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The Event forum is the unofficial vocal forum pending re-assignment from the 'net gods. As far as getting the most of your voice without lessons is kind of akin to getting the most out of your car without oil or gas. I mean, people do it, but most mortals really require lessons to get the most...

Good advice, overall, mstudio. If you don't know WHAT to sing, then you can't present it. A little knowledge can go a long way. If you brush up on your theory, you can save yourself some time too. For instance, if you need to harmonize against a D note being sung over a G chord, then a good...

What a great phrase!! Yes, one of the things that separates a great musician from the others is the recognition that you are performing a song first, and a technical skill second. That applies to singing, drums, guitar, etc. Steve Vai overplayed like crazy on the last Whitesnake album, and as...

The Police (or at least Sting...) doing Public Enemy's "911 is a Joke." Mariah Carey doing Motorhead's "Ace of Spades." Korn doing "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper.... eeeshh.... Chris

Good point, but I suggested the drum triggers (Roland SPD-8, if I recall...) as the poster is used to playing his own drum parts. There are subtleties that you will get by hitting pads with sticks that you likely won't by striking keys with fingers. If someone was NOT a drummer, I would...

What compressor are you using? Perhaps you have it on bypass, or less obviously, on the monitoring function that allows you to compare the original signal to the compressed one? What threshold/attack/release/ratio settings are you using? How is it hooked up, and where is it in the chain...

Record lots of layers. Keep going.... sick of it yet? Good! Keep going.... Wanna slit your wrists yet? Perfect.... a couple more layers should do it. Make sure they're perfectly in tune and perfectly in time. Now compress the crap out of each and every one. Try that. Chris

Either way you do it will net the same results, I believe. In order to run it as an insert, you will need a special "Y-cable." Plug that into the insert jack of your console, one of the two plugs at the other end of the Y-cable into the input, the other of the two plugs into the output of the...

IMHO, it's not just the software you have to worry about - good samples are crucial in getting a realistic drum sound. Think about it - a great recording of a great kick, snare, whatever is a great recording - whether it's a quarter of a second or if it's three and a half minutes. The...

You also might want to look into the Behringer Composer Pro series of compressors. They are two-channel (can be stereo or two independent channels) with expander, and limiter thrown in for good measure. Works quite well, and about as cheap as you'll find. Chris

The Delta cards in general are very, very good. I had the 44 and was very pleased. I've moved up to the 1010 and don't feel like I'm lacking whatsoever. As I understand it, the 44 and 66 sound the same. The 1010 sounds somewhat better, as the conversion is done by hardware devices, rather...

Yeah, but the ProTools TDM systems start at five figures too. (in Canada... about $12K, which is about $9K in US, but goes up from there) Chris

Pardon me if I'm off base on this, but I'm posting this as much for my own clarification as I am to answer the original question. The difference between speaker cable and patch cable is far more than sheilding or appearance. Each carries a different impedance rating, which if not matched...

Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired (Dan Baird, formerly of Georgia Sattelites) New Miserable Experience (Gin Blossoms)

You can do a search in the HTML help for "automating VST plug-ins" or something like that, but it's not very detailed. Pretty general. There is an in-depth and easy to read explanation with diagrams and everything starting on p. 250 in the Operations Manual. Chris

Are you using VST or SX? The reason I ask, is that the manuals are different, so if I give you a page reference for one, then it may well not apply for your version. Chris

I wasn't suggesting that you buy what I have - just that you needn't worry about being the first to enter uncharted territory. At least not in terms of the brand name goes. I don't have experience with that particular piece. Chris

I own a few Behringer items. Never been disappointed. I had the MX802 Eurorack mixer, and it was okay. The UB2442FX-PRO is much nicer, though. Chris

Balanced cables are the way to go, as a rule of thumb, but there are considerations. It becomes less of an issue with shorter cable runs - but short cable runs don't negate the advantages. Also, consider you gear.... using balanced cables to connect unbalanced inputs to unbalanced outputs...

Like Bear, I've been using VST and now SX for a few years now. Very stable - VST on Win98SE, and SX on XP. About midi.... I can't compare to Logic, as I've never used it, but Cubase started as a midi sequencing application back in the '80's. From what I've heard (and from what I've seen - way...