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I didn't know where else to put this, so I'm dropping it here: I'm looking to collaborate with someone who knows a thing or two about electronic music. I'm an old skool type of guy - I get frightened and confused by drum machines and synthesizers and inevitably, I either smash things or sell...

When I plug my preamp into the US1800's 1/4" jacks on the back of the unit, I experience latency issues. When I use the spdif out on my pre, it comes thru without a problem. This seems strange to me. I'd figure that it'd be the other way around... Any ideas?

Ever heard of this program? Curioza's Auto Audio Mastering System Seems like it could be a great learning tool but to let an algorithm master my music on it's own? I'm not so sure. The demo has a 21-day trial period, so I may give it a whirl and compare some stuff that I have had...

A fun-to-read article about microphone types by class and price range. Everything your mic closet needs, and then some... By Paul Stamler

Recording Acoustic Guitar—Comparisons of Dynamic, Condenser, and Ribbon Mics on Acoustic From The Hal Leonard Recording Method: Microphones & Mixers, 2nd Edition, this is an amazing grouping of microphones, all on the same guitar with the same musical part. The sonic differences between the...

I work out of a venue, in which we track bands to a 24 channel digital board. Because we close mic everything on stage, I will often set up my H4n out somewhere in/above the crowd to capture some of the room ambience and I'll blend that into my mix. On a recent recording, I did my usual setup...

FT: ART Digital MPA Gold I'm thinking about letting my DMPA Gold go but I need a preamp, so it can't leave unless there's a trade or unless I find something else to replace it with immediately. I still have the original box, styrofoam packaging, paperwork, etc. So yeah, I'll accept trade...

Why do you use compression instead of "riding the fader" or, Volume Modulation? I recently tried out Waves Vocal Rider (which is pretty awesome, btw) and after my trial period ended, I found myself playing around with parameter modulation in REAPER, using a gain/trim plug to try to emulate the...

So I'm trying to keep the levels of two horns together. One is a tenor sax that was recorded with a clip-on condenser and the other is a trumpet thru an RE20. This means that there are times when the trumpeteer is blowing off axis and his levels change, while the sax is always blowing hard into...

Have any of you had much success using ribbon mics in a live context? I'm considering using a pair on either a sax/trumpet combo or as OH on drums for a 7-piece funk/soul band this weekend (drums, guitar, bass, 2xVocal, sax, trumpet). The room is quite large, with two hanging bins and a sub on...

...would you ask the horns (trumpet and sax) to share a ribbon mic? I ask, because I've got to record this band called the Hornettes this weekend in Toronto and I'm just toying with ideas on how to mic them up. Most of the mics will double as reinforcement, with a few spot mics specifically for...

I'm gonna try something (that seems strange to me) today - recording a three-point mic setup with X/Y plus one SDC in the centre. Has anybody tried anything like this before? Using my Zoom H4n's built-in mics (both in XY and ORTF) and my Shure SM94, I will try to get the capsules as close...

MXL BCC-1 Live Broadcast Condenser Microphone/ Apparently it's been out for a while but I haven't heard a thing about it yet... then again, I haven't done a search here on HR yet either, so... :rolleyes:

Here are a few links: Follow the links for screenshots & download info: Acoustica Basic Edition by Acon Digital (Windows) Audacity by Audacity Team (Linux, Mac, Windows) Music Editor Free 2012 by MEFMedia (Windows) ocenaudio by ocenaudio (Linux, Mac, Windows) Wavosaur by The Wavosaur Team...

If any of you do live recordings on the regular, what storage medium do you use? I'm building a mobile recording kit and am looking into getting a rackmount data storage solution so that I can stop carting around my 1TB external HDD. I'd prefer something with an SSD drive or that uses an HCSD...

Earlier this year, an old friend of mine died - too young, to say the least. I wrote this song but never got around to recording it until a couple days ago... His sister's birthday is coming up and I'd like to give her the tune as a gift. There are a couple flubs that I plan to redo over the...

A few days ago, I came across an ADAT XL at a pawn shop and have been thinking about it ever since. In today's digital recording environment, how useful would something like an ADAT or a cassette recorder of any kind be? It seems to me that everything that either of these devices could provide...

Here's another new song mix - this one has a LOT of stuff happening... whaddya think? We're gonna re-record the vox at some point, I think but so far, I think this mix is coming along really well. One thing - I really want to get the drums (kick and crashes) to pump a la Helter Skelter-style...

Anybody ever used something like this? If so, how did you set it up? Something like EQ parameter modulation, sidechained to a compressor? Does that even make sense? I suppose maybe a multiband comp would do this but for some reason, it's not working for me. Basically, I want to compress the...

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