Recent content by gabe

thanks for the kind words... their guitar was an american fat strat I believe. I'm not too sure on the pickups. It's just the J crunch default setting w/ a lot of post eq done to it. i definitely agree w/ the overuse of the phaser / flanger... it was more of their decision and I just went along...

thanks again everyone for responding and for the comments. I guess only time and practice will make perfect. Just reading a lot of forums and magazines, i get a lot of differing opinions on how to mix a rock song. Does anyone have any suggestions for the band? I think the drummer, despite a...

Thanks for the input guys, I agree about the dominating guitars. I'll experiment with tweaking the mid frequencies, hopefully that will clear things up. And I'll try out a large room reverb too. I guess it's so easy to overdo all the available effects, that I chose a conservative plate reverb...

I think you did the best you could given the situation you described. Like others said there are timing issues and some singing faults but it's raw, and I like it. It has energy. I'd imagine it'd sound really slick if they got their act together, practiced a bit more, maybe some new drum equip...

http://www.bootie.org/~gabe/ben/03-%20Face%20Down.mp3 Hello Everyone, This is a song that I engineered recently in my bedroom home studio. It was tracked extremely fast, but I think they pulled off something nice! Please let me know how the mix sounds and any comments towards use/over-use of...

I made the mistake of buying far too many cheap mic cables and they always have such a limited life span. It seems like it's always the male end connector giving out or something along those lines. Has anyone had a similar experience or know if this is fixable? -gabe

hmmm.... Sorry guys, it's hard to explain my query without this getting all confusing, especially w/ my lack of musical lingo. I think Roel and Krakit are definitely on to something, with the problem being the contact of the key itself. I have tried resetting the transposition. I have "reset"...

I own a casio cz101 and out of the blue, when I press D (anywhere on the keyboard), it plays Eb/D#. The keyboard is transposed to C and it this awful error is so noticeable and obvious. I really don't even know where to begin to remedy this problem. I'm convinced it is something internally. Did...

wow, this rocks This sounds great for a rough mix. Can you go into detail about how everything was recorded. Everything seems to have it's own place. The drums sound great too! What mics did you use, how did you place them, what eq/comp did you add? Please share!!! gabe

hmmm.... If it's clipping, i'd turn down the mic trim and lower the gain on the mixer. Also, are you compressing at all? I too have the powerstroke heads, and I have a hole dead center in the resonant head and it sounds great IMO. I can still achieve that fullness which you are describing. I...

hmmm... It's good practice to just do it yourself. I've had trouble doing the same thing you are doing. You say you're not a drummer, but it seems like you just may have enough knowlege to pull this off by creating the tracks yourself. I'm sure you'll learn a lot from it and the end product...

my setup Hello everyone, I'm really new here. I've been playing drums for about 3 years now. Here's my setup: Blue Mapex Venus Series Kit I believe the heads are low cost evans, which bought as pre pack for cheap (~30 for snare, 2 toms, and floor tom). The sound I'm getting out of them is...

I currently have a Fender Squier Strat... and I think it's about time I got a real guitar. I was thinking about the MIM Fender Strat or Tele, which I can get for 300 at the local guitar shop. Does anyone have anything good/bad to say about these guitars? I'm also considering dabbling in the...