Focusrite

I think that's one word, but it doesn't matter.

Anyway, we're using Shure microphones and a Focusrite audio interface that routes all the sound directly into our computers.

These are microphones that are... specifically made to filter out any noise from any distance.

You have to write up on these things for you to hear anything.

Or a

Focusrite would solve that.

Yeah, that's right.

So, yeah, you could do it.

What are you recording through? Just Ableton.

Just Ableton? Are you going through what are your preamps? Just the Focusrite.

Just Focusrite? Just Focusrite

preamps.

But I'm doing a lot of mixing through like the the universal audio plug-in suite is awesome so they have like an ssl like um what do you call it like a like sort of a preamp little module thing and what i'll generally do is record pretty light through the actual preamp and the focus right so the signal's not Not even close to being hot.

And then I'll drive it with this plugin to sort of saturate it and color it a little bit.

And I find for vocals, that's really nice.

Because, yeah, the saturation that you're going to get out of distorting a Focusrite plugin is not nice.

If you're using a USB mic or something that just has one input, you don't really ever have to do that because you plug it in and there's only one input or it's just a microphone, so you just can start recording.

But with something like this, you usually have to tell it, you know, I'm using a Focusrite Scarlett.

So if I press I, it tells you that I'm using Input 1, but I can double press I.

And then I can go down to Input and I can switch this to Input 2, 3,

I'm sitting in a little house on Cape Clear Island, off the coast of West Cork, Ireland.

In front of me is my laptop connected to my Focusrite audio interface.

My microphone is balanced rather creatively on top of a large stainless steel coffee thermos.

Not exactly Abbey Road Studios, is it? But that's the beauty of it.

I hope not because that means this thing is working, but I do have a new digital audio station.

For those who actually understand podcasting, I used to run my audio through something called a Focusrite.

Focusrite is kind of like the OG thing that even bands would use and such.

And I decided to try something new.

So we'll see.

I've had that recorder for eight years.

and now I have joined the 21st century on a new Focusrite on a device to go directly into my laptop and I have to be fair already even in the recording noticing a big difference in the record quality and I just have a little bit more wiggle room to play with a little bit more protection for recording and it's very interesting recording directly into the laptop and not into an outer source That might not be noticeable to you.

If anything, I hope it's noticeable as an improvement.

But that's just why I'm feeling a little bit giddy today, a little bit excited because I have a new toy.