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    New South African Indie Music Video - "Happiest In Water"

    Hard to find anything wrong with this. The colors...of the car, shirts, drums, all blend beautifully with the environment. I like the ending, ( I need to do hard endings but almost always end up fading out :) ). Walking out to the sunset on the beach. Very cool.
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    First music video from our new album

    Excellent production, the content kept me smiling. I especially liked the band in the display cases, we keep our drummer at church in one. LOL. Very good stuff.
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    I thought making a video would be hard.

    ...and it was. LOL, but not near as hard as I thought. I had read that my laptop probably had Windows Movie Maker on it, so I searched around and found it. After fooling around with an old video a friend sent me, some of the techniques started making sense. The song was the one on my download...
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    BATTLE of the Vocal Microphones! (Under $1000) (Video)

    I went with B also, but C was close. I didn't like A., but of course in a mix all bets are off. All three carried the mail.
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    One man bands: what's your workflow?

    First I lay down a looped drum measure, I use EZ Drummer sounds and sometimes one of their measures, but usually I'll midi from a keyboard. Then I'll put a rhythm guitar. After that comes a scratch vocal that might end up being used. I like to key off of the vocal. After that I'll usually swap...
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    Is SM57 a good (enough) mic for live electric guitar recording in small room?

    Here's a recording I did in my converted garage/junk room/workshop/closet/studio. All the electric guitars are recorded with a 57 about 10" in front of a vox ac4tv 10" tube amp. It goes into the preamp on a Saffire Pro14. The only room treatment is a bunch of books, storage, tools, some useless...
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    bass track

    I agree with Robus on using compression attack for punch. You might try doing that as a "New York" compression where you make a copy of the original track, then compress the copy and play with the attack level until one of them really punches in the mix. You could even put some distortion on...
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    How many of you use pitch correction for your own vocals?

    I use it on almost every track I sing. In Cubase for lead vocals, sometimes I use the vari-audio and adjust each segment so it's in tune on average. Sometimes, I just use the pitch shift to do the same thing. Rarely I might use the pitch correct, then I'll set it at 50 50 or less. On bg's I...
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    Need help with microphone choices for upcoming Jazz recording session.

    Hi Brassguy, I usually run line level keyboards straight in without DIs but if I had a pair of Radial Pros and had time I would also try them, coming out with mic cords ( mic level ) and compare. Also if you don't use the 57 on the bass and have time I'd compare it to the Samson for the Nylon...
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    Need help with microphone choices for upcoming Jazz recording session.

    Michael Joly in presonus pre or V69 in pro 40 pre for vocals, 'RE20 for bass 10" out from the bridge (if it gets too much drum bleed then instead wrap a 57 in foam and stick it in the bridge pointing up under the fingerboard of the bass.) 57 on snare 991s overheads Sennheiser or 'RE20(if not on...
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    Classic country recording

    I just noticed you said you had only 8 inputs to work with, but the vf160 specs said it has 16 inputs. On re-reading the specs it says 8 of those are accessed with an adat input. I'd still go with a room approach if it sounds good, do a test of two stereo pairs and pick the pair that sounds...
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    Classic country recording

    I've done quite a bit of classic country recording, some of it has been using live feeds. First, before setting up anything, I'd listen to them in the room. If they sound decent there, I'd use two of the 57's and two closest sounding LDC's as stereo pairs in different widths with the chance that...
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    mixing vocals at the correct volume

    I recently recorded a gospel singer with a powerful voice who sang with a lot of dynamics. I put up two similar mics, one about 8" from her and another about 16" out and a few inches higher and ran them through two of the same kind of pres. They got recorded on two separate tracks. When I mixed...
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