I just went to musicplayer to ask DAvid a question and all three of my favorite forums are off the board. They are reworking the system, so I can only hope that the other forums are just not up and running so far. Ed Cherney's MPER is there. Unfortunately he hasn't been there for weeks, as you know. Anybody know what's up?

Steve

What up,

look, a friend of mine suggested that i record all my traks under 0db until i get to the mastering stage..What do you think? And can anybody out there give me a version of their mastering checklist in 2500 words or less :) ?

What's poppin,

Putting together my new box tonight :D

I have heard Opus talk about a specific order to install memory chips. I have 2 128 MB chips and 1 256 MB Chip (all PC 133). Which sticks should go closest to the CPU...smallest or biggest?

Thanks

DH

Somebody please shine some light on dark spot in my brain that won't allow me to midi my MPC with my Computer... Please! I'm not a techy...i like to play wit toys.

Creating original sequences isn't the problem nor is sampling because i prefer original music. My question is how to create sounds that are MINE and noone elses. A couple of producer from my area (Timbaland and The Neptunes) have their own signature sound and it didn't take me very long to learn that their sounds don'g come from thousand dollar boxes like the roland mc-307 or mophatt.

Everyone knows that 'amateur' demo's are given away by loads of cheap reverb washing around - that's probably why they sound so good some of 'em. (Not sure what the signs are these days, maybe huge chunks of uncleared samples).
However most producers eg Bob Clearmountain, have phases of leaning too much this way or that. Bob was having a ball with reverb on Roxy Music's Avalon.

Maybe just an ignorant question, but how do the "pros" get that full thud from the recorded kick? i can't seem to get that quality that you always hear on the radio. it seems to blend in so well, yet still stand out. I record mainly rock/punk, alternative, etc. even heavy compression, mad EQing, doubling, or various effects don't seem to do the trick.

Wanted to share something that worked really well for me the other night.

The "producer" and I sat down a few weeks back to do things like setting tempos and prepping all the song files for recording. We also laid down scratch tracks (vox, rhythm guitar, bass) to the click so's the drummer had something to help him follow along.

OK, technical time. In another thread regarding summing amp modules, the topic of "passive summing" circuits came up. I have encountered this a few times recently and my lack of electronics education has resulted in major confusion. Can anybody explain the following problem to us non-techies?