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That's not a bad idea. Can't go wrong with a free one ay.

I'm not familiar with Addictive Drums sorry. These drum samples at Analogue Drums: Sounding different since 1999. Free 135MB Ludwig kit. Kontakt, Battery, EXS24. are most often used in a sampler such as EXS24, or Kontakt. They have been mapped for samplers, but also contain the WAV files, so you...

There's a Black Friday sale on at Analogue Drums: Sounding different since 1999. Free 135MB Ludwig kit. Kontakt, Battery, EXS24. . A One day only chance to get two sampled drum kits for the price of one. There's a variety of styles of drums, and these kits are really great sounding. (I do admit...

Recording with one mic only, the best way to get a stereo effect is to do two takes of the guitar part and pan one left and one right. If you would rather play the part only once, you can try cloning the track, panning one Left and the other R. On the clone track you put a small amount of pitch...

I use a mix of hardware and software compressors. As far as hardware compressors go, the dBX160 is a bit of a one trick pony. It is great on some things, but not suitable for other things. Software compressors such as the URS compressors are more verstile. If I was to have only one hardware...

I almost always use multiple reverbs in a song. Very commonly I have the following used in one song A guitar plate A vocal plate A drum plate A long plate A drum room or similar A large hall ....and maybe a room or two, a classic plate, and a smaller hall or chamber if necessay. I pan the...

Looks to me like another one of those threads where someone asks a vague question and then never shows up on the thread again to contribute clarification on their question or thanks for the answers given.

Absolutely agree with you here.......spot on! When someone is new to recording and is just starting out at it there is so much to learn. I have written a few tutorials, some of which I believe would be helpful for the OP to read. They cover various aspects of the whole process of understanding...

It is highly unlikely that recording at too low a level will cause problems. The chances are you haven't got the balance right in mixing, or your recording was not right at the source. If you are finding when the volume is boosted in your car and it turns to custard it will be your overall...

I think you and some others on here could benefit from reading this tutorial: Audio Recording Gain Staging | Rocksure Soundz Working with the levels of your individual tracks just below 0dbFS is not a good idea at all. Simply lowering the fader is not the answer. It will still clip the...

Hard to say without hearing it, but here are some techniques that often can help: a) A boost at about 2.5 k or 3k with a narrow Q factor, coupled with a boost at double that frequency ( 5 k or 6k), low cut at about 100 Hz, and cut a bit somewhere in the lower mids ( 200-400 Hz) if necessary. b)...

Yep I second that. Normalizing is not something I ever do, or can ever see a need to do.

The AT2020 has received some pretty good reviews since they released it. On a budget it would be a good choice. I wouldn't buy Behringer mics personally. Also consider the Rode NT1A as another possible option that will do a very good job on lots of sources-not just vocals.

Sound Forge is a great program for mastering and working on mono or stereo tracks, cleaning up sounds etc. The early versions only let you use direct X plugins, but since version 8 they have included support for vst as well, which makes it even more useful.

Also making sure that you have your gain staging done efficiently, during both the recording and mixing processes is a big part of not only getting the volume level up as well as getting clarity and headroom.