Search results

I just acquired an old record player (Pioneer PL-640), but am not 100% on how to play it through my current setup. What I have now is just my Macbook, connected to my Presonus firebox via firewire. The firebox is then ran into 2 m-audio BX5a speakers. Usually I only need to play music from my...

I forget who it was, but someone made this $1 condenser mic that was actually really good and people were using. I want to order a couple of them but can't seem to find any records of it anywhere

1. Does anyone get the feeling that all their lyrics suck when they first write their songs or is it just me. I often find myself saying "damn that seems so forced, or that will never work, or just plain this sucks"... sometimes I can find a work around where i'm almost satisfied but it seems to...

I've kind of winged it with the few songs I've mixed but I'm curious to know the "usual" steps some of you other more experienced engineers take when first mixing a song (i.e. mix down the drums first, where you add compression, EQ.. all that good stuff). I just want to get a feel as to what...

Both SM57s are broken. The wires in both of them got cut. Don't ask how, I have no idea. Besides that, the other mic and mixer are in excellent condition. Phonic Helix 18 Firewire Mixer AKG D112 Kick Drum Mic Shure SM57

Being a beginner, I want to get some more practice with mixing songs, but with the lack of recordings that I do, it's kind of hard. Does anyone have any rock, hardcore, punk and all sub-genre's in between Cubase project files they'd be willing to zip up and send over to me? Don't get me wrong...

I mixed a song on my monitors and it sounded really good (for me), but then when I played the song on my normal computer monitors, it just sounds... blehhh... nothing like what I mixed earlier. Things just seem to get buried... things that didn't happen when I mixed on monitors (low and high...

If you're a newbie to playing drums, this little widget will definatly help your drums sound better with little effort. When I first started playing drums, I bought this because it was cheap and effective. I have no regrets on buying it. Regardless, I'm selling the second one I have to upgrade...

2 - 16" Remo Coated Emperor Drum Head (Batter) 1 - 16" Remo Coated Ambassador Drum Head (Batter) 1 - 12" Remo Coated Ambassador Drum Head (Batter) All brand new, free shipping to the United States. I listed them on eBay, so you can go their and BIN. Paypal only. 16" Remo Coated Ambassador...

My music store blowout box had a bunch of heads in there. Anything from old remo to evans. I picked up 3 Evans Hydraulic heads (one was the blue color) for a total of $5. I also picked up a few misc 6-10" heads for 50 cents a piece (even though I don't have any 6-10 toms, I couldn't let it go...

I made the stupid mistake of not researching a little before buying new heads. I ended up buying the Remo coated ambassador pack because I heard it was a solid pack to have and would produce a desirable sound for any kind of performance. Well... I wasn't exactly wrong, but it wasn't exactly what...

To make it sweet and simple, will working the drive-through at Burger King improve someones ear? Let's be honest... I have to deal with quite a lot of whisperers and all that junk.

Ok... I'm super reluctant to post this because of the criticism I'm about to receive, but everyone has to start somewhere right? I did it for this band that wanted to do some demo recording, and I agree'd to do it for free because I knew that it would probably not come out too hot. Anyway...

Rules: No double hurt or heal Can vote once every 5 hours Votes for allready killed companys will be thrown out All companys start at 10. No limit for how high they can go I'll post the new list with updated scores everytime I vote (every 5 hours or so) Let's see who lasts till the very end :D...

As weird as that sounds... I'm on the tightest budget imaginable. Virtually there is no budget, so whatever free materials I can use to help with my quote-unquote studio, I try to use in some way. SO! I have a little "room" that's carpeted on the ground, and has 6lb moving blankets on the 4...

HURRRR's the deal... I'm not really a drummer, I mean I can keep a few simple beats, but I'm much more of a guitarist. The only reason I 'semi' picked up drums is because I bought a small beginner set from a friend for only $60. It came with one ride cymbal and a crash that I stupidly gave to...

Refresh my memory please. Allthough I feel like a totally idiot asking this, you can mix and match heads and cabinets for bass's and guitar's respectively right? say a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier with a 4x12 Marshall cab. P.S. I don't mean a Guitar head with bass cab or vice versa

I noticed when playing professional songs through my mixer, the levels are just around 0db, usually +2db. It almost never goes past that so my question is: should all my tracks be recored around this level?

Let's say I messed up playing guitar on a track, but don't want to just waste the 2 minutes of good track before that. How can I set a marker right before the part I messed up at, so I can play along with the track as it goes, and then once it hits that marker, it starts recording, thus...

I mean after compression, possible effects, etc, is it bad to put run it through a pre last? I was planning on plugging my mics into my patch bay, which in turn would send it through compression, then to effects, then on and on and then finally to my mixer w/pre amps. Would it be better to run...