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hello again, folks I must apologize for being away for so long, I've had a particularly rough winter dealing with some personal issues. After a long dry spell and a rearrangement of my first floor, I've managed to finally do some new recording. I cobbled this track together in one afternoon a...

hey all Any help here would be super appreciated. I inherited one of these from my ex-bandmate and fellow recordista. He tells me that this PCI-based interface will only work under Windows XP as apparently those are the only drivers available for it. A google search turns up very little if any...

hi all A while back I'd submitted a few songs for review (thanks for your feedback!), including a goofy rock/soul workout called "Bald Spot". That's one track I was never able to get right in the mix, and I kept coming back to it again and again trying to figure out what was wrong. I think...

hello again folks After committing the faux pas of flooding the forum with a pile of songs several months ago, I've decided to wait until I have reasonably complete and finely tuned mixes before submitting them for your perusal. And to be clear, I'm far more interested in your input than I am...

hi everyone I know I'm asking a lot of dumb questions right off the get-go, but in this case it's because 1) I've been spoiled these last few years by Reaper, and 2) I'm in that paranoid planning and what-if? stage of designing my next generation studio. Bear with me. As I wrote in another...

https://soundcloud.com/bill-spiropoulos/sappy-ballad-thing Last track for now...in this short MOR ballad sketch I went for an intentionally super-compressed, reverb-soppy '60s sound, and experimented with (just two) lush orchestral string parts. For once, no guitar except for the bass. cheers...

https://soundcloud.com/bill-spiropoulos/the-obligatory-guest-rapper-rough12 Just an incomplete backing track at the moment, but in this mix I specifically wanted to practice placing each track in the mix via careful EQ, using information I'd just learned about. cheers Billy S.

https://soundcloud.com/bill-spiropoulos/bald-spot-8315-mono-mix A fun and raucous recent track that shows me experimenting with guitar amp miking, as well as wrestling with a (simulated) horn section...and all mixed down to mono, no less. cheers Billy S.

https://soundcloud.com/bill-spiropoulos/everything-explodes-in-california My most recent longer-darker opus revisits the two-noodly-recorders gambit, adds some evocative sound effects, and highlights my still developing acoustic guitar miking technique. cheers Billy S.

https://soundcloud.com/bill-spiropoulos/be-like-you-2014 A recent remake of an unused short movie theme I'd written back in 2001. This one features a nice analog synth line towards the end, from my Kawai K3. cheers Billy S.

https://soundcloud.com/bill-spiropoulos/show-me-instrumental-in This track goes back several years, recorded on my PC before it crumbled to dust. Instrumentally it features a bunch of unusual textures including VST Mellotron, two recorders, banjo, plastic cheese-ball container, and jar of spare...

hey folks So, I'm not really there yet, but I'm starting to get my head around my next generation recording rig and need some experienced advice. Here goes: Once I move back to my old house I want to build a new recording rig that incorporates an analog console with a PC-based DAW. I still...

hey everyone I will put a Reintroducing Myself post on the Newbies forum later tonight. In the meantime, please check out my Soundcoud page and feel free to comment, critique, etc. Lots of stuff that you've never heard, and some that a few of the oldtimers might possibly remember...

hey all This is kind of an extension of my last post... (First of all, now that I installed my Omni Studio and did some preliminary playing around last night, the VU meters seem to be working right. Perhaps it was that "anticipated level" or whatever it was checkbox that I checked under...

hey all First time posting in a while...reason being is that I finally am on the cusp of being able to really use n-track, after having an unregistered version on my computer for nearly a year (I just won an M-Audio Delta 66/Omni IO setup on eBay and I'm waiting for it to come in). I have...

hey all Just downloaded n-track for the first time the other night (an hour and a half...damn those 56k modems!) and, with no proper sound card yet purchased, I made a test thingie using some pre-existing WAV files I had laying around (a heavily edited, old-fashioned telephone intercept...

hey This may be a dumb question, but I've noticed that on '57s the windscreen rotates freely instead of solidly screwing down immobile. Is there any practical/technical reason for this? cheers Billy S.

hey all Something I've contemplated...now I know that you can buy 12-string necks from places like Warmoth, as well as corresponding bridges. The rub is this: all the 12 bridges I've seen are hardtail types. I have no idea if these will work with a strat body routed for tremolo as most are. I...

hey all It seems to me that Shure's Performance Gear series is their downmarket line intended for home recordists and bands on a budget. The specs look awfully similar, though, and they're a lot cheaper. Are there any subjective opinions about performance differences between the budget PGs and...

hey all Since way back when I've added a few tracks to my Soundclick site: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/billspiropoulosmusic.htm I'm quite aware that "Freedom Fried" is a lousy master because of my technical limitations at the time I mixed it; read the "story" for details. At any rate...