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Ha, well, that's one thing about mixing...everybody and their cousin has an opinion. And finding a neutral system that gives you a true flat response is near impossible, these days. Actually, you're never really finished, because you can always find something to tweak. You just have to tell...

I don't know anything about your DAW either but in Cubase, you have to designate the path of your signal. Inputs and outputs and how you are monitoring them to be heard when played. In the main screen for your recording device that's controlled by your audio interface, there should be an input...

OK, here's my input on this. For the most part, it's already sounding damn good, and what I have to suggest might be my personal preferences more than technical issues. I'd like to hear more upper mids in the snare, to bring it out in front a little more. I'd also like to hear a bit more...

With me, I started with analog and moved into digital. With tape, I only had a 4 track, so when I moved into digital, I had all of these virtual tracks in the DAW and I also have 10 actual hard wired tracks to record to. I was in track heaven. And that was my problem. I thought to myself...

For a computer, it is very true that turning it on is the hardest on the components and drive. I worked at a very large company and we left every computer on 24/7, except for weekends. In just the home office, this would be around 500 computers and 200 dumb terminals. We never turned the...

Not trying to be a tight wad, but you can back up quite a few things on flash drive. You can also make one bootable, in case your main drive crashes and you need to get to your data. You can get cloning software that backs everything up, or lets you select what to backup and because they are...

I'm going to jump in here, but I don't think I have anything new to add, except to agree with the vocal being too loud, when she belts out some notes. It could be just frequencies that are irritating to the ear. There were times when she was holding a note that I wanted to reach for the fader...

when I moved into my present house in 1981 (built in 1935) I found square nails, slat and lath walls, original 10 foot ceilings, actual 2X4 lumber and every wall outlet in the house wired to one breaker. On top of that, not one wire nut in the place, with old electrical tape covering wires that...

Things like that don't just go away on their own. Whatever it was, it might come back. However simple the cause was, you should look into it. An easy thing to do is get one of those outlet testers. It plugs into each outlet and tests that outlet for hot and neutral wired correctly and if the...

Personally, I liked the first version better, too. I agree with the mixing suggestions you've been given but I prefer the beginning of the first take over that second one. Something about how it stops and then starts again is abrupt to me. It's just a suggestion, but I think it flows into the...

I've got a name for you. Bob Dylan. Personally, I don't think he can sing a lick, but others will say he's a great singer. I do think he's one of the best folk rock lyric writers of all time, though. Here's where the bucket and lid come into the scene. If he wasn't otherwise such a good...

Just what is it the wife does, when you convince her to go do something else? If it's shopping, a little of that could pay for the foam you were saying was too expensive. You could make an insulated cabinet for your amp, seal it up well, so most of the sound is kept inside the cabinet. It's...

If you're going to be on some kind of camera, what is going to be your backdrop? You don't want it to look like you're in your bedroom or living room, do you? Don't you want it to look like a professional atmosphere? A professional studio would probably have some corrugated foam on the wall...

When talking about double tracking, nobody mentions the Beatles?

Both sound OK to me. When someone says "practice" I look past the small variances in pitch and rhythm. That's what practice is for...it's not a finished product. If you had said these were finished vocal tracks, I would have thought differently. And if this is your first time singing, or...

I'd guess that is a condenser microphone. Those things pick up a lot of crap, if you let it. Crap is sound bouncing off of untreated walls and other surfaces and coming back to muff up your nice clean studio sound. Maybe setup a little temporary mic booth, like somebody already mentioned. If...

do any of these EV mics require phantom power?

You know...if the fidelity of all of the other tracks is similar to this one, I don't think you're going to make much progress. This goes along the lines of the old saying, junk in/junk out. No offense to them, but it kind of sounds like the microphone they recorded with fell down behind a...

How do you know Rolex doesn't make electrical wire? They do pretty well with watches! LOL.