This is what I was getting at when I said a compressor should be seen and not heard.
If you can hear the places in your track where compression is needed, without looking at the meters, then it's better to re-record, get it right from the source.
Similarly, if you are setting the compressor...
I think I understand why you say this, and I wish I had thought of it myself. Before there were instruments, we had rocks and sticks and voices. Then someone came along with a drum. The others looked at him and said, "That's cheating." We take it for granted now, but way back when the very first...
I tried the EZ Mix demo, seemed fairly cool. But I'm not sure if it is worth the expense or not.
Any opinions on it? Is the quality worth it? Can it replace most of my collection of decent individual fx plugins?
The simplest rule I can think of to help you mix easier is........get the sound you want from the source, then record it over and over until you get it to play back thru the speakers the way you want to hear it in the final mix. Do not assume you can just record any sound and then change it "in...
I have concluded that "the pros" who ever they are whatever that is, use compression a LOT more than they let on. But I would qualify that by suggesting that the need for compression is inversely proportional to the quality of the musician. The better the singer, the less compression you will...
Best quick advice, besides what is already stated above, is forget about running live stereo. Even the biggest national name brand acts don't do that (only a few who do) and there is a good reason. Mainly because you want all points in the room to hear the same sound at all times. At home with...
There is no guarantee of that at all.
Your ohm's law has already been corrected. The water in the pipe analogy is good, but incomplete. If the pipe gets smaller (more ohms) and the pressure stays the same (voltage from the output transformer) then eventually the water pressure (voltage) will...
THAT is a description of a Heil PR40 or PR30.
If you compare enough mics side by side, you will find the the EV mics all have a very characteristic "EV sound" and the RE20 has that EV sound in spades. You might like it, until you start comparing it to other mics and to real condensors. I had...
We try and we try and we try and we try...........
We need a system of prerequisites in the DAW world......first you pass the Reaper 101 class, and that's required before you can buy into the PT or the Logic or the Sonar class. If you can't do it in Reaper then you might as well get...
If you ( the OP ) really are a newbie to this kind if stuff, then you have no business messing around in Logic or Pro Tools or Sonar, and we have no business pointing you in that direction.
Logic ~~ $300 +
Sonar ~~ $400 +
Pro Tools ~~ $500 +
Reaper = $60
If you really are a newb, then...
Well, you can ket a better keyboard, spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get state of the art keyboard sounds, etc......
Or you can buy a software synth like Sonik Synth II or SampleTank and spend days and days mastering that medium. Try Garritan JABB if you want natural instrument...
I would bet folding money that the greatest singers we hear in all those famous recordings are not double tracked.
I bet Steve Walsh never double tracked any vox on any Kansas albums. If some engineer wanted to double track Barbara Streisand, the engineer would get fired before they would ask...
If you can understand the info on pages 9, and 58-59 in your manual, you will learn quite a bit about what midi can do. It looks to me like you can play your keyboard and it will play the internal sounds and at the same time it will send the midi data you are playing out the midi out jack so you...