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Meta, I've been screwing around with polyrhythms for a few years now. Steve Vai's article is excellent. I have it bookmarked and come back to it every once in a while. So far I haven't attempted anything quitee as crazy as some of his last examples but I've got some pretty whacky stuff going on...

Excellent, Thanks AlChuck That is what I meant by "doing the math" but it looks like that's the only way to go for me.

Or I guess you could say 2 half notes in the space of a whole.. 2:1. But I don't think that really counts as a polyrhythm.

Correct. The most basic polyrhythm is the triplet (3:2 or 3 notes in the space of 2). Only I want complicated ones like 7:4 and 7:5.

No, I don't mean odd-meter (that's easy to do) and I don't mean poly-meter. What I mean is I want 7beats in the place of 4 quarter notes in one bar (7:4 polyrhythm). I had a dinky old program called Trax from about 11 years ago that could do polyrhythms easily. I use soundfonts to program drum...

Does anyone know if there is a way to create polyrhythms in Sonar? I have yet to figure it out. As far as I can see, I'm limited to regular note values (i.e. quarter-notes, eighth-notes...) and I don't really feel like doing the math either.

ALMOST all guitars and basses are high impedance. My guitar has an EMG 707 pickup which has a pre-amp built in. It runs on a 9v battery and the signal is low impedance. It makes for a much hotter signal and because it is low impedance, it is not affected by interference from lights or other...

Headphones generally aren't good for mastering. Sure there you can get lucky and there are always exceptions. With headphones your right ear gets the right speaker and your left gets the left .. but when you listen to a pair of speakers both ears get a mix of both speakers. This is how it's...

Velvet Jones... Very nice setup.. my setup is getting there. How do those Events work for you? I'm looking at some new active near fields.. (leaning towards mackie) I couldn't help but notice you are in Cedar Rapids. I live in The Quad Cities IL. What studios did you work in and what is your...

I've renamed those .wa~ files to .wav and had them play fine. Do that and then import them to HS2001..(getSonar!!!!!)

This is from Terry Date himself (Pantera, Prong.. etc) Terry Date: On drums, I will use ambient miking. My drum miking is pretty standard. With the snare, I tend to use a [Shure SM] 57 on the top head only, in a position where I can get as much rejection of the hi-hat as possible. For the kick...

If you are "singing" a 58 isn't your best choice. Get a condenser. If you are "screaming" a 58 should do just fine. As far as mastering a track, look into T-Racks 24. Great mastering software.

Mini-discs suck. The fact that they are tiny and portable is good.. but because of the reduction in size, the audio is compressed quite a bit (similar to mp3) and IMO quality suffers greatly.. especially high end.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this: Breathe with your stomach not your chest.. forcing the air up from your diaphragm.

Hey man, I am with you on the singing thing. My voice was generally thin and weak. It didn't project well and my notes wavered quite a bit. I made a conscious effort to make my voice better about 1 1/2 months ago. I decided to start practicing every day... at least 5-10 minutes a day. It is...