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Thanks andrush I think that's the lead vocal, which isn't sitting right with me - I'm going to retrack it using a different "voice" next week, methinks. I get too much echo in the room when I go loud - gives it this strange harshness, so I'll try some gobo-ing and a softer voice. Thanks for...

Hi chaps Another 6 months, another song... the triple album's still some way from completion... :( You Monster So, Robus - last time you asked when I put the drums into the songwriting process - this one, at the very start - it's all about the drum roll. :D I've done a bit of editing as it...

I've recorded entire albums of fingerstyle original instrumental guitar with two renditions, identical, hard L and R and not noticed an issue. I say "original" because the piece is the piece - there are no inversions to be had, I just want it to sound big and wide and have two tracks playing...

Why do you need to do simultaneous single take acoustic guitar and vocal recording? Why do you not record one at a time? You seem to be worrying about the quality of the end result. If so, track it the way you get the best end result. Separately. If your answer is some variation of "I just...

Thanks Red. I think by the time I'd read your comment I'd already done a little more mid-scooping and drum twiddling along the lines of what you mentioned. Cheers:thumbs up: Thanks Jimi :) Thanks Nola. I've been up and down on that vocal a bit - it sounds clear enough, almost too much, on my...

Turn the speakers off and keep the signal, both backing and guitar, low in your headphones. It's an acoustic guitar. It makes a noise. You're playing it. You'll hear it OK. You just don't want bleed from the headphones going back into the mic.

Yeah, but you'd still be hearing miro... :laughings: (Sorry miro - had to... :) )

They'll have a proprietary format - the website lists various "converter" programs you can put on your PC to convert the output files from the device. Still, as you say, you should be able to dump the files onto whatever card the thing takes and still do that via a PC, irrespective of the OS...

Thanks, but I can't really do anything with that as I have no idea what you mean... :laughings: I'll check the EQ on the kit, however. I've got to listen to it on a few different systems now to reference it, so I'll see how the overall balance is. The drums come into the songwriting process...

And Saturday afternoon is here and a new mix is up. Did some minor drum tweaks as well to make it a little less "draggy" in the quiet bits.

No, I wasn't aware of it. Seems logical - never thought of going both ways - and I think I was HPFing at about 400, so clearly going higher is OK. I'll have a play with it on the weekend. Cheers Yes, there will be a new mix but it won't be until Saturday afternoon Australia time - that's the...

Thanks IBB - I've never tried side chain compression. Understand the theory, just never quite sure how to go about it. In the end I do a lot of automating to cover it. I'm still working on the track. Spent another hour or so of nudging this and that just now, but haven't updated the file at this...

Thanks. I'm still working on it. I normally HPF the reverb bus but had forgotten on this occasion - that cleaned up a bit of the boom down there - plus ratcheting up the HPFs on all the guitars a bit. Always a struggle when you have so many on a track. Still nudging the vocal into line as well...

Thanks andrush. I've taken on board various bits of feedback from here and elsewhere re. the low/mids, guitar levels and vocal levels. New mix up.

OK, quote function not working properly at the moment. Thanks Robus. I'd done some tweaking along the lines you'd pointed out after you'd listened but before I've read your comments, and have updated the file but I have further to do - need to reset the main vocal as I've run out of wind room...

Hi peeps Been a while. A tune I've been working on, it seems, forever, since I got a cool delay pedal for Christmas and starting making interesting backwards guitar sounds and thought... hmm, might do a song with that. Different from my recent stuff I guess. Shorter, less complicated, poppier...

End of the dream, or just rationalising?

See previous thread. I can't imagine this is better. Not wasting the time finding out...

No, if that's what you call singing, you can't sing. Give up, or be serious and cut out the caterwauling and over-emoting and just sing like a human being instead of a constipated piglet.

I hear what andrush is saying about the acoustic - it sort of jars a bit at the time - although I can hear echoes in the bass and other guitars later on, by which time I'm "used" to it. I think the vocal levels are about right, but I'll make my usual comment that I think there are a few too...