Recent content by jamesperrett

This is one of the rare occasions where a blanket recap of all the audio cards is required. However, the electrolyte from the capacitors can leach into the board and cause all kinds of other problems so you really need to trace the signal through the circuit and find out where it stops. I made...

I like buying refurbished high end computers rather than budget new ones - particularly Dell Precision mobile workstations. The high end ones are built more solidly and tend to be more expandable. The Lenovo Thinkpads also have a good reputation for music though I've not used one personally.

That's a Mac that he's using in the video. If you don't have a Mac you would be better off swapping the second unit for an ADA8200. It may be possible to kludge it with ASIO4All but not recommended.

Fatar keyboards often use a soft feeling covering that goes sticky after a few years. Everyone seems to have a different answer to this problem - try a search for "sticky rubberised plastic" and you'll find plenty of suggestions.

Unfortunately it won't directly. You can either export all the individual tracks in your Audition session and then import them into Reaper or you could use a program called AATranslator to translate from Audition sessions to Reaper sessions. Unfortunately AATranslator isn't free. If you only...

I switched to Reaper just after Audition 2 came out and haven't really looked back. I seem to remember having sync problems with overdubs with Audition which disappeared completely with Reaper. I found the transition from Audition to Reaper to be relatively painless.

Only goes up to 15ips Dave. And have you seen the state of the heads and tape path on this one? https://hifivintage.co.uk/shop/reel-to-reel/studer-a807-tape-machine/ You would have thought they might have at least cleaned it properly before trying to sell it for that price. I wonder what else...

I don't know about Spectra Layers, but I know that in Spleeter and Demucs you will just end up with mono stems. However, you can then apply stereo effects to just one stem rather than the whole recording which may sound more natural. Typically you could add some panned short delays to guitars or...

Hang on - if you read the original post you'll see that Tim already has an interface with his Zoom H6. There's no need for him to buy anything else. https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/using-the-zoom-h6-as-an-audio-interface/ looks like a good guide to using the H6 as an audio...

That spec is overkill for Reaper. Up until recently my remote recording rig was an old AMD Duron laptop running Windows XP with only 512MB of memory. It handled 24 track recording and mixing with no problems unless I tried to use multiple convolution reverbs. The Zoom X-Y mics that the OP is...

The bio mentions that he studied at music college. There would almost certainly have been industry people associated with the college so promising students would probably get noticed and guided into opportunities. I know a few people in the UK who are doing decent gigs thanks to contacts made...

I would echo the Reaper suggestion. The only reason for going for Protools is if you will be regularly using a Protools system elsewhere and you need to exchange files. Even then, you can always use something like AA Translator to convert sessions if you need to. Reaper doesn't have all the...

Different 4 track machines can run at different speeds. The more up-market ones run at 3.75ips (double normal cassette speed) while the cheaper ones run at 1.875ips which is normal cassette speed. Tascam units tend to use dBx noise reduction while others use Dolby B or Dolby C. As Boulder Sound...

Take the innards out of the Thomann amp and put a set of Hypex modules in there. This will give you an amp that will give the Bryston a good run for its money. I did this with a Quad 405 and it has improved the sound slightly - although any difference is fairly subtle compared to the difference...

That's where reference tracks come in handy - something you can use as a fixed point of comparison.