Also just as a point of order 0VU assuming +4dBu on your DAW dBFS meter is where ever your converters calibrate it to be
My Profire is calibrated at -12dBFS = 0VU +4dBu
My BLA Sparrow is calibrated at -11dBFS = 0VU +4dBu
My soon to be new RME Multiface is switchable so that it can be calibrated...
Having a FB music page is a huge waste of time unless people know about it, which requires active promotion and there is regularly updated content which requires active participation from the page administrator
Simply having a FB music page will not make people seek you out. You have to spread...
Don't seem all that expensive to me in the grand scheme of things
Cheaper than a car, more expensive than a loaf of bread, less than I would spend on a guitar
Plus if you make em too cheap all sorts of people with no business playing a guitar loud enough for people to hear start getting their...
I've often wondered this too. I have some old recordings of Blind Boy Fuller and Rev Gary Davis made 70+ years ago, single mic thrown up in front of them playing wherever they happened to be and they sound great, the performance shines through all that hiss, crackle and no high end.
What would...
To me there are a few considerations
1) song and talent always come first. If you have crappy material played by crappy musicians, the best rooms and gear and engineers in the world will give you a pristine recording of crappy material played by crappy musicians
2) gear does matter... to the...
what specifically sounds awful that you need to fix?
Do you like how it sounds when you play it from where you are standing?
A few things to think about
Speakers in room corners especially if the speaker cabinet is open backed can cause a lot of bass/mud problems
* can you move out of a corner...
I usually blend mic's on guitar cabs
I'll often go with the 57 on the grill but by itself that's not how a guitar amp sounds to me. I don't listen to guitars with my ear pressed right up against the amp
So I'll often have a condenser a few feet out to get some space in the sound which is more...
For me with amp sims/DI I can hear the difference based on how I record amps.
I tend to mic amps from further out so there is some "Space" in the sound, amp sims and especially DI don't give you that, at least none of the amp sims I have tried have an option for a M/S mic set up from 6 feet away...
How are you measuring the noise floor?
Is that -55dBFS a peak number from when you turn the unit on or is that the RMS level of the noise
So to pose the question another way, does the noise pop up to -55dB dBFS on your DAW meters when you first turn it on and then drop down to -90dBFS...
The CD will be CD quality no matter what, Could be CD quality awful rubbish or CD quality slice of heaven, That's up to you and will depend on, amongst other things:
*Well written well rehearsed materials
*Good musicians with the necessary chops to nail the songs
*Well thought out position of...
Yeah EMI actually had a rule that mics must be AT LEAST 18" away from the drums. Emerick got a lor of flack from the suits at Abbey road for doing what he did with smashing through those rules and had revolver not been so successful he probably would have been shown the door
Its because you have told ACID to scan your entire C drive and so it is attempting load every DLL file on your computer (and there are tens of thousands of them, most of which have nothing to do with audio or plugins) into ACID which is causing it to lock up.
I made that mistake once too and you...
you should set the car on fire. I find that always attracts a lot of attention.
Cops, fire fighters, TV stations, terrified passers by will all know about your band.. you'll be infamous
the problem with polishing a turd is that what you end up with, while shiny and sparkly, is still a turd. And it still smells like sh!t :D
I'd rather use all that great "polishing" equipment to polish something nice. So I'm finding while my writing, practicing, refining, practicing, rewriting...
ACID Pro & is 32 bit software
It will run in a 64 bit OS like vista or 7 if you load it in 32 bit mode however you will not be able to use any more than 4GB of RAM and very often it has been reported as unstable running this way.
It was developed for XP and the very last patch that was released...