Recent content by UberGawkman

Our band has a new rehearsal space in the basement of a house, and we're currently building a studio in it. I had miced our drummer up, and while he was playing I walked up the stairwell to get a drink of water and stopped in my tracks... "WHOA! That sounds cool!" I went and grabbed a Zoom Q3...

You know, I know tons of good studios in town, but it seems like that's all that anyone knows about, mastering seems to be kind of an afterthought. Our last demo we had mastered at this one place, but we were kinda disappointed with the results. We're working on our cd right now, and are we...

How do most of you commonly use compression for vocals? What I used to do was just find a point in the wave form where it started to get excessively loud, use that as a general threshold point, then use a moderate compression with a fairly fast attack and a medium release. It did tame the...

This is more of a psychology question than actual physical recording, but I wasn't sure where else to ask it. Here's the scenario- we do a take or two of the vocalist, which are pretty good, but could be better. So we decide to try again. However, the more takes we do, the more he starts to...

I have an AC in my apartment that goes on and off about every 15 minutes or so, and everytime it does, it makes a very noticeable "pop" (this can be heard recording or not). Why would my AC turning on and off cause a pop? What about it interfers with the line in? Is there anything I can do about...

FYI, I have a: 1.5ghz, 512 megs ram, 60 gig hd PC with a Studiophile 2496 recording in Cakewalk at 24/48. So, I'm recording, and when I play it back, I get popping and clicking in a predictable rate; about the speed of a ceiling fan on medium speed if you were to touch it with your fingers...

We're going to be recording bass pretty soon, and we're mapping out a battle plan. The facts: our bass player does lots of "slap and pop" stuff (think Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E.), likes to have a moderate mid scoop between 300-900hz, and we have a lot of room to work with in the between 500hz -...

Okay, I'm just kinda gathering data, and find out as many different tricks to try as possible. What are some of the best/most common ways make melodic vocals to not get buried under, and be understandable over heavily distorted guitar tracks? Think Staind, Hoobastank, Incubus... except with...

This is kinda general.... not even sure if it belongs in this forum and maybe not in the cave, but it is about playing guitar.... sorta... I've been playing guitar for about three years. I'm not bad by any means, people compliment me on how well I play for how long I have been playing, the...

Question: you know how if you chop up wave files in Cakewalk audio view and select them all, each edit will open as a seperate wave file in Soundforge. However, it still does the same thing when you combine all the edits back into one solid track. How do you get Soundforge to recognize the track...

After all I've learned about mixing, there's still this one thing that bothers me, and I don't think that I get it. In a nutshell, what the hell happens to a sound when you turn down the volume, and what can you do to something to make it sound at a lower volume like it does at a higher volume...

Has anyone ever heard the effect they often use on Chino from the Deftone's vocals? Specifically on "Change In the House Of Flies". It sounds like there's some distortion or something, and the sibilants sound so damn cool and pronounced... it's as if the "s" sound was lowered down into the...

Hey, I just got a new Seymour Duncan humbucker pickup that I'm going to be putting into the bridge of my dual-humbucker axe.... never done this before, but I think I can do it.... I know someone who has a saudering iron, but does anyone have any tips for me? Or better yet, a website dealing...

So, this describes our band: our shows keep getting better and better, everyshow we play never fails to bring the house down... I can't tell you how many autographs I've signed on cds... most people agree that we have something very original and distinct going about us... we're the kind of band...

Hey, I was wondering if this makes sense to do..... would using the fundamental frequency of an instrument be a good rolloff point? This is what I mean: You hear stuff like, "Roll the bass guitar off at 80 hz," "Roll the bass guitar off at 70hz", etc, etc. Well, let's say your bass guitar is...