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I found that I am starting to do this more and more, and I was just wondering if anyone else does something like this when mixing down. After trying to mix pretty much one style of music (rock/metal) for a long period of time, I am finding that there are certain things I want to hear out of...

I was listening to a cd the other in a friend of mine's car. She has the basic "rap system", with the 15" subwoofers in the trunk and a 4,435,146,750 watt power amp. Anyway, we were listening to some rock/metal cds. These typically sound like shit in this type of system.... because of the...

Our band tunes in drop tuning with everything dropped a halfstep... which is Db, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb This causes the string to be really loose, and if plucked too hard, the note will go almost a half step sharp. Should we get heavier gauge strings? Would that cause intonation problems on his...

We are in the process of planning our record, and came to the reallizations that we have a lot of songs that we want to go on the album. 15 to be exact. We are also a comedy band, so we plan on having several brief tracks of goofy stuff. That will probably put us at about 18 to 20 tracks. The 15...

I find that I am using the mute and the fade in/fade out function a lot. I'm also finding that everytime I want to use any of these, I have to select it, go up to the menu, then select, etc. I don't see any keyboard shortcuts for them. Are there any ways to maybe bind keys or something so I...

I'm new to the soundfont thing... I have some good drum tracks, but I want to add in some midi drum sounds for more consistency and punch (especially on the kick and snare). Basically, I want to put the soundfont event every time the snare/kick hits, then I can just mix the midi drum hits with...

Quick question, I just need a descent soundcard that can record in 24 bit. Only need one input. What's the most economical option?

Once we were messing around in the studio and tried sending the snare drum track to a guitar amp on the clean channel, and micing up that cab and then combining those two snare tracks together. Sounded pretty cool, added a lot more substance to the snare. Anyone ever tried sometime like that...

In the Endless Search to find "the sound", which requires finding, "the amp", someone mentioned something I hadn't even thought about before after hours and hours looking at Mesa Boogies and Marshall JCM's. Rackmount effects. I was told you just a preamp (one I would try and have heard good...

Our singer has a notion that next time we record, he wants to take the raw mix home, import it to a program like Cakewalk or something, and do the vocals at home at his own leasure, so he doesn't have to feel the pressure of the studio. Then he can mix down his track to a wav, and take it back...

Had a thought the other day when using my ears..... Ya know, I've always hated that 'gritty' sound when micing amps with a SM57, and the other day I did what engineers suggest and raised my amp so that get right next to my speaker to find the 'sweet spot' of the sound. I closed off one ear so...

I have a full stack I'm thinking of selling so I can upgrade... worth about 1,200 (it's Crate). If it's in good condition (which it is), what should I try to sell it for? Or any gear, for that matter? 2/3 the price ($800)? Little more than half ($600-700)? Try to find a sucker that thinks he's...

Ya know, it occurred to me that I could do a lot of I could simply split the guitars signal. What would I need to do so.... in other words, if I had two completely seperate guitar amps, and I wanted my guitar to go into BOTH of them with the same amount of signal, what do I need? I'm not talking...

Hey, we were toying around with the notion of recording our rehearsal tonight just so we can hear what we sound like when we play and so we'll know what to work on. Here's the deal: we have a mixer amp, and we just plan on going out through may a tape output to the mixer. We're gonna go out of...

Hey, I posted one of our mp3s up on here a while back called "Those Stupid Ifs", and just wanted to say that we have another one that you might find entertaining if you liked that song. I don't think that it was mixed quite as well overall (although that's from a perfectionist point of view)...

Hey, we just got a mixer-amp we want to try rehearsing with right now, and a PA enclosure. The output speaker outputs from the mixer-amp say '4 ohms minimum load' but the pa speaker has to inputs that both say 8 ohms... am I gonna blow something if I hook it up? Do I need an adapter or...

I got me a POD v2.0 a few weeks ago (and love it much), and I'm just starting to get into the serious "tweakage". I'm just wondering if anyone has some cool tricks for getting that 'extra crispy' new metal sound... like Sevendust, Static X, Deftones, etc, especially in the chugggg-chugggg area...

I bought this amp from a friend of mine used for a damn good price, but alas, I lack the manuals and all that stuff that comes with it. I've heard good things about this amp, and it seems to perform okay, but I don't think I'm getting it to sound quite as good as it could. I like the sound of a...

I made a post a long time ago about weird ass guitar shapes, and someone mentioned that Jackson does custom guitars in whatever shape you want. But how much would this end up costing? And is there anyone else that does this? I'm wanting to get a guitar that is like neon green or something, and...

Okay, here's my question that goes down to the nitty-gritty: I've heard it said several times that mics have different frequency responses that "color the sound". If all it is is just boosts/cuts in certain frequencies, couldn't you (theoretically) achieve pretty much the same result if you were...