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Curious how this mix strikes you. Any aspect of it you feel like commenting on. I'll say more about it after I hear some feedback.

Wonder what you mean by "perfectly mixed". A friend of mine did some recording in a Nashville studio. These were tracks that were performed/recorded by some of the same people who do recordings for some major label artists. They played me the before and after tracks. Night and day difference...

There's almost surely some validity to this. But one doesn't learn unless one dives in and makes an effort to learn. I listen to early mixes I made of things that I thought sounded good and now can't believe I was ever happy with them.

Marshall MXL 990 into a Studio Projects VTB-1. Works on everything. If you find the right deal you can get both for under $250 combined.

Too many variables to give a definitive answer. Mic, room, vocalist, what the backing track is like, how much compression you're going to apply to the track. Lead vocals? Harmony vocals? Experiment and see what happens.

It looks similar to a Shure RS130 that I got at Radio Shack on clearance a few years back. That RS130 has a brighter sound than a lot of dynamics. I consider this a good thing since you can pull back the highs on a bright mic, you won't be as successful boosting the highs on a duller mic. You...

I've been using IQ4gui multiband dynamic eq VST plugin under SoundForge. It was running okay until it started having issues. When I try to use the high band in peak mode, it crashes every time. It previously worked fine. Then suddenly it didn't. Tried rebooting, even re-installing the .dll file...

Here's an example of what I've come up with so far. Various experimentation with eq, compression, reverb. It dresses it up some, but that dull, hollow ambience is still in evidence.

Yes but I'm doing this remotely for someone who's somewhat in the "Soccer mom" category. Talented vocalist, not so hip to tech issues. We've got a pretty workable process to isolate her vocal for me to work with but trying to narrow the disparity between her onboard laptop-mic recorded vocal and...

Another call for sows ear/silk purse conversion. If someone has recorded themselves in an untreated room and there's obvious ambient tubbiness as a result, any suggestions re: tricks to minimize this? I've been trying cutting at various lower freqs. Thanks.

Get both and sell the one you like least if you don't want to absorb the $100. I got a pair of MXL 990's on cheapie sale just to see how they sounded being that inexpensive and made the discovery that they work amazingly well on trumpet which is something I'd been looking for.

It seems to be consistent with this karaoke site. If it's mono it's always shorter. Stereo renditions are always exactly the same length as the original track, to the point where I can line the performance up with the track and cancel out the track to isolate the vocal. The chop into segments...

Just looked at it on YouTube. While an awesome app, apparently it's for straightening a wobbly recording, not matching two that need to be sync'd.

I have an unusual issue, probably not a common one. There's a karaoke site where you can find both mono and stereo versions of songs people have performed. I want to take a mono version with someone's vocal and line it up with the stereo version of the track. The problem is, while it's the...

I've got a bottle of Tascam cleaner/conditioner - says contains petroleum distillates. Wondering what if any Hardware store product will work as well or better for conditioning tape player and VCR rubber pieces? Thanks

Here's an example of what I've got. The formula I finally settled on involved first manually trying to even things out with a volume envelope on the isolated vocal before mixing with the track followed by a combination of dynamic eq, graphic eq, reverb and compression. The before and after. Not...

It's something I'm doing for someone. No point in complaining about the circumstances, I had no control over them. Just looking to fix the vocal as much as possible.

I isolated a vocal from a karaoke performance by lining it up with the instrumental track and inverting one. Works mostly except for some residual high freq stuff that stays behind. Problem is it was recorded with a cheap condenser mic and the girl's belty voice creates a lot of spiky...

I ran aross this dynamic eq VST plugin the other day IQ4gui - dynamic EQ A problem I've run into with it is that if you're previewing a file or a chunk of a file it doesn't start from a zero point, it picks up from wherever you quit when you last previewed the file - if where you quit happened...