Renaissance Reverb, Cakewalk Amp Sim, Cakewalk FX3 SoundStage, Ultrafunk suite, Hyperprism suite, fxpansion suite, DSP-FX suite, and Sonic Foundry plugs.

I needed all the power I could get because most of these mixes were 40-60 track extravaganzas, and by the time you start throwing around dozens of plugins and lots of streaming disk tracks, you're neck-deep in CPU cycles.

If you aren't averse to building your own PC, the Roll Your Own T-bird machine costs about $1600 nicely loadded and it is a great way to get more power on a budget. It supports almost exactly twice the plug-in load as my 800 MHz Pentium DAW. And it screams at realtime video rendering, almost exactly twice the max frame rate. You can find out more about it, including detailed step-by-step assembly instructions, at:
http://www.prorec.com

Rip Rowan
ProRec.com
rrowan wrote on 11/29/2001, 5:48 PM
It was mixed in Vegas Video 2.0g as well.

Rip Rowan
ProRec.com
RobSoul wrote on 11/29/2001, 9:39 PM
You run prorec.com? I LOVE that site! :-)

Rob