I have an 8-channel drum mix project (slash: challenge?) to offer up...
Our band is working on our first album, and in July completed the tracking of the drums for all of the songs. We rented a Boss BR-1600CD and a host of microphones and recorded the drums to a click. It took many weeks of...
I recorded our drummer this past couple weeks with a Boss BR-1600 using 8 microphones. It sounded good when we did it, and we used a click track in headphones, but when I uploaded the .wav files it seems like he had a tendency to race during some parts and then slow down to get back on track...
Here is the layout of the room in my house I currently use as "the music room":
After reading Ethan Winer's website and thinking about reflections and interference, I see I'm up against a number of challenges regarding the shape of the room (almost exactly the dreaded even multiple of LxWxH)...
Sometimes I feel like a newb, and sometimes I don't.
I'm pretty comfortable with PC recording and Sonar, but I'm almost completely oblivious to using a digital multitrack recorder. I want to record our band's songs this summer, and primarily, the tricky part I think will be the drums. So I've...
In Sonar or even in something really simple like PowerTab, I can't get either of my keyboards to receive and play MIDI messages. Sending MIDI messages from the synth has always worked fine for years with this system. Before today I really never had a need for sending MIDI to the synth, as I...
This is driving me nuts! I have a degree in Engineering and for the life of me I cannot figure it out.
I have 2 humbuckers and two 500k rotary pots. I am trying to wire them so that each pot controls one of the humbuckers. So if you turn them both up, you get both humbuckers, and if you turn...
I've been writing music off and on for most of the last 10 years. I moved to a new city and started writing music with a guy here and things look like they're at the point where we're going to start looking for a bassist and drummer and take the show on the road. Currently I use my large...