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No matter what monitors you buy, move them off of that wall. The overhang is killing you. To position monitors: If you are in a rectangular room, put your mix position on one of the "short" walls. Try to have as much symmetry in the room as possible along the line that divides the speakers...

Oh boy. Shit just got worse. No, that is just two panned mono tracks. Calling that a stereo recording is just as inaccurate as calling a duplicated mono track stereo. Yes, in the case where it is two separate recordings there is actually different sound coming out of each speaker so you're...

The 87th rule of acquisition: Never let a high school band pay the studio bill on credit.

Oh man, we are going to look SEXY wearing my giant 'phones with your portable gobos. :p

I'm going to need y'all to forget what I wrote until I can get the drawings finished and filed. :D

I was doing some reading on equal loudness curves today and the article mentioned something that got me thinking. Loudness curves are greatly influenced by the ridges on our ears. Sound we hear every day usually comes at us from some angle other than perpendicular to the sides of our head...

If you don't want parallel walls, you don't have to build a pentagon. Just build a 4-sided room with walls that aren't parallel. They don't have to be as far away from parallel as you might think.

If you've been offered a singles deal through a major label, why are you asking about buying home gear? Hit the studio and ask these questions in person to the professional working there.

Earlier this year I saw Bela Fleck at the Wilmington Grand Opera House. He was playing with some guys who played what looked like dried out halves of gourds strung with 2 or 3 strings and this one dude who was a thumb piano virtuoso. I never thought I see a thumb piano virtuoso... Anyway, I...

:lol: The legal disclaimer in that link says it all: "This product is not guaranteed to produce, and will not necessarily produce, audio results that are consistent with or match audio results that could be achieved using any of the referenced microphone models. "

Itunes defaults to a sound enhancer, yes. If you have never dug through the menus to turn it off, it is in use. It would make stuff sound significantly different.

Your friends will probably be most interested in the guitar playing, and that isn't bad at all. Go ahead and let 'em hear. Nothing about the backing track is overly distracting.

The backing track has heavy dynamic compression on the 2-buss. That means when a drum hits, everything else in the track momentarily jumps down in volume for the smallest instant. It glues it all together. Since your guitar was not present when the backing track was made, it is "outside" of...

If you took it to a different room or car, no, it would not sound the same if you had a monitor or room problem. Even on the same computer it would not sound the same if your media player was set to a different volume. Fleisher Munson and all that. Many media players also have "enhancers"...

No. For an 8-track recorder, you need an 8-track mixer. 1 recording track out = 1 mixer track in. Two of the in's and out's are reserved for a sub mix of "everything else". So in an 8-track case it would be 6 individual instruments on the mixer, and 2 channels of every other track mixed in...

99.99% sure it is the monitors and room treatment.

Try this first: Put a single mic about 10 feet away from your drum kit and just play the part. Then listen back to that one mic. At any point in the performance, does the drum kit sound unbalanced? If so, look at the wave file in an editor in that place. Is there a giant spike there? If...

Just because they have it does not mean you have to use it. Trust me, with large horn sections you do not want individual tracks of each. They play together. They know how to balance each other out. You don't have to have absolute mix control over them. Even at a large studio with oodles of...

If you want the Steve Albinin In Utero sound I would not put a limiter on the drums. Compression, sure. Limiter, no. Besides, if you're getting cymbal hits 8db louder than the rest of the kit, either a mic is in a "sub optimal" position or the drummer isn't controlling himself well enough...

Sure. All the time. Listen to some 80's Genesis albums for one example. That's a room mic slammed into the console's limiter...and I'm pretty sure it went to tape that way. ...It's a drum kit, not a pipe organ. Not only is it supposed to have large peaks, it HAS to have large peaks. The...