Recent content by guttadaj

Don't really understand the problem you're describing, but I wanted to tell you that I was also confused a while back when my Echo button offered only 2 modes (on/off). I believe I had to go into the Options-Global to specify that I wanted to use it as a tri-state button. Light on details -...

I agree of course with everyone who's said that you should not expect studio quality sound when you're not recording with studio-level equipment or experience. However, the fun is in seeing how close you can get with whatever equipment you do have or within your budget. I would second the...

I am still on 4SE, but I just went to a MusicTech workshop last week where Cakewalk presented SONAR 5PE and Project5. Man, I was blown away by the things 5PE could do and would love to get my hands on it once $$ issues will allow. That V-Vocal thing (like Antares Autotune) looked to be worth...

I would agree that it's easiest to just use the mixer for monitoring. I was actually really surprised to see this, but the PODxt can act not only as an input (when hooked up through USB) but as an output as well! I sort of stumbled upon this. Anyway, if you are doing some headphone monitoring...

Sheesh - that's funny. I can remember after first getting SONAR having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get it to do a crossfade for me, and there you stumbled on it and are having a hard time figuring out how to get it NOT to do it. :D I think that, like "Snap to Grid", this is a...

1) It's quite possible that your effects sound different when applied to the track directly than when used through an effects send. This could be related to how you have the effects settings though. The common way for someone to use delay-based effects (delay of course but also reverb...

Gulfo had it the closest in my opinion. You would set up an effects buss with the delay effect patched into it. The delay should be on 100% wet. But then, instead of automating the volume of the buss, you want to automate the volume of the Send to that buss in the actual track itself. That...

A Behringer MX602. :eek: :o :rolleyes: :D I really only record myself, no drums (that's all MIDI with softsynths), so really just got it for cheap mic pre's, for a way to let me record guitar and vox at the same time for when I'm just messing around with ideas, and for including my...

I would second SouthSIDE Glen's warnings here. I don't know how it works, but in Cool Edit, it created a noise profile if you gave it a few seconds of the hum. Then you could select a track or portion of a track and apply a filter using that noise profile. You could also select the strength...

While I agree with what everyone's saying about trying to identify the source of the problem and attack it there, it sounds like you've done quite a lot of investigation with no results. Especially if it's a really slight hum like you're saying, maybe there's just no way to eliminate it...

Also, check out this thread for some more discussion on re-amping and the use of DI boxes.

That's what the Gain is for on those mic/line channels that some mixers have, which use a mixer's onboard preamps. You generally need to crank up the gain some on a mic input plugged into one of those channels whereas you don't so much for a line input.

There's no real difference between what active and passive DI's do. The difference is in how they do it - more of an internal, under-the-hood kinda thing. Basically the passives don't need any power because they use transformers to convert the signals, and the actives use active electronics to...

While I was aware of what re-amping was and thought it sounded like something that would be cool to experiment with someday, I never really thought about this step before. It makes sense though that you could fry your amp if you sent it a line-level signal. My amp thanks you in advance! :D...

Do you have any other instruments fighting for the same frequencies? If so, you may need to apply some EQ cut to remove a little of the common frequency band from those instruments and let your guitar have it. Or, you could cut it from your guitar and let other tracks have it, but if you say...