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The Drum Map manager just basically lets you tweak a note-drumsound mapping that a MIDI synth uses. Let's say for example that you record a MIDI drum part and you use a GM (General MIDI) keyboard drum patch to produce the drum sounds and everything's sounding cool. :cool: But say that you...

Yeah, I just shuffled my cards this weekend, and now my Audiophile 2496 card is the happy owner of its own IRQ number! Happy days... :D I ended up yanking my Santa Cruz since I needed the extra PCI slot for a USB 2.0 PCI card, plus I only wanted it in there for MIDI sounds (will just use...

That would be a nice feature to have! I always just set my meters to peak hold and then playback the whole song. :rolleyes:

Thanks for the ideas, dachay. In my test, I just opened up the stereo track in a new project, so everything's set at 0. I was also thinking that it could be some sort of comb filtering or that maybe I didn't understand how the peak meter worked and that it was doing stereo summing to figure...

Thanks for the responses, guys. Good thoughts, all. But I have only done 1 bounce, and I have archived the original stereo track. I did have a compressor on the Master bus, which is not clipping. It's the individual tracks, which are effect-free, that are clipping. I'm determining that...

This one really has me confused. I have a stereo track that I want to split into separate L/R tracks - no problem... I did Edit -> Bounce to Track(s) and chose "Mix to Separate Left and Right Tracks". The problem is that my stereo track was not clipping (peaked out at somewhere around -1.5)...

Being a bass player myself, this brought a tear of joy to my eyes... I love you, Cloneboy! ;) :D :D

Yeah, guitarists will often have a distortion setting that they're used to, and some might not be able to play as well if you start messing with it. It's possible though to let the guitarist keep his sound while recording but also give yourself some options for tweaking it later. You could try...

Thanks for the info, Qwerty. :) I guess "Plug and Play" is quite an accurate term then. After you Plug it in and see that it didn't work, it's time to Play a little game of "musical PCI cards". :D I'll give that a shot and see what happens.

Hey, Qwerty. Thanks for sharing! :) I have the same thing going on here. I installed my new Audiophile 2496 a while back, and it's working now, but I did notice it's sharing an IRQ with one of my USB Host Controllers too. I didn't think much of it, but now I think I'll get back under the...

There are no rules for this kind of thing, but what you suggest is a common approach. If you have 2 guitars and vocals, it's often the case that people will separate the guitars by panning one left and one right and lay the vocal track dead center. You don't necessarily want to pan the guitars...

Also, regarding your last question about dithering - why should it be last step... If you're working with a file at 24-bits, you may choose to add an effect or 2 here and there - or, if you're effect-crazy like me, as many as your computer can handle. :) I think I need to get into a 12-step...

Hiya, Nate. The free spectrum analyzer can be found at Voxengo. It's the first one in the list, and it's a VST plugin so you'll need a VST Wrapper - I have SONAR3 which came with one, but I believe there's a free one out there you can use with SONAR2. As for my free noise reduction plugin...

Sounds like an odd driver problem to take out the whole right channel... :confused: Have you double-checked things like: mixer signals are not all panned left, cables are plugged in all the way, cable isn't bad? Are you hearing both the left/right channels in your headphones that are...

I always tend to make my stuff way too wet. :D This is actually less wet than the version I posted in the MP3 Mixing Clinic long ago, where I got similar comments. I think that some of the wetness may actually be my tracking environment, which is not the best in terms of deadness. It's got...

I really dig the vocal sound on Room for Squares! Very clear, intimate and breathy. I would kill to be able to get that sound or even come close. I actually did a cover of Body Is a Wonderland - can find it at http://www.geocities.com/jtgutt (if geocities is behaving) - where you can see how...

Thanks for the tips. :) Yeah, I'll be mindful of not overdoing the noise reduction. Cool Edit 96 does give you a Noise Reduction level slider, so I'll play around with that, most likely keeping it close to 0, which is the lowest setting and does actually do some reduction according to the Help.

Hmmm, do you think I'd be better off trying to use a parametric EQ to sweep the freqs and make the cuts myself at the freqs that seem to be contributing the nasties? I guess I will try both, but I'm wondering if others have been down this road before. Thanks for the response.

Cool Edit 96 here! Gotta love the freebies! :D I'm transferring some tapes to CD. I'd like to get rid of the tape hiss. Have any of you used the Noise Reduction feature in Cool Edit with much success? Also, is this how you use it: play a blank section of the tape so you just record the...

I guess you don't HAVE TO have a mixer, but you will probably find that it makes life easier. The mixer will have preamps, which you'll need to send your mics through and your guitar too to bring the signals up to line level. Just plugging a mic or guitar into the line in of a soundcard won't...