Recent content by RecordingJedi

hey. i'm using a friend's vegas program to record somethin. i burned some mp3s of separate instruments to take home and listen to. i got a question. all the instruments sound ok by their lonesome, except the distortion guitar. it's got this weird horrible metallic sound...crackling...

This is probably too late a post, but oh well. Do not use your equipment as a scapegoat, sir. That is SUCH the novice's mistake. Your easy swallowing of over-analyzed, over-heady, flaunting advice of professional engineers is probably going to lead you down a more costly financial road...

2:1 ? that sounds kind of low. is mastering compression generally softer than the ratios used on seperate instruments ?

hey, i don't have enough money to pay for mastering. But there's a friend I know with sound forge, I think, pretty sure. Anyway, we make masters on his computer. What I'd like is for some advice, or a walk-through on basic settings and technique on how to get something sounding reasonably...

Thanks, jamesy. I used the search function on here and kind of got some good answers to what I'm looking for. For anyone interested, a couple of people reccommended an article at www.dbxpro.com that kind of gave me the answers I was looking for. It's a tutorial kind of on compression...

[a] my equipment really isn't necessary to know. hell, i don't even know it. i record with borrowed friends' gear when i do... the compressor says in big assed letters 'COMPOSER' on it, but I'm not sure if it's a Behringer or not. [b] the master of mastering didn't say he could get it up to...

Hello. My first post. It has always been my thought, as well as many other engineers, that compression is an effect that should be used in small amounts. That it is something that kills the vibrancy and life of a signal. I only use it when I have to. But... I was checking out this...