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Aha! I recorded with one mic but also had the pickup plugged in. K&K passive p/u. On the mix, before reading this thread, I used a lot of automation on the plugged in guitar track because it was isolated. On the miked guitar, I used a little automation to raise the volume a dB or two between...

Thank you for your assessment. Do you mind expanding on what you mean by guitar sounding phasey? The guitar itself is an OM, so it doesn't have a boomy bass like a dreadnaught. On the EQ, I removed the lows around 100-200 Hz. I also lowered the guitar -1.5db at 2-3kHz so as not to compete with...

Thank you for replying. All good points. I use Cakewalk and do have the ability to make new tracks and I think they even have a "take" function as well. I painted a large portrait of my mom last year, acrylic on canvas. When I presented it to her, my sister in law asked how long it took me to...

Thank you for the detailed reply. I now understand that what I have is a demo. Like I stated above, I am hoping to use some of the principles I learn in this thread to apply to other mixes I am experimenting on with friends. With the vocals, I know what I need to work on there. With the dryness...

Hi, thank you for taking the time to listen and reply. I believe I read somewhere else around here that wearing too many hats can work against some folks. I 100% agree with your assessment that I need to work more on the music aspect of recording and mixing my own songs, and I appreciate your...

I've recorded dozens of songs but this is my first stab at mixing. I think I need to work more on volume automations on the vocal track. What do y'all think? Hit me hard, make it hurt. Thanks for listening! Time Wasting Away vocals, guitar line, guitar mic

Now I am way at the bottom of the noob totem pole, so what I say may not be accurate at all. I use Cakewalk and I thought there was a setting somewhere that would allow you to control what happens when you stop recording and then start again. I have it set where the second start stays on the...

Hi, thank you so much for all the detail. I have some work to do, haha.

I really enjoyed the performance. My friend and I have a similar setup where I sing and play rhythm on either clawhammerish banjo or guitar and he plays leads with guitar. I don't know enough about mixing to comment there but overall I think it was excellent.

Thank you, I like your minimalist style. For option 2, if you use a wide reverb on the guitar track, what kind of reverb would you recommend for the vocal track that would complement?

Thank you. When you speak of cutting low end, are you talking about EQ? Since the OP did not specify what type of music they are recording, my question is the same but definitely pointed in the solo acoustic singer/songwriter direction.

Thank you for your reply. One issue is that I am a little below amateur. For guitar instrumentals, I have used the method of one mic at 12th and the other in the bridge direction. However, when recording vocals I sing and play, so there is already some vocals ending up in the guitar mic/s and...

Thought about making my own thread but decided to jump into this one instead. I have a few questions that pertain to recording vocals and minimal acoustic instrumentation. If I have a project with nothing more than a vocal track and a single miked acoustic guitar track, would I be able to...

Thank you. Yeh, the forum has been sending 500/502/504 error screens periodically throughout the day for several days last week. If you check the Feedback Loop, which discusses the forum itself, there are a couple of threads of people raising the alarm and wanting to know why the site keeps...

Hi, thank you for replying. I figured out what the problem was. I had gone to Bandlab's website, created an account, and opened their Cakewalk Studio app. If you try to mix a song on their online app, you can only use their plugins. No way to insert your own. Once I realized what a knucklehead I...

On my end, the official Cakewalk forum keeps kicking me off and I can't get in... I've been recording with Sonar 7 SE for years on an old XP machine but want to use some 64 bit effects plugins while mixing on a different computer. Does Cakewalk by Bandlab allow for us to import our own VST...

You're good. I knew the two were not related, but I still appreciate your input because the advice was solid.

Thank you for replying. Yeah, sorry. I knew the impedance thing was unrelated to the woosh sound. I figured I would welcome the unrelated advice and run with it. The project files containing that take are on my DAW desktop, which is currently located in a spare bedroom of my friend's house. I...

@bouldersoundguy As you suggested, I checked the manuals and specs of the pickup and the interface. The pickup said works best with input impedance between 500k and 1 meg. The interface impedance is 1 mega ohm for an instrument in (3 k ohms for mic). Should work, right?