Sometimes those preamp outs have their own volume control, and other times your preamp volume will be the only control you have. If that's the case, and you're keeping that preamp low to avoid killing your neighbors with a 100w 2x12, you might just not be sending enough into your interface...
I'm using an Omega with SONAR Home Studio 6, and while my drivers appear the same way in Cakewalk's settings, IIRC things like those little dings when you get error messages and other alerts still play back through my computer's sound card. That indicates to me that Cakewalk is using the Omega...
Glen, you know what else sucks? It's not like you can go out and buy a CD with the "before" version, either. Every fricking album has been "remastered" and re-released to sound like your ears are pushing on the sides of your brain. Dynamic versions of originally dynamic recordings are even...
There used to be a free version of Sampletank that came with a nicely sampled piano. It also had usable B-3 and Rhodes sorts of sounds. If you get an interface where you can transfer MIDI to your computer, you can record the MIDI information and apply the patches later on.
I think EQing in solo can be very advantageous. If you're EQing out the low end in a guitar to allow some space for the bass, then solo the guitar. It sometimes is possible to further raise the cutoff for your low-cut on the guitar to create more space in the mix; after the point at which the...
Why? All that does is make you louder. :D
In all seriousness, you are right. It might be useful for him to have a doubled track that's got EQ, though, so he can set the EQ levels and then have a chance to mix wet/dry. But that's certainly not going to thicken anything.
Lexicon has not addressed the issue publicly. As far as I could find out on the Lexicon forum, people are still complaining. Those under warranty get it fixed for free. Those out of warranty get a $70 repair charge.
I have one of these Omegas, and it's a nice unit other than the...
You might try to not pay attention to the room mic as a kit mic, but really focus on it as an ambient mic. This will work especially well if your room has some reflections. If you're standing in a verby room with a kit and the drummer is really wailing, you'll perceive those early reflections...
I know my basic Cakewalk stuff does it, too, so I imagine that more feature-laden DAWs will allow you to drag and highlight to insert a gradual tempo change. You just set the beginning and ending tempo and the computer will gradually slow it down or speed it up.
You might also look into a noise gate or expander, preferably one with more than one knob. These work by allowing you to pick a volume level below which the unit will reduce gain, and some will allow you to also set the ratio by which that gain will be reduced. The noise will still be there...
Oh, I completely agree. A ballad with a piano and a vocal really begs for a lush reverb somewhere. But we're in the Newbies forum talking about tips for n00bs. There's a lot of fast music going on in here, and people just starting out are looking for general rules.
Actually, the more that...
I've been having a problem lately with getting my vocals to sit. I've put a lot of time into really thickening up my rock mixes without destroying the space they have, and what I've noticed is that comparably my vocal takes sound tinny and weak. I don't have a very powerful voice, but I have...
The only thing that might be added is that with most reverbs, once you get it set where you like it you should turn it down just a bit. If you're hearing it, it's probably too much.
Glen, it's the reflection of waves off of differing layers of the atmosphere that made me ask the second question. (Although they're not sound waves, we bounce AM radio waves all over the place.) Good call!
And by the way, this here is the best flying toy...
Won't you get a reflection off of the ground? Even if you can't hear it, won't some measure of sound waves bounce back?
Clearly the gas will diffuse to fill a vacuum, but I dare say "not evenly". If you had a box with a popped balloon as you describe, the gas inside would be for all...
This, I think, is the answer. There will always be waves that must propagate through a medium. Talking about pressure changes, even when an atomic bomb appears to instantaneously vaporize a building, the heat from the bomb will reach the near side first. Although we can't perceive it because...
Glen,
I didn't mean that the pressure in the volume changes instantaneously, I just meant that whatever causes the pressure to change happens at all points. I was trying to illustrate that there is a pressure change without a localized source.
Maybe that's impossible, but I didn't intend for...
Chili, you got me there. I meant oscillating between "Whole Pressure High" and "Whole Pressure Low". Of course, the only way I can think of creating this is to expand and contract the whole volume at once. Ergo my typo.
A change in pressure doesn't necessarily require a change in energy in...