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It has been a whole YEAR-plus since my last post. Man! Anyway, I figured I'd consult you guys before I sat down for recording an album-length project in my li'l MIDI studio. I'm trying to do an album-length project with vocals. The TRICK is, I can only play boards, so I've tracked everything...

Okay, guys, once again, I'm coming to you with a problem: I have an iMac DV 400 mHz Special Ed. with 385 MBs of RAM. Right now, I'm only using that horrible miniplug input and output that comes with the machine. However, I don't know if that is particularly the problem. For audio/MIDI, I'm...

Holy God, that, too. Remember the good old days, when you could just dub off a rough mix onto an analog cassette, hate it, rewind and record your next demo over it? I must've blown through a few hundred CD-Rs so far on this project, and usually on one five-minute mix that I absolutely hated ...

Wally, that's the same conclusion I ultimately reached. It just seemed that, by processing the snare with its own mono 'verb, I was getting a more concentrated punch (it's coming right down the middle and ONLY right down the middle), but the snare sounded a little disjointed, like it was pasted...

One of these days, I'm gonna pull a Sonusman and unleash a three-page long "Idiot's Guide To Home Recording". Seriously! I'm telling you, there are stupid basic facts that you'd think would be covered in any home recording text that are breezed right over and only get discovered through...

Well, I record my kit from a drum machine, and I split 'em up into mono kick, mono snare, mono hats, stereo toms and stereo overhead (crash & ride), plus, I'll record a special mono track if I have tambourines, side stick, cowbells, etc. I've been adding a pinch of 9000 Hz (.5 percent) to the...

Well, I always position the snare down the center, which works for me. My question was more of a reverb thing: do people generally process them in stereo or mono reverb? The rest of the kit (except for kick, which I leave dry) is processed in a stereo bussed 'verb, which also works for me...

Hey, gang, I got a quick question for you. First of all, everytime I get into a bind and come here for help, I walk away with some invaluable stuff ... thanks! Secondly, I have what I would consider an idiot question for you: snare processing. Should I send it to the same stereo reverb bus...

My solution to recording with a drum machine (and you're already not gonna like this) is to split the drums up like they would be if you were recording an actual kit. In other words, in my MIDI/audio program, I split the MIDI drum track up into kick, snare, hats (all recorded dry and mono)...

Well, now, I did just try recording the drums from the left (mono) output -- at least the ones you're traditionally SUPPOSED to, such as kick, snare, hi-hat, tambourine, etc. I guess I would still record toms and the cymbal section in stereo -- but as you said, record left onto its own mono...

No -- that IS what I've been doing: recording the snare from my drum machine in stereo, through the mackie with the pan knobs turned extreme left and right, onto its own stereo instrument track in Vision, recording the kick in stereo, the bass from my MPS in stereo, the electric guitar patch...

I just started my own thread on the reverse of this very same topic: I've been recording everything IN stereo (I do all my instrumentation on a rack of stereo MIDI keyboards and a stereo Boss DR-660 drum machine), with the pan knobs turned all the way out on each track (the left output being...

Whoops! Sorry about not making that clear in my first post. Why I do it in steps: I only have X-number of tracks available to record on before I run out of RAM, or before the CPU chokes and you can't keep playing back without crashing. I record sixteen or so instrument tracks, or whatever...

Dear Recording Guys, You've helped me out of a few audio scrapes in the past, but this one is pretty major, and may involve me having to re-record a good chunk of the music I've already laid down on my 14-song album project. What I did was, I sequenced all my songs in MIDI, the guitar parts...

I also forgot to mention, just like if you were playing that guitar patch normally, you want the sustain to kick in on the beat along with the bass and top chord note, and hold it like you normally would, so that the notes all hold out the same. I have also found that it works on clean electric...

It's pretty easy to do, if you have a computer sequencer with a graphic editor. Say you wanna make it sound like an acoustic strumming a four-note C-major chord (bass note=c, bottom chord note=g, middle chord note=c, top chord note=e). This works for any chord, I'm just giving an example with...

James, there's a few good sites with free downloadable PC or Mac VST plugs, but I got my freebies mainly from this one: http://www.abel.co.uk/~maxim/vst/ This guys has done his own VST plugs that are compatible with any program that uses VST plug-ins for the Mac or PC, and some of them are as...

Hey, thanks for the reply (and sorry for the long initial posting!). No, stereo PLACEMENT isn't the problem, nor is the EQ or delay. The problem is the overall stereo image -- the soundstage itself is too narrow, and even if I record everything stereo in with my right/left panpots turned hard...

Okay, whew, this one's gonna be a doozy! I have Vision DSP 4.2 running off of an iMac DV 400 mHz. I dump the individual audio tracks in via a Mackie mixer through the DV's stereo mini-plug in -- using the built-in Sound Manager, not a card! -- clean up the tracks where necessary and mix down...

Whoops; reading with a lisp again! Sorry about that outburst! I agree with your assertion, bpmufx, that the Mac's a viable recording option. Even if you can't afford a sound card, you got built in stereo ins and outs (which is me: the cheapskate!) and even if you despise MIDI with a passion...