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Well, at least you have a clear set of morals.

It hasn't happened yet, but my portable gobo's and bass traps will soon be moved to a home that has cats. The 3 largest upright gobo's are about 4 x 7 ft, stuffed with compressed rockwool, and covered with light-weight fleece. I few other bass panels are stuffed with compressed fiberglass and...

Compressed vs. uncompressed? I can already do that by clicking the BYPASS button on and off. But I understood the OP to say that it creates an inverse or negative copy of the signal which reveals only the peaks, (the part which has been reduced,) and no other underlying sound. Wouldn’t that...

I am not sure I understand how that could be useful. You should be monitoring the track content to judge if and when the compression makes it better (or worse). Simply chopping off peaks doesn't always make everything better. There is often a lot of valuable content hidden within those transient...

If you are in the US, you will need to register that drone with the FAA due to its weight. https://registermyuas.faa.gov/ You must also pay close attention to new laws about where you can fly it. Outside of that, knock yourself out and enjoy.

You'll never hear the difference between -0.01 and -0.1 I never push anything above -0.2

Yes, somewhat, but actually, you could use in-ear-monitors with shooting range muffs placed over top. That might help considerably. A better situation would be to listen to the drums through monitors from over in the control room. However, I don't have a separate control room. My drum room is...

I agree with Farview that if tracking is already finished, limiting or compression with zero attack will easily trim down transient peaks. To answer your question, a dead-ringer (a flat tone control ring,) on the snare head will tame it down some. Otherwise, the snare may be tuned too tightly...

I never measure anything because every room has different modes and nulls. Instead, I walk around the room beating on a small tom tom. When I discover the point where the tom sounds fullest and comes alive, that's where the drum set goes. Later, (if I want room mics,) I move each mic around...

Examine your mic technique. Quickly back your mouth away from the microphone while hitting louder notes. Then move closer for softer passages. (It's free compression.) A few other questions... What is your interface? Does it also have a preamp built-in? What is your maximum recording level...

One frustrating mistake I used to make was to record singer/song writers, (acoustic guitar and vocals together,) using poor mic technique on my part. I'd often allowed too much guitar bleed into the vocal mics and visa versa. This problem makes any meaningful EQ'ing and mixing next to...

I am very picky about my compression. Sometimes I'll spend an hour or more just to get a single vocal or instrument track sounding perfect. Then the 2-bus takes even more tweaking until I am happy. (Yes, I know what I am doing. I've been using compressors for over 20 years and I think I've read...

Oh. OK, I'll give you that one. Good point. I was talking about when I do the tracking and mixing.

I will occasionally use one to de-esse a vocal track, but never use one on the master channel. A problem on the master channel that requires a MBC should have never gotten that far in the first place.

I would just use volume automation (envelopes) on the daw track.

I see that your threshold is set much lower for Frequency Band 1 (-34.5dB) compared to Band 2 (-16.8dB). This will indeed carve away low peaks (< 100 Hz) on the kick drum and perhaps some of the lower-mid, leaving only that ugly mid-range overtone to cut through, whatever happens to ring longer...

I'm not sure that I understand why folks like to double and triple their guitar tracks. I believe that it only serves to make things sound sloppier. But oh well, maybe some songs can handle it.

No, Bobbsy, those mics don't come with a cable. They are regular XLR type mics. At jjrandall, I can only assume that by "fuzz", you are referring to background noise or hiss. If that is the case, I would suspect that the mixer may either be noisy (crappy) or you have incorrect gain settings...

Thanks, Bobbsy. I just won Audition 3.0 on eBay for $52. I did install the trial version a few days ago and I really like the new features. The Effects Paintbrush and Healing Brush seem pretty cool. I've already done editing in Spectral Frequency View before, but those tools will make it faster...

I have been using a legal copy of Adobe Audition version 2.0 for several years. I know my way around the software quite well and I really enjoy it. I have just built a new i7 based studio computer with 64 bit Windows 7. I can easily install the AA version 2.0 that I have lying here, but it is...