Yeah that’s pretty much what I’m planning on doing with mine. Me and my girlfriend have been going on walks at the park a lot lately and there’s tons of lovely bird calls and ambience. Also might use it for random talking or sometimes I have music ideas in the car etc.
Actually the main thing that got me thinking about getting a recorder was that I’ve been listening to a ton of gnawa music lately and I started hearing krakeb esque rhythms all over the place (insert psychosis meme here) and would love to record some.
The H6 does have some weight though. This is better than just holding it with my hand.
I guess the logical next step would be to get a shotgun mic and mount that to the pistol grip with the H6 in a shoulder bag. Should get a remote control for that too.
I need some tips on stereo (not sure exactly how to word it). I’m working on the hi hats for a tune and I kind of want the hats to feel like they’re really surrounding you, and my first idea was to split the signal into three, then have the audio of 2 coming from one side, and the third coming from the other, then mix them back together.
It’s OK, but not quite what I’m going for. Anyone got any tricks?
I guess maybe doing the same thing but having them on separate tracks rather than just splitting the original signal might help.
Well, I use Klevgrand plugins. So I would use Pana, and Squashit. Squashit is a low/mid/high multiband distortion, but i use it for saturation frequently; on really low settings. Pana does correlation and all sorts of neat stuff with autopanning. Or I would use Shade. or the Logic Autofilter. There is a preset in there forever that does almost the exact effect you seem to describe.
Another way to do it would be to bounce the hats as a single waveform, but then stick it into something like logic Drum Machine Designer. that way you would end up with a sampler instance for eaCh slice and a midi file to trigger the getup.
If you are lucky and have Fabfilter ProMB or something similar… you could just set three bands that way, and set different compression settings to get some movement. i would not split it into 3 channels. you could even use a modulator like an enveloper/lfo tool too. X # additional channels is a resource waste. That’s if you really like the samples you are going to use. Otherwise I would just do it from midi to start with.
You have to treat them separately to create a difference in the stereo field, if you are just panning the same signal to the left and the right on additional channels it’s only adding volume. if you nudge the left or right side(s) slightly forward or back in time so they’re just a little out of sync you will get a very noticeable stereo width. you can also apply basically any processing that will change one in comparison with the other. if you have stereo imaging/widening plugins you can try that although that will only work if the signal already has some stereo difference and isn’t just a mono hi hat track. probably the most common way to give hats more width is to just use a chorus or flanger or something though. hope I’m understanding what you’re going for correctly
This will most probably fuck with mono compatibility though. I’d recommend using a couple different hihats panned max 10-15 L or R going a bit back and forth. A reverb on a send is good for widening too, especially if you do the previously mentioned panning stuff pre verb. A really fast rate Pancake treatment (by Cableguys, free) can work too, but might not work for what you want, kinda a different stereo effect. Easy to overdo it.
