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    I recorded a chord organ yesterday, if your not familiar, its a cheap plastic air powred organ that sounds like an acordian meets a harmonica. My problem is that the fan on the thing is loud as hell. now in the particular song i think its fine, it works as kind of an ambient rumble, almost like...
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    I put a song on lightning

    would love some feedback, both positive and negative http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=7158
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    oops, wrong forum

    i ment to put it in the mp3 clinic, but here it is anyway
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    ok, i put a song on lightning

    im not sure, hope this link works? please give me some feedback http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=7158
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    ok, i put a song on lightning

    im not sure, hope this link works? please give me some feedback http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=7158
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    need some constructive critisism

    Hey, ive got two of my fisrt mixes up on a myspace page, i personally think the change in format KILLED (with a capitol k) my mixes, i cant even begin to list the things i hear that are not a problem at home, BUT that said, i also believe that a good mix should hold up under ANY format, so if...
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    some constructive critisism please

    The last thread about "what to charge as a new guy" got off track (pleasantly off track, but off non the less) so i was hopeing to get back to my mixes on myspace. The what to charge issue is null and void, id just lke some comments on what ive done. And mp3 arguments aside, i do believe that...
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    Punk vs Hip-Hop

    Punk and rap started about the sme time for the same reasons and (in the US at least) on the same coast. Ive always thought the paralell was interesting and whats more interesting is how they went opposite directions at first, met back in the middle and now seem to be seperating again...
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    Please help me with a LOGIC question

    I LOVE logic, but sometimes its not very......well logical. My question, im trying to experiment with making hip-hop beats, and i KNOW that you can create loops in logic, but the book i have and the "help" feature dont lay it out very well. I want to do alot, but what at the moment i just want...
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    New to makeing beats , HELP!!!!!

    ok this is gonna be long so hang tight. I love hip hop, but come from a rock background, and thats what i understand in terms of recording. I want to play around with makeing beats and have some stupid beginer questions. SAMPLERS-why use them in 2007, or ever, it seems to me that a "sample"...
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    Summing mixers

    This is probebly a big "no-duh" for most, but i was just two days ago introduced to the world of summing mixers and there benifits. But i was short on time for the conversation, so can amyone explain the ideas behind it and the benifits, or lead me to a website that explains it. It sounds like a...
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    Mabye not the right forum but.......

    After some private lessons from a pro engineer, a continueing internship, tons of reading, this web site, and countless hours of experimenting with my own band, i feel pretty confident to put myself out there to offer my services in the demo recording department. Mabye not the next Capitol...
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    Buying outboard mic pre's

    I can afford about 600-750 (pushing it) , does anyone have a uggestion for a good first time outboard mic pre. Im happy with the way my drums and bass sound with the pre's i have in my firepods, but i need a little something in the vocal and guitar department, ive tried lots of mic techniques...
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    Hip hop vocals

    I did my first hip hop recording the other day, and i was wondering if anyone had some good tricks to make the vocals sit in the mix. Its a "mix tape" style recording so i have no control over the levels of the individual instruments in the track, just vocal on top of a mastered song basically...
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    Gateing kick and snare

    I have learned some new mic placements that cut bleed quite a bit from the snare, but its still there of course. Who out there would rather gate the kick and snare and who would rather EQ out the things you dont want to hear?
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    Gating kick and snare

    I have learned some new mic placements that cut bleed quite a bit from the snare, but its still there of course. Who out there would rather gate the kick and snare and who would rather EQ out the things you dont want to hear?
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    "analog" modeling plugins

    I know that plugins exist that give vintage tones and tape sound, but are they ment for individual instruments, or the over all mix, and are there any that actually "improve" a digital recording and give it more depth and warmth, or are they all just gimmicks?
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    using outboard pre's

    I use presonus firepods as interfaces, my question is if i want to play around with another pre amp in the signal chain between the mic and the pods input, am i gonna run into problems running one pre into anohter, can i bypass the pre on the presonus, or is just a matter of keeping the input...
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    Thickining up guitars?

    I have some guitar tracks that are just a little thin. Now before i get a pile of responces about micing techniques, room sound, and dialing in the amp, let me just say that i dont have the option for these tracks to go back and track them better. Imstuck with what i have for the moment. So...
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    Read what i did, tell me if its crazy!!

    Ill try to send some samples tonight or tomarrow when i have a chance but in the meen time read what i did to a troubled mix and tell me if it was the "right" aproach or if i just randomly stumbled across somthing that happens to sound good, cuz im more pleased with this than anything ive done...
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