I often use a small amount of compression to level out dynamics.
I was just watching the vst compressor that came on my DAW and I noticed that when a thick chord was played on a piezo, the compressor was all over it... but not so much on the high, snappy notes.
Well of course!!!
The low...
These guys came to play in my little town some time ago. I sat in with a mando and thats how I came to know them. Sort of a bluegrass/Greatfull Dead/rock thing. If memory serves the lineup is something like this...
Bass---electric with amp
Acoustic/ singer
Acoustic / singer
Steel---with amp...
Guitar Karaoke anyone???
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This is a recording of me playing along with some backing tracks I've been working on. I want to get this some-what figured out before I continue.
The backing tracks are wma.
Right...
I was messing around with Ozone´s stereo imager last night and I thought to my self "I need to learn how to do this!"
It seems like an effect one should be able to accomplish in the mixing stage. I printed out some of the sticky threads in this forum and one of them talked, in some detail...
I read somewhere that you should only have software on your computer and when you record, the audio files should go directly to your external drive. True?
So you just open the project from the external drive and have no projects saved on the computer?
I assume this frees up CPU power? Are...
I wrote this in New Orleans in 2008.
I'm taking my time with the mix so it is rather dry. In fact........
drums-dry
bass- dry
acoustic-dry
harp- dry
guitar1- comp., EQ, amp sim.
guitar2- comp., EQ, amp sim.
vocal- comp., EQ
harmony- comp., EQ
If you listen to the first version, you can imagine my disapointment.
So I threw everything out except the drums and came at it from a different angle.
It´s not a finished mix but I think I may be done tracking!
The forum will not allow me to post a link until my 10th post so how about...