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I have an old IBM Thinkpad with a beautiful sounding mic I used to record an acoustic guitar after I discovered it beat my R16 built-in condensers. I suppose I might have to tear the thing out of there now!

https://www.steinberg.net/en/mysteinberg/create_account.html I seem to remember a file on the Zoom R16 CD you might need...

I've had the R16 for over a year now. I use it as an interface and generally use all eight inputs at 24 Bit, 44.1 Sample Rate. I also love it as a DAW controller, although it has quirks with that. It makes fader automation so much easier. If you need all eight inputs, the R16 is definitely a...

Not my singer, so I have no say in who stays or goes. In his defense, he's 17 and his testicles haven't fully descended quite yet. I agree the Perception 120 is a rather thin sound, although it makes me sound like the god damned Mormon Tabernacle Choir when I do harmonies with and without the...

Click and Scratch - full band "live recording" - Only Drums mic'd. Guitar. Bass. Drums. Vocals.

I have lag issues with my recordings. If I offset the second (and beyond) vocals just a tiny bit earlier it reduces the chorus.

I've been doing a recording for a pop-punk style band and I can't figure out how to record this guy's voice. He has no low tones but he wants to scream like Kurt Cobain. I can't EQ the problem away. I've tried moving him closer to the mic (both SM48 and AKG Perception 120) but there's no...

I have good pitch but terrible range and it doesn't sound pleasing at all without accompaniment.

I ended up using the 468 on kick. It did slightly worse than OK. My real problem was with the Perception 120 as an overhead. The small crash comes in way to high frequency and strong. It's incredibly piercing. But adding the condenser to the arsenal made the drums and other cymbals sound...

All the time. They turn out somewhere between meh and terrible. You'll need to be extra sensitive about mic placement and positioning the musicians. Keep the mics pointed away from everything else. This means moving people around into places they might not find natural. I've had people resist...

Will do. Didn't know if anyone had experience with the 468s on kick really.

Until recently, my gear has been completely focused on recording my guitar. Over the weekend, I picked up some new stuff and I'm going to be recording some drums and I'm trying to think about how best to set it up. Not all of this gear is optimized for drums, but there's nothing left in the...

Even if 50 percent of black Americans find "hip-hop" a negative force in American society," 50 percent don't. On top of that, they may see it as negative and still consume it. Then there's whites and other consumers of rap/hip-hop. So is it still commercially viable? Hell yes. Even if popularity...

I've worked pretty hard trying to build up my skills as a recordist over the past few years, but this weekend I decided it was time to blame some of my deficiencies on my gear. I've reached a point where I still wouldn't say I'm all that great, but I can hear well enough now to know what's...

1. A lot of my gear is used or accumulated over the years and includes a couple gifts. But even on a shoestring budget, I'm well over $2,500 without instruments or computer. 2. $0. I was bit with the DIY recording bug early. Growing up, my dad recorded his own music with a 4-track tape...

1. Mic placement is important for picking up those scratchy pick sounds. You don't need a pop filter and EQ is not your solution here. 2. You'll be able to automate the instrument levels after recording. Keep the quiet parts over the noise floor (all the non-musical noise on the recording) and...

(The Zoom R8 can be used as an A/D interface as well and includes 2 preamps.) I personally think learning the DAW programs are worth your time. Yes, you can record onto the Zoom instead of into the computer (via Zoom), but you'll still need to transfer and edit through the computer. The shorter...

It took him 13 years, but his America Online finally connected. World Wide Web here he comes!

Probably not with Garageband. Lots of work is professionally done with ProTools. The software isn't going to make much difference at this point.

Girl you know it's Foo.