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Well done, Mark. I always enjoy your vocal work. The harmonies blend in so nicely!

I think the second version you posted is better than the original one. I think I would be changing the balance between the guitars and would do some EQ work to start. If you sent stems to Papanate, I'll be interested in his adjustments. Also, check your PM. I sent you a link with several...

Yeah, it had humbuckers (Sheptone Tributes). If you get close enough, you can get noise. Humbuckers are better, but not perfect. The trick isn't to shield the Romex although I guess you could run all wiring though conduit (kinda costly, though). You shield the pickups and wiring...

If I walk to the corner of the basement next to the distribution box, I can get hum in any of my guitars. It's a whole bunch of unshielded Romex cables going off in different directions to all parts of the house. One day I found that my pedalboard was making noise. I was just practicing...

The problem is when you're working in real time. If you are monitoring with a significant delay, then your timing can be off. A few ms can be easily ignored. When you start getting into 50-100ms delay, then you definitely hear it. It's a situation where hardware would definitely have an...

Unless you have a calibrated monitor, you cannot trust the color accuracy. I used to work with pressrooms that had calibrated monitors and we would try to match prints to the monitor. It was still a challenge. You can have two colors match under one color of light and not under another.

Short of taking a piece of plastic, or getting a matching color chip and talking to the strap makers, it's going to be a tough thing to match the color. Computer photos will vary a bunch. When we match colors in the paint/ink industry we use the Pantone color system. You literally got...

That's good. I figured it doesn't hurt to ask. I've run into that issue before. Usually it's a "Why does my mic have such low output?" Because you're singing at the back. 😜

I have an NT1. I'm almost wondering if you had the mic facing the wrong way! Was the gold dot facing you? The NT1 doesn't sound that different from the MK300, a bit less top end but should be pretty full at 6 inches. The recording you posted sounds very "roomy". I would have expected...

I whipped this up in about 30 minutes. I've heard the song but never tried to play it. It's just one verse. Is the tone closer to what you are looking to achieve? This is my Miktek MK300, about 6 inches away and slightly to the side. There's no EQ or compression on the voice, just a...

The first thing I would do for a "fuller sounding vocal" would be to get closer to the mic (assuming its a cardioid) to use the proximity effect and to eliminate the heavy room sound. 3-4 inches away and just off to the side or above the nose and pointing at the mouth to control plosives and...

Don't need to be online to get MP3s. I have 32GB of MP3s on an SD card in my car. I dumped a bunch of CDs from my collection to my computer via CDex. I could have used Windows Media Player as well. I don't subscribe to Spotify or Apple or any of the other music services. Of course I'm...

RE: Reaper's cost. $60 gets you two full versions of Reaper. Currently they are on 7.45. You would be good through 8.99999. How long does that mean? Reaper 7.0 was released in 2023. Reaper came out with V6.0 in 2019. Reaper 5.0 came out in 2015. So you are probably looking at...

Hey Gonzo, have you updated this ( or any of the Time is Magic tracks) since I got the album a year and a half ago?

Things to research before buying used computers are what OS cutoffs are involved. Mac Tahoe is the last version with Intel compatibility. If you plan to keep the system for 7 or 8 years, you'll locked into that version. Future versions will only support Apple processors. Likewise with...

I'm just not a Mac fan. Got a very old Mac laptop sitting somewhere (PPC processor). Stuff that I wanted to use were mostly available for PC, not Mac. It's the same reason I parked the Atari ST, and the Apple ][+, Atari 8 bit and TI computers. I went with the PC years ago because I...

Since this is YOU doing the singing, I would redo things until you get it the way you want. You might even need to do it in pieces. It's called comping. Most people don't do complete songs in one take these days. Keep running those weak phrases until you get them right. Work a bit on...

:ROFLMAO: I love it when someone gives a budget and the suggestions come in at spending double that amount! :ROFLMAO: Keeping under $700, you can get a refurb HP Elitebook G8 for under $500 with 32GB and 512GB SSD, USB and Thunderbolt and an 11th gen I7. Reaper $60 and a UA Volt2...

The 1600 mkII has USB, so I'm guessing that you can export from the Korg to a computer. That was a big advantage of the Yamaha AW1600 over the 16G. When I transferred a practice session from my AW16G some years back. I had to export tracks individually on CD-RWs. They were too big to...

A good basic laptop with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD is the starting point. 12th to 14th Gen Intel Core 5 or 7 processors will be plenty. AMD Ryzen 7s would be an alternative. I've been using Lenovo for years. My daughter has HP laptops. Most current laptops have little if any...