First mix with new monitors

[sk8a123]

so i bought my first pair of monitors yesterday(M-audio bx5a) so i figured i would record a little something for your feedback.
Guitars were recorded with Pod Studio UX1.

Feedback appreciated!

 

[Brumus]

nice..at :13, :18, :25, and :28 there some clicking sounds...whats that? is it a guitar switching in/out?

did you flatten the room to your monitors and their position to where you mix from? thats as important - if not moreso - than treatment of the walls if you havent done either one yet. a RTA (realtime analyzer) with a good calibrated microphone is a worthwhile tool when setting up the nearfield monitors. a pink noise generator is also required.

nice clean sounds though, the d'load came thru loud and clear in iTunes on my Mac.

 

[sk8a123]

nice..at :13, :18, :25, and :28 there some clicking sounds...whats that? is it a guitar switching in/out?

did you flatten the room to your monitors and their position to where you mix from? thats as important - if not moreso - than treatment of the walls if you havent done either one yet. a RTA (realtime analyzer) with a good calibrated microphone is a worthwhile tool when setting up the nearfield monitors. a pink noise generator is also required.

nice clean sounds though, the d'load came thru loud and clear in iTunes on my Mac.

at the times you listed... my audio kept dropping out. i'm recording in reaper, and i think the levels are fine(haven't reached the red yet) but in all of my songs i does that D;.

I don't have much treatment in my rooms other than some bass traps.

 

[PDP]

my audio kept dropping out. i'm recording in reaper, and i think the levels are fine(haven't reached the red yet) but in all of my songs i does that D;.

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Well thats no good. Drop outs and clicks are (usually) caused by your processor load. You need to check/adjust your buffer sizes and make sure nothing is competing with your Interface, it should have its own IRQ. Just trying to help, thats gotta be annoying.

 

[sk8a123]

Well thats no good. Drop outs and clicks are (usually) caused by your processor load. You need to check/adjust your buffer sizes and make sure nothing is competing with your Interface, it should have its own IRQ. Just trying to help, thats gotta be annoying.

yeah i'm not really sure how to adjust my buffer sizes. I'm recording everything in reaper...if that helps at all

 

[kcearl]

yeah i'm not really sure how to adjust my buffer sizes. I'm recording everything in reaper...if that helps at all

click on the Start menu, go into Prgrammes, then Line 6 folder, Tools, Line 6 devices....you should be able to adjust the buffer size there


also make sure your line 6 is the default

Go to Start menu, Control panel, sounds, make sure the UX is assigned as your default soundcard


see if that fixes it

 

[rayc]

Hmmm: commenting on room treatment & flat response monitors whilst listening in iTunes is an oxymoron waiting to be coined.
I just can't think of a way to condense the nonsense & pretence into a pithy word or two.
I had a quirk with my dual processor this weekend. I was running 30 audio tracks with about as many VSTs in good old Pro Audio 9.3 at around 60% of the processor when, in the last couple of seconds of the piece it maxed to a warning code & then started to stutter as it went beyond the red. - funnily enough NO AUDIO was happening at that point in time. I've stripped the comp of unnecessary progs, canned all background procedures and STILL it decided it was time to take a dump in the middle of the end. I tried cutting back on VSTs etc. but nothing changed the situation. I shut down the prog & re ran it with the same prob. Rebooted the comp & finally pulled up an earlier version (about 2 hrs pervious) & re-entered the changes I'd made & all was fine. I must've bumped something somewhere and caused a max out! I was going to re set buffers etc but when I found the 30 tracks & VSTs played fine again I figured that wasn't really the problem.
Hmm...it may be the VST enabler! then again it could be the way I treat my room - I do say unkind things to it on occasion - like the time grains of gyprock fell into my hair & I looked up to discover that termites had decided that the room was just like earth in the Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy - well around about the time the Vogon's had sent their RTA (Road Transport Authority) over to carry out community consultation regarding the clearway. Definitely NOT the remade version either - though the fjords were rather nice albeit smelling somewhat of mice & totally devoid of fish.
Ah, to be 42 again!
I wish you a speedy recovery from your dropsy!

 

[Brumus]

Hmmm: commenting on room treatment & flat response monitors whilst listening in iTunes is an oxymoron waiting to be coined.
I just can't think of a way to condense the nonsense & pretence into a pithy word or two.

hey bub..if this is a shot at me, why dont you take your negativity elsewhere.
my comment, obviously, was constructive, yours is gibberish bullshit...