Recent content by ndycus1

Please take a listen to this song and give me your thoughts. The song is called "Fillmore" from a band called The Silent Escape out of Atlanta. It was tracked and mixed at another studio. But, they were not satisfied with the mix, so it was sent to me. Early next week, this (along with another...

I'm a 21-year-old who is ALWAYS looking to improve my mixes and better myself overall in recording. This song is one that I produced, engineered, and mixed. But, I need some more ears to help me out before I release the final product. I would like for whoever critiques this to be as harsh as...

I use my laptop to edit drum recordings that I have done. My older laptop worked just fine for it, but I got a new one. Now that I have a new laptop, when I press play in Sonar 4 Producer Edition, nothing happens. Since I'm only doing editing on it, I'm only using and intend to continue using...

My name's Nathaniel. I'm twenty. My sister-in-law sings. I wrote all of the music to this song. She wrote the lyrics and sang. I also did all of the engineering and mixing. Please critique my engineering and mixing down to the smallest detail. It's something that I really want to get better at...

In an upcoming recording i'll be doing for a punk/hardcore-ish band, my mic choices for drums will be very limited when recording drums (because i will have to use the band's mics instead of my own). The mic collection i'll be using consists of a D112, SM57's and 58's, a Neumann TLM103 (the...

Please let me know what you think about the song "Promises and Forget Me Nots." It's an acoustic song I recorded for the post-hardcore band The Silent Escape. I'd like for you to be as precise as possible, because I want to hear what I'm doing wrong and learn from my mistakes. I don't really...

On the song that i am currently mixing, the drummer does a lot of fast snare fills. but, during the majority of the song, he's playing a constant/steady snare beat. I have the compressor's attack time set so that the transient comes through and the release time so that the gain reduction will...

Will connecting three mic cables to make a longer run cause a significant degradation in quality? It will be used to mic acoustic guitar because the best sounding room in my house is the living room, and it isn't close to my studio.

I need to buy TRS cables to run from my preamps to my Delta 1010. I have a fairly limited budget. And I'm wondering, considering the length will only be about 3 feet, if I need to spend $25/cable for a higher quality cable. Or, could I just spend $6/cable for a Hosa cable and get similar...

I was just reading a thread about the worst mainstream mixes. So, I decided to start my own about the best. So, what are your opinions of the most well-mixed mainstream albums from the past 10 years?

I was wondering what everyone's favorite Waves plugins were in the following categories: FAVORITE OVERALL: FAVORITE EQ: FAVORITE COMPRESSOR: FAVORITE REVERB: ANY OTHER NOTABLE PLUGINS: (can you please state your favorite and an explanation of why it is your favorite) Thanks so much for your...

This may sound like a stupid question. And I'm pretty sure I already know the answer (at least somewhat). Right now, the soundcard that I am using (Tascam US-428) only has 2 outputs(a Left and a Right). I'm really considering upgrading to a Delta 1010 and I'm wondering what the use of so many...

I have a Mindprint Envoice preamp which I have been using for recording. But now I am about to start playing guitar for a new band and was wondering if it would help my live sound at all. Thank You.

I'm trying to figure out how to post a song on the web (for free) so that all of you can critique it. Thank you for any help you can provide.

why would one midi controller be more expensive than another? i am wondering if i should spend more on one that is supposed to be 'better' if all it does is send the exact same note into whatever sampler i have. are they all the same outside of maybe the number of keys? or what effects the...