Recent content by ecc83

For (Win 11?) laptops I have bought my son a Lenovo E590 i5 gen 8* 512 ssd and 16G ram 15.6" screen . I have Reaper on it and the 11 track demo plays out of my M4 with no problems at 44.1kHz and 128 samples. I would suggest if you can to go for a bigger hard drive and 32G ram for future...

Rob, you are the LAST person I am going to have a cow with about computer recording! I am but a worm. I can only go by what I have read over many years and the whole thing is complex, involving as it does floating point math INSIDE the DAW which cannot I understand be overloaded? And the...

Yes because each time you mix two tracks at the same level the resultant is some 3dB higher. You can see therefore that as you mix more and more tracks you are going to bump into 0dBFS before long! Once you have EQ'ed and mixed the **** out of your tracks you can always boost it to as close to...

I would forget isolation booths. They are a bit of a myth for singers and were mainly used for V/O work where the "zero acoustic" did not bother the speaker too much but horrible to sing in! But! You seem to have discovered the source of noise ingress and therefore egress? Try placing some...

I don't know, I only read but I think SUBTRACTIVE EQ is the way to go? That is, do not, if you can possibly avoid it , boost* any frequencies. There is also the "Skyline" principle where you visualize each instrument/voice as part of a cityscape? *This can run you into headroom problems. The...

I could be wrong but I think you can only get Adobe Audition as part of a suite? Includes video editing and other ***t you don't need and subscription only. I have had AA 1.5 for 20 years! It came on a PC my best mate built for me for my 60th birthday. It is the only cracked software I have...

It's the wavelength innit! Given by, in theory c/f where c is speed of light and f the highest frequency of interest. So for 20kHz that is 15,000 mtrs. Signals* don't quite go at c in cables and it depends on the cable but you can see that 20kHz is going to be well over 10km! At audio...

No but but then I am not a musician or songist! My point was really that the "seekers of the '60s mojo" have, IMHO missed a very important factor in the sound of many of the hits. We hear endless waffles about vintage mics, pre amps with "attitude" and "tape sound" but nobody has ever asked...

I was put in mind of this very common thread, the search for that "old rock sound" a month or so ago when I read about the history of the echo chamber (re your mention of "The Plate" Papa) in sound on sound. Yes! It suddenly struck me! You can assemble all the (grotty IMHO!) harmonically rich...

Unless I am T as S and missing something as well I don't see a problem? The DP02 has send and return jacks. The SX3040 has in put and output jacks. You just need two TS cables AFAICS? Play the track out of the DP, send to Behrry, mangle. Return to another track on the DP...Bob;s yer whatsit...

I would like to just add to Rob's comments. The ZED 10 uses an internal switch mode power supply, i.e. no 60Hz transformer so that initial 60Hz spike HAS to come from an external source. Yes, transferring mixer, cans and guitar to another venue is a very good idea. The more so if the incumbent...

Chicken and egg sir. You won't know what to do with a meter until you get one. Suggestions! Test batteries, check earth continuity (we can tell you how) check the polarity of wall wart power supplies, been the ruination of many a gadget when that is wrong. Modern meters are sensitive enough and...

A easy, cheap way to colour code cables is some heat shrink sleeving. You can buy it in various colours but an even cheaper solution is to buy a collection of coloured 'lekkies' PVC tape and some clear shrink which keep the tape in place and stops it going sticky*. If you know the resistor...

Just because they are "old" 60s pre amps does not mean they are going to give you any "60s mojo". I would like to see a schematic but I am betting they are just the common or garden 'hybrid' pres consistIng of a pair of bipolar transistors and a fairly bog standard op amp (i.e. not even the...

I am very practical! Just coz I know a bit o theory don't make me useless! I would STILL like to know if you are totally confident that your whole recording chain is earthed and if you don't own a $20 digital multimeter bloody get one! It is THE most valuable 'non musical' thing the recording...