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Hi, I have a question regarding blending effects from tracks that have already been recorded in a DAW. I've been wanting to incorporate hardware guitar pedal effects into my clean DAW (I know this can be done with plugins but I like my pedals a bit too much) and as I've read, one approach is to outp...

Hi everyone, I'm sure that a variation of this question has been asked a dozen times over but from searching on Google, I get varying answers from "it can't be done, too much wow and flutter" to "can be done, if syncing to the tape machine's motor"...so since this is TapeOp, I figure this would be a...

I know this is a long shot because he's Japanese and it would be difficult to get ahold of him but I've been pretty fascinated with his sound for a long time (he's been called a Japanese "Sufjan Stevens", though I don't really believe that opinion). He played 100 different instruments on his last al...

ok, thanks for the replies everyone, i'll make sure to check them all out (though i don't think i'll be able to afford any kind of NS10, haha). also, dave, saved by technology is selling the previous gen RP5s for about $135, so i'm tempted to go there but i'll also check out moog audio since they se...

I was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for a dual pair of monitors costing about $350 - 400 (Canadian) total. I know that that budget will mean I'll never be able to get anything like old NS10s but I figure that most things will be better than the old Compaq JBL speakers I'm currently mi...

haha, alrite, if you say so, thanks i'll err on the side of caution first. once i make it big , i'll f***ing rock

My friend is using his line6 spider practice amp as pretty much a speaker for his vocals, mic'ed instruments and other keyboard stuff (rather than using a PA) and I wonder if its ok to do this, since I heard that putting certain instruments through guitar amps (i.e. bass) will eventually rip the spe...

ok, thanks for the feedback, minorleagues, i appreciate it What does Robot Ate Me sound like?

wow, 25 views and no responses at all? i would've expected at someone to say something like "this is crap" or something like that....

I have three tracks under the title Winter Vendors on my MySpace page. I used to make electronic music (and there's a remnant of that on the page, under one track called "Archway Denouement") but I had an overwhelming urge to bury my MicroKorg this year and rely just on guitars, ukeleles, glocks, ra...

i'm in Chem Eng, 4th year.....but my calculus skills are not exactly what you would call strong, as i barely got by in first year.....but i'm getting B's in my English electives

Spindrift wrote:

anywhere in Canada, specifically Toronto, where I can find a copy of TapeOp?

You can get it at Carbon Computing in their Sound and Picture department. Queen St. east of Broadview. They usually stock back issues too.

ooh, thanks a lot!

There is no doubt I have many years of learning ahead of me... I know there are so many factors that make certain recording sound great. I still have a recording I did on a cheesy 4-track back in the 80's, I am still amazed how it sounds.... forget about how many times I had to mix down tracks to f...

ok, so i'm a bit of a newbie at this game and i was wondering why my mixes were sounding so thin. anyways, i just want to clarify a few things. after all the mixing, how much overall headroom should i leave? and after recording at nominally -18 dbfs, what average levels would the individual tracks h...

anywhere in Canada, specifically Toronto, where I can find a copy of TapeOp?