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Hi Jeff, I hope you are feeling better. I haven't neglected sending you that other piece...I've been battling job interviews and not feeling well this last week. I hop to get it up on Sendfile by the weekend. Best Regards,

I'm not sure what forum would be relevant for this request, so I apologize if I have posted to a wrong one. I have a piece that needs some electric guitar tracks. I have a couple of buddies that play, but this is proving a bit of challenge for them. If there is a guitarist out there that...

Thanks for responding...that sounds logical. I do remember now that you said that, when I watched one of the Mdrummer tutorial videos, the guy inserted and effect to make the overall sound louder, but I don't think it was a compressor per se...he called it something else...now of course, I...

I have noticed a phenomena I don't quite understand in my recording. I sometimes come across a situation, where two VST synths (I am using Sonar x2a) show relatively equal output levels, but yet, I perceive that one is louder than the other. In the case I am thinking of now, the louder was a...

Ok thanks guys, your answers are turning on lights for me. I am a little clearer now on what to do.

Ah.. ok now I see what you are saying. That makes sense. Now, that begs the question, and please forgive my overthinking, HOW do I know how those favorites cd's of mine SHOULD sound? How would I know if there is too much bass or too little? Is this simply a judgement call on my personal...

Guys I really appreciate your input. I have a pair of Rokit 5's as my nearfield's. I was just thinking of other sources. I thought about the car, i just didn't want to burn through a handfull of cd's for every mix I guess. This whole thing about "knowing" your sound sources is alluding me...

I'm considering a source to reference my mixes against my nearfields. All I have my phone with earbuds and a blutooth speaker. I'm thinking I should get something like a boombox, but have no idea what exactly. So what do people listen to their music on today, besides earbuds?

How would a dedicated collaboration forum get up and running?

That actually does help some. I am a pretty descent keyboardist, and would like to participate in such projects. Not really sure how to get started. I guess I need a couple of guys to let me record for them and measure up my skills. Any ideas on how going about that? How would I get the...

Is there a web based community of musicians/home recordists that network and share their music and performing? By this I mean a group of musicians who will lay tracks for each other at very low or no cost. Also, share their music for critiuqe and appreciation? How would such a group manage...

Sorry Paul, I must have misread. Gentlemen, thank you all so much for your responses. You can't imagine how much it helps. So I will start using my favorite Steely Dan tracks since I know that's what I like, even if I have never heard it on a great or probably even good system. My Rokit 5...

Thanks again for responding to my dumb questions Pete. I will check out the mixing clinic..

I read that post on the sticky that talks about working on being able to hear problems and so forth. My questions is, if you are all alone in the world, how do you learn that? The only thing I have is my own little home studio. Are there source files out there that demonstrate this? For...

I'm using Cakewalk Sonar, am M-audio Fast Track Ultra interface, and Rokkit 5 monitors. So you are saying this process might not be necessary for me?

Thanks for the reply again sir. No, I mean it in reference to calibrating your monitoring/recording setup in a DAW. I don't really get what the purpose is. I read an article here about recording and using one recorded at -6db through your D/A converters used to monitor the mix. Something...

Thanks so much for the explanation. That really helps. About the -6db, what I mean is I hear about recording at that level, or running a test tone recorded at that level- things like that. Why -6db, why not -8 or -10? Hope that clarifies my question a bit

Well, the subject line says it all.... Thanks for any help.

I have been reading that its a good idea to take some good professional recordings to use as a reference to get to know what your monitors actually sound like. I probably don't want to import mp3 files because of all the compression. what would be the best audio format to keep as close to the...

Well..I am really an old guy who is a audio and Daw newbie. There is so much I read that I just don't understand. I was hoping someone could explain a few things to me: 1. What is unity gain and why do I need it? 2. What is the significance of 0db on my fader? 3. What's the significance...