Nice work!
I thought at first you were saying "East/West" and my eyes got wide...but any commercial entry is a good one...
turn the channel/vst plug gain down and your monitor gain/amp gain up.
as long as your general levels are around the same db with each channel, you should be fine.
You may have more 'instruments' pushed in one direction with more sound energy (from low-frequency activity) in the other channel so the balance between the levels can still be even.
During composition of a song, try switching your output cables to opposite channels and see if it mirrors what you tend to do. It could just be the spectra of the song you are making per channel makes instruments come through better in one channel opposed to the other. A big part of mixing is that whole "blend" idea.
There was tremendously handy free vst called "panature" from mb-plugins that appears not to be available anymore that I use pretty exclusively for panning instruments because it includes intensity and haas delay compensation for shifting signals in the stereo field. Makes for a much more natural panorama control.
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Latest thing.
I used to pay for software until I realized that bootsie's vst plugs + SIR 1 for convolution reverb just kinda rule everything else. Those are free.
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stuff
At 10/26/09 08:29 PM, Trancik wrote: Any graphics card will work. This isn't a CUDA only vsti. But be aware, you won't be able to handle many vsti's if you have a weak GPU. Geforce 7xxx or higher should be fine to run around 60 vsti's.
That's all fine and dandy. Even if I can run just 20 instances I'll be doing fantastic.
Look up "Safwan Matni plugins"
Download the following:
Prova
Jazz Baby
Le Piano
General (acoustic piano)
The look up 4front Piano and download that. If you are okay with a short amount of use - get the demo for True Pianos (expires after 30 days).
Then look up mda piano and download that. Those are all the best currently free piano vsts you'll find on the net. Each significantly better than the POS piano that comes with FL Studio.
Don't forget the fact that there are oodles of free soundfonts available that will do better however. I'd try those and a free soundfont player first.
Sounds very impressive...I remember such a graphic card-oriented convolution reverb being piloted at kvr.com at a point, but it required a specific card type (certain kind of Nvidia - never could get it to work)
I'd also like to test. Nvidia FX 5200 so it's a decent card but nothing new or crazy. I have put off getting a computer for a while so CPU usage is a huge concern for me.
OKAY. I finally made a decent song. It took long enough...
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Keep in mind that the best mixes require the least mastering.
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A little older one that I never posted...
those are all good choices TBH. I would pick whatever suits you aesthetically the best at this point and run with it. If there is a pro audio shop close by (guitar center maybe) see if you can go in and audition each of them if possible (even if at different stores) and get an idea what your personal preference will be.
Don't underestimate the route of using passives with a good second-hand convection-cooled pro audio amp (like a entry-level hafler) either. That may work for you as well and offer more open upgrade possibilities...
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Shower me with your praise as always. Thanks again.
Sadly - sometimes FL Studio (and really any DAW I've used except Reason) is on very rare occasion (not so rare with FL) prone to corrupting the original source file so that the file is either irreparable, unopenable, unrecognizable or significantly altered. It can happen with really any activity - usually involves however adding certain vsts/dx plugs or even trying to delete them in a certain fashion.
The only thing you can do is save multiple copies (think "songname1", "songname2", "songname3", etc.) simultaneously (save at least 2 identical copies by renaming) so that it would unlikely that both could become corrupted at the same time. This is really the only workaround. Sometimes data on the computer can just become corrupted for no good reason. It happens, electronics fail and can be very odd at times - just the nature of the beast.
I started this practice a number of years ago after having a number of such occurances on my own computer (they happen still from time to time but I'm very good about backing stuff up now).
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Made this too. Instrumental/movie theme/video game.
I think if you're happy, you're successful regardless of how much money you make or what your job title is.
At 10/20/09 09:30 PM, TMM43 wrote:At 10/20/09 09:24 PM, Rig wrote:LOCK IT DOWN RIG!
Plz don't do that, kthx
LOL. Mod power. hehe
Here's how to solve your problem:
Cheap midi controller from craigslist (think 61-key yamaha psr or something for $40) + cheap midi interface (ebay) + Reaper (DAW) + free vsts = cheapest MIDI based-studio you can swing.
Then go ahead and do yourself a massive favor and dink around on the piano until you get the hang of inputting simple melodies/patters/notes/rhythms etc and try your hand at synthesis. Buy a second-hand copy of an old version of Reason and then your on your way. Way easy, way cheap, way more fun than splicing/dicing loops. Seriously, it is.
Sadly, I do not have a halloween entry. Though - it is still a decent song:
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a touch of convolution reverb goes a long way.
A nice DAC always helps editing I've found. You just tend to make better editing decisions (eq/comp/otherwise). The mic and pre stage are most likely your limiting factor in the equation though. There's a reason why Neumann U87s and AKG C12s are so sought after...
The mic/pre/ad combo is almost always the reason for "flat" vocal - that, and how you are attempting to record the vocals (what type of room, surroundings, environ, proximity to mic, angle, breath control, timbre of the voice, etc.)
You can compensate for a poor mic/pre/ad setup with a really powerful and rich voice quality (timbre). You can compensate for a poor voice quality with a really nice mic/pre/ad setup. You can compensate for both with some really masterful editing and choice of accompanying instrumentation but that part takes just as much skill as the vocals...
DJ headphones are for the "cool" kids who like buzzwords and phrases like "dope" and listen to BT and Paul Oakenfold on their ipods.
Monitor headphones are for the kids who uh... don't do that.
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Don't listen to it.
The last time I checked...."is" was definitely not copyrighted. You may "is" away, as they say, with no worry of legal trouble.
That was 2 questions. You're fired.
At 9/11/09 09:14 PM, Danman87 wrote:At 9/11/09 11:43 AM, loansindi wrote: If anyone on NG payed $1200 for orchestral samples, and they weren't regularly getting paid work, I would be fairly confused.Let me confuse you then!
LOL, win. I would do the same thing if I had but the money (and inspiration) to use such a bank of sounds.
when I read the title, I thought the next word was going to be "drugs". I thought 'that's a silly thing to ask....oh - wait he probably doesn't remember last night's party or something'.
I'm all over the internet in places where I didn't put that info there myself. People do the leg-work for you sometimes.
As per the OP's post title - your qualification would require either a Prism Orpheus with runners up being the UA 2192 or Apogee Rosetta. You would then need something like an Amek Channel in a Box as your mic pre and then a AKG c12vr microphone and you would have something akin to the "Best Recording Hardware (ever)".
But I'm not totally sure that's exactly what you wanted to hear. Nor do I think you will ever have that kind of extra money available.
It would probably be better to get a cheap widely available entry level audio interface like a fast-track or EMU 0202 or 0404 and phantom power supply (if required) and some MXL mics. Don't forget that usb cable.
At 9/8/09 10:12 PM, Envy wrote: I use magix
I use the dark arts to compose. It's scary good.
At 9/7/09 11:17 PM, jarrydn wrote:At 9/7/09 11:11 PM, joshhunsaker wrote: lol. and I love headphones...my new thing is speakers though. I've collected 60 pairs in the past year. I've got a pair of Klipsch Epic CF-1's that are bringing the house down as my mains currently...heheI overlook speakers and headphones waaaaaaay too much. I keep sinking my money into old synths and neglect my monitoring set up completely. You'd cringe at my monitors hahaha! Alesis Point 7's :[
Not bad little guys those Alesis (seen a good deal of people with them) - but very solid and stoic performers. Not dynaudio or M&K reference quality but they get the job done with a certain amount of class I would say.
Old synths used to be a definite draw for me - but the constant upkeep and depth of old-school programming that needed to be poured into them (in some cases) kept me mostly at bay. Don't get me wrong - I owned a Roland S-750 w/upgraded ram and all the trimmings with tons of full disks loaded onto cds worth of data and a couple EMU hardware offerings (I think I had the Proteus and Proteus/2 or something, it's been a long time) and a couple other rackmount based-ones, but I found software and Reaktor 5 after that and that was it for me...
I go through phases though. I like to make sure I've at least 'sampled' every part of the audible spectrum so to speak. Back on point though.
A pair of cheap AKG's (44 or 66's) would probably be the OP's most cost-effective solution.
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