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Like the guys said, if you use a very delliberate "I'm stopping this tempo and going into this one" by use of a short pause or break with a guitar riff or something that'd work out well if you do it right. But, if you're really conserned about it being smooth (which I'd venture to emagine that...

Hey guys, I have a bit of an embarassing question. I play guitar but not much accoustic and the accoustic I have is actually a classical, so I don't know exactly how to change the strings on a real accoustic with the little balls holding in the strings at the bridge. Do you just pull them out...

Two words... CLOSE MIC. I think I get what you're saying and I feel the same way too. The best drum sounds to me that I know of are those juicy, tight kicks and toms, that stiff cracking snare with that nice resounding trail off, and those crisp articulate cymbols. The other thing I noticed...

Recently I read an article on Bob Rocks strategy for recording vocals. It was quite interesting -- his trick is that he spends LOTS of time chosing the right mic so he's barely touching the EQ at all, usually puts some minor compression on it, and likes to use "a good harmoniser" to "widen the...

Are you talking about enabling the CD/DAT Digital Rec in the 3rd tab on the Utility screan? Its enabled, and so is the digital copywrite underneith it and it still won't read. Any other ideas before I assume its a hardware problem? Thanks a bunch!

I just finished a project on my AW4416 that I got used and I went to burn the project to an Audio disc as a master tape, but every CD i put in it comes up as "media error" and it can't even get around to TRYING to burn the thing... its like it doesn't even reconize what it is and i might as well...

If i was going to mic a bass drum 3 or 4 times to get a thick rocky sound in which spots would i be putting all the mics? And I was watching a live metallica concert DVD and they have a SM57 on the snare drum and the snare sound is really snappy. I know its different in a studio but how did...

Most of what Bob Rock has been able to do with sound has completely amazed me, but one of the most interesting things i've discovered that he can do is make the bass drum completely, utterly massive. So the first thing I did when I started mixing down my home recording is EQ my bass drum so it...

My friends band just recorded their CD and were pleased with it after the mix down, but after sending it out to get mastered it came back pretty much ruined. If its turned up at all on any home sterio they have it distorts (or "goes to fuzz" as he explained to me). Obviously the other discs he...

By "hummed out" I ment as in as soon as i touched the gain dile bass feedback came on so strong it shook the whole venue. Nothing fed back at all except the subs

I'm starting up a sort of small "studio" in my bedroom so i can record riffs from my guitar and keyboard and maybe mix them together later and get a rough idea of a song using this drum software called Drum Beat (i'm actually a working drummer... but I can't fit my drum kit in my room and doing...

I'm thinking of starting up a small "studio" in my bedroom so i can record riffs from my guitar and keyboard and maybe mix them together later and get a rough idea of a song using this drum software called Drum Beat. I bought this cheap Acoustica MP3 recorder software on the internet and its...

I'm putting on a party and hiring an R&B/blues band to play that I know... I need a small PA and my friend at our local music store PA rental guy suggested micing the vocals, bass, kick drum and snare and I thought that sounded about right, but he also suggested getting a small sub just to get...

tom sound maybe the sound you're looking for is whats normaly picked up in the over heads. Sometimes you just gotta find the right mixture. The "oomph" sound usually comes from the over heads unless you do very specific EQing so if you use mostly the over heads and eq the close mics...

Don't laugh, but the only drum sound i consistently like is in country music -- the more up beat stuff like the older Tim McGraw stuff. It's probably easier to do though, since theirs less intensity in country music and its easier to have a nice drum sound without having to worry about presents...