Recent content by ronws

Dallas? Well, alright. I live near Sherman.

Might as well do an intro post, rather than repeat old crap elsewhere. My name is Ron. I am 50 and I will be 51 in March. I was born in California and we moved to Texas in October 1974. I had just started teaching myself guitar so that I could have some accompaniment to me singing songs. Up to...

This will probably sound like an intro. Sorry ... I have been singing all of my life but I pick 1974 as a starting point because that is when I started teaching myself guitar so that I could do songs. Picked up a family guitar that only had 3 strings on it and started plucking the arpeggio, by...

Something that I just learned from a pro. "I know a guy" who is a professional rock and metal singer, recording artist, he even sang with Nazareth for a while. Anyway, this kind of answers the sing in the session or not question. What he does for himself and other singers he produces (yes, he...

I think room treatment can be important but I noticed something in the original post. His own mix sounds wooly in the room at large. But a commercially done recording of something else sounds great, in the same room, with no changes in room treatment. So, I thought about it. The commercial mix...

I have some harsh experience about this. I usually mix with headphones. But some of the best advice I have read is to mix with Auratone monitors, which are not made any more but you can find equivalents. The value of those speakers is that they are not too bassy or to treble. Really, middle of...

Let me interject my dry humor. Back in Black produced by Mutt Lange. Full of production value, recorded in the carribean. Appetite for Destruction produced by (someone I can't remember just now). Sounds like it was recorded on a Tascam porta 3 in a garage. Both were neck and neck for the...

I am not an expert, believe me, but what I have learned is that adjusting latency in software has a trade-off, no matter how fast the chip or how many cores you have. When you try to adjust toward near zero latency, you are essentially shortening the time to get all information played. I like to...

Thanks. I am not a producer or recording guru. I am a singer and guitar player trying to record myself at home with hit or miss results. Another book I was reading mentioned this website and I thought I would have a look. Anyway, so, yeah, like the other guy mentioned AC/DC's "Flick of the...

I happen to be a singer. In the second vid, those are whistle tones, they are just loud. And can be used, especially in a live situation. As for the first one with the Hallelujah cover, you start out soft and almost get into the right spot. Remember this: singing is vowels. The closer you get...

Dang it, someone already beat me to it. Mutt Lange. Precisely because he did "Highway to Hell." And it is so different than what he did some years later for Def Leppard. With DL, he had slappy drums in a big room, fuzzy bass, and layered vocals for Joe Elliot. With HtH, it had such an...

I am new here and I usually hang out in a singer's forum. A friend and I collab'd on "Homeward Bound" by Simon and Garfunkel. We did two versions. First one, he sang the lead vocal and I sang the harmony. Second one, I sang the lead and he sang harmony. Judging by the reaction, most people...

This thread is right up my alley. Everyday, life shows me what my limits are. I am just too stupid to quit. :) I was reading yet another book on home recording and it mentioned this forum, so I decided to join to learn more. I am a singer and guitar player and my recording and mixing skills...