Recent content by geraci89

Hey all, first off my set up includes: lots of sm57's, beta 52, and a pair of Studio Projects C4. Im recording in an unfinished basement. I have 8 inputs to use and plan on close miking the toms and 2 on the snare. My question is: Do you guys think its better for me to focus on getting my OH's...

Hi everyone, I've been a fan of this forum for a long time. Learned a few things and had a few people work on some of my bands live stuff for mixing practice. Here's our debut album, we'd all appreciate if you all wanted to give it a listen. You can download the music if you like. the album is...

Hi everyone, we've been strongly considering finishing our basement lately and I want to have a room dedicated to my instruments that'll at least block MOST of the sound out. On the inside I wouldn't go too crazy with internal design as if we sell the house I want the room to be convenient to...

Hey everyone, Im relatively new to mixing and am working on my bands first project. I know that it is recommended to leave roughly -3 to -6 db of headroom when mixing down. On a few of these songs, the majority of the instruments stay within these boundaries but there will be the odd snare or...

Hi everyone. To keep it short, I recorded my band at our rehearsal space a couple weeks ago. We did 3 Rhcp covers (factory of faith, monarchy of roses, and otherside) and 2 originals. professional video was also taken and these vids are going to our YouTube page when the videographer is done...

Hi, what are your thoughts on what is the latest vocals should start on a "radio friendly" song? 25 seconds, 40 seconds, 1 min, 2 min, dont matter?? We have a tune we're recording currently and the singing starts after about a minute. Someone mentioned that "usually" on radio material the...

Hey all, I came across this on youtube. It's a slice taken from Snow (Hey Oh) which includes Frusciante's vocals and some other parts. My question to the experts out there is if you would be able to describe how they went about fattening up his vocals to sound so thick??? This can be pretty...

Hi everyone! I've been using SX3 for the longest time and everything was fine. Just upgraded to 4 and everything seemed to be installed properly. I went to Device--> Device Setup--> and for VST audio system selected Firepod ASIO. Went to VST connections and set my inputs to 8 mono in. On the...

Hey everyone, I'm a noob when it comes to drum placement, as well as acoustics placement. I've made myself 6 2" panels of an oc705 equivalent. I'm trying to find the best place to set these up, as well as my drum kit, to get a fairly unharmed sound. Any advice is greatly appreciated. So far ive...

Hey all, I'm fairly new to recording and mixing, learning on my own. I like to think I've made decent progress when recording and mixing tracks, but a problem I just cant seem to get away from is having a present kick drum in a final mix!! Can anyone shed some light onto this subtle art of...

Hi everyone I'm new to posting here, just have been reading over some other threads. Anyways I'm getting into the home studio thing and recently have been looking at upgrading my overheads from 2 apex 191's. I've been hearing good things about the rode nt-5's and I was wondering what you guys...

hey everyone, I was planning on getting one of these, along with a brand new cpu. any suggestions on the specs i should be looking for on average as far as speed and memory go? the most i would normally be recording at once is about 6 tracks onto cubase le or se for the drums, but if i decide to...