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    recording toms!!! fun fun...

    alright, so hear is my question/what i want out of this thread... I have recorded a lot and enjoy my mixes and recordings and such... only thing sometimes i don't like are my toms. The sounds of them are fine. Its the bleed through I get from the cymbals/etc... I know how mics work and all...
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    tom micing/mixing

    well, basically i have the stupid question of what everyone asks... how do you get "good" tom sound in a drum set in a mix... now, before i go any further i just want to say that I am already experienced in recording and have spent countless hours in the studio recording all sorts of things...
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    sony oxford

    I was just wondering if any of you all have used the sony oxford effects that are avalible as... well some sort of effects plug in, prob. direct x or something... At my work we for some reason bought a sony oxford console and its pretty crazy stuff, but I'm not sure I like the compressors and...
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    Mastering tips for not pro, but not newb level recording engineer

    If anyone has the time, this would help me ALOT! I need someone to run through how they master a song. I obviously don't need extreme detail, but how would you say you master a track. I want to know things about levels, obviously, and coloration(bass, mid, treb...) and such like that...
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    drums in the mix

    no offense to the newbs and amies, but i want some advice from the pros here... how do all of you pros attempt to acheive great drums sounds IN THE MIX. Making sure it sounds bright enough, has enough attack and lows, and just overall doesn't sound muddled in the mix. Clearly eq and...
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    compression/eq (effects chain order)

    my question essentially is, in which order do you "generally" place your dynamics section and eq in? dynamics first, then eq? ( or vice versa? ) I have heard different things from different people, and i normaly do compression first then eq. I believe that works best.... haha. Recently what...
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    pro audio 9 help...(moving effects from one song to another)

    alright, so here is the deal, i have 8 songs worth of drum tracks. They sound great and i have one of them mixed down completly, so i want to use the same effects/volumes and such on the other songs, is there any way to do this without having to do it manually? Because i hate work, i really...
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    some eq/overall drum questions.....

    alright, i have been doing the whole home recording thing for a little while now... ya know whatever, anyway, i'm starting to find that my drum tracks tend to sound odd in the area of the kick drum/snare. They sound almost roomy i guess... But anyway i guess maybe this is more of a room...
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    can i use replacement sounds with cakewalk pro audio 9?

    I just need to know if i can use replacement sounds in cakewalk pro audio 9 or not, or what program i can get to use them. What i mean by replacements is that i will gate the drum and i will be replacing the sound of the old with a pre-recorded sound. So its like triggers sorta... whatever. I...
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    boston

    does anybody have any idea as to what guitar/effects/amps and stuff were used on boston's more than a feeling?? Just curious. thanx.
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    pre-amp selection

    ok, well i have seen and heard of a fair amount of crappy and extremely good pre-amps, is there anything out there that will give me great sound and isn't gonna run up my budget like mad? (i know the more you spend the better it is and all...) I would say i am willing to go with like 300 bucks...
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    drum samples!?! cakewalk pro audio 9

    ok, what i want to know is... How can i insert drum samples i have into cakewalk. Bascially what i want to do it to record drum tracks like normal and if one part of the kit isn't that great sounding, then i will add some extra sample recordings, which i would have already done, and layer that...
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    oktava mc012 and mc012-01

    is there a difference between the mc012 and mc012-01??? i can't figure it out...
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    how do u like to record guitars??

    ok bascially i want to know how all of you on here record your electric guitar tracks. For both clean and disorted that is... I have been having a bit of trouble and i want to see what others are doing and work off of that. So please discuss all the things in the signal path you use and what...
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    BlueTUBE Stereo Microphone Preamp

    can any one tell me from experiece or just from hearing about it from others how the BlueTUBE Stereo Microphone Preamp from PreSonus is??? It is onlly like $150 and i need a tube pre-amp... its dual channel too! If it does suck can anyone please suggest to me another good pre-amp that is...
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    tuning a snare drum

    ok, i'm not a drummer, and i don't know a lot about the tuning of drums. I can get by just fine when i do the kick and toms, but the snare i can never get it to sound "right" I am going for a more rock sound with a lot of snap, and not a lot of tone. Can someone help me out with this. And...
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    good overhead pair for 300 or less??

    any overhead condensers for 300 or less that will give me decent quality?? Thanks...
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    pro audio 9 realtime effects problem!!

    ok well i am using pro audio 9 which i am quite familiar with and i'm not sure what is going on now... I use effects from sound forge in my mixing and when i insert effects from sonic foundary programs they make tons of beeping noises... I don't know what to do right now. Can someone please...
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    replacing drum sounds...

    ok i want to know how to replace drums sounds with cakewalk pro audio 9, or if you can even do it. I just want to replace the toms because they sound like butt hole. They are to roomy and have way to much attack and the mic i used was terrible. So if anybody could help me out that would be...
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    more snare crap

    well i also had another post about snare, but this is an eq qeustion. I wanted to know how to get more attack on the snare drum sound?? I am mainly using a wooden snare. With dry heads. Evans if i'm correct. It is tuned pretty tight. I love the sound in the room and such. but i need more...
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