Recent content by Halion

Hey all, it's been a loooooong time since I posted anything here, so I thought it would be about time for something new. This is a ballad I wrote (lyrics by someone else) for a (fictional) TV commercial (school project). The idea was to produce a real "feel good" ballad to give kids feeling...

I know we have some hardcore old-school guys here (with all due respect, love you guys ;)) as well as many of the guys that have beeing doing this only since the digital era (myself included), so I thought I'd get a good discussion on the matter started. I'm not really looking for extremes here...

I've always wanted some kind of midi drum system, although I am no drummer. I scored this 8 pad to midi converter and I'm now looking into building my own drum system. I don't want to build the standard midifacation of a practice kit. I'm not a drummer, but I can tap rythms like on my knees...

Here's the deal: 1 Fender Jazzmaster. 1 set of new (.010) strings. 1 Spectraflex guitar cable. 1 DMP3 1 homemade XLR -> Cinch cable 1 Terratec EWX 2496 I'm using this setup to DI my guitar. For some reason, the clean DI sound is lacking highs and the transients seem a lot less sharp than I'm...

I've nearly convinced my teachers at school to purchase a bunch or processing gear in order to make sort of a "fat" channel. We are using preamps from the mackie d8b and RME Octamic. They are ok but nothing special. We have on SPL Channel One (1000$ channel strip, tube pre, EQ + comp). What...

I just got a second hand (but amazing) Jazzmaster and I'm mainly gonna use it for recording. I have a cheap small line 6 amp, and suffice it to say, it doesn't cut it for recording. I'm looking into getting a software modeler. I must say, I'm not really impressed by most of them so far. I am...

I'm so happy! :D I just got a MIJ Fender Jazzmaster from 1995 or 1996, with a matching headstock, and an extra Seymour Duncan humbucker in the middle. The wiring is super complex, I can use any combination of pickups (all together like 15 options :o). And the best part, I got it for 400...

Today I got the chance to record a great drummer. I had 5 hours time to record a single song (pop rock), so I had lots of chance to mess with micing techniques. Let me post a small summary of what I tried: Last timed I miked drums I had a U87 still standing in the room and I thought, hey lets...

I don't think this qualitfies as a Recording Techniques but i couldn't find a better forum so here goes: I'm looking for someone to help me out on features projects. I am in need of someone to record drumtracks for me. I'm talking about high quality music, so the person needs to be able to do...

Hi guys, I thought I'd share some of my stuff again. http://members.home.nl/vangeelen/whalesong/whalesong.mp3 This piece is called Whale Song. It is for a project called Architects of Air (google it). In the beginning, you hear 3 sounds, a hi-synth arpeggio, which is meant as a background...

Yesterday I helped some classmates record drums at school. We had this setup: 1 x Fairly Crappy (tm) drumset. Had a good snare though. 1 x Decently Nice (tm) cymbals. The hihat was a bit on a heavy side. 4 x e604 on 3 toms and we stuck the last one on the snare top. 2 x SM57 on the top and...

Here's the deal: I study Music Production at the conservatory of my city in the Netherlands. We have 3 studio spaces: Studio 1: The big one. Small tracking room (just big enough for a medium drum kit). Medium acoustical treatment. Window to the control room. Sounds good for closemicing stuff...

When importing a video in Cubase (or Nuendo for that matter), is the video file (and thumbnails) stored in the system RAM, or in the RAM present on the graphics card? I want to know if buying a graphics card with more ram onboard will increase speed when working with video files (not having to...

I have very small monitors, that are fairly crappy. I did a small test and concluded that they go no lower than 70 hz. However, I know these little suckers very well. In the beginning, I was boosting lows like crazy in the hope of getting some thumping going on. In vain, ofcourse. The mixes...

I need help! I have this big school assignment where I need to make all the audio for a small trailer (1 minute). That includes music, sound fx, and also a voice over. The trailer is in english. I've done everything, except the voice over failed quite horribly! I live in the Netherlands so I had...