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How many tracks do you have? If you have only two tracks that peak at -6dbfs at the exact same time, you will be at 0dbfs. If you are doing something like stacking kick drum sounds, and they are all at -6dbfs, you will clip instantly. You don't necessarily need to add a gain plugging at the...

I normally use a cowbell sound, but I don't accent the 1. It allows me to change time signatures without having to create a song map. I'm in charge, the 1 is where I say it is

Cutting the master is the mastering process. The tape is normally the raw mix. The eqing, compression, de-essing and the riaa curve are all done between the tape and the cutter.

With vinyl, cutting the master with the riaa curve and all the other processing needed to put the sound on vinyl is mastering. You generally don't want to do much "mastering" before sending it to the plant

The last time aarrowsmith was on the forum was 11 years ago. This post is 15 years old and thr thread is old enough to drink. You may not get an answer.

The only issue I see with using the Mackie is you will have 8 separate volume controls that can quite easily get out of alignment with each other. You would be better off dealing with the lower bit depth at low volume and just use the volume control in cubase. The mixed speaker thing is a much...

It is good to point out that the goal is to make the mix work on a variety of systems, not to make it sound the same on a variety of systems.

It's all about translation. I had a set of big speakers and near fields that I found is I could go back and forth between them without the mix changing, it would translate well. By "the mix changing" I mean that that nothing jumps out or disappears on one speaker or the other. All the...

You won't need to spend thousands on prism or anything like that, but you will need to get out if the bottom basement category. For a long time now, the converters themselves haven't been the issue, it is the cheap analog circuitry leading to and away from the converters that makes the...

If it is a wireless lav, you could have the gain on the transmitter or receiver too high. Then you would be distorting that, before you even got to the computer interface.

I did have a setup where I could mix through the board. I purposely got 32 channels of I/O for that purpose once I made the jump from tape to the computer. The number of times I mixed on the board got less and less pretty quickly because of having a commercial studio and having to jump back and...

I think the next obvious step to get more tracks without the computer would be a stand alone digital recorder if some sort. They have a similar work flow to the cassette 4 track, but with 16 or 24 tracks. You can hook it up to a computer, if you want to, but you don't have to. I've had some...

How do you synch the DAW to the portastudio, so the slate is in the same place on both machines?

You understand perfectly. Unfortunately, if you are trying to get off the DAW, you are going to need to use more than a cassette portastudio. But once you get into bigger analog setups, the complexity goes up, which might have the same affect on you creativity that the DAW poses. Without...

You wouldn't be able to play along to the tracks in the daw when recording to cassette. So you need to bounce a premix to play to. But it would make more sense to just track to the daw and mix to cassette to get the sound of the cassette. Doing it the other way is time consuming and full of...

Wavelab essentials would be fine. The only thing that wavelab does that a lot of DAWs don't do is sequence and burn a CD. If you are just looking to process the files to get them to sound like they belong together, everything you need is in your DAW.

Bouncing to the daw to mix tracks together will work fine as long as you never have to go backwards. 1. Fill up 4 tracks and bounce them to the daw. 2. Mix those tracks to bounce back to the cassette. 3. Add more tracks. 4. Repeat. 5 Do final mix on cassette That will work fine. However, if...

To test the drift of the cassette: 1. record a 5 minute click track to the tape deck 2. Record from cassette to the daw. 3. Record back to the cassette. 4. Record that back to the daw. 5. Try to line both tracks up in the daw and play them together. Chances are if you line up the first beat...

That thing was used on everything in the 80s. I'm not sure about it being compared to a modeler, since it isn't.

You need to keep your peaks below 0dbfs. If you need the master level turned up, you should put a limiter on the master fader and get the volume from that. The rest you need to adjust by ear. An rms meter will react differently than your ears do. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of specific...