Recent content by VomitHatSteve

This. 30 watts solid state is a bedroom practice amp. 30 watts tube is a gigging amp.

That seems light for a 350 cap room by itself, but as Rob said, most venues will be able to mic it and run it through the PA

Probably you cannot install the sound card into your laptop, no. You probably don't have space in the frame of the laptop to mount the card, let alone a PCI slot to spare. But there are a ton of USB audio interfaces that would be equivalent. The 24/96 is essentially an audio interface without...

There are a number of solutions. The simplest is to open the FX panel, type in "pitch", and pick the pitch-shifting fx that gives you the best results. As Random dude said, moving a whole octave will get you bad results no matter which option you choose. A slightly more-natural sounding option...

Cool! If you've got the VSTi on the track with the midi, just render it using one of the processes described above, and you'll be good. (One of the great strengths but also potential sources of frustration in Reaper is that there are usually 3 different ways to do anything, and you just have to...

Sort of yes and sort of no. "No" in the sense that midi doesn't actually contain any audio information. It's mostly just a series of pitches and velocities and needs to be run through a virtual instrument of some sort to actually make sounds. Reaper has the built-in ReaSynth fx, which can be...

Phase cancellation can be a real issue with bass, and if you're mixing to resemble old-school vinyl bass pretty much has to be dead center. So what I might recommend is actually recording with two mics but then picking one instead of mixing them and putting it center. That said, when I've...

This is really the simplest and most effective solution. I don't know how far I'd trust a $25 amazon interface. But a $50 MAudio from Springwater will certainly work.

What DAW are you using? They almost all have a built-in "reverse" effect or tool. In Reaper, you right click and click "Reverse items as new take" In Audacity, you highlight the section and go to Effect > Reverse Other DAWs should have an equivalent.

I mostly do my pedals as physical pedals. I think the important distinction is going to be your workflow tho. If you're recording actual amplifiers, using virtual pedals complicates things because then you have to start thinking about re-amping and the more complicated gain staging that comes...

The phasing sounds like it's an artifact of the extraction process. The actual guitar track probably doesn't have that unless it's coming from a side-chain compressor From your sample, you have waaaay too much distortion on the leads. Billy was probably playing clean or just the lead channel on...

"Mastering" just means preparing the mixed recording for final release in whatever context. Sure, if you aren't going to release the album as vinyl, mastering for vinyl is a pointless waste of time and money. But if you're going to release a CD, matching the volumes of the various tracks and...

Ok, so you 100% have to solve the issue of authentication for that. Who is allowed to upload audio files to your server? And once you have a user authentication process in place, this wordpress plugin might work. You'd configure your site to allow your users to make audio posts, which would be...

What does your contract with the first studio say? Generally, hiring someone to remix a song that was first mixed for hire by someone else isn't a big deal. They did a mix and master. They (presumably) got paid. The album was released. End of transaction. It only really gets sticky if you...

Most of these aren't really DAWs, but those that are do it by having a dedicated team of software developers build the software. The thing really is that you need to figure out what you really want out of this feature on your website and then find the plugin that does most of that. But there...