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The guitars being 100% L/R isn't unusual, and that's not the distracting part to me. It's the drums that are distracting. Even though the drum bus is panned center, there is something making them artificially wide in the mix. Click on Kontakt and look through the controls within the plugin...

The drums are distractingly wide in the non-mastered version as well, so it's either baked into the samples or there has been some sort of stereo widening somewhere along the way. It sounds like the drums are panned mostly right, and just a slapback delay of the drums is on the left. The phase...

As far as connecting outboard gear, I think the ways that would be accomplished would be - on the way in, via a channel insert - on the way in, via an outboard preamp, then any other line-level processors, then line input to the interface - in software, while tracking, using a VST that...

I agree that FMR are a little fuzzy when it comes to the cable requirements. The manual says to NOT use TRS cables, but I hooked mine up with TRS in and out, going to balanced connections on my interface and I didn't have any troubles. Now I've got it hooked up with an insert cable, which is...

I think he's referring to "5 Man Acoustical Jam", the live acoustic album that they did. There's a version of Love Song from that album too. That really brings me back to high school, when I listened to that album a shameful amount :)

I've had a 1-channel FaderPort for years now, and I still use it a lot. No novelty here, it's genuinely useful. I use it for track levels, panning, transport control, and writing automation. I still use the mouse/keyboard for everything else, like creating/naming tracks, adding FX, adjusting FX.

This would be the exact effect of normalization. I agree, somewhere in the signal chain is some sort of automatic gain or normalization process. This article makes it sound like Garage Band automatically normalizes on export, and that behavior can be turned off...

Yeah, everything is still over on the left. I turned off my left speaker, and the only thing on the right is bass, vocal and a teeny tiny bit of barely-audible hihat. Drums and guitar are entirely on the left side. Something funky is going on with the panning. Great guitar tone though!

A Reaper license will carry you through 2 versions. If you bought into version 4, then you'll be covered for versions 4 and 5, and you'll need another license for version 6. That's the spot that I'm in now. I didn't click the button to upgrade from 5.999 to 6 today, but I'll fork out the...

I've never laid hands on any of those 3 mics, but I can't imagine that any of them would let you down. It all comes down to which frequencies they exaggerate and which frequencies they attenuate. I've heard C414s quite a bit and they seem like a great all-around workhorse. The XLII has a...

Dang, you analog guys have some impressive setups (and some "impressive" critters :)). And I'm really amused by your pet stories. Also, bachelorb, I think you've got a sweet mobile setup. It's like the Stones' rig back in '72 :D I'm all "in the box" so I'm an outsider here, but I do have a...

This started as an experiment: what would happen if I sent everything through my new Behringer ADA8200 preamps? I've since retracked the drums, but mostly everything here is going through the cheapo Midas preamps on the ADA8200. This one is at that point for me where I've listened and...

OK here's where I'm at, after trying a few things as far as overheads and spot mics. I like the spaced pair overhead placement the best. And I've re positioned my tom mics so they're pointing more towards the rims than towards the center of each tom. For the kick, I've got the mic just inside...

On the mixer panel, above each track is a stack of sends. If you click on one of those, it should give you the option of adding a new send to a track (like if you wanted to do a reverb aux send), or to send to a hardware output. I've never tried this, but this would be where I'd start. See if...

Love it miner! Speaking of 1991...we did lingerie instead of jeans. This is embarrassing but I can't resist. Yes, those are tights...and the Charvel 475 that I traded in for my Les Paul in 1999. But hey, the singer met his first wife while we were shopping for those tights. She worked at...

OK, here is my attempt at Greg's settings on my 10-year younger 2204. I don't have a SD1, but I do have a TS9. So I cranked the level and turned down the drive (although now that I look at it, I messed up and left the drive at about 3:00). Same settings that Greg used on the amp head...

Hey thanks Jim! Well, maybe I do drum on the steering wheel a lot. And I sometimes accidentally goose the gas pedal when a great kick line comes on :D Oh, I took a picture and forgot to attach it to my last post:

Lately I've been fighting the urge to buy a drum kit for my home studio. It'd just be for a small home studio room, no gigging or touring or anything like that. I'm just looking for something that records pretty well, and is somewhat compact (no 12-piece double-bass roto-tom rail system thing...

I have to admit, when I first saw the thread title, this is more what I had in mind: So here is my gear shaming:

Yeah, the wah doesn't work as well when it's in front of distortion/overdrive kinds of effects. I ended up putting mine close to the end of my chain as well, only my delay pedal goes after it. Here's what I'm running with recently: Let's see, the order is: - Boss TU-3 (tuner) - Boss OC-2...