sonusman
Banned
Well, yet another mix of Love Lode, the Echo Star Studio house band by default.
or go to www.echostarstudio.com/Download.html for other downloads from my site. A few from Love Lode, 1 from Sky Blue Mind who if you remember performed Secret Heart, 1 from the Heavy Brothers, and 1 from Anger Mangagement who if you are into heavy stuff this is your thing, and 1 from Mirror Mirror.
Anyway, the Girlfriend song is just about finished. I haven't incorporated mute automation on the mix yet. Would like to get the vocals a bit more under control. Not caring for the toms either. A small little problem with the tom tracks is that I used piezo triggers to a noise gate while going to tape, and the drummer sometimes hit a crash cymbal that was right over the tom he just hit. The cymbal of course bleeds momentarily on the tom track, creating some crash hits that are very annoying. I tried to get him to raise the cymbals at least 18" above the toms, but he complained about not liking to reach that far for a crash . So, when I get the Alesis card all hooked up, I will go in and edit the tom tracks and figure out a way to get the cymbal bleed out of it. That will probably entail inserting a eq at the end of the tom hit that takes out all of the high end. This has worked for me in the past with toms that have big cymbal bleed.
Anyway. I kind of dig the guitar tones. Still trying though to find just the right effect for the lead. It needs something, but it needs to be subtle. It will come to me at 4 am.....
Anyway, this is my first full post of a tune that I used my new soundcard on. I recorded at 24 bit 48kHz sampling, then resampled and dithered down after mastering. I am having to rethink how I do levels now with all the extra headroom the 24 but D/A converters have, but when I am in doubt, I output the soundcard to my CD-R Recorder and listen with the 16 bit consumer converters. Well, they are a bit better than normal CD player converters, but close enough for me to tell what it is going to sound like through them.
It will be nice when standard playback media is 24 bit. So much depth is lost when it gets dithered from 24 to 16. It is a shame.
Enjoy!
Ed Rei
Echo Star Studio www.echostarstudio.com
or go to www.echostarstudio.com/Download.html for other downloads from my site. A few from Love Lode, 1 from Sky Blue Mind who if you remember performed Secret Heart, 1 from the Heavy Brothers, and 1 from Anger Mangagement who if you are into heavy stuff this is your thing, and 1 from Mirror Mirror.
Anyway, the Girlfriend song is just about finished. I haven't incorporated mute automation on the mix yet. Would like to get the vocals a bit more under control. Not caring for the toms either. A small little problem with the tom tracks is that I used piezo triggers to a noise gate while going to tape, and the drummer sometimes hit a crash cymbal that was right over the tom he just hit. The cymbal of course bleeds momentarily on the tom track, creating some crash hits that are very annoying. I tried to get him to raise the cymbals at least 18" above the toms, but he complained about not liking to reach that far for a crash . So, when I get the Alesis card all hooked up, I will go in and edit the tom tracks and figure out a way to get the cymbal bleed out of it. That will probably entail inserting a eq at the end of the tom hit that takes out all of the high end. This has worked for me in the past with toms that have big cymbal bleed.
Anyway. I kind of dig the guitar tones. Still trying though to find just the right effect for the lead. It needs something, but it needs to be subtle. It will come to me at 4 am.....
Anyway, this is my first full post of a tune that I used my new soundcard on. I recorded at 24 bit 48kHz sampling, then resampled and dithered down after mastering. I am having to rethink how I do levels now with all the extra headroom the 24 but D/A converters have, but when I am in doubt, I output the soundcard to my CD-R Recorder and listen with the 16 bit consumer converters. Well, they are a bit better than normal CD player converters, but close enough for me to tell what it is going to sound like through them.
It will be nice when standard playback media is 24 bit. So much depth is lost when it gets dithered from 24 to 16. It is a shame.
Enjoy!
Ed Rei
Echo Star Studio www.echostarstudio.com