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Since clear communication is the purpose of language your English is fine. I believe you might try this: Use a mixer to do your stereo items into two channels of the Zoom. The two overheads plus the 8" and the 16" tom can be summed to two channels of the Zoom. That leaves your with the Bass...

Always check to see if it is plugged in; advice I always follow. So to your problem there is a way to check. Plug in another mic from a friend that you know works. See if it happens with it. Then plug your mic into your friend's system and see if it has the same problems. That ill tell you if it...

I'm confused. Your title, Legacy, says smooth jazz. But the song is not a jazz rhythm. Rod Norman, jazz drummer and engineer

You bring up a good point. The quote is really a rule of thumb. Most writers DO have to write about a hundred songs to get one SOLD. That doesn't make any of the others "bad". I suggest writing at least one song a day. If you have trouble writing, write about having trouble writing or about how...

The secret is your ears. The human ear cannot take continuous hard work and the hairs that vibrate to send frequencies to the brain can become damaged by loud volumes. I recommend breaking often (stopping the music to relax and talk or take notes), avoiding headphones except to line up edits...

I've had a lot of luck with the Samson CO1 through CO3. They run anywhere from $70 to $100 new.

I'm really sorry to hear about your problem. At this point you need to do everything you can to download your material to another computer. I'm assuming you didn't back up all your files? Try plugging in a flash drive, rebooting, and seeing if it will read the flash drive long enough to drag and...

The thickness difference is about two inches. Staggering thicknesses is a good idea. The real question is what are you using it for? If you want sound isolation from other rooms, the acoustic foam does little. If you want to tame early reflections within the room, you have the right idea. I also...

"That squeezed sound" The sound you're hearing is the result of chorusing, a form of tight delay. The delay times run as follows:1-6ms is flanging, 6-10ms is chorusing, and higher is doubling or delay. I think her voice may have been run through a harmonizer which pitch shifts the sound to...

I've used a 1/2 inch 8 track but I wouldn't expect a 16 track to provide you with the tape options your client expects. If you can't get 2" I wouldn't bother. The expense would mount and the results wouldn't be better. And there's a reason studios use 32 channel boards with 16 track machines. I...

You need to rethink the tempo. Take it up to 120, drop all the tracks but bass, then layer guitars ala heavy metal and double her vocals on top. Thicken the drums with delay. Think Pink Floyd. Then when that's good add some synth pad. Then just stop. See if that doesn't help. Right now it sounds...

The question might involve more than the term boring. Try palm muting, arpeggios, or quarter note triplets through the vocals. Remember though that od/dist smooths out the chords so it might actually help. If it doesn't try writing a line using ascending 1,3,2,4,3,5,4,6 in eighths. Experiment...

The Haas effect is not a mixing technique. It is the product of acoustic research regarding the brain's ability to perceive sound direction and the nature of dominant sound in a mix. Rod Norman

The key to a recording environment with no prepared mixing room is the position of the speakers and the seat you sit in. Set up a pair of near field monitors ($200 - $500) in an equilateral triangle with your ears at the nearest point of the triangle. 5 to 6 feet on a side should do fine. Do NOT...

WE don't "listen" in mixing rooms. That being said, there is a reason for two different types of rooms for mixing and mastering. The room can "color" the sound, changing the listening effect and causing the engineer to add or subtract too much of one or more frequencies. For the home recordist...

What damages car speakers? Let's start with the answer to the question, what damages car speakers? Several things can do that because car speakers are not like other speakers you listen to. They are installed into the car body, designed to use the car body as the speaker "box". They are jostled...

First, don't think that tracks are toast yet. First the bass drum. Pull it up alone, put a parametric eq on it and find the areas where the bleed is stronger than the drum and lower those until the BD is louder than the bleed. Now here's the real trick, taught to me by a guitar player. We copied...

There are three things that consist to a great recorded sound. 1- the origin of the sound itself. 2- the environment in which the sound is made. 3- the recording chain. Make sure you have a great sound. Try to deaden the room enough so it doesn't "color" the sound negatively. (I've even used...

At this point I would suggest you get an ASUS i7 Sandy Bridge laptop with an 8 channel converter. You can do on site recording and multitrack recording Get Adobe audition or Pro tools. We're talking about $2000 but you will be much more up to speed. Good Luck, Rod Norman

Condenser mics need power to operate properly Check and see if you have phantom power on the mixer or if there is a way to turn on phantom power on your computer inputs. You also need to have a convertor to run your mics into your computer. Check those things. I didn't see that info in your...