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I always made sure to keep the monitor volume the same so punches never sounded different. This would be very hard for me. I seem to adjust monitor levels compulsively without noticing. I do too, that's why I mentioned it. It's a common thing for me, hear something I'm not sure of, turn it up a tad...

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Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:06 pm

I always made sure to keep the monitor volume the same so punches never sounded different.

This would be very hard for me. I seem to adjust monitor levels compulsively without noticing.

^ This also can be instructive (if not a little time consuming) sometimes hearing a harmony as a note choice, as well as a solid pitch can light the way for us non choir types.

If it's supposed to be a rich, mini choir type of oohs and aaahs I'd just as soon do it myself and mix it dark, go easy on consonants etc. If it's to be a close harmony, up front vibe like Simon and Gfunk you need an A+ ringer or a B+ one who's rehearsed the stuff. I could see trying your pitch shif...

But crusher is a pretty different thing, but as for overdrive I've had the best luck with the "ranges from clean boost to full saturation" type pedals. I have a Catalin Bread Dirty Little Secret always hooked up to an aux send. I've used it to give a clean bass more attention in a mix, to gently sat...

Yeah, I usually am cool with plenty of snare in the overheads, it's the hi hats that are a problem. But I know how when brushes or mallets come out things can go a lot different in the drum mix. For your problem I would explore eq and compression of the overheads. Like something fast and only grabbi...

As I've often done over the last 25 years, I said "what would Tchad Blake do?" I copied the snare track, put that through the Pulverizer (an absolutely stupid compressor/distortion thingie on the Reason Rack plugin) and blended a bit of that back in and HOT DAMN it worked perfectly, thickened every...

Or you can get a cheap utility mixer (A&H) and get your color from your outboard/plugins. The used market for not hype 24/4/2 (and similar) boards is crazy cheap.

Totally not the same shid as you're searching for, but I've really come to enjoy the SoundToys Decapitator on stuff, and a combo of that, more compression and EQ, I can usually get something that works well for adding teeth or ignorance to something. Make it fucking caveman brutal, or just make it ...

Apologies, this is a bit of a Gear Lusty post, but I don't really enjoy the GearSpace crowd so I thought I'd share here and see what some of y'all think of this journey in outboard stereo compression. The parallel drum thing- I have come to really like it. I mix a lot of muscular rock music and it's...

That might be perfect.

I'll see if I can find a picture.

I'm looking for hardware I've seen in people's studio shots that would allow a Coles 4038 capsule to be positioned perpendicular to the floor i.e. straight down. I can get close with some high right angles on my stands but working way harder than some nice setups I've seen with the pair extending do...

Perhaps I should also start learning REAPER as well... The price is right, and so far it lives up to the hype. Everything I can think of wanting it to do, it can do. It's just a matter of finding it. So far I've just been layering speaking tracks and panning, effecting, grouping, eq'ing. I hear it ...

much respect to you losthighway for not getting caught up in the capitalistic "must upgrade" movement propagated by the software/hardware companies. Once a decade is pretty insane upgrade wise. Also it makes one question the needs for upgrades if 10 year old equipment is still doing the job. Totall...

Mystery solved. I'll record my findings here for posterity. Yes, the old card is definitely PCI. Contemporary PCs all seem to have PCIe slots. Lynx offers two logical connectivity solutions for weirdo PC people: The LSlot addition can go into an og Aurora 16 which gives it a USB out (you can also ge...