My favorites as of late have been Distortion and Compression. Both can be overdone, but I'm having amazing results running line-level signals into the mic input of this Shure M268 mic mixer (Find one cheap, yo only need 1 working input). Great for a drum or vocal subgroup to mix underneath the clean tracks.
With compression, it might just be the Tchad Blake influence. He almost never uses verb on anything, just creatively compressed room mics and distortion boxes. Google some interviews and be amazed.
Knowing how and when to you use compression and really learning attack and release times' effect on different types of sources is a tricky subject to learn, but goes miles soncially when you start to master it.
Mike Saw both San Diego Radiohead shows and was again humbled.
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With compression, it might just be the Tchad Blake influence. He almost never uses verb on anything, just creatively compressed room mics and distortion boxes. Google some interviews and be amazed.
Knowing how and when to you use compression and really learning attack and release times' effect on different types of sources is a tricky subject to learn, but goes miles soncially when you start to master it.
Mike
Saw both San Diego Radiohead shows and was again humbled.
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