alexspetty
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i posted this one in the songwriting forum already, but i like the more technically oriented critique this forum offers.
-alex
-alex
erichenryus said:only thing that stuck out was that kick drum. just didn't sound quite right to me.
alexspetty said:most ears wouldnt notice i think.. or at least i hope!!
-alex
bpoco said:Now ... fess up ....how did you record and process the vocals? If you get the vocals right (and you did), it goes a long way in making a mix sound professionally mastered.
alexspetty said:To get vox right (imho)
also, put your working tracks on a different physical drive than your OS.. i noticed a big improvement on my pc as a recording medium once i did this.)
OK - not that I wanna go off topic, but he's right (I've been a network engineer with a Masters and several Certs including A+ Network+ MCSE/MCSA... and so on... and so on)
Here's what I did (I realize not everyone can afford this, but it does increase performance immensly when using PC for HDisk recording
I got 4 10GIG SCSI HDs set up as s stripe set with an Adaptec SCSI card...
OK SCSI is expensive, but you can do this easily with several ATA 100 drives... look around for someone selling old drives, buy 2 drives (size doesn't have to match, but should all have same RPM - ATA 100 or better work well) -- Also if you can buy a 4th drive ...
Set them up 2 of the drives to act as a single volume (Assuming you're running Windows 2K Pro or better) in a striped set...
the system will treat both drives as though they were 1 - allowing a significant increase in performance...
the 4th drive only needs to be about 3-4GIG and should be set up as your only Swap Partition.
So to recap:
Main (Drive 0) drive is your OS and software
Drives 1&2 Are for data only in a striped set
Drive 3 is your swap partition.
Also when possible, use multiple sticks of ram - (ie: if you want 128 meg of RAM use 2x64 Meg sticks... if you want 256 use 4x64 if your machine will allow 4 or use 2x128 -- the ram will refresh faster and indevidually which will increase performance.)
Wow... sorry... I tend to ramble... If this should be in another are please tell me and I'll move it...
- Tanlith -
... oh yeah... Alex... Love the song man! I love the precision of the stops and starts in the chorus.