Recent content by cobaltaudio

FYI, Radio stations have already thought of this, and every one I've ever been to does it. Most stations use a multiband compressor over their output to even out levels etc. That's why if you listen to a song on one station and then another, it can sounds marginally different depending on how...

If you take the DI output of the amp, you will get the tone of the amp but it won't include the sound of the speaker. If you plug into a separate DI box, plug that into your interface with a link to the amp, you get the raw sound of the instrument and the flexibility of an amp simulation plugin...

You might find this mixing basics page helpful, in particular using compressors once you've got that, a limiter is simply a compressor with a high ratio, and a fast attack and release. Hope they help

You need to give everything its own place in your mixes, either in the stereo image or in frequency. This basically comes down to panning and eq, and will make the final balance of the mix much easier.

Sounds like you had fun! The vocal needs something to support it a bit, it's not very strong compared to the guitars / bass / drums. Have you thought about double tracking the vocal part?

Sounds good to me. My only comment really is that the vocal could do with a little more space around it - it's a little difficult to pick out. This could be a simple change to the mixing balance, or you might prefer to bring it out by giving it some space in the frequency domain - eq it to stand...

Golden rule is NEVER hit the top. Beyond that, the absolute level doesn't hugely matter, much more important is the dynamic range of the mix - so don't go too mad on compression of the master buss. I'd much rather receive tracks without final compression/limiting because you then have much...

My favourite mastering plugin is a stereo tool, more info on it here: RescueAE review

This is kind of a fundamental when recording choirs - you need to blend the voices on the mics or it'll be too late to fix afterwards, as you found out. You will find that most reverb plugins have a control for the decay time, labelled something like "Duration", "Time", "RT", "length" etc. You...

How are you running two audio interfaces into one machine? I've never seen anyone manage that before. as regards DAW's, I'd recommend Reaper to anyone - and if you look around on this forum a bit, you'll see plenty of other endorsements for it

Sounds like fun! best advice I can give is to enjoy it, and try lots of different things. You won't learn anything like as much reading a forum compared to actually rigging mics, listening, changing, mixing and recording.

NT1A is an excellent suggestion - totally agree, will be ok on most things and really good on some. Great value for money too.

To be honest, if pro tools 8 does everything you need it to - then don't bother trying to keep up with the latest versions, it's much too costly and only worth doing if you have a steady flow of pro customers with PT10/11 you will need to keep pace with for file exchange. I upgraded to 10 fairly...

Ok, you need some kind of editing and mixing program if you want to record everything with the Zoom. Low budget? No problem - have a look at Reaper, for $60, which is highly recommended just about everywhere on this forum if you look around. The zoom has mics built into it if you really don't...

That sounds fine, if you're happy with the end result that is.