hi. I'm the most noobie here.

my problem is, when i track overdrive guitar(s) it always sound fine. but the problem lies when mixing them. it always ends up sounding too bright, not full enough like proper guitar sound. the hi-mids always annoy me.

Hi all,

I am relatively new to recording drums and I would be grateful if some of you could share your drum compression strategies.

In particular, I'd be interested to know if you use compression during tracking, and if yes on which mics and how you set up your compressors.

I just laid down a guitar jam track and I am not terribly happy with it. It's not horrible, but it's not perfect either. I find the lows to be a bit muddy, but not overpresent. What do you suggest my next step should be?

Any suggestions on this? I am tracking acoustic guitar with an AT-4047 and an AT2020. Both are cardiod pattern mics and I have even placed them a little above the guitar facing down so as to turn them away from the player's head, hoping they would reject the breath sounds even more but I am still getting a lot of it in the recording.

Did some bass over tracking last night, I did not like the sound the bassist had gotten during drum tracking. The bassist brought a Conklin 7 string bass, nice instrument and this Aquilar box
http://www.aguilaramp.com/products_preamps_tonehammer.htm

Hi,

When attempting to track into Reaper with an SM57 through an Echo AudioFire4 interface, anything I play is completely distorted and fuzzy.

The levels during recording look fine.

This seems to happen only when the device is set to ASIO. When it's set to WaveOut, I don't have the problem.

I have all the latest drivers installed.

Any ideas?

I am wondering about the RMS and peaks levels I should be hitting when recording vocals. I've seemed to gather from different sources that I should be anywhere around -24 to -18 RMS with peaks no more than -10. I would just like to hear other people confirm or reject this idea. Once the track has been recorded into Logic, I can make any other level changes ITB.

hey guys, I have been a solo artist for a long time, and have been overdubbing and tracking everything myself for a long time.

I have been extremely interested recently in going into the studio and recording live with a support band. I write a lot of the stuff, and would pretty much be with people understanding they are helping my goal, or more of a sideproject from their bands.

My wife and i are recording some of our songs, we have tracked most
of the instruments,and this weekend we will do vocals.
The hotel we stay in has some function rooms and we are
going to use one of them that has about a 15 ft ceiling and and some
concaved wall panels.
I am gonna try the NT1a and also use our NT5 s on either side to give me

SM57, six inches from and slightly below the bridge, pointed up at the soundhole of my friend's very nice sounding Larrivee. I noticed that taking a little out of the 1-2kHz range improved the track quite a bit.