Recent content by Jack_Jones

I love, love, LOVE the vocals! They're really smooth, congrats! I wish I could lay down some vox like that. Intro may be a little long.

I just bought a new iMac and I installed the drivers for some of my peripherals. My scanner frequently says 'can't find the driver', all I do is close the window and try again. After I do that - the scanner works. It's weird, but consistent. Maybe you can try something similar, I don't know why...

I don't really believe in 'Talent'. I agree with Gecko, in that Talent is generally an innate ability, but there are endless people in the world with innate ability who waste it every day. I look at effective talent as more of a function of persistence, creativity and drive where innate ability...

I'm using a chinese made Apex that I bought for ~$200 and some dollars. How good are your mixing skills? I find that a person with really good ears and mixing skills can make a crap mic/pre-amp/settup sound amazing with the right EQ/compression etc. Skills > Any Gear

For a whole song, across all tracks my bread and butter is: -Compression -Stereo Delay (maybe 2 or 3 types of settings) -EQ (maybe 2 or 3 types) -Sometimes a bit or clip distortion Everything else is situational. I'm not really a fan of reverb plugins and I don't like De-esser much, but that's...

I like it a lot, and besides the vox being a little too hot in the mix. I would try adding some delay to the vocals and see if a 'wet' texture works in the mix. As far as the arrangement, I'd like to hear something arranged above the vocals in the chorus (either a high pitched guitar or...

Price and quality are not necessarily correlated. I happen to love the feel/sound/and look of a Fender Stratocaster. But really, I think it depends on the musical genre that you're interested in. The music I like generally has alot of Strats (And some telecasters) being used. I don't think that...

I remember encountering Cadences in music school. What I remember about them was that they were usually 'bread and butter' chord progressions that resolved to a 'I' Chord - like IV - V - I. I too am a 'minimalist' when writing and prefer the styles of other 'minimalist' writers. When you talk...

I don't know how it sounds when sung, but I find the X of sex hard to work with, I'd like to hear it when done.

I love Logic and have done some heavy multitracking and mixing in it, It has 9 different (at least, maybe more) view options and one of them is a 'real' mixing board. There is very little that Logic cannot do.

Mixerless, I am completely Guerilla.

I run my firepod on my Mac and had a similar problem once. I had to turn up the iTunes volume :) Are your media players volumes turned up?

Thanks, I learned the hard way. Made 1000 copies of a CD and still have ~650 in the basement and the band has broken up! Lol, You only have to do that once :)

I started out in a similar situation to yourself. My best investments have been: -an Apple iMac (Make sure you have lots of ram), gets a minimum of 4 years use out of it. -Presonus Firepod, 8 ins with pre-amps, great investment. -A student version of Logic. -get 1 shure '57, killer mic, will...

That's badass, I've got to start selling to waiters/toll booth guys. Love it.