Llarion at the controls...

[steev]

Llarion's mix is better for the drums and vox for sure, but I'd say he cut a bit too much of the bass. I'd also run the edgy guits through a tube and warm them up a smidge.
Tune is cool.

 

[Llarion]

Llarion's mix is better for the drums and vox for sure, but I'd say he cut a bit too much of the bass. I'd also run the edgy guits through a tube and warm them up a smidge.
Tune is cool.

I have a tube compressor, if only I could patch it as an insert for Audition!! Thanks, man, now I'm gonna be jonesing my tube compressor all day!

 

[bigbubba]

I love working with a stand alone unit. I love not having to use a fricking mouse to turn things up and down or to move an eq band.

Alright, alright, no need to rub it in.

I tried mixing a song in my PC a few months ago and as soon as I had 3 tracks playing at the same time, the latency was about a week and a half. Once I added reverb, the music ended up in a different time zone.

Rami, I'm with you man. I'd love to use the style you do now. All I have is low end computer equipment though. I appreciate it and think it's awesome I have the oppurtunity to record decent music, but at the same time it's enough to drive me nuts sometimes. There's nothing worse than playing out a 5 minute guitar part that you just thought you nailed, then you realize the computer stopped recording at 1 minute because it was out of memory or something. Or the static that starts to pick up to keep 0 latency as songs get larger with more effects/tracks.

I use ACID Pro 4 on my HP Media Center Edition which is running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. It's a dual processor with 512MB RAM and 120G hard drive. It got about 2.3GHz processor.

Once in a while when I have more than 30 tracks and a whole lotta FX, it starts chopping in the middle and that introduces latency into the input being recorded. When this happens, I generally either mute all except the basic tracks and it plays and records fine. Or I do a really rough mixdown into a wav file. I then mute everything and import in the rough mix. Now the computer only plays one file and records one input. This makes it a lot easier. Once the new recording is complete, i'll unmute other tracks and delete the rough mixdown.

If it starts crapping out while mixing but not recording, I start killing processes form the Task Manager. If it still doesn't work, then I either remove some tracks or give up.

For PMC12, I have to stop all other processes and even then, the song plays for about 10 seconds from the point where I start it and then starts chopping. The only reason I haven't given up is because I'm learning so much and having others provide valued input on the mixes.

Just wanted to share my experience.

 

[RAMI]

That's cool. Like I said, sometimes I do wish I could do individual tracks in my PC and use a million plug-ins, but mine just can't take it. I have ACID, CUBASE, WAVELAB. I do use them for different thing sometomes, but the bulk of my recording and mixing is done on my TASCAM and then I import the stereo master to my PC and Master. Or at least, I'm still learning to Master.

 

[SnakeDog5050]

Alright, alright, no need to rub it in.
I generally either mute all except the basic tracks and it plays and records fine. Or I do a really rough mixdown into a wav file. I then mute everything and import in the rough mix.

I feel your pain on everything you said bubba! I use Guitar Tracks Pro 3 and even when I mute tracks it knows they're still there and still performs at the same speed. So I have to use mixdown tricks like you do. There's a ton of power and control in doing the computer route though.

 

[Llarion]

Snake, you have PM...

 

[bigbubba]

I feel your pain on everything you said bubba! I use Guitar Tracks Pro 3 and even when I mute tracks it knows they're still there and still performs at the same speed. So I have to use mixdown tricks like you do. There's a ton of power and control in doing the computer route though.

I wanted to try out the Pro Tools demo but it doesn't isntall on Win XP. Add that to the gripe list, too!

I'll also create sub-projects with the bounced tracks. I never really like permanent bouncing 'coz as soon as you get rid of the individual tracks, you will realize you need to bounce only slightly differently. But tough luck now.

 

[SnakeDog5050]

I wanted to try out the Pro Tools demo but it doesn't isntall on Win XP. Add that to the gripe list, too!

I'll also create sub-projects with the bounced tracks. I never really like permanent bouncing 'coz as soon as you get rid of the individual tracks, you will realize you need to bounce only slightly differently. But tough luck now.

For that reason I do bounce tracks often, but keep saving different versions of the file so I can go back... sometimes it gets insane when I have like "surfin with the Snake 121" and that's also a mess to clean up. Bouncing and mixing down takes so long on my computer too. Some of my stuff takes 15 minutes per mixdown. Then I hear one thing wrong I want to change and BOOM there's 15 more minutes.

Haha, I didn't realize I had so much to complain about my computer

Llarion, I got the PM, I'll PM you back later if everything works since it looks like the download is going to take awhile.