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After 35 years of playing strictly acoustic axes, now I've got an electric guitar. To record in my situation, I need to go direct to my mixer, thence into a Delta 66. There must be some PC-based guitar effects and amp modeling programs/plugins etc. I know there are several included with my Sonar...

I've got some close mic'd tracs (solo voice and acoustic guitar) and I need to create the illusion that they are not so close. I've fiddled with eq and reverb settings, but I'm not getting near what I'm after. The tracks sound great, but right now they sound like the singer is in bed with...

Oh hell. Which of my devices has crapped out on the right channel? Muted highs and lows on that side. Reversing the channels and speaker cables has no effect. Two hours of troubleshooting and I gave up for the night in disgust. But this morning the answer came to me! Solution: 1. Go to...

Prepare for a miracle. My garage studio/office/library/toolshed generates dust so fast, I can watch my computer screen turn gray in real time. Annoying and not healthy for lungs, computers, condensors, etc. I was just about to spring hundreds of bucks on an electrostatic air filter when my...

In the FWIW dept: this free soft-theremin is a stitch. It's a tiny download (605k) at: http://theremin.info/downloadview-details-51-Theremin.html Just hit the start button (but only once! You'll hear why if you click on it twice), then click and drag. Controls make sense after just a little...

I need suggestions for a pair of powered near-fields for road use. Not for final mix, but for quick reference while doing remote recordings and playing roughs for clients. Whaddya think? Greetings from Duluth, by the way. I bet it's warmer wherever/whoever you are! It's a brisk 8 below here...

I need a recording workstation for live recording. Mainly school and church choirs in their own spaces. 8-tracks at once max. Later I'd transfer tracks to PC for editing with Sonar 4. Any suggestions? Trying to stay under $1500. Thanks, as always! Kev

I want to record live takes with two mics on acoustic guitar and one for vocals. My PC is based on an Athalon XP 2600+. Plenty of room for new PCI cards. I'm looking at Delta 44, or OmniStudio, or whatever you wiser-than-me folks suggest. I'm set with adequate mics, pre's, and mixers. Just...

[B]In a basic PC DAW, where does latency really get you? I'm a typical one-man act here in my garage studio. I've been trying demos of several new multitracking programs. Including most of the products mentioned on this BBS. My test is simple: to lay down 3 or 4 tracks, one at a time. I've...

If you want to burn a CDR for playing in a consumer CD player, do you get more play time if the tracks are mono? The data size of the such a file is half as big as a stereo wav file. But does that translate into putting twice as much material on a CD? Please remember that thing about there...

Let's say I've got a pair of 120g SATA hard drives in my DAW. Is is better to set them up as a RAID pair, or dedicate the second one to audio files? Thanks, Wise People. Kev

I've got this friend.... OK it's me. I need to do some recordings of my voice and acoustic guitar. I simply can't get the same "live" effect by recording the guitar and voice in seperate takes. I'm using a Studio Projects B-1 on my voice and an old AKG SD condenser on my guitar. Individually...

OK, again you people are uniformly magnificent. I think I've seen a thread here about this some months ago, so please direct me to it if that's the best way to go. How do I get a decent stereo effect with just a few tracks -- I do them all one or two tracks and a time: Solo vocal...

Woops! I meant this to be in the recording techniques section, but if there are micing techniques that are critical here I'd be grateful. OK, again you people are uniformly magnificent. I think I've seen a thread here about this some months ago, so please direct me to it if that's the best way...

(Sorry if this posts twice, there was some glitch as I tried the first time). I've only got $300 or so. Need ideas for a studio mic. I'm doing a series of recordings for seniors featuring a vocalist with a nice silky baritone. I'm looking for a warm, fat sound, but with a bit of enhanced...

I could really use a fast-loading, simple program to play MIDI files on my computer. I don't want to load cakewalk everytime, and Win. Media Player is ridiculously bulky. Any suggestions? Eternal gratitude. Kev

When I use the SoundFonts tool (under Tools) in Guitar Studio to attach SoundFonts for a song, they don't appear in the the SoundFont Cache utility provided with SBLive!'s LiveWare. The memory allocation bar shows memory allocated for them, but I can't find a way to clear the cache. Resulting...

I just inherited a Tascam M-30. Circa 1985. It's Teac's old 8/4 mixer intended for their home/demo recording stuff. Sometimes there's a peculiar trait that makes an old dog like this useful for something. Anybody know anything like that about the M-30? Or what is an extra mixer useful for in a...

I have a riot making money with niche recording products. Mainly acoustic guitar, vocals, and midi string bass. The problem is I get bogged down by trying to play and engineer at the same time. I.e., the perfect take is often trashed by clipping when I wasn't looking. I don't need blistering...

I'm new here, but have read quite a few threads without seeing this URL AnalogX.com So I wanted to contribute. The webmaster is a sharp programmer and musical hobbiest who has offers a handful of free, super handy utilities and Dx plug ins. All of them very tightly written using negligeable...