Recent content by Chibi Nappa

I'd like some ears on this one. My monitoring situation has changed greatly in the past few weeks and this recording is the first since the shake-up. Adding to that I tried some things I've never done before like overdubbing a second snare performance instead of regular sample replacement. So...

I've never used tuning software so I have no idea. But I've been doing some thought experiments and there are some things I want to try. So...Can Autotune (or any tuning software) take a guide signal and match a track exactly to the pitch of the guide? For example: You record a clarinet...

I got myself into a bit of a situation. Wondering if anybody else runs into the same thing. With instant mix recalls and saved scenes, it is really easy to find yourself building a mix as you go...especially when working around the schedule of an amateur band that might lay down some tracks...

I've been sitting on this one for like, two years. Snowed in today, so I gave it a visit. I continue to have difficulty producing my own songs (and my wife's vocals) but I think this one came out alright. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3423276/WIllI.mp3

I hope this is the right forum for this... Help. My latest CD purchase put me over the edge. I just can't do it anymore. Unfortunately, I have no frame of reference to sort out crap turntables from good ones from total overkill. So what would go with: Decent-ish Sony 80's era 2-channel...

One of my buddies invited me over for some jazz fusion last night. They played, I recorded. I kept the set up as simple as possible so they could get right to the playing. Anyway, it was improvisation for 2 hours with only one or two breaks in the music. Here's a snippet or two...

I almost always do productions for other people's songs. Well, now one of my own (sorta') is underway. My wife wrote the vocals and melody, I filled in the rest. Anyway, I'm psyched to be working on Speedgoat again. That's us. I defy anybody to come up with a better band name. Speedgoat...

Here is the gist of this whole thing: In evolutionary terms, we need our eyes way more than we need our ears. Our brains are wired to favor our eyes. If we get conflicting information from our eyes and our ears, we believe our eyes. I started out with this whole music thing in the late...

Any ideas? A song is calling for the distinct sound of a 2 inch tape machine stopping. You know... Everything slows and drops in pitch really quickly. I don't have a tape machine. Need to do it some other way.

Anybody out there willing to autotune a lead vocal and a background vocal? I'll paypal you or trade you an audio-favor. I have the vocal tracks uploaded here (44.1 24bit wav) along with an MP3 of the full song: edit: nevermind, I found a local guy.

I need to expand my drum sample library. Right now my only samples are in an Alesis DM5. I don't want to spend the type of money I'd need for another hardware drum unit. So.... #1 - what is a good drum sample library for the PC? I'm not looking for loops, just individual drum...

After taking most of the summer off to mix live sound, I picked up a recording project towards the end of the summer. It felt good to get back in the studio. Anyway, the band is called Dead Loretta and this is the first final mix for their 3 song demo. We put a good amount of work into this...

If you suck, at least be loud and kick some ass (reviving highschool "oldies") I posted some songs from this project earlier, and here's another one. Now that I have recording skills that I didn't have 10 years ago, I got the front man of my old highschool band to collaborate on a recording...

Here's the deal with these songs: A highschool buddy and former band-mate of mine is moving in a few months. I realized that none of our old highschool songs were recorded (with any type of listenable quality anyway). So I decided that these songs that have laid dead for the past 10 years had...

Here's the deal. I have a PC where I store all of my finished mixes as well as my music collection in uncompressed wav format. It is connected to my hi-fi system. Right now it has the factory default soundcard. What is a good soundcard stereo music playback? I do all of my recording...