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My trusty Presonus Firepod woke up dead, so to speak, on Wednesday. I'd had some issues in the past with the Firewire jack and it not connecting consistently through one of the ports, but this was something new - basically, it wouldn't power up. So, since I was in the early days of a project...

Pretty open-ended question, I guess - what goes through your thought process when you're looking for a set of overheads for a given session? I'm asking in abstract terms - not, "Oh, well, of the mics I own, I really dig this pair, so I usually start here," or "You can't go wrong with...

You're probably just listening to the wrong metal, Miro. ;) (Listen to it all the way through, if nothing else as a favor tome. It'll surprise you, a couple times, more than likely. Devin's in a realm of his own, stylistically)

Ok, so a confession - I'm a bit of a sonic anarchist. Like basically everyone here I strive to make recordings as pure and clean as possible, but I'm also a huge Tom Waits fan and like how Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) works with noise and distressed sounding audio every now and then in the...

So, you consistently get some of the best drum tones I've heard here, man. I THINK I know what you're doing (and I know a lot of it just comes down to having a well-tuned kit), but would you mind snapping a few pictures of your setup the next time you track, just to help me visualize it a bit...

So, a bassist buddy of mine kind of wanted to learn how to play guitar, listens to a lot of bands that play PRSs (Opeth and Porcupine Tree are two prominent examples), and recently realized that, while PRSs were stupidly expensive, their SE series was actually really cheap. Since he can't really...

Just grabbed my second LDC, so I figured for kicks I'd do a blind A/B of the two of 'em here. I think I've mentioned owning one and thinking about grabbing the other around here before, but if you don't remember, don't search, and if you do don't ruin the fun. ;) I did one take of the intro to...

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/550738-so-you-want-tight-mix.html Admittedly, this is for modern metal and would probably be counterproductive for a lot of genres... But something about this (as a musician, anyway) really rubs me the wrong way.

I'm having the sort of day at the office where SYL seems about the right soundtrack, and something kind of odd is jumping out at me in a few points on the album - I'd noticed it before, but kind of forgot about it and now I'm just curious. There's a few points in the album where the low end...

Ok, this ought to be fun... :p I've been frustrated with how hard it is to really get a feeling for the low end in my mixes for a while now, and have been thinking of doing some acoustic treatment of my room. Since I was going to be redoing rather a lot anyway, and since I've never really cared...

Ok, disclaimer, I DID do a search of the forum before posting this. ;) So, the sense I'm getting is that the majority of you guys prefer the AKG D112 to the Shure Beta52 on a kick drum. However, maybe 2007-ish, the responses started to change gradually from a "hands down D112" majority to a...

Ok, kind of an odd question, especially as I'm a PC guy... ...but my little sister is a second grade teacher in a charter school in Utah. One of the different things about the school under their charter is they, in addition to a regular curriculum, also group the kids together in "clusters"...

Since there's another Gibson thread here, and a bunch of you guys evidently know your old Gibsons... I'd posted this at another (smaller) forum, but the results were inconclusive. My dad has this old Gibson acoustic that I absolutely love - it's beat to hell, looks ancient, and sounds awful in...

I'm writing this from work, and I'll apologize for what's probably a pretty simple question that I could most likely answer myself if I just spent 20 minutes screwing with it, but... After getting my bassist hooked on Porcupine Tree last night, everyone but the vocalist in this band I'm trying...

I was down in VA over the weekend buying a Mesa Roadster head from a buddy of mine (more on that later, once I get to record some clips and take a picture or two), and he happened to have Rectifier #5 on loan from a buddy of his for tracking leads on the album they'd just finished up. Long...

Ok, could someone give me some info on the "why's" of multi-band compression? This is one of those effects which I almost never use, because I guess I never really understood what would be an appropriate situation for it. So, because I'm not really sure how else to ask this, could a few of...

What the heck, I haven't posted anything around here in a while, and I'm just listening to the last mixdown of this I did, so I figured I might as well post it up here to solicit some feedback. :) CLICK ME! I was experimenting a bit with acoustic micing on this one - the left (if I recall...

I've got a deadline in 20 minutes, so I'm just posting up pics for now, and I'll add some review stuff later. The short of it is this is my first Agile (I hadn't even played one until after I ordered this), and by and large I'm impressed, especially considering that there really was no...

http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Mark_Series/mark5/mark5.html After years of speculation, six months of believable rumours and blurry shots of Petrucci's rack, and a gradual trickle of semi-confirmed specs, it's here. :D I for one will be VERY curious to give this a try. I'm pretty...

Ok, about the only thing I've found that I can't seem to do in Reaper that I can in Sonar is to set track envelopes for effects parameters. I'm playing a pretty stacatto rhythm guitar part on one song I'm working on that, at the very end, ends in a sustained chord, so I decided to insert a...