Help needed from audiophiles (and other music lovers)

[keith_h]

I occasionally play with a guy who has a B3 and Leslie. He always emphasizes that the B3 has wheels and the Leslie a cart. I always remind him that those don't help get them to the top of the stairs. 

[cozmik_cowboy]

Moving the B3 and Leslie was no fun!

Bill, tgo

I occasionally play with a guy who has a B3 and Leslie. He always emphasizes that the B3 has wheels and the Leslie a cart. I always remind him that those don't help get them to the top of the stairs. 

I crewed for one band that carried a piano; not a keyboard, a spinet piano.  Another carried a B3 & 2 Leslies, all in flight cases.  Both bands regularly played a club in the Chicago 'burbs with a 6' stage, a joint in Springfield, IL, that was on the second floor and required a load-in up the fire escape (and, conversely, a load-out down it), and a place in Campaign, also 2nd floor, where the freight elevator worked about one in every 4 times.  We considered the sound well worth the trouble.

Peter (who wonders if he's ever mentioned that he's had 2 back surgeries - so far)

[David Houck]

The Waves L2 is on sale now for $69, but I have seen it as cheap on sale for $29 on occasion. It actually takes all of 10 minutes to learn the basics of the plugin. That is if you have a DAW that you can use it on.

A few days ago I was watching an instructional video, which included among other things the Waves L2.  The DAW I'm using is Reaper.

[edwin]

There are a couple of benefits to using a good mastering engineer, the primary one is getting a pair of experienced ears on your recordings. It goes beyond application of a Waves L2 or equivalent (although I have to say I think the PSP Xenon is one hell of a limiter and it provides dither and Katz's K metering).

A good mastering engineer won't just put gloss on your tracks, they will also provide feedback and let you know what you can do to improve your mixes and recordings (mostly to put themselves out of work: a well recorded track needs next to no mastering).

A good mastering engineer will also have a very good room.

So, my suggestion is to book a session with a mastering engineer, bring your files and have them listen to them and give you feedback. Then, if they think they are good, do some work on them. By getting inside a session, the lessons learned will be extremely valuable in moving forward in creating your music.

Not sure what that has to do with a B3, but I hate moving those things too!

[David Houck]

Thanks Edwin!  As I don't yet have any finished tracks, I'll keep that in mind until I do.

I helped move a few B3's over the years.  Somehow they always seemed to involve stairs.

[gtrguy]

There is a wooden dolly specifically made for them. Most gigging players leave it attached. When I bought mine from a Baptist church, I got 4 friends to help me move the sucker (stairs too). I set it up on a big flat bit of cardboard so I can easily slide it around to where I can get to the back. I don't plan on hauling it around!

[cozmik_cowboy]

There is a wooden dolly specifically made for them. Most gigging players leave it attached. When I bought mine from a Baptist church, I got 4 friends to help me move the sucker (stairs too). I set it up on a big flat bit of cardboard so I can easily slide it around to where I can get to the back. I don't plan on hauling it around!

The aforementioned piano was on one of those dollies, and the flight cases had wheels.
Didn't help much on the stairs.......
(Well, the piano dolly did provide handles, so there's that.)

Peter (who will now cease derailing Dave's thread)