Recent content by Davenhurst

I've just upgraded the RAM on my VAIO laptop from 512 to 1.5 and I'm finding no difference in Cubase SX. Before I was pushing the system to its limits with plugins and plenty of tracks, the VST performance meter seems to be up in the 90% region still. I know, I know - google it, search the...

Stick with me here, I'm not sure exactly what I've just done but I'll do my best to describe it. Basically I want to know if I've stumbled across an advanced and neat trick, and if it's widely used anyway. Or indeed, if it's totally pointless and is a long-winded way of doing something simple. I...

Word! I recently bought a pair of Alesis M1Active 520 monitors. Overall I'm really impressed with them, getting some great sound in my ears. The only problem is that they seem to produce a little too much noise, I wouldn't really describe it as "hiss" because it's more mid-rangey. You get me...

I've been going through some of the posts here, and a piece of advice that often crops up is to "check for phase issues". I understand the physics involved and the issues presented and also how to overcome it, but I don't quite understand how to know that there is a phase issue in the first...

Hey folks, I haven't been round this way for a while but it's about time to resurface. I have a new drum loop up, just want to get it heard. There's no real structure but that's kind of the point - it's just a short atmospheric piece. Mixing needs a lot of work, early days and it is a rough...

Played a gig last Sunday and a friend recorded the whole thing using a mobile multi-track rig. Anyway, I've got all my files in Cubase SX3 and spent a good long time on a mix. I wanted to route several things separately, and I ended up with a group channel containing group channels. Maybe this...

This is driving me mad, it's actually a problem a friend of mine is having (no, really), but he's not very technically minded so I'm trying to get it sorted for him. He's got himself Cubase SX3 and the Edirol UA25 Mobile USB Audio/MIDI Interface, has managed to plug the thing in and get his...

http://www.davecollingwood.co.uk Click MP3, then listen to "Ed Kemper". I recently found some old old 4-track tapes and stumbled across this track on one of them. Being young 'uns, we had no idea how to engineer properly, and only had 4 tracks available to us. So We just whacked the guitar and...

I'll be looking to buy some new drums in the (not very) near future, has anyone bought a kit from conaway drums? If so, how do you rate it? I'm planning on putting up a fair bit of money, so i want to be paying for quality and a kit that'll last rather than forking out a wodge of cash just for a...

I'm using a Zildjian A Custom BOTTOM on TOP of a Paiste something or other, and it's damn loud. The reason i'm doing it that way is that i cracked the Zildjian top. They were too loud in the first place anyway. I'm after quite a controlled, dry and a little bit sizzly sort of sound (no rivets...

Not exactly a studio building problem, more the classic pissed-off-neighbours problem. I currently have my drums in a spare room in my flat, there's a couple living underneath us and families on either side. Drums make noise, some people don't like noise. They don't know what's good for them...

Maybe this has been done already, but i'm well into checking out free / open-source stuff, so how about a thread for links to free multitracker / vst / softsynth sites. My recommendations so far: Tracktion: http://my.mackie.com/tracktionpromo.asp Psycle...

I've been using the free Tracktion for a month or so now, generally with no problems. Today i start to record and suddenly my "left analog in" is feeding back, or sounding like there's a delay on the input, depending on how high the gain level is. Turning off end to end does get rid of this, but...

This may have been posted already, but Tracktion is now free - get it because it rules. http://www.musicplayer.com/freetracktion.htm (Sounds like i'm spamming - but i ain't.)

I'll be doing some recording next week, and will be doing some drum tracks using brushes. Anyone got any tips for snare tuning to get a good response? I haven't yet found a sound i'm happy with. How about heads? What's best?