PLX wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 5:05 am
This sounds damn good
Funny that you did this because Ossie Ahsen said
the exact same thing in his video last Sunday..
He doubts the JBL D-120s were used to record VH1
He thinks it was merely mic placement (2 mics, specifically). Pretty much exactly what you have demonstrated here.
There's so much internet BS out there.
I can think of a few misleading internet episodes; even just about which speakers Ed used:
1. "Ed says he loves Greenbacks"
2. The release of the RWTD snippets (one labeled "JBL" the other "Celestion")
Those two right there threw me off for a decade plus.
Here's some more: Metroamp forum was the genesis of the RWTD snippets (prolly Friedman). Then people were analyzing them and saying if you blended both of them, there's the tone. So, let's whip out our JBL and Greenback speaker iRs and blend them together..
Even Brian Kehew (he's a guitar player, producer, etc, studio rat and has worked with the VH Master tapes via Warner Bros) was (and may still be) on the JBL speaker "tip"; specifically that the JBL is what imparts that unique top end. He's said as much in the Sunset Sound YouTube vids. But you know (I can verify 100% because I remember him well from Metro forum when he made a brief appearance but left undoubtedly due to the jagoffs at that place) he was reading forums too.
Ultimately, in the end you gotta use your ears. I A/B'd the JBL iR back and forth with the supposed "JBL" RWTD snippet and the JBL has very honky upper mids whereas the "JBL" RWTD snippet does not. The "JBL" RWTD snippet really (if you throw away what you've read and all presumptions and just use your ear) - sounds like a brighter mic placement of the Blackback.
So anyways back to when I had the "a ha" moment: after A/B'ing JBL iR with "JBL" snippet back and forth and thinking, "that ain't it; no way"... I kept the Blackback ("dark") iR that I already had and went to my Blackback folder (York Audio) and flipped through a few until I found a brighter one and added it. Voila. Afterwards for fine tuning I turned down the "dark" iR maybe -6dBs. So those two combined.
Forum suggestion is very powerful indeed. Forum lies are even worse.
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