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I have a bunch of stereo mixdowns of 4track stuff. The orginal 4 trk tapes are long gone. The mixes are o.k. except the vocals are too loud. I've tried cutting some select frequencies on a 31 band EQ but it tends to make the background music sound funny. Are there any good tricks for this?

It's ALWAYS the cables. I hate those damn things.

Man alivin'! First I find out my Mackie board sucks, then my AKG3000s, next you guys will tell me my girlfriend is runnin' around and my dog only licks my hand for the salt.

DI seems to work o.k. for some stuff, but it's hard to make it sound very gutsy. I had luck recently recording bass through a guitar amp. A Fender blues DeVille to be specific. Add a touch of gain for a nice ballsy sound.

I posted this topic a few days ago and it just disapeared! I wonder what happened to it. Anyways, like I said I'm looking for reviews or simple comparisons between multi-track software. I've downloaded the demos for a bunch. Some don't work. Some seem too midi or multimedia oriented. I just...

Thanks for the advice Sonusman but I think I may have misused the term "60 cycle hum". The buzz I'm getting through my monitors comes and goes and is relatively minor. Also, It doesn't show up in the recordings so might be a power amp thing. It's really the hum from the guitars and bass...

I rent, so I can't really do much to change the wiring. There are no dimmer switches in our apartment. It occurs to me that the vacant store below might have flourescent lighting. They are very slowly turning it into a coffee shop and I think they sometimes leave it on. Nope. I just checked...

I've been using my apartment as a studio. I'm lucky enough to live above a vacant store. Plus my roomates are either in my band or very tolerant. Anyways, it's working out beatifully except for horrendous hum. Mostly from the guitars & bass but sometimes it comes through the monitors too. Yes...

Sorry for posing such a vague question but what do y'all think about the near future of computer recording? I guess what I'm asking is, as someone who has a servicable 8trk cassette setup, but is very tempted to blow a wad of cash on an 8 I/O soundcard, would I better off waiting a year or...

The Spirit Folio FX8 looks like pretty much the same thing as the Mackie CFX. The MSRP is $1 more. Plus, the fx are Lexicon which I've heard is usually a good sign. There may be differences. I haven't checked details or actually seen either of these boards in person.

I've recently spotted "American Cable Company" cables that come in 1' and 6' lengths, and 7 colors. At the very least, they have to be more reliable than hosas or peaveys. $4.49 apeice from a catalog. Fender makes some in 6 different clear colors, but are $2 per cable more. Who knows if they're...

I don't know why Mr. sonusman put up the link to that German site (probably the first one he found), but at Full compass e.g., the spirit LX7 16x4, which has a has a MSRP of $1600, sells for $1121. I think Sonusman was comparing two boards w/similar features. The cfx look like a totally...

What I didn't quite get across in my original post was that if no one had ever told me my mackie board sounds like shit, I would never have thought twice about it. It is a supremely practical board. I use almost every feature on it, and want for little more (maybe individual channel meters but...

Some of my greatest influences like GBV and Jack Logan have recorded some pretty lo-fi shit. My own favorite recordings I've been part of all seem to be hastily recorded four track or even boom box stuff. I don't think this is a coincedence. I think there is an immediacy or even a haunting...

I keep hearing about how "harsh" or "brittle" or whatever Mackie boards are and I guess I'm willing to believe it. But is there a similarly priced(to the 1604), compact board that does have nice warm pre-amps? This would be important for those like me, who are switching from tape to PC recording...

Yeah, I heard about the monitor thing so I checked. It didn't seem to make a diference. We weren't all that close to it when we recorded anyway. The neon signs are in the corner grocery next door and although the building almost touches mine, the signs are a good fifty+ feet away. The guitar was...

Wow! This string or whatever it's called should be requiered reading for poeple thinking about getting into PC based recording. I already use my PC to record my stereo masters but was thinking of getting an 8 In/8 Out card and some multi-track software. Thing is, I never planned on using this...

The buzz that doesn't show up until you turn the guitar's volume knob up and varies by which direction you're facing. It's noticably worse with single coil pickups (I guess that's they call 'em humbuckers) I have to gate the shit out of my guitars esp. the rick bass. I hate that. There's got to...

I use an old RAT and a Sovtek Big Muff for two totally different sounds. Sometimes I use both together. Ouch! Gotta have a good amp to start with, though. WARNING! My bandmate has a newer RAT and it doesn't sound anywhere near as nice as mine. I don't know why.

I considered making my own cables but I think I need to find some reliable color coded ones. The nightmare of spaghettied identical looking patch cables would be too much. I know I could put tape on the ends but it wouldn't be the same as being able to visually trace the cable. Maybe I'm just lazy.