Recent content by davecg321

This seems like a better option than riding faders (volume automation) as one can get a more consistent level before hitting compressors etc... I've seen a video of someone doing it on pro tools but am at a loss for utilizing this technique in Cubase.

I'm using Cubase too. So use stereo if panning has been applied to the tracks being sent to the groups? How do VCA and Group tracks differ? tah

When I set up a group track should it be mono or stereo? Thanks

I recently recorded a song that feature myself and a female member of our band. The song is a simple affair of acoustic guitar/2 vocals, electric guitar. I tracked both vocals in the same room using the same room, mic, mic placement, gain staging average -17. When I listened back to both the...

This makes more sense now. I had always planned to use the instrument input on my interface (presonus firestudio project) but was basically wondering why it was lower on the line inputs. From the tech spec it should be perfectly adequate with line level inputs right? (but clearly isn't) Most...

Hi I've recently just bought one of these IK Multimedia | iRig Acoustic Stage - Advanced digital microphone system for acoustic guitar Its basically a clip on microphone (sound hole) When I connect the output to a line channel on my interface the signal is significantly low, even with the...

Looking to upgrade from my Presonus firestudio project. I'm running on Windows 10, Cubase 8. Would prefer something by universal audio but all the newer stuff is thunderbolt. Can't justify getting a Mac or spending a shed load on a hi spec pc. What does everyone recommend?

why are you not used to that yet? although Coquet-Shack is correct in saying it is indeed -14LUFS for most streaming platforms. I remembered the article I read wrong haha Why would you not be used to a lower figure anyway? One simply lowers the amount of gain on the limiter, of the tracks...

hi, The recommended LUFS target for mastering is -18lufs (for spotify) as anything louder will just be turned down. So, in theory there is no point in heavily compressing/limiting our songs. To coincide with this, a quieter track (perhaps a reading of -21 LUFS) will get turned up. However...

I'm using a NT1a to track my vocals and a rode m3 to record acoustic guitar. Now, the NT1a perfectly isolates the vocal with very little guitar bleed (I'm playing and singing standing up to increase the distance from both mics/sources) What compromises this is the guitar Mic. It picks up way...

I'm using a presonus firestudio project to record with. I set the gain on the interface so I have a healthy level going into cubase. The article said to leave the track faders within the daw at unity (when tracking), that's fine but obviously when i start recording more tracks I may want to...

I've read a few articles that say to do this. Although what about when I want to monitor/track something at a lower level? Leaving it at unity forces one to listen at a louder level. Perhaps the articles are just referring to the mono ins and not the main tracks that are used for mixing post...

Yep, I've just re-read the manual and it does indeed state to play the song in its entirety to get the integrated loudness of a track. Yes that's definitely a feature I'll be using when mastering, super easy to do as well. I've seen the youtube and found it very helpful. Is this also the one...

Some of the loudest parts of my song are hitting -9lufs but everything else is well under. I'm guessing this would bring down the overall integrated lufs? Also, how do I check the overall lufs for an entire piece. Master check seem to only detect peaks D

So I've got the new Nugen mastercheck plugin to monitor my loudness levels and have started to wonder about a few things. For instance Spotify's new lufs normalisation has been lowered to -14 lufs, So from what I can gather from the manual this would be a good starting point for printing our...