Recent content by timvracer

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My drummer was very impressed... Of course, I didn't really tell him (just I didn't tell my vocalist I used minor pitch correction). They just love the sound, and somehow they remember playing it that way! ;-)

Wow... this is fantastic!

Holy Moly-- fell for that one. 2008!? I was talking to nobody obviously. doh

To the OP, I spent a ton of time trying to solve this on tracks I was mixing (and for which I had no ability to re-track). I had the exact issue is that when I tried to accentuate/shape the kick and toms, the high hat would come through. I tried to EQ/LPF the sounds out, but especially with...

a) I've never heard or of seen an "upward compressor". Can someone send a link to such a plug-in? And if it is not a common plug-in (not in my Waves Gold bundle), why are we even talking about it, especially in a noob thread? b) it appears that if such a thing exists, it mangles the softer...

Thanks steam/ash - read that bit about expanders and suddenly everything I learned was in question... except it wasn't. To the OP - while compressors don't actually make soft sounds louder, by making louder sounds softer, you get the same effect because when you then boost up the quieter signal...

Depends on what DAW you are using, but there are many drum replacement solutions out there. I use Sonar Platinum, and used the drum replacer that came built in with it. It did a great job, but it depends also on the samples you have. The Sonar one will choose from multiple samples based on...

I am no expert, but maybe some clarification might help here. When you say your vocals were clashing with your kick, are you referring to the "snap" of the kick? Typcially the kick will have 2 components, a BOOM and a SNAP, the BOOM typically lives in the 100-30hz range, and the SNAP usually...

I sometimes cut it out, or just automate the fader to zero, same impact from what I can hear. I don't see any value to the guitar buzz or vocal mic noise, especially unwanted singer pops or mic touches.

I am not sure if this is what scooping is, but I use a combination of ducking and eq slicing I believe. I feed my violin, guitars, and keyboards into a bus, and then split the bus into high/low sends to 2 buses (using HPF/LPF to cut track into the 2). I let the low end bus run through to the...

Hey Nate, Yes you can do this, I use Sonar X1 and do it all the time. I have a library of "effects chains" that I can use as a starting point for various tracks. If you right click on the effects bin of a track or a bus, you can convert the multiple effects of that bin into an "effects...

Yeah.. .me too.

Really appreciate you posting this andrushkiwt, I absolutely am struggling with the same thing with my real amp (Gibson LP Custom, Marshall JCM2000 DSL, 4X12 Marshall Cab). I am only using pre-effects (delay/compression/gate), but trying like hell to figure out how to get this thing to provide...

wow... so tell me how you all feel about using pitch correction on vocals. - Full Disclosure: I have stuffed ports. T-shirts.