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  1. carlosguardia

    Two sets of Monitors... at the same time?

    I've used the same set of nearfields for a few years; Roland DS-90A and they do the trick for me. Among other things, I've been recording a really great album lately and my friend/client had a pair of M-Audio BX8a's. He brought them to the studio so that he could hear the mixes in the same...
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    Teletronix LA-2A

    I had used the free Antress plugin that emulated the LA2A and one day I had to reinstall everything in my computer and lost that plugin. I had used it to pump my bass and kick sounds but later opted for other compressors so I didn´t miss the plugin. Yesterday, a good friend who owns a very well...
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    Sonar X1

    Now I know what Santa is going to bring this year!! http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/X1-Overview.aspx
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    NEVE goes 500 for less than 1k

    So I've been thinking what to write to Santa this year. I've been a good boy, have been doing my homework and I was looking for things to add to my studio when I came across this: http://www.vintageking.com/Neve-1073LB?sc=18&category=27618 I just fell in love...
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    dbx 160A vs FMR PBC 6A

    Ok, I live in Costa Rica where it's not easy to demo these kind of toys. I have used the 160A. I'm in the market to acquire a new compressor for the studio and have heard wonders about the PBC 6A. I've used the RNC and think pretty highly of it, but I'm looking for something "better". Since...
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    unable to open a file

    I have worked with sonar for many years now. I currently run 7.02 producer. I have a couple of files that I did for an artist about a year ago or maybe more. I don't recall what plugins I used in the files and am not 100% sure that the same plugins are still installed in my computer since I...
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    Drum Sound

    I'm tracking some drums for a pop/rock album and this is the sound that I'm getting so far... I was just wondering what you people thought of the sound of these drums, the room and mics etc. I can go into detail of mics used, preamps et al but these are the raw tracks with only gate on the kick...
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    Killing a room

    Ok, so I'm in the process of finishing up my vocal booth and am planning to make it as dead as I can. I want a completely anechoic environment. Question is, which is the best way to go for treating the room... and which would be the cheapest? My plan was to go out and get pyramidal shaped...
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    Electric interference?! or is it?

    I have a problem that has never happened before. I was recording with a Delta 1010 into Sonar and I have been doing this for a long time without this problem ever happening. I've been fixing my studio and have made some changes that include a new electric outlet (grounded like the other...
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    electronic demo for a great duo!

    Hey guys! So this great costarican electronic duo "santos & zurdo" come tu my studio because the need to track a demo to send to El Salvador and Panama with a couple of their new tracks. Zurdo sings and does all the midi stuff and Santos plays the guitar and the sitar (I'll have some more...
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    double post... sorry

    sorry, double post!!!
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    help with monitors placement etc...

    Hi there, For the past few weeks I've been fixing my recording studio. My control room is rectangular, measuring 3.35 meters, by 3.17 meters wide and 2.44 meters high. The studio is 3.35 by 4.35 on one side and 4.65 on the longer side (the 30 cm difference was so that the back wall would not...
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    ASIO driver help!

    I'm getting a MOTU 8pre next week, so I decided to go out and I got myself a PCI Firewire card, I hooked it up and connected a Firewire Audiophile that I used on my laptop (before it died) to my desktop's new FW card. I then started Sonar 6 PE and although the audio options on Sonar has the M...
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    best sounding kick drum

    So, I'm helping out recording this rock band... the producer is amazing and the first engineer knows all the tricks known to man!! We start to mic up a brand new Sonor drum kit... great sounding kit by the way. The idea is to make it sound really dry (the drums) but with room... ok, to the...
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    midi latency

    ok, so I record a midi track, hit W, load another soft synth, assign the out of a new midi track to that synth and hit R... I have the metronome do a count of 4 and then I start recording, only that the midi track I have previously recorded starts late... VERY LATE! If I play and then R no...
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    M-Audio Firewire Audiophile, Firefox + Media Player problem?!!

    Ok, this is a really strange problem that I'm having a really hard time understanding. Here's my setup: -Acer laptop with AMD Sempron 3000+ processor -512 MB DDR -80 GB HDD in 2 partitions (one for operating system, other only for audio) -250 GB USB 2.0 HDD -Lacie PCMCIA Firewire/USB 2.0...
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    AKG Perception 200

    Any of you have ever tried this mic?! Seems quite interesting for the price @ $150. Anyways, would love to hear some feedback. Thanks, Carlos
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    Drivers, crackling problem... what am I missing?!

    First off I want to say hello to all my fellow Sonar afficionados!!! I had been absent from recording for a while, trying to work (day job) and make some money so I would update a few things in my studio. I had been reluctant to change my OS and Sonar 3 but a few circumstances forced me to...
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    New Prog Rock Track!!!

    Here's the "almost" final mix of track four of my progressive rock album. Real drums, B3, distorted guitars, 5-string bass, vocals with vocoder, etc... What do you guys think?! Carlos www.nowhereradio.com/carlosguardia/singles
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    Cool Vocal FX...

    Does anybody know how to get this really cool sounding, almost distorted sound with a vocal take. I heard Daft Punk's album the other day (Digital Love) and really dig some of the effects they use; most of them I know how to replicate, but I don't know what they're doing to the voice in some...
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