Recent content by tonesponge

I just got a djembe and kick tambourine and I'd like to learn how to mic this combo. I've always used an ekit or keyboard for percussion, so I have no background in using mics with acoustic percussion. Any suggestions?

… and I don't know what to do with it. It didn't come with the thunderbolt cable so I can't get started until I buy one. I never heard of this thing until the guy at GC talked me into it after I asked for a "breakout box" for my macbook air. So does this thing work with logic or garage band...

Oh, well. Guess it wasn't important.

I sort of wrote/improvised this "song" recently, and I am wondering if this is one of those times when I have unintentionally copied something else fairly closely. It's not the sort of thing I normally write, and it came along a little too easily. Plus it just plain sounds familiar. Or maybe...

Requiem for a Drummer The only 2-bus effects on this mix are EQ and dither, so don't give me any crap about it being overcompressed.

Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I think I have almost all of the information I need now to treat my studio, thanks to you guys. The only additional thing I'd like is to see how some panels are covered in the fabric, and get an idea for how to cut the fabric so it goes on easily and gets...

I'm still suffering from stickershock at the prospect of spending 6K on traps to treat a 10x13x8 foot room, and I'm wondering if it might be feasible to just eliminate the room with two or three iso booths (especially since a space that size is never going to sound actually good). So I was...

So I heard carpet is prima facie fail. How about plywood or linoleum? Anything else?

The mix is attached. Here is my attempt at diy "mastering." --> Member Login There was some remixing involved, mostly highpassing the reverbs and vocals. I also decreased the delay times on the "stereoizer" effect on the vocals. And I pumped up the bass guitar track freq at 11.5K to get...

Everytime I get my mix done and bounce it down and transfer it to my jump drive and listen to it on my laptop, the loudness is so low I can't even hear it. Normalizing it to zero dB doesn't help much because I have some ridiculously huge transient peaks on the beat. If I put a compressor and...

Please check it out and help me figure out how to get a more high fi sound. I wrote and performed it too (except the drum loops), so feedback on the song structure, performance, etc., is also appreciated. The uploader won't let me attach it because it is apparently too large at 2.7 MB, so...

That's right. I have the original cheap "studio monitors" from way back. M-audio's first forray into budget studio monitoring. I'm wondering what would be the minimum amount of money I would need to spend to achieve a meaningful (AKA significant and totally worth it) upgrade, and exactly...

Who is doing it? Why or why not? If so, is it more useful in mastering or for use during mixing on individual tracks? Do you use plugins or track inversion? What are some situations that it is most useful or should be avoided?

In a conference I attended this year, I was surprised and alarmed to discover that US Courts have split recently over an issue that might impact many home recording artists seeking to save money on copyright registration by registering albums, instead of individual songs. Basically, some...

GAS got me again. Where's my sponsor when I need him? http://proguitarshop.com/store/effects-fuzz-pedals-c-602_7/wattson-classic-electronics-fuzz-p-634 IMA use it on my bass too, like the Beastie Boys did on Sabotage.