Recent content by Dave-Curran

The headphones are brand new. They have literally just come out of the box. They were plugged into my MAC, so not an audio interface. When I listen to things on youtube or iTunes everything sounds "watery." Like when you try to record guitar with your laptop speakers when you're starting out...

Hi, So, I am confused about something. Here is that "something"; If I record something in Reaper and then try to listen to it with my KRK KNS8400 headphones, I hear what I've recorded but it is incredibly quiet. If I'm honest, it's almost un-audible. BUT, if I pan all of the sound to the...

The only DAW that I've ever used is Cubase so I'm sure that I'll be able to apply what I learned from that to both, Reaper and Reason. Thanks again for all of your help folks! Dave.

I thought that asking on this would bring me closer to choosing, "my DAW," but really, after all of your wise-words/wisdom, I'm still lost. I still don't have a clue. I think that I'm going to use Reaper for recording my live stuff with the band and then use Reason to do my house stuff. I'll...

So, I just bought a pair of KRK KNS 8400's. I plan on recording, mixing and mastering with these headphones but, seeing as I don't have my audio interface or microphones yet to use them for recording, I decided to just plug them into my phone last night to see what they sounded like. I found...

Is Reason better than Ableton for house?

Thanks for all of the advice. I'd like to make it clear that I didn't mean that Cubase wasn't a good DAW, well established or worse than anything else, I just thought that it was the kind of "middle ground," DAW. But I don't know much so... I think i'm going to download the free and fully...

So, I know that the topic of DAW and questions like, "What DAW do I use?" are thrown around a lot BUT I'm royally stuck. I play in a 5 piece Indie Rock band, who I want to record and I also, in my own time, make electronic music. I know that Pro Tools would be a great DAW to record my band and...

Great voice bud! When you slide from your normal voice into falsetto there are barely any breaks, which is a real skill. Get yourself gigging and writing, you have talent.

I am pretty set on the idea of mic-ing up amps for the bass and the guitars, rather than plugging into the interface. So, thank you for all of the helpful links!

I've already got the space, which is why it's so annoying that I don't have any equipment yet! :laughings:

Thank you for all your help, advice and wise words! I will be recording everything separately and was planning on mic-ing up amps for the guitars and bass rather than plugging them straight into an interface and using plug-ins. This a bad idea?

I'm very new to recording music. I'm so new in fact that I don't even have any equipment. I've been making a list of things that I'll need and I'm stumped on one small detail... Do I need to have an audio interface and a mixing desk? I'm going to be recording my 5 piece band, including a...

In my opinion, the melodies, rhythms and musical composition of a song cannot stick out as a song without lyrics and vice-versa. Both the song needs the lyrics and the lyrics need the song. I spend hours and hours writing pages of lyrics about what is important to me. Lyrics benefit songs in a...

Hi, I'm Dave. I play in a band called, "The Age," here in Perth, Scotland. I have recently decided to set up a home studio, in the hope to record The Age's debut album at the end of this year. Thus, I find myself here to learn as much as I can about recording techniques, equipment and general...