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This isn't even a choice. Mic. Sims sound "off", aren't as flexible, and you can't use a sim to record the crazy sound the washing machine is making that would be perfect in "song x". Don't get me wrong. Sims are fantastic for filler tones. Sims are even more useful if you run their...

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-22 is a bit extreme (but probably wouldn't hurt anything). Just keep the body near -18. Read some articles on equal loudness curves. In a nutshell, the ridges on our ears amplify some frequencies and attenuate others. The sound coming from headphones bypasses the ear ridges for the most...

It's not just one particular DAW. Any digital recording will be this way. It's simply the nature of adding together parts and not overflowing the container that holds the mix. It's not about how loud it can get, it's about how well it can get loud. Regular amps are the same way. A $50 amp...

The electrical signal off of a mic is so tiny that you can't record anything usable at all without a preamp. Even boosting a guitar to -18 is a large amplification. And yes, built-in soundcards do have microphone preamps. No, the quality won't be the same. Don't turn up in the DAW. Don't it...

Also keep in mind that many preamps have both an input and an output level. If this is the case with yours, you could very well be clipping in the analog domain after the input stage and then lowering the already clipped signal at the output stage before A/D conversion resulting in a recording...

I use the Roland 2480. If the boss works in a similar way: *It does not copy the audio, it only places a marker. *It needs some "lead-in" time. See what happens if you render with a measure of dead space before the copy. If that works, maybe you can work out some stagger arrangement where...

Can you cut everything but the guitar out of the equation? There is an amp sim with reverb on the mp3 you posted. I can't tell if the problem is with the guitar/interface or an overloaded level being sent to the plugins. Post a clip of guitar->interface->faders at zero plugins...

100% yes. Too much sample replacement/beat detective/compression/limiting/autotune/2-buss volume automation = I'm turned off.

Dude, offer 'em some money! What's with the mp3? Did you lose the original mix?

The arrangement is going to make or break this. Sit the two drummers down at their kits and work the parts out. Once everybody knows exactly who is doing what and where the focus is at all times (keeping in mind the focus probably isn't on either drum kit for most of the song), and once...

If the interface can record a microphone without using any other external preamp, the interface does have a preamp. You can't record a usable signal off of a mic without one. The voltage is way too low.

The faders should be at 0. It is the trim/preamp gain that should hit about -18

My guidelines: If every track has the fader at 0, my master buss should not clip. If every track has the fader at 0, the mix should at least sound like it's in the ballpark. I usually record my first tracks with the body around -18 (peaks fall somewhere near -12 or -8). Then every track...

Well there's the confusion. Yes. I agree that panned mono sources can combine to be a stereo mix. I was talking about stereo recording. So can we agree: *A stereo recording is a separate thing from a stereo mix. *Two individual mono recordings are not a stereo recording. *Panned...

Ah. I looked it up. I was semi-wrong. Stereo encoding can use phase, arrival time, or amplitude differences. Still doesn't change the fact that panned mono is panned mono. Stereo has a popular usage as well as a technical usage. The popular usage has no meaning in a technical discussion...

Bad location can do wacky things like cutting a frequency almost entirely while boosting another by double or more. I wouldn't count on it.

Post a recording so we can hear the noise. It might be easy to identify.

That would probably make it worse since foam doesn't do anything to low frequencies. Sort out your room before buying new monitors. It doesn't matter what speaker you put in that mix position. It won't work well.

Binaural is something else entirely that encodes 3 dimensional up/down front/back information in addition to left/right information. Stereo only encodes two dimensional left/right information. I don't know why you would think the stereo phase relationship wouldn't come across on speakers. It...