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Lou502Evil
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Ive been recording onto this ol Pc for nearly 2-3 years now, i was the 4 track master before this! I have several questions mainly dealing with my rather crummy set-up
I have no mixing board yet or any type of pre-amp, i have a plain ol stock sound card with the one little crappy line in. For guitars i use a Rat distortion pedal, i run this into a digitech vocalist processor, i figured this would compensate for no preamps, the sound quality is not bad, but the guitars distortion is way to big an not focused.
Im working on a isolation chamber with a Mic gooseneck flexible stand all housed inside this box and one 12" speaker, i was also figureing this would solve my pre amp issue till ican afford something, but i have heard evenjust direct into the Pc with the crappy mic i use would still result in a less than great sound.
Im wondering about the new DI boxes or the new line of pedals i see with emulated speaker outs, im not wealthy so im looking to save and get something that will do me alot better than my current sound. Any suggestions as what may work the best?
Also ive seen alot of diffrent ways posted on Eq'ing, mainly addressing vocals, is there a good frequency for heavily distorted de-tuned guitars (esp 7 string tuned in standard with the lowest string tuned in drop D "A note") and what frequencys are good to notch to get the guitars to sit in the mix better.
I have also noticed when i do go to mixdown and get into the wave editor the volumes on the guitars get louder, so i go back and lower them and take a bit of mids out and then go back into wave edit and now they are far to soft, ive had a horribly hard time finding a good loud but not over bearing guitar sound.
After im usually done and have mixed everything to .wav i open up sonic foundry to add effects, i have done this to individual instruments and the whole mix, then i usually send it back to CEP to widen the stereo field, and slight reverb, amplify till its loud and then normalize at -0.5 db. Does this sound correct, i also sometimes use a pretty laid back or soft compression.
This sound like a good method?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
you can hear some these recordings at
www.angelfire.com/ky/urilia/sottpmusic.html
The song names are "Bloodgod" "Hollowing Myself" "Dedluv" and "Lay Down the Living" the other songs there were recorded in a nice studio on a pro tools setup.
lemme know what you think!
jeremy
I have no mixing board yet or any type of pre-amp, i have a plain ol stock sound card with the one little crappy line in. For guitars i use a Rat distortion pedal, i run this into a digitech vocalist processor, i figured this would compensate for no preamps, the sound quality is not bad, but the guitars distortion is way to big an not focused.
Im working on a isolation chamber with a Mic gooseneck flexible stand all housed inside this box and one 12" speaker, i was also figureing this would solve my pre amp issue till ican afford something, but i have heard evenjust direct into the Pc with the crappy mic i use would still result in a less than great sound.
Im wondering about the new DI boxes or the new line of pedals i see with emulated speaker outs, im not wealthy so im looking to save and get something that will do me alot better than my current sound. Any suggestions as what may work the best?
Also ive seen alot of diffrent ways posted on Eq'ing, mainly addressing vocals, is there a good frequency for heavily distorted de-tuned guitars (esp 7 string tuned in standard with the lowest string tuned in drop D "A note") and what frequencys are good to notch to get the guitars to sit in the mix better.
I have also noticed when i do go to mixdown and get into the wave editor the volumes on the guitars get louder, so i go back and lower them and take a bit of mids out and then go back into wave edit and now they are far to soft, ive had a horribly hard time finding a good loud but not over bearing guitar sound.
After im usually done and have mixed everything to .wav i open up sonic foundry to add effects, i have done this to individual instruments and the whole mix, then i usually send it back to CEP to widen the stereo field, and slight reverb, amplify till its loud and then normalize at -0.5 db. Does this sound correct, i also sometimes use a pretty laid back or soft compression.
This sound like a good method?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
you can hear some these recordings at
www.angelfire.com/ky/urilia/sottpmusic.html
The song names are "Bloodgod" "Hollowing Myself" "Dedluv" and "Lay Down the Living" the other songs there were recorded in a nice studio on a pro tools setup.
lemme know what you think!
jeremy
