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Hey all, it's been a loooooong time since I posted anything here, so I thought it would be about time for something new. This is a ballad I wrote (lyrics by someone else) for a (fictional) TV commercial (school project). The idea was to produce a real "feel good" ballad to give kids feeling...

I know we have some hardcore old-school guys here (with all due respect, love you guys ;)) as well as many of the guys that have beeing doing this only since the digital era (myself included), so I thought I'd get a good discussion on the matter started. I'm not really looking for extremes here...

I've always wanted some kind of midi drum system, although I am no drummer. I scored this 8 pad to midi converter and I'm now looking into building my own drum system. I don't want to build the standard midifacation of a practice kit. I'm not a drummer, but I can tap rythms like on my knees...

Here's the deal: 1 Fender Jazzmaster. 1 set of new (.010) strings. 1 Spectraflex guitar cable. 1 DMP3 1 homemade XLR -> Cinch cable 1 Terratec EWX 2496 I'm using this setup to DI my guitar. For some reason, the clean DI sound is lacking highs and the transients seem a lot less sharp than I'm...

I've nearly convinced my teachers at school to purchase a bunch or processing gear in order to make sort of a "fat" channel. We are using preamps from the mackie d8b and RME Octamic. They are ok but nothing special. We have on SPL Channel One (1000$ channel strip, tube pre, EQ + comp). What...

I just got a second hand (but amazing) Jazzmaster and I'm mainly gonna use it for recording. I have a cheap small line 6 amp, and suffice it to say, it doesn't cut it for recording. I'm looking into getting a software modeler. I must say, I'm not really impressed by most of them so far. I am...

I'm so happy! :D I just got a MIJ Fender Jazzmaster from 1995 or 1996, with a matching headstock, and an extra Seymour Duncan humbucker in the middle. The wiring is super complex, I can use any combination of pickups (all together like 15 options :o). And the best part, I got it for 400...

Today I got the chance to record a great drummer. I had 5 hours time to record a single song (pop rock), so I had lots of chance to mess with micing techniques. Let me post a small summary of what I tried: Last timed I miked drums I had a U87 still standing in the room and I thought, hey lets...

I don't think this qualitfies as a Recording Techniques but i couldn't find a better forum so here goes: I'm looking for someone to help me out on features projects. I am in need of someone to record drumtracks for me. I'm talking about high quality music, so the person needs to be able to do...

Hi guys, I thought I'd share some of my stuff again. http://members.home.nl/vangeelen/whalesong/whalesong.mp3 This piece is called Whale Song. It is for a project called Architects of Air (google it). In the beginning, you hear 3 sounds, a hi-synth arpeggio, which is meant as a background...

Yesterday I helped some classmates record drums at school. We had this setup: 1 x Fairly Crappy (tm) drumset. Had a good snare though. 1 x Decently Nice (tm) cymbals. The hihat was a bit on a heavy side. 4 x e604 on 3 toms and we stuck the last one on the snare top. 2 x SM57 on the top and...

Here's the deal: I study Music Production at the conservatory of my city in the Netherlands. We have 3 studio spaces: Studio 1: The big one. Small tracking room (just big enough for a medium drum kit). Medium acoustical treatment. Window to the control room. Sounds good for closemicing stuff...

When importing a video in Cubase (or Nuendo for that matter), is the video file (and thumbnails) stored in the system RAM, or in the RAM present on the graphics card? I want to know if buying a graphics card with more ram onboard will increase speed when working with video files (not having to...

I have very small monitors, that are fairly crappy. I did a small test and concluded that they go no lower than 70 hz. However, I know these little suckers very well. In the beginning, I was boosting lows like crazy in the hope of getting some thumping going on. In vain, ofcourse. The mixes...

I need help! I have this big school assignment where I need to make all the audio for a small trailer (1 minute). That includes music, sound fx, and also a voice over. The trailer is in english. I've done everything, except the voice over failed quite horribly! I live in the Netherlands so I had...

I just typed a really long thread but then figured you don't want to/need to read all that shit so here's the short version: My preamp -> soundcard -> headphone amp / monitors setup is giving me a headache, routing wise. Direct monitoring is posing a problem (L input = L output only etc.), and...

I just don't get it. There is not a single piece of dongle protected software that I know of, that hasn't been cracked. The latest Cubase has been cracked. All of the Waves stuff has been cracked. All the east/west libraries have been, aswell as Logic and so on and so on. So what I don't get is...

I wrote some film music for a trailer that I'm making all the sound and music for. It's just for practice for school. It's for the trailer from the game Guild Wars. Hope you like it! http://members.home.nl/vangeelen/filmmusic/mixdown_dec_5.mp3 PS: Turn up your monitors, it's a very dynamic piece!

I just wanted to post about this because this has been the single most usefull and now crucial parts of my studio. It costs 25 dollars. The Belkin Nostromo N52 speedpad...

It seems I have been misslead somewhat by the "extremely low latency" statements on soundcards like those sold by M-Audio, Terratec, Emu etc. I have a Terratec EWX24/96. Up until now I've always used hardware monitoring so the latency wasn't a probably, but I've tried software monitoring and it...