Recent content by rob aylestone

It sounds commercial - what we would need to hear is what you recorded? We cannot tell what he did, vs what you did? The guitars, if DI's could be recorded anywhere? Same with a close miked vocal - a really good mic lips on it, sounds pretty similar wherever you are, singing loud.

In practice it will work fine - just a bit clunky pulling out a cable and stuffing it into the other socket. If that isn't an issue, fire ahead - BUT - I certainly would not do it with ¼" speaker connection, but I'd do it with speakons. Why? Just that jacks while convenient always seem a bit...

Surely the entire point of using computers is that, like every tool, you have to at least have a sensible handle on how they work. Today, Windows has asked me to update the app for my Nord keyboard. Stupidly, I clicked yes. Cubase now cannot see it and I have some strange new driver installed...

What you have created is a lead guitar and a background vocal. everything draws attention to the guitar. The guitar has clarity - but the question is why two guitars and why three vocals? Old fashioned double tracking as in two identical separate vocal tracks needs amazing precision and endless...

This is a duplicate of one in the vocal technique section. That has more responses, so I will shut this one. R

The mac thing is quite straightforward now. Mac computers assume you are an idiot. they decide what is best for you - if you get them, you can take charge. Windows assumes you are an expert, and you can take charge if you dare. if you plug an empty, brand new drive into a mac, it asks you if you...

You are flowing all over the place. We are swinging from ultra basic stuff like mp3 playback that is safe, to now macbooks of in apples opinion, vintage legacy age. Your needs are modest. Mp3 capability is built into everything, and even has free software like audacity that can edit it. You...

I have a good friend who also uses cubase. I was preparing something and he said he would send me his cubase file - as we both had the actual audio files, this would be simple. Nope! His file had over 120 tracks, and cubase threw up a plug-in error - 72 plug-ins not found. I knew some of the...

I think I am a bit weird. I use Cubase like a recorder. The only two things I use commonly are reverb, and a touch of compression. Oddly - not exciting O-Zone or similar products - just two reverbs, and two compressors - that come with cubase. The system sits there, connected. I can fire it up...

The figures for the clarett suggest very little difference in the noise and gain between line and mic level, making me suspect the line just gets impedance adjustment and level changing to use the same basic preamp circuitry - I seriously doubt the line inputs bypass the preamps. If it was me...

I am a naysayer. I have 4 analogue reel to reel recorders, i have mixers and lots of old rack gear. NONE of it is up to the quality and convenience of an interface and computer. There is something very nice about recording with the old stuff, but the advantages are swamped by disadvantages...

That's interesting - virtually unheard of in the UK. Every house has their mains come in and then goes to the sockets and appliances - we don't use transformers in domestic properties.

Nowadays we are so used to things like qlab not just running sound, but also lights that you can have a lighting change on every beat of a bar if you want - from 1956, through to 1980 is a huge amount of time for an essential manual system to have worked. Very operator intensive.120 faders, each...

yes - I would call that one a song. I suppose I'd take a piece of music with melody, words or an instrument playing the melody and if it has a verse and chorus, that would tick my song box. Yet, imagine the Top Gun music - it has a very clear melody, but in my head is NOT a song - yet it sort of...

In the original, London had an illuminated floor. As in when Herod did the deed, it went blood red - but that control could not do flashing. It has no way of going white-red-white in time with music or the script - that involved another operator and a separate control. Nowadays they can do...