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This is true, but it's still thin. The SVT tube preamp rolls off at 90 hz, not too good. If you patch an external preamp into the SVT power amp, it's got great low end, but that preamp rolls it out. You can get 50 hz out of a GK, but not a low B 27 hz. If you change those caps you will hear a comple...

Hey Brett, you can find used flat screen tv's for cheap these days. I picked up a 47in for my new control room for 300 bucks and bought a ceiling mount. now everything is big enough and I can sit in the proper position while mixing instead of leaning forward all the time because I have old eyes

I use the svt4 pro. I, for some reason, do not like tube amps for my bass. I would have him check out the 2 or 3, only because i don't think he would need to be crushingly loud. I also like the GK stuff. I respectfully disagree with Mr. Williams about the low end being thin. The low end of GK amps a...

If you are going to end up buying a new computer anyway, I would just go with that. Editing is alot easier when you can see waveforms. I used a Masterlink for years for mixdown. Switching to DAW opened up a whole new world of speed and ease of editing. If you decide to stick with the Masterlink, you...

The link that you posted is completely true. Gain-staging is difficult to understand at first because it is against our nature to see less as more. What he was referring to is using a trim plugin BEFORE using say, a compressor plug in. That is to make sure that you are feeding that compressor the pr...

I have the Big Knob, and it colors the sound. I am looking for something else soon. It's not really that terrible once you are aware of HOW it changes the sound, and are able to compensate for the change, but I'd rather have something that is accurate

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There are plenty of posts on Tapeop about gainstaging that you may want to check out. In a nutshell, you want to track quieter so that you don't run in to this problem in the future. Track individual tracks quieter so that when you have 20 tracks going at once, you don't create a bottleneck at your ...

emailed about the LUCID

You need to just manually delete any songs that you don't want anymore. If it's tracks that you're talking about, delete them with the song opened. I use Logic, and would never do a massive wipe out of stuff just in case, even though I back everything up to external drives.

+1 on sleeping with a fan on... i need some kind of ambient sound happening when I'm falling asleep or the ringing can sometimes get pretty bad

Depending on whether you have health insurance that will cover it, there are ways to at least minimize the effects of tinnitus, but they are very expensive. My brother in law has gone to concerts alot since he was a teenager. He developed a loud ringing in one ear that would not go away. An audiolog...

Something else that can help is to play the bass part again, exactly the same but with a guitar. Pan it center with the bass, and send it to the same compressor as the bass. As long as they are matched correctly it gives the illusion that it is still the bass guitar take and you can then leave your ...

I think this thread was originally meant to just make everyone argue! No, but really, just as with anything else we record, we need to find the right tools for getting the job done. Most snares are not built to just tune to whatever you want and still sound good. So that is why many of us have multi...

mix in sections. edit them together. automate your plugs. don't over compress at mastering to retain the dynamics. it is worth it to sacrifice a little bit of volume in order to have contrast within the song