Recent content by Russtopher

Let me preface this with this statement - I am a drummer. That'll probably explain a lot :D I just picked up an older Yamaha Pacifica 112 in a trade. It plays wonderfully, and the bridge humbucker sounds fine. The issue is with the middle and neck single coils - when I select them with the...

background - my only experience with a DAW is with Cubase LE, which had about 15% of the features Reaper does :-) scenario - using Reaper, I set up a buss and put some EQ and slight compression on it, and sent 2 guitar tracks to it. My understanding of doing something like this was to get the...

AKA "Battle of the cheapie kick mics" :) I own the KM212 which I am thoroughly NOT impressed with, it came with a CAD pre-pack. The tom mics and snare mic aren't that bad to be honest, but even with mucho EQ plus running another squashed kick track alongside it, I just can't get a good sound...

(if this belongs in the noob forum just let me know :-)) All of my audio was recorded at 16 bit. This is my first experience at "mastering" something, and I know that it's recommended to master at 24bit and then dither once all processing is complete. Given that I've recorded everything at 16...

So here's one - I'm working on mixing a song where the upright piano is *just* a bit out of tune. And what's worse is, it seems the bass notes are the ones out of tune, and almost everything above middle C is OK. Luckily, this piano is NOT the main instrument, it's there as a color thing in...

Obviously I know the correct answer is NO. Yesterday I plugged in my Tube MP Project Series, didn't have any mics or cables plugged into it, all gain/output knobs turned down to 0, etc. I only had it powered up, and then about a minute later I hear...

Ok - Presonus Firebox, powered both off of FW and also the wall wart (tried it both ways to see if that was the issue). Whenever I plug in condenser mics and hit the phantom power switch, I get this nasty low rumbling noise that occasionally pops. It's loud enough that meters in both Cubase and...

I have one Cubase LE session that's pissing me off :mad: 4 tracks of drums, 1 bass track, 2 guitar tracks. The second guitar track is compiled from a couple of different takes, 1 take for the first half of the song, then 3 takes for the second half (the 3rd take is the one that I want). When I...

My iBook crapped out so I picked up a used Gateway laptop for a nice price. The issue is there's no FireWire port so I'd need a card to use my Firebox. I don't need the laptop for anything serious, at most 4 track remote recording with zero effects, I'd just dump the tracks to my desktop for the...