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13 minutes ago, mettelus said:

Side comment: I very much appreciate the feedback forum members over the years! When delving into unknown territory that has been a tremendous help, so thank you for taking the time to advise. The "trick" is asking before making big leaps.

We live and learn, audio interfaces are a minefield when you consider that you need ASIO, MIDI, phantom 48V  (MIC) and working at 48Khz on 24bit as standard really, maybe with 2 headphone monitoring if you collaborate or record anyone.    

I needed mix monitoring for tracking with 2 headphone monitoring and SPDIF the min. I really want 8 in/out which really did limit my options when you talking about price given at the time the cheapest  8 port i think was Scarllet at £700 UK pounds compared to the Behringer i got for £250 in sale with a 30 day return and its been solid for yrs 

There is lots of misinformation about Behringer with specific models 

Please note: The Only Behringer devices that work with Behringer own dedicated ASIO for win 10 and 11 is UMC202 204 404 and 1820 and the HD Models. 

You have to download the UMC interface software panel ASIO 5.51.0 update. These are the latest drivers with  no issues , no other driver is not supported. I have a friend that uses the 204 which i know works and i use the 1820.  It is setup in 3 parts, the ASIO Driver the WDM (WASAOPI) driver and the MIDI driver. However the MIDI driver does not work on the UMC 202 or the UMC 202 HD 

This is the only dedicated driver from Behringer that works with cakewalk stable that i am aware of. 

On 5/10/2023 at 6:59 PM, Larry T. said:

Sounds worth pursuing, keep on it🎶🎶🎶🎶

70% there 

The "first" Midi Daw ever that everyone copied is the reality. Steinburg pretty much ripped Cakewalk and called it Cubase.

Makes me laugh when people using other DAWs "believe"  Cakewalk is for beginner's when they are using DAWs that called a bus a group, they be calling it mix group instead of mix bus next lol  Cakewalk is one of the best things in my life, is the reality 

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18 hours ago, jack c. said:

nice make it longer.jack c

yes ive made it into about a 4min track 

1 hour ago, treesha said:

Who is this? ha. clever

It is eye P lol ive been trying some thing with my voice to a funky dance track im trying to do. Taking time as i am creating lots of samples,  I animated one of my t Shirt designs just to see what i could do. Probably finished it next weekend maybe 

 30sec Demo, Like on YouTube if you can, helps the algorithm's - This is something i am working on.  i was singing down an octave, then i speeded it up with some, then a tad pitch shift and loads of tape saturation with smidge of vocoder... 

Stock lol

Not sure how engineers did things without reference tracks, oh they used their ears and meters. People tend to make things way to difficult.

Mastering - Reference track
Bounce your mix "mixdown" aka your pre master 24bit 48khz wav is commonly use. This should have no errors to fix in mastering, realistically is should sound how you want it from putting it through a mix bus. Mastering is just polish and loudness. 

Open your mastering session, and import your pre master "mixdown". Add another track for your Reference track which should be of the same(ish) style "professionally mastered" so your in the rough ball park for 'Loudness Units Full Scale' (lufs)  for Film score or CD or Digital distribution etc. I personally would test any Reference track as it could be two loud or two quite!!!!!! 

Therefore, a target loudness of -12 to -9 LUFS would bring you up to traditional CD levels but Spotify is -14 and YouTube say aim for -13 to -15 LUFS . Me personally i never "peak" over -10 so the average maybe -12 to -14 depending on dynamics and style. You will never go wrong with that information. 

Stereo & Mono

Low end Sub and bass is better on mono for majority of tracks, HOWEVER some tracks need a certain creative edge with space down the middle so you might have bass stereo to create the space, aka Massive Attack - Angel rings some bells and plenty more. 

WHENEVER you RECORD something with natural spatial qualities that you want to reproduce in your mix it should be stereo, stereo recording works well on acoustic guitar, Orchestic,  and even drums. Well in fact, freeze your midi and see what happens STEREO. 

Pros, tend to RECORD bass guitar, guitars  and vocals on mono but "samples" with vocals will be on stereo due to added  spatial qualities. However pros may duplicate the MONO guitar track and stick one 100% left and one 100% right for width and eq them slightly different for that spatial dynamic 

 AKA there are no rules its about what sounds good and the same with panning. If your mix sounds good to your ears in headphones and speakers they you panning is OK but you might play with panning to create space the same as eq. 

You will hear many wives tails and the pretentious muso talk, its best to keep it simple about forming a UNDERSTANDING so you KNOW what your doing so yuou can evolve and not go round in circles

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1 hour ago, abacab said:

It's probably best to think of the Toontrack EZ line as writing tools. I wouldn't buy them just for their sound libraries. The factory sounds are decent, but you may prefer other instruments, and chasing the sound expansions to get what you want can take money.

The MIDI packs are the most interesting for me!

In fact you can layer other instruments with EZkeys, EZbass, or EZdrummer or replace their internal sounds completely by muting them & using the available MIDI out to drive other plugins. 👍

I think of all my instruments and plugins as tools.  To be fair many  midi plugins instruments you can layer.  I layer with SynthMaster 2 and it as a massive library you can expand or create your own. I will create sounds on my Fender strat or bass guitar to sample them SM2, you can have up to four layers of samples if you want to or mix and match samples with any other type of synthesis you want so it makes it super powerful and i would imagine EZ the same. When you can create the sounds you want it cheaper but can be time consuming to learn sound design and know what mods and filter really can do.  

 i will use Addictive keys because the piano is second to none. But like you say, i will dabble with like Spitefire Labs, Symphony Orchrstra,  Vital,  Izotope, Union, Kontakt and Surge XT  etc for inspiration from sounds, its just ive note used EZ when ive not ever used much i already have but get what you mean

Never used it, like my addictive drums (paid) and addictive keys i got free with my Novation controller and i use the paid version of synthmaster that i use the novation to control the automation so i wont chance it as it was a balls ache to set up my controller. There is so many plugins out there. Iv'e got a few other freebies and all do the job. I try to concentrate on writing there days, its so easy to chase your tail with plugins. 

1 hour ago, mark skinner said:

I Really enjoyed that. I thought the main theme carried nicely throughout the entire song. I especially appreciated the kick drum in the early parts of the song. The guitars were Real nice..    mark

Sometimes the simple things work best, this song im working on at the moment is super complicated haha i'm having problems with mixing space etc 

On 4/28/2023 at 11:28 PM, Lynn Wilson said:

What a fabulous, dynamic song and video!  This is a winner in my book, much to study here.

On 4/29/2023 at 1:10 AM, Kevin Walsh said:

Really nice work, excellent vocal work and the song itself rocks!

Cheers Guys, next one im doing something bit different, im creating many sample's to do a bit of funky dance 

Love this, great creative video too. That takes some work. I knock my videos up fast because it would take me a years to do something like this lol 

Super professional job, loved the intro, great build into the chorus, more than  ordinary lol 

Fantastic production and mix. 

Love it, i can see the marine biologists now getting over excited in the labs 

Did you separate with a symphony orchestra bus?   I always find when you pan  symphony orchestra left or right you mess up the overhaul orchestra natural pan which is all round you coming at you everywhere and sometimes good to sit the guitars in it in sections.  Nice clean mix, the bass keeps keeps pushing, the vocal is fantastic and lyrics.  Maybe there is something missing in the intro, i think it needs guitar. 

17 hours ago, treesha said:

Nice P, interesting and emotional. I was drawn to a timing thing around 3:43 ? maybe just me. Anyways, keep em coming !

Yes it's in time, i broke it in half to do a outro, the drum fills started on the end of the riff note so it gives it a bit of an illusion or possibly  your internet had a little moment. Iv'e had to relisten to things at times. Programming fills though is time consuming. Im do a intro at the moment and i just can't get something simple right lol 

10 hours ago, Bajan Blue said:

Hi - great track, really enjoyed this

Cool stuff as usual

Nigel

 

Cheers Nigel

im really stuck on a track at the moment and don't know what to do.  Its quite funky but the progression sort of takes it away from the funky vibe   

2 minutes ago, OutrageProductions said:

Most professional audiologists will start at low level and move up until you indicate that you can hear it. That eliminates psyco-acoustic precognition. And they will jump around in frequency too.

I have my hearing tested every 3 years. I still have 18k in both ears at age 65. 

Always wear hearing protection around loud sustained noises, and haven't been to a rock concert since 2003.

I consider myself VERY lucky!

So once they find a comfortable level they jump round frequencies then start turning nit down by 10 or 5 db at a time? 
 

3 minutes ago, Colin Nicholls said:

I've got an appointment on May 8. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

But, yes, the last time I had one, they gradually lowered the volume until I couldn't detect the sound; words, tones, etc.

ive got appointment on the 9th lol 

Hi Guys

Is there anyone that's had a Audiology hearing test? What db do they start with, how the test work? is it the frequencies you can't hear when they turn the loudness  down 

The chart saying serve hearing loss on the higher frequency is 80db, which makes sense. listening to stuff 6000 Hz and higher at 80db  would causes damage but i was interested how they do the test to measure this, given it would need to be the opposite, turning things down until you can't hear. So i would assume they start at a level and frequency and go lower until you cant hear ? 

On 4/25/2023 at 2:18 PM, Old Joad said:

Awesome, love the way your songs builds🤘

I did a different version where it went into a lead guitar break at about 2mins but i scrapped it for the more steady build 

On 4/23/2023 at 9:13 PM, DeeringAmps said:

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Cheers Thanx T my Youtube died of censorship death last year i think