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I am so glad you posted back here, It's nice to see how you are getting on! Well done, I really enjoyed your youtube video. You nailed the balance of the vocal/guitar except near the end you started singing a bit too quiet so maybe automate that vocal fader up. The SM57 is a great mic, but...

What would help the most with learning EQ? That's easy. Match EQ. Mix a multitrack preferrably one with the finished mix as a reference, do the best job you can with balancing and EQ. Use match EQ to see how far off you are. Keep going until you get the line relatively flat. If not using a...

Coolcat, ^^ Awesome post, I had my eye on that ISAone for a while. I am not too eager to break the bank now. I was wondering if it would saturate my tracks in that nice way but with the (night and day) difference over my scarlett interface pre-amps, but for the cost of it and what you said. I...

Every single process posed serious challenges for me from learning a song by ear, to the finished mix. I am not a beginner, but EQ....... this by far took me the longest to wrap my head around, compression clicked for me with relative ease but I still struggle with EQ. A lot. At the start of...

I wish i just went for a 8 input interface from the start. I am a solo musician so at absolute most id only use 5 inputs at any given time but for instance its not just about the inputs on my scarlett 18i20, its the fact i can run 2 sets of monitors, i can re-amp much easier and leave the cable...

i only listened to mix 2. A lot can be resolved by just improving the guitar tone, there is no smoothness to the song and it's a little fatiguing. Just do a simple master EQ cut sweep and find that point where you get that lush smooth guitar tones, probably around 2-3k once you find it...

use usb midi. download some nice free piano sample library's, load into kontakt (it's free) work on a template for a bit, add your nice cathedral verb and some stereo delay perhaps. then save it. Whenever you feel like playing just load it up and hit record. done. An example of something I...

If you are stuck with that microphone, what peaks are you getting when you record? peaks of -12 are what I aim for when I play normally, -18 is fine also but I personally wouldn't. Maybe you just think you are not recording a hot enough signal when you really are? Unless..... of course you are...

I don't think it's that bad actually. For a first try it's pretty awesome. Keep the vocals in the spot light, any instruments start to take away from that duck them in volume to sit them juuuust behind, if you want a particular track louder in volume than the vocal then be careful of the high...

Nice idea, not sure if you have acoustic guitar impulse responses but funny enough I just tried my classical out, ran my DI signal through an impulse but unfortunately my DI recording has noise issue so was unuseable but for reverbs/electric guitar i am definitely interested! Thanks

Winfred, I have been very busy and finding it difficult to partake in this thread, a short reply would not do you justice and have not had an hour spare recently. My Macbook Pro charger went POP on me so have also been unable to get a move on with some compositions also. It just seems that I am...

Sorry if my reply is all over the place, feelin off today. It's the opposite, I think you interface DOES allow you to direct monitor, so even if pro-tools does not allow it then you will be good to go still. Input monitoring is just so you can listen through your headphones your own...

After compressing and sitting the ribbon mic recordings into place I DID get some of that harsh quality come back again which I tried for a while to process to dull it back down again, but in the end I opted to punch in a new take on a specific part taking much more care. Still a massive...

I choose to work in ms's as well, I would have no idea how to introduce haas effects/slap back delays etc if I had to work out what that would be in samples. I was unsure if ms's would be too innacurate for phase aligning though but if you do it just fine then must be good to go! Thanks for that...

Just a quick one, I will reply as soon as I can but could you please be kind to share exactly how you do your sample delay in logic to phase align your drum tracks to the OH's? Currently I am moving the tracks by sight but I would like to move onto using the sample delay plugin for easy A/B...

No sweat about the notification thing, I will always reply but sometimes it can take me a day or 2 anyway. Luckily I managed to finish this construction job today so I am able to talk tonight but almost thought for a second that I would be leaving another one of my (Will reply tomorrow) posts...

You only need pro tools if you are collaborating with a studio that also uses pro tools and are building up songs together, or sending rough ideas to and from, and this is only during the mix and pre-mix process because you would want to make sure you both are using the same plugins, and It is...

You can get by with pro-tools lite, I would say not having input monitoring would be a problem, you are going to have to record and play it back to make sure you have your mic positioning sounding good, hopefully you can listen to a metronome through your cans. Delay compensation is not a...

Those guitar recordings are just 1 mic? I am listening on the laptop at the moment so not able to listen properly for stereo information but such a lovely balanced sound you have there. I do prefer the 1000 dollar guitar but wondering if the cheaper guitar would come very close in tonality if...

Looking forward to trying out this combo, and perhaps with the new ribbon mic. I am hoping the mic is the answer to my overly bright acoustic and that from now on I should be able to get nice recordings at least. Thanks for going in depth on your technique, it's the first thing i'm going to try...