Hi, im about to buy a pair of Alesis MkII passive monitors , i have heard they are great
but do i need to buy the special amplifier from alesis. or can I use my home stereo amplifier. It has "flat" mode . ?
Is there too much of a diference between this types of amplifiers regarding the sound...
Hi guys, im buying new equiptment. i read the reviews on the Alesis Monitor1 MKII Channel Studio Monitors
(http://www.amazon.com/Alesis-Monitor1-MKII-Channel-Monitor/dp/B0002A2RTU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349811500&sr=8-1&keywords=studio+monitors++alesis)
It seems they are a great deal ! but...
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im recording/mixing an EP for a punkrock band
and there's this song in which the only way i could get the snare to sound good (with all the guitars, vocals and bass) was to push its volume up until it peaks.... and yeah, it sounds good when peaking! better than the snare sounds of...
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A friend of mine has a pair of alesis m1 active320 usb studio monitors, And i though i could mix the EP i'm recording with those
Does any of you have had experience with those monitors ? what can you tell me about their frequency resonse?
good choice ? bad choice?
Here it is , yeah
I totally agree with you burgundy but we recorded drums with another guy that wouldn't let me change the way he was recording it :/
you'll see there is a bunch of spill from the cymbals
when i try to gate it , each kick sound comes with a piece of cymbal-hit and it sounds...
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Im recording a punkrock band
I some of the drum tracks resulted having a really "ummph" kick drum sound.. there is no attack, no punch
and i figured that some really punchy mid frequencies in a punkrock kickdrum are essential in order for it to survive all the distorted guitars and...
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I know , the signal should never clip/peak because the distortion of the sound and etc.
but the other day i was recording and we changed a distortion setting (in a guitar amp) and i forgot to adjust the gain
when i looked back at my interface, it's lights were red peaking
can this...
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im recording a band and we were going to record guitars with a borrowed Focusrite Scarlett 8i6
but the owner of the interface will be gone for some time
I know this interface can record with a freceuncy up to 96khz, but we are going ro record in 44.1khz for compability reasons, the...
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So I borrowed this peavy mixer and hooking it up to my interface was a problem.
so , take a look at my interface's ass:
http://www.sector-audio.com/imagenes/productos/galeria/lexicon/alpha-/alpha--4.jpg
now, if your looking at her ass. You can see she has two a-holes called "Line in"...
Hi my buays
So im building my own studio. its a small room with fiberglass traped betwwen the old walls and gypsum plates. it had some eco and stuff but i effectively eliminated it with a little padding and a carpet on the floor. but my mother comes and says she wants to paint it , i told her...
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im recording a punk band and we are planning to use a direct box and a condenser mic at the same time to record the bass
but i wonder if it's dangerous to fuck up the condenser mic, since its so sensitive. Some of them have a special filter for close miking
but the one we are using...
Hi, i have noticed that my recordings and many other people's recordings have a lower volume than the average song , or professional song (whatever)
i heard it usually is like that, but soung engineers have some kind of technique to push up the volume with out distorting the track or making...
Hi , i have low budget so i can't just go and buy some professional monitoring system for mixing right.
I am wondering if there is a certain model of regular speakers that work nice as monitors, with a very neutral EQ ...etc.
I am currently using my Genius SP-F200 speakers
they look like this...
my computer's sound card seriosly sucks, it leaves wierd noises in my recordings and gets overloaded when the volume of what i am recording is too high.. which ends uo turning my recording sounding like an endless "prrrrhhp" sound....
SO I GUESS I NEED AN INTERFACE
i saw the cheapest one i...