Hi,

What tricks do you guys use to get the sound of instruments real punchy?
I use saturation ( plugins) and mixdown to tape recorder to get that effect more, for example.

Thanks.

Im getting ready to record and i want to have the recordings sound like the White Stripes first album "White Stripes". The key sound that i want is 'trashy' i guess. I'm going to quite a few drum mics and condensers. I'm going on to 1/4 reel-to-reel with a 14 track mixer then mastering to a Tascam 424.

I am using Pro Tools LE on MBOX. What drum machine (software based) is good to use (third party) or which one is used most.?

thanks in advance

What are the ways you can use gates and side-chains to make..say a Kick and Bass really pump?

How would it be set up on a mix board?

What are ways you can make a whole track pump?

I know there are many techniques, any help apprecited.

S

Hi folks.

Today I will be receiving a brand spankin' new Roland SPD-S. This is a cool little percussion controller with onboard sounds and built-in ability to sample.

It also has expandability using a flash card. From what I understand you can bring in pre-recorded samples via the flash card.

I currently have a Mac G4 with an m-audio 2496 PCI card, two ART preamps and a Roland VM-3100Pro digital mixer ($200, eBay), which I use to give me two more inputs and preamps via the digital inputs on the 2496. Everything is fine, though the VM-3100 is way too obscure for me to do anything with it besides simple mixing.

I was doing a session at a high $$$ studio this weekend and when I went to press what I'm positive was the talk-back button but it sent what I would consider to be mild feedback into the studio and control room and cans and I guess their mains blew out as well as some other damage (they claI'm but I dont know for sure if thats true)

Does anyone have experience with the MOTU 828mkII?

Care to talk about it?

Thanks,
Stephen

I'm looking to purchase some Yamaha msp5's based on my budget and a recent article/review from Kurt. They're on backorder now, so while I wait I'm just making sure that this is my best bet.

I'm using them for basic rock-type music (drums, bass, elect, acoustic, keyboard, organ, vox, etc).

You know how we say the tech term SCSI as "scuzzi" instead of spelling it out S-C-S-I? Well is ASIO said "as-ee-oh" or is it spelled out A-S-I-O?

I know its a dumb question for you PC fellas, but I'm a Mac guy just now migrating from OS9 to OSX on my audio rig.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Daniel