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Are there actually 4 different guitar parts? Why not just use two performances and pan them, it normally gives you a bigger, more spacious sound that way.

Obviously, if you have multiple parts, you need more performances.

telepathy wrote:
Alesis DM5? that thing seems geared toward using live on-the-drum contact triggers instead of audio tracks.

Before DAWs, I used to trigger off a DM5 by just using an aux send and sending to the input of the DM5. One time, I just used the insert sends to trigger the whole drum set.

Does your board have VU meters or peak meters? If it has VU meters, this is very strange. The VU meters in the analog world measure the average volume level and ignore the peaks. Digital meters measure the peaks and ignore the average level. So, from what you've described, you are averaging 0dbVU on...

But when you are ripping a CD, it's the same thing. The reader can keep going over the info until it's able to read it. It can't do that while it's playing because it has to be in real time. (even though most players have look ahead buffers) Another solution that I just thought of: burn the CD archi...

First off, there is no generation loss ripping a cd. its just 1's and 0's, if it didn't work that way, every time you opened a spreadsheet off of a cd, it would be all screwed up. (or a program install file like the one from cubase) The easiest way to get around this is to assemble the cd in cubase,...

Its definitely the balanced vs. stereo thing. You either have to use two outputs and an adapter to create a stereo trs or go mono with the in ears.

FRIZEYED wrote:have you tried an sm58?

Not going to help much on tracks that someone else records and he gets sent to mix. Chances are, its already a shure sm58.

This is one of the major reasons that most major label live albums are overdubbed in the studio. Same with live videos. The only other thing I can thin of, besides everything mentioned already, would be to mix it the way it was probably heard in the venue...with the vocals so low that you just get t...

Since quicktime is already installed, you really have no alternative but to go in and reassign all of your associations back to where they were. It really sucks, but that's the best way to live with it.

The only time pitch is a problem is when it sounds bad. Perfect pitch isn't the goal, a convincing performance is. Sometimes that means that the tension created by the dissonance actually helps the overall performance. It is not uncommon for sharp to sound better than flat. I don't know why, but tha...

Reaper is much better than audacity. audacity will cut up your audio track files into bite-sized pieces instead of long, complete files.

Reaper is bullet proof.

Is it best to only pass one thing at a time through an outboard effect (assuming you're going to use the same settings anyhow, just a different amount of dry/wet)? For instance, an outboard reverb you want to throw on the bass and a snare. Would you typically have everything but the bass turned dow...

tdrop wrote:To set it to 100% wet, do I turn the aux gain all the way up and leave the aux master fader in the shaded area?

set the effects unit that you connected to the aux output to 100% wet.

You set the effects unit that you connected fo the aux output to 100% wet.

I think you are making it more complicated in your head than it actually is. When you turn up an aux, it sends the signal from the channel to the aux master. When you turn up that aux master, it sends that signal to the aux output. That is all there is to it. There is really no difference between an...