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I've used side chain compression to duck lead guitar under vocals, and liked the results. Choice of sources should avoid most conflicts, as others have said. I hear high, low, and band pass filters are commonly used on some parts to fit those parts together by eliminating spectral overlap. I...

Side chain compression to duck one part under another is one way to address this problem. I too am interested in info about where to get reference tracks.

Oh wow. I just got my monitors out of storage and bought power cables and trs cables to hook them up, and I can't believe all the warts I hear now in my recent recordings mixed on headphones. Bad expensive bass boosting headphones! Bad! :spank:

Yeah, I know you're just kidding, but my current lead tone is just a compromise, and not my real thing. I'm doing the best I can in this stupid apartment I'm in now micing this little tube combo. Don't get me wrong, it can sound awesome at higher volumes and give good feedback, but I usually...

Some amps can be instruments in themselves. It can take a while to learn to play them. I don't think a week is enough time. With a sim, a newb can flip through presets until they find something they connect with. Connection is key. But the thing that I connect with can't be done by any sim...

I hear there are some feedback simulators out there, but I have a hard time imagining that any of them come close to the real thing, and the little I've heard has not been good. Seems the main thing you can't do with amp sims is feedback. But if you're not planning to do that, then you can...

Well dammit then. I wanted to buy the SM7B and the RE20 and try them both and return one. Now what am I supposed to do?

Oh, very good point. If she was a keyboard player, planning on using virtual instruments, that would make a whole lot more sense.

A Guitar Center employee told me if I buy a mic from them I can't return it because it is a healthcode violation. I see used mics for sale all over, and I don't see anything at Sweetwater that says you can't return a mic. Is it fact or fiction?

I was standing in Pro Audio at Guitar Center today for 45 minutes waiting for the one person working there to finish selling this guy a Behringer amp so I could buy a couple of TRS cables. In between thoughts of just leaving and ordering the cables online, I got treated to another customer's...

TY. The lead scale is E blues scale, so that's basically E minor pentatonic with notes from E major pentatonic added in as passing tones, plus the flat 5. Meanwhile, the rhythm is in E major, with the chords being augmented with notes from the key of E minor. To me, that's basically what...

I've remixed this twice in view of some suggestions from various sources. I've also uploaded the new version to my sounclick page, so you can download it or listen to it there if the attachment gives you any trouble. Are there any more suggestions?

Sometimes I like to try parallel compression on acoustic guitars, or even multiband parallel compression. It's worked for me on occasion.

I want to delete my account but can't find an option in the control panel. Is there a way to delete it?

It's a really nice groove. The snare sticks out like a sore thumb, though.

Ok. I'll give that a try. Thanks. While you are being helpful, I was wondering if you could help me understand something about normalization versus compression. Presume I put a compressor on the 2-bus and set the threshold at 0dB, and then crank the makeup gain until I see reduction and back...

Yes. Everything you are saying is right. I don't think I was making myself understood well, but it was the loudness of the bounced mix that I was talking about. I had problems with my bounced mix being so soft that people couldn't even hear it well enough to evaluate it, and it took a...

If you are recording direct, then the room is not in play. Mixing on headphones is not ideal, but it can be done. Headphones usually don't have enough bass reproduction for accurate tracking, so the tendency is to wind up with too much bass. You obviously don't have that problem yet. Some...

Yes, I am not very experienced yet. I appreciate getting feedback on what I think I've learned. Maybe the need for a compressor and limiter on the 2-bus is kind of DAW specific. I didn't find I needed it until I switched from Logic to Pro Tools. I think Logic has a built in "finalizer"...

The first stumbling block for new home recording artists is that we don't know we need to put a compressor and brick wall limiter on the master track. Put the compressor in first, followed by the limiter, and select the brick wall limiter preset in the limiter. You should only see about 1 or 2...