Recent content by tc4b

I have a Kala U-Bass, a little hollow body with rubber strings. I bought an ehx big muff pi for it, but my rig is feeding back terribly when it's engaged. The only solution I've found so far is to play at very low volumes, which is definitely a long term fix. Any insights? Thanks.

I'm about to spend a whole 200 bucks on a bass combo. It's just for rehearsal space, quite small, so I don't need a lot of volume. I'm ready to accept the possibility that anything I spend that little on will sound shitty, but, out of curiosity (or desperation) I'm just asking, is there...

How do I know if a song is in the public domain? I want to use the melody from Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" for a project I'm working on for children, but I don't know if I can do that without paying. Thanks, and sorry if this isn't the right forum.

My guitarist recently started using a requinto, and it sounds amazing. I highly recommend it to any guitarist who enjoys any kind of finger picking guitar. Can anyone recommend a pickup that would be good for this? It's a smaller nylon string guitar. Here's an example. We don't play...

I have a noticeable lag recording with my mackie onyx 820i. I have recorded many times with this successfully, this lag is a recent thing. I can't tell you what exactly changed since I last recorded successfully (what software installed, etc.) because it's been awhile since I've had time to...

Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I've been playing some jazz with a friend, I play a digital piano and he plays a nylon string guitar. We were recently asked to play out, liked it and want to do it some more. We have a set of these, and instead of gutting the studio to bring the mixer to the...

Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I've been playing some jazz with a friend, I play a digital piano and he plays a nylon string guitar. We were recently asked to play out, liked it and want to do it some more. We have a set of these, and instead of gutting the studio to bring the mixer to the...

I'm experiencing some noticeable lag recording some vocals today. I know when I used to use protools I would just adjust some buffer sizes, but I'm not sure how to access those setting in reaper, nor what number would give me less lag when recording.

They don't look like the liveliest rooms, but damn they're thoroughly treated. Perfect for the "I add all my reverb/ambience in the box" engineer. http://www.apple.com/antenna/testing-lab.html

How much silence doyou put at the end of a track? I've been putting zero, which suits my short attention span when I'm listening on my ipod, but I've noticed it doesn't quite sound normal, which concerns me since I'm about to make an actual CD that some people might possibly buy. I'm not...

At the memorial day parade, I heard the horn of the fire engine (not the whiny siren, but the dissonant blast) and instantly needed to sample it and make music with it. Bad idea? Maybe, but I gotta try it. The guys at the fire station near my house have agreed to let me over and honk the horn...

Currently, I use my internal sata hard drive for stuff I'm working on at the moment, and an external usb hard drive as a "warehouse," moving recording sessions there I'm not working on, then moving them back to the internal when I work on them... you get the picture. I was wondering if anyone...

I hate my bass and, while saving for one I like, I thought some modeling software could help (I currently go DI). My recordings don't usually feature bass, so it doesn't need to sound awesome. Just curious what low-cost solutions there were for bass modeling. I record in Reaper, in case that...

Yes, I'm not happy at the moment. And I've been drinking, so the fact that this sounds good to me is highly suspect. I need to write more, but from a mixing standpoint... little help? Thanks. Cheer up everybody!

Wondering what your opinions are regarding physical rack units vs. free plugins for low-end people like me. I have two outboard compressors I really like, but frankly I'm not convinced they're any better than some I've gotten for free (no, not illegal, there's actually a lot of free stuff out...