Recent content by bouldersoundguy

In real life when you speak or sing, you hear the acoustic environment affect your voice. It's part of how your brain perceives it. I think it makes sense to reproduce that during the recording process, at least in monitoring. Adding a bit of slapback delay and/or reverb makes sense as long as...

Perhaps you have some other non-computer recording device you can use. I suspect looping through outboard effects and back to the DP-02 won't work, at least not in stereo.

If you use the mono effects send, any panning in your mix will be lost. The reverb will be stereo, but I don't think that's what you want. The idea of using a stereo splitter might work. So send main out to effects to splitter to return and monitors. You would not want the effects return to be...

Do you want to apply the effects to the whole mix or just individual tracks?

I'd probably just stack a few plugins in two effects loops to get that effect. Or, you know, just layer vocal takes.

That sounds like a description of a chorus.

Yep, that was going to be my other suggestion, a digital multimeter. Knowing beats guessing.

I haven't seen a response to my previous post. The point was to determine if the monitoring was set incorrectly. If that's the case, a different cable won't solve it.

Are you hearing it on only one side, or are you getting one channel of the stereo but from both speakers (or both ears if in headphones)?

A large case with several large fans running well below their limits will be a quiet option. Same with a power supply running well below capacity. My 12th generation i9 doesn't break a sweat rendering videos because of the big case, big fans and beefy power supply.

There's a difference between compressing for a mix and limiting for mastering. It's standard practice to do those in separate steps, but an argument could be made for doing both in one pass if you're trying to minimize the number of analog tape generations. But your recordings are digital, so I...

I tried the RNC once. I would describe it as a bit "puffy" sounding, which worked on some things but not others.

I've owned and/or used dbx 166, Project1 266 (original version), 3630 and MDX4600. I would recommend the dbx. I would not recommend the 3630 or MDX4600. The 3630 I had was just meh. The particular MDX I used noticeably degraded the sound when put in the signal path, even when bypassed. Maybe it...

If the computer is used to download mp3 files, it's going to be online. That means you will want to stay up to date on security fixes. If that weren't the case you could potentially just get a setup that works and leave it alone for years. A studio I work in is still using a Windows 7 machine...

I'll second the suggestion of Reaper. It does pretty much whatever you need.