Ratt Poizon wrote:will this be the horrific, blood stained return of RattPoizon to the world of internet music submissions? Will arnold schwarzenegger and danny devito really have a child? Will my girlfriend cut off my balls? tune in to find out!

Yes. Yes. You have balls?

Desheads suggestions are what you should follow. I posted a reply to you in the prefight thread too. Read up a little bit on compression and limiting through a google search or something(mixing and mastering searches would help too). Get the free software Deshead mentioned and import your track from...

But don't feel your mix has to be compressed to a pulp just so its as loud as everything else. Mixes are getting rediculous. It doesn't have to be that loud. Thats why you have a volume knob. I mean getting a good level is one thing but competing to try to get the highest "percieved loudness&qu...

whats the deal with songhole? what exactly is it? i searched for it, but its offline or something at the moment.

who cares if you're good? you said it was a hobby right? just go with it, when it sucks, throw it away, and keep going. don't put the pressure on yourself of whether you're better than anybody else. music isn't a competition (err...uh, well on here it KINDA is). but either way true musicians only co...

also try standing to the side of the mic a bit and singing across it at an angle a bit to the opposite side. with some people it can also help get rid of some sibilance (the high pitched s sounds). try each side because one side may get rid of more sibilance than the other. but yeah buy a pop filter...

the Nyquist theorum states that you only need a sample rate of twice of the highest frequency you'll be recording. so for our puposes since not many of us can hear beyond 20k (and actually i bet a lot of us can't hear above 18 given the fact we've all probably grown up blasting headphones and such) ...

haha! i live right around the corner! and my wife works across the street from mikes (no, not at the walmart).

oh i thought you meant you've never been to state but you're moving there

so, yeah, back to the states. pennsylvania, to be exact; the town of state college. i think i'll be about an hour or so north of jb: if memory serves, he's in harrisburg. I'm about 40 minutes from there (or 30 if i take the interstate and speed) and go there quite a bit. unfortunately, there is no ...

ok sorry, so whats the deal? May 1st or June 1st? Theme? Anything in the archive? A song you never submitted? I've never done a coverfight before, sorry, and this thread seems to jump around and i'm not sure what the final word is if any.

sounds fun, i'm down. so what everybody makes their own mix and explains what they did step by step? and yeah it would be a good idea i think to limit it to simple plug-ins or even all free ones so that the fundamentals of mixing are learned, not which plug-ins are better.

yeah you're right puce. I guess i worded that kinda retarded. what i was getting at is that since the lower ranges cover a narrower range of frequencies its harder to isolate certain frequencies for say kick or bass with a wider q, so i usually use a pretty narrow one. I'm not thinking in octaves he...

yeah i don't ever have a reason to use a graphic eq. you're just limiting yourself if you don't use parametric. another thing to think about for the Q on a parametric rather than just making it smooth is simply how much of that range you want boosted/cut. I find it better to use a more narrow cut/bo...

yeah i bought this one while xmas shopping this past year, and its one of my favorite albums mostly. there are some tracks i skip but the ones that are good are fucking great. Kings Crossing is such an epic song it just keeps building in momentum then dies off with "don't let me be carried away...

Oh, and the elixir electrics aren't really worth it in my opinion. The coating actually weakens the tone a little bit, and they're only marginally easier on your fingers. Plus they don't make them in 11's :evil: right on, they don't sound good to me at all (though the difference isn't all that much...

Oh, and fast fret is great stuff. I spray it on every acoustic we open at my work. People will buy more guitars if they're easier to play. And no, it won't hurt your guitar. so fast fret comes in a spray now? I used to use it a really long time ago and it came in a metal tube with a wooden thing in...

Puce wrote: I compress it heavily between 70-140 hz, then mix this in with the original signal. yeah i basically do this too and the multiband slightly on final mastering. and also before the mastering stage even, I also sometimes I make a sub mix of kick and bass and any other low frequency sounds...

you should always mix with real monitors not headphones I know that is the accepted wisdom, but I've said it before and I'll say it again: I do better mixes using my headphones (Beyer dt100s) than using my monitors (Yamaha NS10Ms). So...take it with a pinch of salt. it depends on different things t...

All I know is that the Sony 7506's are the best headphones in the market and industry yeah these are the standard for monitoring (checking things in mixes that is, not for mixing you should always mix with real monitors not headphones for making mixing desicions). if you're doing any tracking with ...

for music there are many advantages for using PC over mac (that is if you are a lower budget user, not a studio owner). For one you can build a system cheaper on PC. I know that specs are not comparable between the two (generally a slightly slower CPU on a Mac tends to be about the same as a PC in t...

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anybody in?

yeah like i said you can use vst on mac but from what i understand, many small companies don't make mac versions of their vst effects so your choices are still limited and outside of cubase i hear the vst wrappers don't work very smoothly. I think its great that its moving in that direction though, ...