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Good post About the only thing I'd add is: Lesson six, mixing is the means to the end, not the end in of itself. No matter how many clever plugins or analog FX you have, you get far better results by trying to get the sound right to start with and capture it as best as humanly possible than...

I tend to agree with this and generally use my emulation plugins in the same way I use hardware. Keep the levels dancing around 0 VU on the plugin input. Use tape plugins at normal levels and get a gentle rounding off of the spikey transients. use a console emulation to get a little harmonics on...

This is just my opinion.... If you have to ask then the answer is probably no, and here's why A huge part of singing at a show in front of a couple of hundred people (and at a school show there will be a lot of people as they are all parents and relations of the kids performing plus faculty and...

As with all processing, sidechaining a compressor on the bass to be triggered by the kick will have side effects. Whether or not you will feel they are useful, drawbacks or downsides will depend on your taste and the type of music you are doing A few examples might be: This effect will make the...

I actually got a hippopotamus for Christmas last year, it was an abso-f@cking-lutely unmitigated disaster. Great song and a great updated version, my kids have been singing along

Depends on the guitar maker Gibson for example have the day, month and year as well as the production number (ie this was the 34th guitar produced that day) as a part of the serial no useful tool HERE to decode serial numbers

Well strictly speaking the sound is presure wave through air which is then converted into a voltage that is "analogous" to that sound pressure wave. Hence the term analog. The voltages are used as an analog of the sound wave That is a pretty drastic conversion Every time you add a circuit to...

If you have to ask................ I'll leave it to your imagination and inspiration to fill in the blank :guitar:

Ooh a three year old thread risen from the dead. I'll play To me the biggest difference when I turn on my analog processors is I can no longer see the audio and I have to really start using my ears (Imagine that for audio). It seems like with DAWs there are an awful lot of threads of "The wave...

Nothing wrong with using Compression or EQ on the Mix buss if you know what you're doing (or even if you don't just to see what it does) Compression on the master will change the dynamic balance of the mix and so you may need to add EQ get it back where you want it. as already stated you need...

Hard to say since this is entirely level dependent In the case of spoken word turn the peak reduction knob until the gain reduction VU is showing between 3 & 6 dB of reduction on the peaks only. try it in limiting mode too and see if higher compression but with a higher threshold sounds better...

Here are the details on a real hardware LA2A compressor (peak reduction knob controls the overall compression) Teletronix® LA-2A CLassic Leveling Amplifier | Universal Audio Here's a good free plugin version (slightly more complex but there are others) ThrillseekerLA – released today Here's a...

It seems like you intend to use a plugin compressor on the DAW channel and then record the resulting waveform, is that correct? If so then there is no difference in recording dry and effecting after the recording is done except you don't get to hear the before and after. I'd second the LA2A or...

No one can tell you what you are going to like in a guitar, it's a very personal thing Figure out how much you have to spend. Go to a bunch of guitar stores and play as many in that range as possible buy the one that screams "take me home" at you that will be a nice electric guitar for you

I'm very confused. how can I be less confused by this thread?

I thought mastering meant putting Ozone on and picking the rock/pop preset and pushing the loudness slider up. How does that take 15 minutes :confused:

I used to be into hunting around for that kind of stuff, I also have a friend who owns a public storage place and does a lot of those auctions of the contents and he keeps an eye out for tubes for me and a couple of other friends. He also has access to a tube tester so we can see if they are...

I once got my hands on some NOS vintage Mullard tubes at a garage sale for a pretty reasonable price. I was so excited, couldn't wait to get home and drop them into my amps and just bathe in the glory of vintage goodness that would now blast out of my amps. Guess what... the difference was...

If you have guitar parts and vocals that are in no way linked to the rhythm of the song then what you end up with is jazz :rolleyes::rolleyes:. and from there it's a slippery slope

This should be made a sticky and an auto reply to all questions that revolve around how to make a pro sounding record