Recent content by walshi

Hi all, I'd like you to listen to our first recording/mixing effort. We've tinkered around before but this is our first "proper" effort! The song is called "Come Join Me" It was recorded in my spare room and mixed on PC with samplitude. I'm open to any advice, suggestions, help etc. It's at...

Hi all, I've read thousands of times not to go over 0dB in a digital environment (I'm using a delta 44 and Samplitude) or else the finished mix will have horrible distortion etc when the signal clips. However, I've never actually heard this distortion so far even though I know I've gone over...

Just a quick point, when people say "cut the eq" or "roll off" the frequency at, lets say, 250hz. What exactly do they mean? do they mean cut by a few db from 250 to 0hz or reduce down to 0Db immediately under 250 hz.

Hi all, Our drummer has just bought a new Tama drum kit. However the snare sounds "metallic" with a ring to it. We have tried tuning to no avail although we don't have much experience! Is this just the way this particular snare sounds or is there a way of getting it more "hissy" than "ringy"...

Hi all, Yep...I'm still a newbie, but with help from you guys I'm gonna' change that soon!!! I use Samplitude and get along with it fine, however one thing I'm never sure of...When I go to the dynamics section of the mixer, the compressor is always defaulted to "COMPR. MAX". I can go in there...

Hi all, Warning newbie alert!! I am wondering where abouts you guys pan any layered sounds that you have? In my case I have 6 layered acoustic guitars. I want a nice "airey" strumming sound kinda like a bunch of 12 strings. Do I pan, say, two on the extremes, another two say, 3 and 9 oclock...