Richard Strickland

Nevermind, it finally worked after multiple attempts.

I just performed the latest update in CW, and I'm getting a window stating that I need to sign into BL to activate it, but every time I click on the window, or go up to Help>Sign In to BandLab, and click on that, nothing happens. I get a brief blue wheel, which quickly disappears, and nothing. Please help. Thanks.

My only issue was the other guy trying to tell me I'm not hearing what I know I am.

Actually he's not. He knows how to give advice in a way that isn't omniscient.

The issue was obviously misunderstood by both of you. It's a dead topic now.

Damn, somebody has anger issues. If only you could accept the fact that your experiences aren't what everybody else experiences. I'm sorry this hurts your narcissistic feelings so much. My f'ing blankets cut down on the f'ing echo that apparently doesn't really f'ing happen because it doesn't f'ing happen to you. If you bothered to actually read you would see that the acoustic environment would have no effect on IRs and soft-synths. Your advice has no merit because it's impertinent to the topic, and also extremely self-centered. But thank you for your brilliant contribution to the forum. What would it be without some jerk who thinks it's his safe place to be the ***** bag that he wants to be in the real world? Get over yourself and seek therapy.

I-GET-SOUND-REFLECTIONS-FROM-MY-DESK. THE END.

I suppose I expected the professional mixing engineer to give me something of better quality. He actually did the mastering on that track, but the others were mastered with Sound Cloud and had very minimal mixing. I'm sure my room contributes to reverb mistakes, in addition to being a novice.

Not to make this about my desk, but you don't record in my room, and my room isn't Abbey Road. Trust me, I know what I'm hearing and what I'm hearing goes away when I cover my desk. My room is small and I have to be in front of it when recording, and it absolutely produces flutter echoe.

Like the title says, I feel like my recordings always sound bad, as if they have a lofi quality. I've had two songs professionally mixed and they still have the same lofi sound, just a little better. Through headphones the mixed ones aren't terrible, but in the car they prove to have been a complete waste of money. I've been using a Scarlett 2i2 first gen since about 2015, and I'm on my second computer, both good brands. I record vocals and acoustic guitar with either an Audio Technica AT2020 or a Groove Tubes GT55. I run these microphones through a Tube MP/C pre-amp with light compression. I always use a foamed microphone shield and I cover my producer's desk with a blanket to alleviate reflections. For electric guitar I always use a Torpedo Captor X with impulse responses. My room isn't acoustically treated, but I doubt the quality of the overall recordings is a result of that. I was hoping some of you could listen to some tracks I have on SoundCloud and tell me what you think may be the problem. 'Go Unknown' is the only one I have posted that was professionally mixed. I'm interested to know what others think of the sound quality of it, but also the other unmixed tracks. Do your recordings have the same lofi quality until they're properly mixed?

I'll try looking into that. Do you use this plug-in suite?

I recently installed Effects Rack 5 by Sound Toys and it is unusable due to an extraordinary amount of crackling. I have increased the playback buffer multiple times with no success. I seem to be able to use individual effects fine, and I can even stack them without issues, but assiging the full Effects Rack to a track is causing a mess of noise. I have checked all of my peak meters and everything is under the red. Muting the track that it is assigned to does nothing to alleviate the issue as the crackling continues to be audible. It seems to be more pronounced when a long delay or saturation is in the effects chain. I contacted SoundToys and they had me uninstall the most recent version of Effects Rack 5 and replace it with an older version. After uninstalling and making sure every folder is clear of remnants I continuously get a message that a later version is already installed, despite not a single instance of anything related being on my computer. I'm using the most up-to-date version of Cakewalk and Windows 10. Everything is set for 64 bit operation. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

There's an issue with the installation apparently, that's why I can't find it. It's supposed to work as a VST and can be loaded into the master track effects bin.

Scook, did you ask because Scarlett doesn't always work well with Ryzen?

If anybody is using the Free G peak meter can you please tell me how to load it into my project? I want to use it for gain staging in my mix. Thanks.

A 6 year old Scarlett 2i2.

I've narrowed down my search to either of these: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/5448005/HP-Pavilion-TP01-2066-Desktop-PC/ https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/7517433/Lenovo-IdeaCentre-5-14IMB05-Desktop-PC/ I only plan on producing my own music for now but I do want flexibility with the amount of tracks, VSTs, and plug-ins that I use. My current computer is 12 years old with an Intel i5 and 6GB. It still performs decently but I'm having to increase my buffer size substantially to prevent audio dropouts during playback and still get a lot of pops regardless. Thanks.

I think for now I'll just use the freeze method.

I tried setting my instrument tracks to mono but my toms were barely audible. They are panned hard left and hard right within EZDrummer by default, so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. I deleted the mono tracks and reinstalled them as stereo and now my toms have the appropriate volume but neither my hi-hat or reverb channel are registering in the decibel meter. I can hear the hi-hat fine, and I think the reverb is audible, but there isn't a visual representation of the sound.

Thanks abacab. I'll have to watch that a couple of times but it looks like there are concepts I can apply to EZDrummer. Thanks Terry. I was always under the impression that all MIDI has to be converted to audio before mixing.

Thanks, freezing was the answer for me. However, I'm still uncertain of how I'm supposed to route the effects. The reverb and compression are routed to their own tracks but is this really needed? There is a faint audible sound coming from these two tracks so I'm unclear of the purpose.

I have recorded a project and created my drum track within EZDrummer 2. Now I want to route each individual drum piece to their own separate audio tracks but I don't think I'm doing it right. I have created individual audio tracks for each piece and set the EZDrummer mixer channels to route to their respective track, but I'm getting a bad, lo-fi sound after recording the EZDrummer MIDI to audio (I'm literally arming each track to record and then hitting record to transpose the sound to audio). It also sounds out-of-phase. Additionally, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be somehow including the EZDrummer effects (reverb, compression) with the audio recording of the drums or if I should leave that out and introduce these items during the mixing phase. I appreciate any feedback. I also apologize if these things have been addressed already, but I was unable to find answers in the archives. Thanks.

I can try that but I've never had an issue with EZD before.

My track is armed, input and output is routed correctly, but when I either click on the 'Record' icon at the top it will turn red for half a second and then back to gray. The song will begin to play but my performance will not record. Everything was working fine apparently until I loaded EZ Drummer onto an instrument track. This has never been an issue before, however. Anybody know what's going on?