Recent content by Big Mike B

Last month I got myself a 14x8 Pearl free floating brass snare. Then began the hunt for the brightest snare head. Having read that free floaters love to ring, I started off with a Coated Powerstroke 77. Too dark. Also quite dead. Next I'm considering either Coated Ambassador, Coated Controlled...

A band that I play for has just recorded a new single (my first recording with them). They're happy with the mix and master, but I've been told to wait to get the ISRC to attach it the track. Does Reaper allow adding ISRCs to tracks? P.S. I'm relatively new to this all this metadata stuff, it's...

I don't know how many times I've been told not to mix on headphones because "they lie to you". Understandable, as hearing a sound coming directly from a source is different to hearing it in the context of a room. Here's the thing. I can in no way currently afford a set of professional mixing...

I've recently started a project which makes major use of MIDI programming (multichannel symphony stuff). One issue I keep having is that random notes are being sustained during playback and rendering (as if Reaper doesn't get the "Note Off" message). This only seems to happen for about 1/200...

This is probably a newbie question, and it's quite straightforward. I'm looking to invest in a pair of monitors for general mixing and mastering which won't cost too much (I'm not looking for high volume). When in the monitor specifications the frequency response is stated as 45Hz-22000Hz (as...

So I'm about to begin my first proper recording project (recording an entire band rather than just myself). I have the drums, bass and guitar recorded at a very decent quality. We plan to record the keys soon too. And of course there are the vocals. The issue is, I don't have a treated room. If...

Hi, me again. My Tascam US-1800 arrived today. Plugged it in, installed drivers and fired up Reaper. It's only allowing me to access two inputs (mic 1 and mic 2). How can I access the other (mic 2-6, line 9-10, etc. ) inputs in Reaper? I'm sure that there is a quick solution to this, just...

So I've started work on recording a Symphonic Prog Metal piece in REAPER but my work is grinding to a halt. Here's the problem: When I place a gradual tempo change in reaper I set the start place and tempo, and end place and tempo. When playing back through that fragment, the whole computer...

https://soundcloud.com/bigmikeb/song-10-mix-3/s-uZ3AO Any tips on how to improve the mixing and mastering of this particular piece?

Didn't know where exactly to post this so I put it here. My question is how can I get a bass tone similar to that of the more recent Metallica? I'm talking a distorted, low sounding, grinding bass like the one heard on Suicide & Redemption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyZ4Bt73mg One...

I'm working on recording drum in a very dry room with basically no sound reflections because the walls are filled with layers of books. This obviously gives a very dry and unnatural sound to the recorded drums. Anyone have any suggestions for a VST drum reverb plugin? I'm not looking to spend...

First of all, I hope that this is the right forum to post this. I'm looking to program a synth sound similar to the one that's heard on Dream Theater's "On The Backs Of Angels" (Well, I want something between the one that's heard at 1:00-1:28 and 2:58-3:12), with Jordan Rudess behind the...

So I spent a few hours today reading about 16 bit vs 24 bit and came to the conclusion (from what I understood) that 24 bit is just a greater dynamic range but larger file size, with the difference between 16 and 24 bit being 96 and 144 dB (48dB difference). So here's my question: To which part...

That's the EQ curve I get. Amped it by +36dB so that you could see what I'm getting. This seems to be much lower than what I was getting when I first posted this thread, but it's still audible and I have nothing connected to the mixer (no mics, all faders at -∞, EQ and FX all off). I don't hear...

I bought an ALTO ZMX 244 FX USB mixer and I have a problem. I'm getting a constant stream of noise, even with all the faders (channel, subgroup and master) down and all mic preamps at 0dB. The noise is only heard through my DAW (REAPER) but not through the headphones. I'm wondering whether it's...