Recent content by rob aylestone

We have often mentioned what you actually do with music once you create it, so I have had an idea. I've used Distrokids, CDbaby, Record Union Songtradr to release stuff in the past, and with the exception of Distrokids who screwed me over, they all have differences. What I came up with was a...

Col, I quite like the sound of the violin with the effects, the snag though is you have forgotten the key signature? It’s falling in love again isn’t it? The 4th and 5th notes are a snag. Wise men said, is a perfect fifth jump. The fourth note should be a whole tone up, then the fifth note...

Really popular software that lets you live stream - but it does other useful stuff like audio and video capture - you can capture windows, or full screen, and capture audio from a youtube video or other sources connected. Lots of useful formats and it is free! Unlike ordinary capture software...

I suspect you are hoping for a very simple and visible fault. All the suggestions here will only help if you have some tools, the ability to use them and the science to interpret what the evidence tells you. You need to establish likely culprits. “Wont start?” As in it’s dead, or you get a...

The effected vocals seem to shift pitch at very strange places, rhythmically? and it makes it very difficult to understand the actual words. The music has a beat but the words are like jazz, sort of syncopated and off beat? Is that meant to be? I'm way from expert at this genre.

The transformer looks like it got very hot, and the pcb that sits over it looks really nasty - all the tracks look warped and distorted.

I was a bit surprised by that version of Amazing Grace Colin? The tune isn't quite the one I know! Bar 9, just sounds a bit odd? The comments on Police and aircraft made me smile. In the UK we have been unable to listen to emergency services radio for a very long time - since they encrypted...

Hmmm I wonder if you just subconsciously did versions 'coloured' by your knowledge of what they were? Like maybe when you know a mix will be used for a certain purpose, or you've mixed it for a particular audience? So not a taoe or digital mix, but an 'technical' mix for digits and maybe a remix...

I wonder if the success is that all the action is well below tape cutoff frequency. We are so used to all the HF stuff above 6-8K that we now have the bad habot of believing quality = HF busyness. My hearing falls away gradually because I'm old, but usually the top HF I do have makes the tape...

I've had a Steinber CC121 remote for cubase for years - theres a fader, some buttons, some knobs tape transport LEDs etc - but if you look in cubase, it's just a MIDI device that maps all the controls via MIDI - appears really clever, but almost any MIDI device could be made to do the same...

Pretty standard for analogue hardware mixers and now for digits - I record dry, but it's easy to route that input to effects and processing and squirt that back in to headphones. You have to do this for the monitor mix anyway - giving the singer your rough mix from main left and right works if...

We used to get lots of posts like this but as people here tend to be striving to maximise quality, YouTube is rarely where we would source music from. If you want to do it then for me I tend to use OBS and hit record. Then I’ll just take just the audio. The kids have dozens of apps for this but...

I think my accent probably is old school, as lots of younger Brits sort of have 'new' accents. The weird thing with that moving mic is how gentle the changes are. You see people who move mics small amounts, but the actual difference they get is actually tiny.

I use streamdecks sometimes to control cubase or qlab, which works. You can also map MIDI CC messages to buttons - I have a master keyboard controller and can even use the drum pads on it to fire off cubase - it's just programming so a but fiddly to set up, but it works fine.

Sorry for delay - this is the video, in nearly the right place. I just noticed in this older video that in amongst the different mics there's a piano simulation too.