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thank you, glad you liked it.

the skydrive link works ok for me, but i just now also uploaded it to soundcloud, so maybe that one will work for you. here is that link. Chicago medley by Tom Hicks888 on SoundCloud - Hear the world

Here is a link to a mp3 of my brother's band First Rush performing live at a club called Stumpys in Arlington TX. I took the inserts off the FOH board into my Alesis HD24 to get the tracks, then later mixed them down back at my house...

a harp guy who i recorded used a shure green bullet mic into a pod, which was set on a fender deluxe reverb emulation, then sent that pod signal out to my mixer, no amp. in case you want to check out that how that combination of gear sounds, here's an mp3 of that track...

if you want to minimize bleed, turn amps around to face the wall and use gobos. careful placement of cardioid mic will also minimize bleed, by aiming the null point of the mic at the sounds to be rejected. but bleed can also act as a kind of musical glue, ala phil specter.

for starting out recording drums, the fewer the mics, the better, in terms of reducing phase and comb-filtering issues. recorderman has been mentioned, that uses 2 mics. the gyn johns technique is related, and can be with 3 or 4 mics. other 2 mic drum recording techniques include XY and spaced...

the measurement session in the control room went great. we used pink noise wave file imported into reaper on a hackintosh. the ECM8000 omni measurement mic was on a stand in the listening position (pointing up at ear height) running through an X32 mixer firewired into the computer. while the...

the guitar player in my brother's band has built a control room for his studio, and i'm going over there today with some pink noise .wav files, a ECM8000 measurement mic and several RTA programs to see how well his sound treatment has done in evening out the room response. as mentioned, pink...

in ozone 4 they call it harmonic exciter. adding a slight amount of distortion in the 2-5K band will make vocals pop out of the mix without additional volume. start off with way too much of the effect, then keep backing it off. use the bypass button often to compare the dry and effected signals...

there are various techniques for placement: spaced omni pair with the 3/1 rule ORTF with cardioids mid-side (MS) with omni or cardi mid mic and figure of 8 side mic there are plenty of other possible ways to record in a classical style, these three techniques are some of the popular examples.

the artist formerly known as hootie has a tone i would call "chesty". any number of inexpensive large diaphragm condenser mics have an upper mid bump that doesn't really suit nasal voices, but might be a good fit for a voice with more low frequency content. if your mic selection is...

you can use a Y cord to split the signal, but that also drops the voltage and volume going to each set of phones. you could probably get away with doing that with just 2 pairs of headphones, and jacking up the mixer's headphone out volume knob to compensate. but that means both phones would have...

i added a firewire pci card to a PC tower some years back, didn't spend more than about $20 on it. luckily it had the TI chipset everyone recommends. i never had a bit of trouble with it using various firewire interfaces, like the M-Audio profire lightbridge and the Alesis fireport. since PCI...

thanks dave for your comments. i also like the ability to take all the audio files on the portable drive to another computer elsewhere. the drive i have is smaller than a paperback book and can slip into a pocket.

mic - mixer - interface - computer. monitor off the mixer for no lag. for multiple peope listening to the monitor mix, you need a headphone amp. here's a cheap one. Rolls HA43 Stereo Headphone Amp | Musician's Friend

I always heard that it is good practice to have your audio files on a different drive than your OS. I have a 250 gig USB portable drive I use with the laptop. My main recording device is an Alesis ADAT HD24. I lightpipe those tracks via an M-Audio Profire Lighbridge to the laptop as a safety...

I would suggest that you try using a convolution reverb and impulses. Here's a free convo verb vst you can check out: SIR Audio Tools / SIR1 and here are some really nice impulses, also free. Samplicity's Bricasti M7 Impulse Response Library v1.1 - Samplicity In your recording software, set...

I have an older laptop Sony Vaio dual core with 2 gig of RAM that records 24 tracks at once via firewire without a stutter or other problems. I get the sense from your post that your needs are minimal. What you have should serve you fine. On the other hand, if you really just have a severe case...

Instead of hanging the blankets against the wall, i would suggest putting up some PVC pipe and hanging the blankets like curtains on rings, spaced slightly away from the wall to create a bit of dead air gap. You can even even create an impromptu vocal booth in this hanging blankets way. And the...

Sends can be used as busses as well. For example a simple stereo mixer with two aux sends can feed a 4 track recorder, giving you individual volume control: main left, main right, aux 1 and aux 2. But sends also implies returns. You send out the track(s) to a reverb, or delay, or compressor...