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    Micing speaker for mixing

    I used to run electronic drums through speakers to capture the room and some 'air' around it. Also normal reamping guitar and bass di signals and vocals throu all sorts of things to get a sound. Once Amp and cabinet simulators got good enough, I just started using those instead of setting up...
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    What are these loops in Laney amp?

    Back in the old days, when people had 15 full stacks behind them, you would plug into one Amp and take the preamp out and split it to the other amps to get sound out of all of it.
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    Boosting volume after the fact

    To answer the original question, normalizing finds the biggest peak and brings that to a certain level. If there is one peak in the entire song that is way louder than the rest, it will stop the volume of the sound from getting any louder. If there was an app that did get it louder, it had to...
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    What are these loops in Laney amp?

    It's two separate effects loops that can be turned on and off separately with the footswitch. The insert loop, iirc is between the preamp and power Amp. This is where you can chain amps.
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    Best Speakers/Monitors From A Mixer?

    First, you don't want the monitors against the wall, it will exaggerate the bass response. An extention cord is used to extend the power cable that comes with the speaker. It is a power cable with a male wall plug on ones side and a female wall socket on the other.
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    Best Speakers/Monitors From A Mixer?

    What is the cassette 4 track for? If that is what you are recording to, what is the apogee for? The power lead length doesn't matter (it will be a 3' universal power cable, like computers) you can just use an extension cord. The input doesn't matter, you just need to get the right cable to go...
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    How would you mix three drum mics in the stereo field, bass drum, snare, and overhead?

    With the way you recorded it, center everything and add reverb. In the future, you might want to do a kick mic and two overheads. Place 1 overhead above the floor tom and the other between the hi hat and 1st tom. Make sure both mic are about the same distance from the snare. The you pit the...
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    EQ/Effects suggestions for 12 string acoustic with passive pickup.

    The sound coming out of the pa is going through the eq, any compression and the crossover. You are taking the signal before that. If the pa is set up like we used to, the pa is bottom heavy, so you have more headroom on the board. That will make anything recorded from the board sound thinner...
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    EQ/Effects suggestions for 12 string acoustic with passive pickup.

    That's when you plug into the insert jack half way to get the direct out without interrupting the signal to the channel strip of the mixer. Essentially, he is recording a live concert off the soundboard. He needs to know how to make the signal from the pickup sound listenable. That is hard...
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    How would you pan a drummer in the mix that has both high hats and the ride on the same side?

    I've recorded drummers with a similar setup. You can do two things: 1. Record the stereo image as it naturally is (listeners won't care) 2. Close mic the hat and the ride separately and pan the ride to the other side. You will probably have to pay with it to get it to sit right in the mix, but...
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    Need help in finding what kind of device this would be.

    All daws that I know of have keyboard shortcuts for everything, so you don't have to actually see the buttons to hit them with a mouse.
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    Need help in finding what kind of device this would be.

    I used a wireless keyboard and mouse. I use two 32 in tvs for monitors, so I could see just fine.
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    Question about sampling down when rendering

    If the 44.1k track plays back at the same speed as the rest of the tracks, one of two things is happening automatically. 1. the 44.1k track was automatically upsampled when you imported it. 2. the 44.1k track is upsampled on the fly during playback and mixing. Either way, the DAW is taking...
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    Do stacked plugins with their mix knobs set to zero impact the sound?

    If they are all set to zero, only the first one will see the original signal. So, if you have a delay with the mix set to zero, then a reverb plugin, the reverb will only see the delay, so there won't be any reverb on the dry signal, just the delay. Then, if the reverb mix is set at zero, and...
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    Clipping/peaking out

    Right. Pro level,the level that the preamp is probably kicking out, is +4 with a maximum level of +20. Those inputs are consumer level. Either way, nominal level on the preamp only gives you 4db of headroom on that input. (Thus the clipping)
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    Compression on drums from programs like Addictive drums and EZ drummer?

    Usually, the samples are already compressed and eqed. What you may be missing is bus compression. Send the output of addictive drums to a bus and put a compressor on the bus. If addictive drums allows you multiple outputs, you can send each drum to a separate channel where you can process each...
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    How to feed microphone signal to both mixer and audio interface

    He is using an sm7, no phantom power needed.
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    Mastering without compression?

    Since you aren't working in a daw, I am assuming you don't have a mastering limiter. Using a standard compressor at a high ratio is technically limiting, however your experience will be quite different than someone using a lightning fast mastering limiter plugin. Mastering limiters are an...
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    Mastering without compression?

    I was taking it to the ridiculous other conclusion to make the point. The point being: if there are too many peaks, it will take forever to grab them and turn them all down.
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    Mastering without compression?

    True, but it depends how many by how much. If there are only a few peaks that keep you from getting where you want to be, that's fine. But if the peaks are every kick and snare in the song, it will take days to pull all those back. (and a proper mastering limiter used properly wouldn't sound...
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