What to do?

I'm tracking a project that unfortunately has me a bit frazzled around the edges.

The keyboard player is driving me NUTS!

He's a great player, but he has a tendancy to turn his signal up and down while tracking or during a live performance. He's trying to mix himself to blend in to the overall sonic saturation. (make sense?)

Hi, I am trying to explore some of the different drums sounds in the 2K. There are a lot of great sounding drums. jazz trio and jazz quartet sound great except they have this odd volume swell going on. kit:accustic doesn't do that. Why would they create a preset with a volume swell...on drums no less. can it be flattened out?

Thanks
Sean

nice subject, eh?
i've been switching gears into electronic/dance/club/disco/trance/etc. music within my studio. now i've been asked to play keyboards and do my studio thing with an interesting rock band.
also, another group more electronic/loop related is getting formed with gig ptoential.

We've managed to get a pretty killer sounding fat keys bass that sounds like John Paul Jones (with the right player!), but using the Yamaha midi sound module that had the only workable bass sound I could find, this required radical parametric EQing (15db cuts and adds! ) and some other wizardry.

I have a CRane Song Flamingo on order for evaluation. If I like it, I intend to keep it. But I have a question...

I need to buy a MIDI keyboard controller. The problem is, all the ones I have seen have been flimsy and cheap. Not even inexpensive, just cheap. I prefer semi weighted keys and 61 or 73 keys.

Howdy

The other night we were working on a Merengue tune. My partner and I were hoping to have a nice little trombone section in certain parts. The problem was we couldn't find a time to get together with the trombone player. An idea struck me and I went into the back of my closet. There behind the cowboy boots was my Yamaha CE20.

Well, my system is now 90% midi, just tracks for an acoustic guitar, some vocals, Sax solo..thats all. Now my midi friends, let's share some of the technique that we use to beef up our sampled sounds in a mix. We don't have acoustic problems to deal with, but sometimes some samples can sound a little bland. I'll share 1 of the things that I do.

Bonjour tout le monde,

I have a friend with a ZR-76 (Ensoniq). We both feel the sound could be improved with a pre-amp and were wondering what you guys are using.
Do you recommend something like a dbx586(?) with tube warmth and digital outputs? (For digital tracking.)
Do you use stereo preamps and slightly vary the left and right outputs? Or set them the same?