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S2K: Thanx for your comments. That is a real bass on the track-if you can call a 1975 Ovation Magnum with strings .25 inches off the frets a real bass. What the hell, it's a freeby; I acquired it by means very similar to your sm57. I have sinced remixed this and even added some acoustic...

Yup, if you don't hear it, it isn't there is the rule I live by now. As for your concern about individual track volumes, I always adjust them first and then bring the master up to the desired volume. dmc

In addition to the solid advice given to you by S2K, consider this advice given on another recording level topic forum on this BBS: there are great differences especially between level meters on software multitracks. I think it was sonusman who posted a reply to that topic by saying that if...

You nailed it. The POD kicks ass for avoiding visits from 5.0 late at night, or even during the day depending on where you live. But, it just cannot equal the sound of glowing tubes overdriving 12" [enter you favorite speakers here]. I had the dumb luck and ambition to save up for a mesa...

Just downloaded and listened to "itstheend". It's a great song. Nice lyrics and good acoustic guitar creating the backdrop for the words. I have to agree with the string noise comment though. I wonder if some creative compression and eq could reduce it or make the strumming stand out more...

S2K: Thanx for the tip on SCMPX; I downloaded it last night-took about 2 min @ 48K. I did A/B them @128Kbps and there is a significant difference. End result: Blade Enc is no longer welcome on my hard drive. dmc

Actually, I paid an extra $5 for my guitar and the salesman told me that it would write songs for me.......was he BS'n me?

Also, On a song that I encoded with Blade Enc, it seemed to add an unwelcomed flange effect to the guitar and bass lines in the mix in addition to the whooshy sound on the cymbals. Very pronounced when just drums and bass were unaccompanied(sp?) on the song. It made the bass sound as if it...

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that I don't know. It gets consumed with the feedback loop and I think the only way is to stop it is to break the connection. dmc

I believe I have done this same thing before; by setting high values for the delay level and feedback it can regenerate indefinitely. dmc

I'm gonna give that I try based on your post. A genki is what? dmc

liquid: Do you see waveforms appearing as you record? If you don't, the sound card is not receiving the input from your cassette deck. You said that you were previously using your "mic in" as the input. When you switched, did you select "line in" as your recording source in your soundcard...

S2K: Not offended, sometimes I just get the uncontrollable urge to throw in my 2 cents-ask my wife. :) To tell you the truth, I envy you because I would kill for a Les Paul. I have what was an $1100 Ibanez and I would trade it in a minute for even a Les Paul Studio. The weight of the body and...

What kind of input is on your soundcard? Is it an 1/8" jack? If so is your plug stereo(2 rings instead of one)? dmc

S2K I remember who that was. That was me who falsely praised your use of tremolo on your song. However, my response was not "oh cool". I believe it was more to the effect of nice technique. Which brings me to this statement: It takes years to develop good technique on guitar....hell, to get...

Damon: What drstawl said is correct. If I am using volume or panning envelopes to control these parameters in the track, there is no need to change the default slider settings. If I don't make use of the envelopes during the track, I use the sliders for control. dmc

Ed, Thanks for that confirmation of what I thought was true. It's really been messing with my mind to see my level meters in Vegas consistently go over 0 dB all the while watching those on my out board mixer stay below 0 dB. I know that if they cross the 0 dB threshold on my mixer distortion...

Yeh, but the thing is, I deleted the original track .wav files as well. I guess I could just drag and drop the mixdown .wav to vegas and then convert to mp3. I do appreciate your feedback however. As I get deeper into Vegas, I am amazed by the simplicity with which everything is presented and...

drstawl: well said.