Alan Tubbs

Funny, I was just visiting w a studio and the owner brought up waves from a few years ago where they would book an hour and check your system for cracked waves.  Then send bills and threaten owners.  Nice studio you got there, shame if a lawyer happened to it.

Synths usually have built in effects.  Acoustic recordings have room tone built in, which usually includes short reverb ( unless you are queen and live in a big ole castle).  So I usually just add a reverb buss like above for vox and lead stuff.  And use a nice convolution reverb. Use the best you have, it does make a difference.  Kinda like using a condenser rather than dynamic mike for better detail and discrimination.

Record it well and the mix chain becomes less vital.  Cheap mxl ribbon or a 47 into an RND II Chanel strip is  sweet for guitar (as is just about anything going thru the Rupert Neve design unit), with the bass going into a tone beast di with a hint of saturation or just a nice round tone if that is called for.  That makes mixing easy, when you are mostly cutting out frequencies to make the song work, not the individual sounds “better.”  (The pc channel has an excellent eq).  And guitars thru a buss with the ssl buss comp strapped on - my favorite  use for virtual comp.  and another buss for “lead” instruments (vocal and guitar usually) so they sound like they occupy the same sonic space.

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Try analog transformer(s) when recording.  

Actually, band lab was downloading so slowly I thought it was broke.  It was just soooo sloooow.

it looks like it is a busy fri night for the servers.  BL Assistant wasn't froze, but pretty slow.

I was trying to get Rapture Pro back and ended up deleting Cakewalk.  Now Bandlab assistant will only let me choose to install Melodyne and the Theme editor.  No ability to add Cakewalk itself.  Anyone have this problem.

The cheaper version, the rx15, didn’t include midi out though it had the jack. It wouldn’t output midi.  That drove me crazy until I figured that out.  And the manuals are unintentionally funny with the translation.

Musical rocks.

Looks really interesting.  Granular is the new black.

I had Kantos , great effect.

One of the things that can add space is a nice “live” recording or two mixed in with the soft stuff.  I know, many of us do that.  I guess any one doing  vocals.  But VA only instrumentation  makes it hard to add air to a soundscape naturally.  Unlike a lead guitar with some room tone,  or a persistent backing horn, or thick backing vocals.  The better the room the better the gear and better the engineer makes for a better capture of your real, personal air, but  most rooms can be arranged to be fairly neutral and most modern recording equipment is up to the task.  We have all heard home produced stuff that sounds radio ready.

just as Craig has advised to add a live cymbal to virtual drums, loops etc for rhythmic purposes, a live capture track or two can provide real tone and air.

Wants ni get their claws into you .... hard to resist deals for you wait.

The speculation is that rap pro will be a paid product, tho bandlab hasn’t said anything other than they hope to add older software plugs.

Bingo.  A lot of the emphasis of the matrix is arrangement, not performance.  Hopefully bandlab will find the time to integrate it more into a performance tool, tho ableton  has that wrapped up like pro tools is the standard for daws.

I had forgotten about plasma fx.  I got into cakewalk w plasma.  And a fun effect that was very ... dynamic.

I upgraded to Vegas 14?  During Magic’s  blowout and that is wonky now.  All of a sudden I don’t have permission to access the old files.  Vegas 7 still works but not with modern vid files which I used.  To tell the truth I haven’t tried to fix Vegas just to make some changes in a past project, but that is the point.  If you buy professional tools it is disappointing to spend the day mucking about trying to get them to work.  I don’t do enough video to burn time-until I have to.

im sure I can get those programs sorted out, it is just disappointing to have to.

thanks Lynn.

Are you sure magic is safe.  My special purchase of Vegas doesn’t work now, and even my almost decades old Vegas 7 is wonky.  Just be prepared to upgrade every year for another $200.

Yea, this would be nice.

Of course, if cakewalk had a Mac version they’d still be part of Roland since Roland  wouldn’t have had to provide an Mac  daw for their hardware products as well as the pc cake.  Cakewalk tried and tried to make a Mac version but failed.  Don’t expect one.  Cakewalk should have made a p5 Mac version when they wrote that daw.

I don’t know about bouncing a frozen track but you can copy a frozen track, put it on a separate track, then unfreeze the old track and archive it.  Both same the same.

As far as I know, no.  The uad accelerator uses shark chips to run their emulations.  They don’t drain your computer cpu.

Yes, there is no reason one shouldn’t drag tabs or rearrange synths.  Been a bitch of mine for years, but isn’t a showstopper.  Just an itch.

I was gonna say a moog modular but lucky man was done on the first Mini moog in the wild.  Mr moog sent him one during the lucky man sessions.  But no software is going to sound exactly like a moog, but you can get close.  The lucky man front panel sheet used to be around on the internet.

Any electronic piece can cause distortion.  Mic - see above.  Preamp, yea, esp. the $5 worth of electronics that can come with cheaper interfaces.  Even your compressor can …  One good thing - if your converter overs you will notice.

But really, you have to go down the list from mic to converter back to mic, testing each iteration.  And tho I don't sing, singers are usually like every other musician and play louder than they practice.  Might be the problem.

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