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My main bass is a fretless with rounds on it. When I first strung it that way (probably 15 years ago), it chewed up the neck a little, but once it had cut through the first layer, I haven't seen it get any worse. (I use the cheap strings: usually nickle)

At this point, I don't know that I'd bother building a DAW PC again. It's just so much hassle ordering, testing, and matching parts. I'd rather just buy a full-featured box

Your tones sound good, but I think the mix is pretty out of balance. It's pretty vocal forward, especially considering how much the power of the vocal is varying with pitch. Drums could definitely come up a bit to have more power. (Unless you're going for more of a black metal tone than it...

I can't say for sure, but this sounds dubious. A condenser mic require phantom power. So you'll either be providing power to the mic from both interfaces (which sounds bad for the the mic). Or only from one (which sounds bad for the signal)

To jump back a fair ways, "When I come around" could be a very good gauge of how much of tone is in the fingers. It's not a super-complex song. You could transcribe it to sheet music and give that to a player who'd never heard Green Day before. Then record them through the exact chain of the...

I'd go with the interface personally. If you shop around a bit and are willing to go used, you can get a decent 2 channel interface for <$100 (which allows them to expand to hosting a guest eventually). That would also allow them to borrow and try out a number of your mics to see which works best.

Wait, I found a better example:

Equipment is important, and "tone is in the hands" is definitely an unhelpful and rude answer on a gear forum. But I'd argue that the hands are more important than the gear. Sure, you can get 85% of whoever's tone with the same gear as them, but that last 15% is the part that anyone cares...

Guitars sound tight enough. Some of the kicks in the main riff seem a little wonky. You've got some swing in the kick pattern that doesn't seem to be fitting well with the straight rhythm of everything else

Yeah. This one uses all those techniques in various combinations I also tend to stack up a lot of harmonies. As long as your timing is tight, they'll reinforce the lyrics.

I use a handful of techniques: Mix the raw vocal track with a heavily compressed copy of same. The compressed one will pump, but you turn it down so that you only consciously hear the raw one Drenched reverb channel (turned down pretty quietly). The verb channel smooths off a lot of the volume...

Ok. The next step would be to check the sample rates then. Are they the same in both files. What DAW software are you using? Does it have any playback speed settings that might have gotten nudged?

The worst-case scenario for problems like this is clock sync issues. (i.e. you have two devices with internal clock that don't quite match up so they drift over time). It sounds like you only have one device tho, so that's a real problem. You're recording into and monitoring from the interface...

Oof IoT: for when you want to make sure that some random maldovian kid can break your fridge!

You can use it for tracking ownership of any piece of data. But for the web-crawling, detecting unlicensed usage, etc. they'll be using different technologies. I would suspect this is just Kodak trying to jump onto the next tech trend. (The same way that everything is driven by "AI" the last...

Once again, NFTs carry no copyright implications. All they are is a complex, public receipt of who "owns" a url. It would be like if a private landowner decided to open a park and sold celebrity-sponsored bricks on the walkway and had a 3rd party lock all the ownership certificates away in a...

It's probably worth noting that NFTs are only a proof of the ownership chain of something. They don't imply or protect copyright in any meaningful way. Heck, they don't meaningfully contain or even reference the work in question. The data stored in an NFT is usually just a hotlink to a website...

So you're saying you did LCR mixing, and both versions are the same mix run through different mastering chains? I think the second one does work better too. The first does have better separation of instruments, but they're all weirdly far apart from each other, and stuff that should be audible...

$100 for 2 hours of studio time isn't necessarily unreasonable. You might also be able to buy tracks individually (off - say - Amazon music or iTunes) if you're able to ID what CD they're on.

You can buy karaoke tracks on CD. (So it would be something like $15 for a dozen or so songs) You should definitely do some research on what your licensing requirements will actually be. If you're recording friends for fun for free, you shouldn't need to pay a license fee.* But this sounds...