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stephen_walker
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experienced guitar player with bad voice, but confident that a great producer could make me sound good (like Courtney Love has a good voice?)
or maybe I could be that producer
I use Cakewalk Home Studio and record directly to my soundcard.
Questions:
Cakewalk Compressor has settings like pre-delay, threshold, gain, attack, decay, ratio. How in the hell do I know what to use? I assume that I should watch the recording levels (say for a guitar) and a few db less than the peak volumes is where I should set threshold. The compressor will increase the volume on all sounds that are less than that threshold right?
I thought Compressors could also be used to filter out background noise, but I don't see a way to do that here.
How much echo, panning, reverb to use on a standard vocal? I have been trying one main track, with a duplicate left track that is delayed 80 to 120 ms and a duplicate right track that is the left track plus reverb of about 2 seconds (85/15) dry/wet. Then mix.
How do you get that full vocal sound without making it sound like you are in an oatmeal box or down the hall in the mens room?
Is there a cheap way to make a windscreen, like a sock?
Dynamic Mikes - which ones to use for a PC?
Grunge loud guitar sound - like Pumpkins, Catherine Wheel, Foo Fighters. I have found recording one track and then adding about 36 ms echo (100% wet) and making that into a second track and then panning these full left and right makes a good imiatation. But what other techniques are there short of recording the same track 25 times and mixing all of them together?
Finally, production. I have this idea that there are zones in your recording. A two dimensional space with panning on one axis and frequency on the other. Each instrument/vocal/etc should have its own space unless you wish for covering. How do you achieve this? Guitar and vocals generally occupy the same 60 to 1000 Hz. How do you separate Kick from Bass Guitar?
make me intelligent here folks
or maybe I could be that producer
I use Cakewalk Home Studio and record directly to my soundcard.
Questions:
Cakewalk Compressor has settings like pre-delay, threshold, gain, attack, decay, ratio. How in the hell do I know what to use? I assume that I should watch the recording levels (say for a guitar) and a few db less than the peak volumes is where I should set threshold. The compressor will increase the volume on all sounds that are less than that threshold right?
I thought Compressors could also be used to filter out background noise, but I don't see a way to do that here.
How much echo, panning, reverb to use on a standard vocal? I have been trying one main track, with a duplicate left track that is delayed 80 to 120 ms and a duplicate right track that is the left track plus reverb of about 2 seconds (85/15) dry/wet. Then mix.
How do you get that full vocal sound without making it sound like you are in an oatmeal box or down the hall in the mens room?
Is there a cheap way to make a windscreen, like a sock?
Dynamic Mikes - which ones to use for a PC?
Grunge loud guitar sound - like Pumpkins, Catherine Wheel, Foo Fighters. I have found recording one track and then adding about 36 ms echo (100% wet) and making that into a second track and then panning these full left and right makes a good imiatation. But what other techniques are there short of recording the same track 25 times and mixing all of them together?
Finally, production. I have this idea that there are zones in your recording. A two dimensional space with panning on one axis and frequency on the other. Each instrument/vocal/etc should have its own space unless you wish for covering. How do you achieve this? Guitar and vocals generally occupy the same 60 to 1000 Hz. How do you separate Kick from Bass Guitar?
make me intelligent here folks
