Recent content by McParadigm

Running overheads for the orchestra at my middle school, in the auditorium. I have two SM81's hanging from the ceiling, about 12 feet above the stage. I'm running them through regular mixer pres (come on, it's a middle school orchestra, it'll never sound great), out to right and left monitors...

This song is driving me nuts. It's just not lifting up the way it should, and I can't figure why. The vocals are a quick run so that you could hear where they'll fit in it all...the final vox will be better, quite a bit. I also think I may have my sister in law do a background part for the...

Whoops. Thought for sure I was posting to the mp3 clinic. Sorry.

Cut this a few weeks ago, finally getting around to sharing it. The song

File this under "low fi and Tom Waits obsessed." After putting together two records last year, one with a band and one solo project, I felt like what I was listening to and what I was making were so far apart they were nearly irreconcilable. So I decided to create something that would more...

As part of the warm-up to my after-school music club (details in the Dragon Cave), on April 4th I'll be recording the school band. That's woodwinds down in front, percussion in the back left (looking at the band from the front), and the brass in the back right. I'm going to be expanding my...

Right now I'm using AT2020s for drum overheads through an Art MPA Gold pre with replaced tubes. Would you say the mics or the pre are holding me back more? I'm not looking at a lot of cash here...if I replace the pre, I'll probably go to an RNP. If I replace the mics, I haven't decided yet but...

I'm not sure I can do this. Hear me out. I have a Mackie DFX6 6-Channel Mixer, which I feed 4 drum mics into. The Mackie goes out via the two "tape outs" into the computer through an Audiophile 2496. Until recently, that was fine. Hell, when I started I was using the goddamn pres on the...

I splurged a bit and picked up some plugins. Up until now I've been pretty haphazard about it all. I had a few, which were used sparingly...now that I'm buckling down, this is the set and order I was planning to use: 1. Steinberg Denoiser 2. Timeworks Compressor X 3. Timeworks EQ 4. Vintage...

So my band sort of stumbled into this track. Wrote and cut it in a day. It's sort of...I guess like if the band Spoon played gypsy music. Completely unlike anything we usually do, but it was a lot of fun. Anyway, it's the first finished track since I got the new equipment, and I'm discovering...

So I just got my very first MIDI keyboard, and plugged it into my Audiophile. I played around with B4 a while (been waiting to do that!) and then went into Sonar Producer. All my MIDI inputs and outputs are set, and when I record it shows that I'm recording something, but I can't hear any MIDI...

So I just got my very first MIDI keyboard, and plugged it into my Audiophile. I played around with B4 a while (been waiting to do that!) and then went into Sonar Producer. All my MIDI inputs and outputs are set, and when I record it shows that I'm recording something, but I can't hear any MIDI...

This is bugging the crap out of me. I keep looking around to answer it on my own but I can't find squat. I was hoping not to have to ask something this rediculous here... So I built a bunch of bass traps using, basically, the Ethan Winer system, but they're freestanding ones. One side has the...

So I've got this 11 x 16 room that I'll be using as my home studio from now on. The desk obviously will be centered along one 11 foot wall. The southwest corner is nonexistant, as there is an entryway there instead (no door). I have 4 self-made bass traps, and 6 Gik traps (2x2 foot each). I've...

Changed: Moving (see below) For the record, what we have: 4 8-foot tall bass traps (the room is 8 feet as well) Behringer XENYX 1202 Mixer Behringer T1952 Tube Composer ART MPA Gold Microphone Preamplifier 2 Shure SM57s 2 AT2020s 1 Shure Beta 52A Kick Drum and Bass Mic 1 Neumann M147 2 KRK...