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[Tim Brown]

Slackmaster2000,

You Fucking Rule Dude!
A friend of mine wanted me to record some stuff for her, so they got me (yes legally) The Registration for N-track. I went to your website to check out your Plug-ins page, and You are The Man!

Thank you so much!!


Now my question is- since I don't know SHIT about recording on the PC, where should my Peaks, when recording, fall?

I mean, on my Tape machines-I just always maxec it out, and then used my Compressor to set a brickwall at -3db's, so that I was squeezing the maximum amount of signal onto tape.
I know that it isn't the "proper" way to do things, but hey - I'm from the Tom Lord Alge school of recording- and he says "Compression is your friend!"

Tim

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Good! I need to update that page one of these days because I've found more freebies.

Anyhow, when recording with your computer, like any digital device, you'll typically be advised to capture as strong a signal as possible without clipping. Remember, any red when you're in digital land is bad news.

If you're using a 16bit soundcard, you might try keeping your peeks in the -6 to 0db range. If you're using a 24bit soundcard, you have a bit more of a special kind of "headroom" (it's actually resolution and lower noise floor) and you can track lower, like in the -12db to 0db range. Of course you want to avoid having to increase levels by whopping amounts later, and it's always best to record as hot as you can. Tracking at lower levels is just handy for people who record themselves, or when you're recording a very dynamic source without compression. You really want to avoid that red flash...digital clipping is bad news.

Good luck!

Slackmaster 2000

 

[Tim Brown]

I know that when you are recording in digital you want the highest signal possible, otherwise you aren't utilizing the most numbers of bits.


Now, I'm just going to have to really play with N-track for a while.

I was trying out the FASoft compressor, and it seemed pretty good to me, so when i build my next PC for recording, I'm going to go ahead and get the registration for 24-bit recording, as well as get the "add ons" that FA has available.

Just from playing around with it a little, I can tell it's pretty powerful software, and I LOVED the reverbs in it.

(Most people don't realize it, but the two most important controls of a reverb unit are pre-delay and density...you can take any "room size" and make it seem bigger with those two parameters...but non of my rackmount units have those (as far as I can tell...we're talking Behringer grade effewcts here) so I always wound up recording the reverb on an extra track, and use the "track offset" function and delayed the track... in effect, createing my own pre-delay.

The only thing I wish he would do, is allow you to actually type in the amount that you want, instead of having to use the mouse (for example, I could type in 10ms faster than trying to "move the virtual knob or fader"...but 10ms of predelay wasn't even offered...it was like 11.1 or something like that....I guess that's just the way he's programmed it.


Thanks again for the Plug-ins page.....I have a feeling I'm going to become a very heavy user of N-track, as well as a promoter of it's use.....because i was mastering some stuff I had using it, and it sounds WAY better than it previously did!

Now, for my next trick, I just need to find a JOB!
Hahahaha

Tim