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bluesman, you can still have fun with your tascam. you could go straight to computer based recording, but that means software and hardware upgrades for the most part. lets deal with this noise problem, it must have something to do with your gain structure. analog tape has a hiss to it, but it...

i'm in the same boat as swede, 256. the only time i get stuttering is when i preview an effect in CEP 1.2 oh yeah, and anytime i try to use ProTools!

Garry, if you've got a decent size crowd coming to your gigs, you must be doing something right! If you feel compelled as a band or as a songwriter to change styles then go for it, but outside pressure never makes for good changes in a band. My band is kinda in a similar situation. We are punk...

interesting... no pong but i got some audio clips to play thanks.

these are the kinda posts i like to see, people experimenting and not overthinking, just going for it! jeff, i've had similar results too. I liked the combo of a sm57 and a 421 on some distorted guitar. my best results were using the 421 as kind of an accent mic, mixing the signal from the...

dirythermos speaks the truth. if you are going for a modern ballsy, lots of distortion sound you are going to want something with a humbucker pickup. if you are going for more of a bluesy/southern rock sound then you might really like the tele.

huh? is there a hidden pong somewhere or am i just a sucka?

no extra hook-ups. an active monitor that is bi-amped has two amps inside it, one for the low frequencies going to the woofer (usually the bigger of the two amps), and one for the high frequencies that go to the tweeter. The freqs. are split by a crossover. the reasoning behind this is more...

tape delay is/was a technique of creating a delay effect using tape heads and tape. here's the basics: i'll use guitar as an example. guitar signal goes into delay box and is routed to a tape head which records the signal to a moving reel of tape. The signal then goes to another tape head that...

okay i know i am gonna get flamed for this but i'm gonna go ahead... when I was in college, one of my instructors played us a CD that a buddy of his did. apparently this buddy is some sort of mad scientist type who had a way to remove just about anything from a stereo mix. the CD had a Stones...

yes, amplification reduction will negatively affect the amplitude of the track. i'm sorry, i had to. i can't wait for my fiftieth post.

great tips so far. i find it helpful to name all the tracks i'll be using to record before i start recording so the file names are a little clearer

i like my little crate amp on my recordings better than when i'm jamming in my room. why? proximity effect. with a sm58 right up close, i get hella low end. if you don't like your results recording guitar i'd try noodling with the mic placement. get a buddy to help you out. put on a set of...

yeah, most likely just bad compression. my TV actually has a "steady sound" option which is a built in limiter/compressor it was good at making those blaring commercials quieter, but it made music sound like shite so i shut the thing off

I have never heard of anything to remove reverb, so you are stuck with the echoes, but that doesn't mean you can't try tweaking it and getting something a little better. I would try expanding it (the opposite of compression) to make the direct sound louder than the echoes. I've never used...

wow thanks a lot chris, that was some detail. it sounds like i am missing out on a lot. i guess i'll see how cheap i can find the newer version. i do like 1.2, but it would sure be nice to have some non-destructive effects. a new interface sounds nice too. thanks too to dobro for the post.

ever heard of google??? i searched for "free sound effects" and got at least 5 decent hits. i live in chicago, and our big library downtown has a whole bunch you can check out.

well in that case, I'd start with the drum machine or some sort of "click track". You need something to keep the beat when adding new tracks. What are you recording on? Record the drum machine first because it has a consistant tempo. If you don't want to record the whole drum part yet, or...

so, you mean adding the fx with plugins right? depending on the plugin, most have a control for wet/dry, it might not be labeled that way, but there should be something along those lines.

Gym? Beats me man, my names Jim or Jimbo