Recent content by Irk

If I have music recorded to a cassette 4-track, and have more than one instrument committed to each track, would a professional mixerperson be of any advantage due to the instruments not being on their own tracks, or could they do anything to help? If so, what? If not, why? Should I just have...

Can phase problems/issues occur in doubling a part on two seperate tracks? And, Let's say An electronic drumset was recorded direct while it was also being amplified for the performers to hear aloud while a condenser mic was set up to get an acoustic intrument but was picking up the amped drums...

Basically what I want to know is Can I purchase A compressor and see/hear results with just getting the unit (200 or less) and could I simply hook it to my cheap little behringer mixer and cassette 4-track or digital 8-track? Just the unit with nothing else? Hear results? Waste of time...

HEY, So you can export your tracks from the Tascam DP-01 to the computer. I don't have a computer. I usually take the machine to a friend's place and export shit through his computer. My question is this: Can tracks be exported to a jump drive and then to a computer so I don't have to drag...

HEY, So you can export your tracks from the Tascam DP-01 to the computer. I don't have a computer. I usually take the machine to a friend's place and export shit through his computer. My question is this: Can tracks be exported to a jump drive and then to a computer so I don't have to drag...

Hello. If using to mics how does a newbie like myself know if something is out of phase or not? Do the microphones need to be at the same distance? What about room mics and close mics? Or a dynamic mic and a condenser mic on the same guitar amp? Or two amps one giutar two mics? One mic...

Why is it that a large percentage of recording threads turn into something other than recording? If I type anything into the search engine, there is a 50/50 chance i'm gonna get posts about everyone's top 10 favorite albums or "the 50 most underestimated guitarists of all time" ?

Actually, Could I make this work?: I was working on recording a mandolin part bla bla bla. Anyway, I put an Audio Technica 2020 or whatever the 99 dollar one is called, into the tascam dp o1fx and out of the head phone jack I plugged a guitar amplifier. I played the...

Why would anyone pay a professional engineer to mix something that had been recorded at home? What would be the advantage/disadvantages of this setup? And recording drums? What if everything was recorded by someone with little experience in a setting that wasn't really fair to any music and...

So the general consensus is: record an electric guitar amplifier with a shure SM57(yes I know you can do it other ways you jerk, but this seems to be the standard) Now, using the reverb option on an amplifier(also a feature on gasoline/electric hybrid automobiles) and recording with a Shure...

Okay...We all know that to mic in a stereo fashion we need the XY(blobbidy blah bla bla)pattern, and a matched pair of mics. Can this be done with dynamic microhones? 2 57's? This may be a bad question. K

Does anyone have any advice on how to get my machine up and running? I have a Tascam 22-4. The tape slows to a halt eventually in recrod and playback. Some people say it's old tape build-up, some say it's other things. My question is what can I do without the aid of a professional. I have...

Is it possible to have a room that is too dead? Could this ever be a good thing? I'm all for ambience and the reverbs that occur in rooms, but when people talk about deadening a room, how far is good enough/too far?

Often times in pictures of musicians in studios, there are really big, expensive looking condenser and ribbon microphones. Okay is everyone with me? Here is my question: Why is it that sometimes the microphones are upside down as if to be hanging from the ceiling or a tall stand and sometimes...

Often times in pictures of musicians in studios, there are really big, expensive looking condenser and ribbon microphones. Okay is everyone with me? Here is my question: Why is it that sometimes the microphones are upside down as if to be hanging from the ceiling or a tall stand and sometimes...