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Hey guys, sorry I didn't come back to the thread for a while. All of your information has been really helpful, especially about wiring. I think I'll try to build one of these when I get the chance. Seems like a cool idea.

Earbuds and construction workers' earmuffs! Tracking on a budget :thumbs up:

Shit! I forget to listen to how it sounded! :listeningmusic: Everyone says, sound isn't half as important as feeling, and this one has enough feeling to go around for sure. Great work on the track man!

I see pictures tracking sessions where the engineer places a speaker in front of the kick drum and uses that in some fashion. Can anyone explain why they do it and how to hook it up? Can it be any speaker, or are they from subs, or...? I often mix other people's tracks from places like...

You can also do what RAMI said about panning a send in Cuabse as well. It has to be done by clicking the "e" button on a channel (in this case each individual vox track, not the group). This will open the window that holds cubase's stock EQ, and to the right of that, you can change the settings...

Sir, thanks again. Great pointers!

And there's also this one. Haven't tried the premium version but it, but the free is pretty good. Mr. Soundman - Free frequency ear training software for sound engineers

Thanks for your awesome answer! I'm gonna give this a go!

Hey Fairview, I've been messing around with this a bit lately with something I tracked that I feel isn't bright enough for the genre. I've been noticing that modern rock/pop rock ish stuff has some pretty bright guitars. So, what EQ are you using for brightening and how do you avoid harshness...

In Cubase this would F everything up, unless I have the DAW all wrong :drunk: Changing the level of each little edit changes the "input gain", thus pre-fade. If you were to change this after a mix already has compression or other dynamic processing, you would have wasted a ton f time. At least...

With that amount of ram (a bit small), amp sims like those can really suck up the juice I'm afraid. You might need to look into some less CPU hungry plugs for modeling.. There are a ton of (decent?) free ones. Check out KVR. Also, are you using ASIO4ALL? You can increase the buffer size to...

Wow man, thanks a lot for that clip! I listen to tons of this style metal and always try to pick out the vocal effects. This helps a lot! Do you know if there are other clips like this from other artists around the interwebs?

So are you doing extra EQ work on your returns because any EQ on the track is not effecting what's sent? It's probably common practice to EQ the returns whether pre or post fader send anway, but is that something you look out for more?

I agree with both the above. The most important automations I make are usually on rhythm guitars for impact. Narrow and a bit lower level in a verse, maybe even just on guitar center, then wide and raised volume in the chorus. It makes everything have more power. Also, maybe vox up or down...

Unless you're into building your own machine, why not just a buy a good pre-built one? These days desktops are getting stupid cheap. Especially for what kind of equipment you can get in your price range. Check this one out for instance... 16 GB of ram and a 2 TB HDD? Sweet god. I'm running a...

I've never used Ozone, but I think if you can handle the power, it can be a good tool. The issue I would be concerned about for myself though is using way too much salt and making an uneatable dish. One track might not need all the tools that you could use on it, so make sure it's needed before...

Maybe it has to do with not hearing the vocal from the mic directly like in a studio, but after it's been sent through speakers and some real space. It's also not right in your face like we like recorded vocals to be. Finally, it seems that verb and delay aggravate the issue in a mix by...

I love those skull candy earbuds! For a while, that's all I would buy because they were rather cheap and the sound was fantastic. I've moved on though because the cheap price also seemed to mean cheap quality in the long run. I would use em for about 6 months and then the plug would start to...

So, you don't use EQ, compression, limiting, saturation and other tools to make nice sounding mixes?

A bit old now, but explains wtf an MP3 really is. I wasn't exactly sure how it worked, so I checked it out. Very informative and worth the read if you haven't researched the topic yet.. Perceptual Coding: How Mp3 Compression Works Edit: 400th post :D