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  1. TimOD

    Converting Mixer Unbalanced Direct Outs as balanced line inputs to Audio Interface Analog Mixers

    Yep. Again: just plug the balanced lines into unbalanced jacks. I about guarantee you that the Behringer (I've owned a lot of their mixers) says "bal or unbal" on the jack bay in the unit(s) somewhere.
  2. TimOD

    Converting Mixer Unbalanced Direct Outs as balanced line inputs to Audio Interface Analog Mixers

    Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Just plug them in. I've done it before, and there was no problem.
  3. TimOD

    how do i stay on beat in rap

    No, it will not. Write it out. As I said, you're gonna wind up getting very familiar with lyrics and the song. In fact, the wording may inspire you to change the beat to fit the words. Or you may decide to add other elements. It will work itself out. The rap is the most important thing, and...
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    how do i stay on beat in rap

    "I've always had issues with following just a click." Yeah, me too, so I usually find a simple drumbeat to use instead of a click, and that later is muted after I've got the drums or beats I want. To the OP: It sounds like you're trying to fit in words/rhymes/lines that don't fit. This might...
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    Reproducing that 80s sound

    Is there any kind of reward for the query of OP being revived five years after the last post? In fact the new thread is just as vague and unanswerable as the original. A chimera, loose again.
  6. TimOD

    Confused about audio setup (mic+piano/keyboard)

    That mic . . . . Years ago, while recording three of us in a small bedroom, with a drum kit four feet to my right (the room was so small Andy the drummer had to climb back into his space by stepping up onto the bass drum! It was his only way in and out), I used the AT 2010 for my vocals and...
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    Set up for Spontaneous Recording Takes

    I've got a wireless keypad that I simply move over to where I'm recording. The DAW is set up and ready to record, and when I'm ready I hit "R". The mouse stays at the desk. I have various other keypad shortcuts that allow me to do basic stuff whilst not looking at the screen, but once I'm...
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    Confused about audio setup (mic+piano/keyboard)

    That's good. Stick with all that--it's a good place to start. Yes, direct monitoring is the way to go. Oh, and for the money, AT's sister mic of the 2020, the AT 2010, is an excellent microphone to have in your budding collection too. I've got a few of them.
  9. TimOD

    Study on rock production and audience trends

    What Rob A. said. My comments about the survey were not meant as a personal attack . . . it seemed pointless and unconstructive, and its important to get feedback on this kind of thing. I spent a lot of time in college (not for music) and I'm very familiar with badly implemented or conceived...
  10. TimOD

    How do you get the sharp and big sound from slowdive, mbv

    In fact, you'll need to sharpen your skills quite a bit to get that sound.
  11. TimOD

    How do you get the sharp and big sound from slowdive, mbv

    Reverb will be key . . . and it might be tricky. I like how the vocals are deliberately buried and muffled on "Souvlaki."
  12. TimOD

    Pro Tools Normalize Plugin for True Peak Setting?

    If all the tracks were recorded on "the hot side" (maybe distorting a bit?), there ain't much you can do to "tame" them. As mentioned above, pull the faders down. (Better get busy, with two hundred tracks! Sometimes there isn't an easy way.) Next, if you're going to continue working with the...
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    Study on rock production and audience trends

    It was a worthless survey--I find it hard to believe that this would be part of a dissertation, or perhaps I should say, "dissertation." I was not allowed to choose that I wouldn't listen, ever, to the badly produced music in all three clips. The 3rd one sounded marginally better than the...
  14. TimOD

    I have lyrics but no song

    I was in a group with someone who insisted on rhyming every line with the next; A-A, B-B, etc. it's always a bad idea to do that, in my book. And this whole song is that way! If it's more important to rhyme than to say something expressive, you're in trouble. Internal rhymes, alliteration...
  15. TimOD

    Recommended Mixing Site?

    I can see using an online mastering service (like Slate's Virtu--cheap enough to do test mastering before going to an actual mastering engineer), because things are already mixed and ready to go to mastering (hopefully), but mixing? Also, using buses and sends and mixing a dry and wet signal...
  16. TimOD

    Why are the commercials so loud?

    Do what I did years ago. Stop watching. Work on music, and read. Another thing I noticed when I did watch is often I couldn't tell when the ad started, and the show stopped. I'd be, "what the hell? Is this some kind of plot device?" Then the point of the ad would reveal itself (finally)...
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    Can anyone help me with volume automation options?

    I've never used tape, and I do have fragments of guitars sometimes, but never is there more than ten guitar tracks (and that's a lot to me) in one song. Many, many little pieces of tracks, whether guitar or voice or whatever, just really gets out of hand and out of control very easily. I've...
  18. TimOD

    Can anyone help me with volume automation options?

    Why on Earth would someone do that? (I mean your friend the guitar player.)
  19. TimOD

    polyphonic tuning in Melodyne 5 Assist (vs. monoph. Essentials)

    I've got a bass guitar that often won't stay in tune, as does my bandmate. They get the Melodyne treatment, and it works great. I never tune vocals, jut bass and the occasional guitar.
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