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Once everybody else was in the lounge, Joe had the engineer pipe his existing take out to the studio and control room speakers. They played the existing take 4 or 5 times. Henley finally came in from the lounge, (he could hear the guitar through the walls) and said, "that's the one, that's a keeper...

I went with a cooler green for the live room to give musicians that "intimate pre-show green room" vibe - it seems to work! I get lots of comments like "it feels really relaxed in here". Cool blue for the control room since I spend up to 12 hours a day in there, and the blue walls soothe my constant...

No need for 1/2" - that's way overkill. Just get sheets of 1/4" laminated glass (the kind they use for storefronts). It's virtually indestructible, you can swing chairs at it, and the lamination kills most resonant effects. Nice and cheap, too, should be ~$100 per pane of that size.

From the awesome " How To Consolidate Regions in DAWS " thread at Gearslutz: Consolidating regions in Digital Performer: 1. Put a piece of audio at 0:00:00.000 on every track. 2. Select all the audio in all the tracks, and be sure. 3. Select Merge Soundbites from the Audio pull-down menu. Note that ...

shane, you could always just mix one on your own, and privately compare it with the mixes the band gets back from the other guy. If your mix is worse, then you know they made the right decision. If your mix is better, then you can pull the bandleader aside and say, "hey give this a listen - I pushed...

For the band grouped around the stereo mic approach, listen a bit in the control room (or on phones) while the band warms up. You can balance the sound by asking musicians to take a half- or a quarter-step forward or back until the mix sounds good. Once the balance is solid, use a piece of tape on t...

You could also just save the plug settings as something specific (projectx_kick_compression), then reload that patch setting into a new plug-in on the new session.

It's almost as confusing as that damn n button turning on and off "insert follows playback".

AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!! HULK SMASH STUPID N BUTTON!!!!

Also, Hulk tired of pressing option-K to toggle Auto Input Monitor one million times a day.

I agreed this rate to get a feel for my new equipment, and for using these guys as guinea pigs for my first pro-ish recording gig. It's just taken so damn long and I have so much more potentially paying work lined up that I can't justify finishing it out for free, especially when there is such a tr...

Wow, you agreed to engineer an 8 piece reggae band for $25 a song? Dude. DUDE. DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! How many blunts had you smoked prior to agreeing to this? You are so screwed. I would chalk this one up as the biggest, hairiest, smelliest, lamest lesson learned ever. Good luck getting more $$ out of t...

This might be a little too much MIDI 101, but you never know: It's possible that you may just be hung up on the general concept. MIDI is just like holes in a piano roll. You don't record any sound, you are just "punching" holes in a "paper tape". Now, you can use those paper tape holes to trigger so...

damionj wrote:never feel like daddy's music time is some kind of perverted hobby to be hidden from the family.

You DID say he was a jazz pianist, didn't you?

Jitters wrote:If I had a time machine I would go to Jamaca in the 70s and take a couple hundred packs of fresh bass strings.

Don't even joke about killing reggae like that.

That James Jamerson had an awful bass sound, too. Maybe you'd like to fix that as well?

I thought the new B3 Organ Modelling Instrument that came with PT8 WAS the old NI B4. I abandoned my NI install a while ago, after they started charging $75 per upgrade (F that noise), but was happy to see it incorporated in my new PT8 install. I've used it regularly for months now, being quite happ...

@?,*???&? wrote:This has been posted at least 3 times before:

http://content.grammy.com/PDFs/Recordin ... ations.pdf

Including once in this thread. But I didn't include a snarky bitch about how it's been posted in other threads before, so I guess mine doesn't count.