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Into catchy artful synth-pop / electro-rock? Lost albums? Read on: Fascinating piece of work just finished up: called in to rescue master an album of really terrific songs that had been sitting in limbo, but with a cult fanbase waiting. The recordings were done in the early to mid 2000's under (ahem...

This is probably not what you are looking for but couldn't you record a track of you clicking a pair of drum sticks I have done this many times. Yes, +2 all this! And add this trick: set the session tempo to as close as you guess the song starts at, then open the tempo map view and zoom in to fine ...

Neato - a "capital H" waveshaper if ever there was one. Your facebook analogy raises a good point - since this thing is hosted online, what are the guarantees that your circuits aren't being swept out the back door of the program for some other use? (Simluate using a TL082, all of a sudden you get ...

Thoughts? Ideas? It can also be good to have nice sets of stereo pairs shifted to "interlock" with each other in a balanced way, but not completely eliminate their stereo information, like: pair1: L=-30 R=100 (perceived center becomes soft right) pair2: L=-100 R=30 (perceived center becomes soft le...

As it would be at least partially for academic use I'd be installing it in a studio at the university alongside the Pro Tools and RADAR systems which would take care of the mixer/ cabling situation as well as a certain amount of the maintenance. Though even in the short time since my original post ...

Fantastic analysis, The Scum and dfuruta! Thank you so much. Keep in mind I'm not an EE and highly value the perspective of those more skilled. Easy and cheerful to use... slow simulation much under the regular expectations of the spice family. I've been choosing simulation times just long enough to...

Then get one of those plug-ins that rotates phase. Keep the right track phase unchanged, and rotate the left track from 0 degrees in increments, stopping to listen at many points, particularly listening closely at 180 degrees (full polarity flip), and continuing on to 360 degrees from there. Return...

You're very welcome, James B - About educating one's listening, perhaps try this: Take any mono track in your DAW, duplicate the same file to another track as well (with them both time aligned the same). Pan one hard right and one hard left. Set both at the same volume. Listen. Sounds totally mono. ...

kslight is right on - it's not just buying a deck, it's buying the whole rig necessary to make a deck useful at all. This will include an appropriate mixer, snakes, and at least a minimal rack of outboard gear with at least a minimal patchbay. - and agreed, the 388 is a brilliant way to simplify the...

in what cases should I be adjusting the channels to an equal amount of gain if I suspect the differences in volume were caused by a lack of attention when setting the levels and when should I leave it because that difference in volume is key to the stereo image? not to be a jerk, but...just listen ...

If I record something (say a solo acoustic guitar) with a spaced pair is the stereo image formed by the difference in sound arrival time or differences in phase or the relative volumes at the two microphones? All 3 of those factors simultaneously contribute to the perception of stereo image. Which ...

SO, i guess my questions are as follows: 1. is a simple "Dear awesome mastering engineer, we love your work. Do you master without plugins, cus that's what we want" email okay to send? will those whose work we respect anyway, without the knowledge of their setups, get offended? I ask because I'm ig...

Really great contributions from above posters, +1 on all that. And yes, on the cheap modern gear it's often the audio stages before and after the converters that's the worst bottleneck. Yes, renting some nice converters may really help to answer your question - is that your bottleneck now? 2 cents o...

I think I'd choose a Mastering Engineer with a good 2-track and have him loop that master back through it and compare the two to decided which master I sent to replication. +2 It would really help the OP to be able to hear this compared, rather than it being hypothetical. And yes!, there is a huge ...

However, these are simulators for analog designs. Although modern models have improved with parasitics now modeled, it's only a sim and any decent design EE needs to breadboard any spice design to confirm performance as real world parasitics can wreck havoc with well planned models. Absolutely! It'...