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I've been listening to "New Maps of Hell" by Bad Religion lately. There are some great songs on there, but I'd be surprised if it weren't twice as distorted as Death Magnetic.

Learn everything you can about the cabinet, especially the impedance and the power handling. Then offer to allow people to demo it with their own heads. Just make sure you run the show so that they heads don't overpower the cab. Good score on the JC!

Atom Bomb, those are some badass racing stripes!

It's certainly a possibility that the guitar is Fiesta Red. That color is sometimes pink, sometimes like tomato soup, sometimes orange. The color mix is never the same, but it's always a "not quite red" kind of red. By the way, it's not nitro. It's poly. Cracking in the paint at the heel is...

To the OP, the plain old electronic metronomes on the market often have lights. I bought one more than fifteen years ago and it still works fine. It's got a "click" setting and a "silent" setting. When on silent, it flashes a little light. http://elderly.com/accessories/items/SZIP6000.htm...

I have Sonar Home Studio and it has a built-in tap tempo calculator. They aren't that complicated - I'm sure if you poke around your DAW might have one.

I just want to add that the more you compress the vocal, the more you're going to hear the room.

Maybe you could cut the felt off of a mallet and bore it out so it's shaped like a doughnut. Then slide it onto a drum stick, but put it, say, 1/3 the way down. Then glue it. Have the drummer play the kit with the tips, but hit the crashes with the side of the stick (in this case, with a...

It's not that the bass and kick can't overlap...they will. There's nothing you can do about that. What you can do is carve out the excess of each. If it were me--and I'm no expert, so take it with a grain of salt--I would stop focusing on that 85Hz so much, pull that back to flat for now, and...

What is generating the bass? Is it just a bass guitar, or is it other things like keys, guitar, samples? If so, think about whatever should be moving in the bass register, and think about what is moving in the bass register. If something isn't essential down there, pull it out. Thin out the...

I know this thread is old, but I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned replacing drum recordings with samples. With software providing samples that might be "perfect", every engineer that wants to get 'that sound' can do so for a few hundred bucks and a couple of mouse clicks. Voila. Every...

Paulie Jay, I'm certainly no expert, but as I understand it the technology involved in recording and reproducing CD-quality sound (specifically low-pass filtering for anti-aliasing and the use of a 44.1kHz sampling rate) compensates for artifacts above the audible range. Whatever your sample...

Richard, How did you figure out that 27Hz was the resonating frequency of air at that time/place? Did you work it out on paper or did you just tweak the signal generator until it hit the sweet spot? Interested parties with inquiring minds and noisy neighbors want to know.

Geez, Glen. Good call. I should have been more careful with my words, because I certainly understand that "home recordist" includes the very experienced as well as the hobbyist. Hell, sometimes the hobbyists are very experienced. All I meant to say is that most of the time the...

Terry, When you're in the Mixing/Mastering section (and you see all of the threads listed there), look towards the top left of the list of threads. Just below the "User CP" link, there's a button that says "New Thread". Just click that button. You'll have to give it a title, but other than...

This is where the lumping problem comes from. While I made my own quasi-suggestion above, Glen's got a real point here. There are only a few ways we can deal with it as far as I can tell: 1. Leave them lumped together because the popular definition is what's going to drive the average home...

Terry, I think you're OK in the mixing/mastering forum, but you're in a thread where folks are discussing an administrative forum matter. You might be better off starting your own thread on this one...I think your question is going to need the individual attention that its own thread would provide.

Maybe the idea here is to split production and post-production. Take a film analogy: filming is like recording. Production. Then the film is edited, like a recording is mixed. Post production. Mastering is important, but it's not this incredible fix-all "we'll un-ruin that mix your stupid...

Also, that UX2 is a guitar DI, right? Could you run one or two guitars into its guitar interface and simultaneously use the XLRs for mics on the kit? If so, you'd get full separation on your tracks. Your only problem then would be monitoring.

Provided the band sounds good in the room, I have had usable (for a demo) results with a pair of dynamics spaced about six feet apart, parallel, and facing the drums from about six feet away. 3-piece band, bass on one side of the room, guitar on the other. One take was a guitar on each side...