Recent content by jamesrt2004

Dude it's all about budget! I earn less than £16,000 a year. I have rent,food,car etc all to pay for! I have like £200 tops spare cash, just save some every month (: and avoid eating out and take Aways etc and it comes easy ;)

ahh... just bought a kemper cos' i heard these.. =( poor wallet, great job =)!! cant wait to mix and match with my cobra!

Ok double tracking wise, we were bored and did 90% of it in single takes,, thats why the playings pretty shoddy.. anyway i've got to this now.http://soundcloud.com/skiesofdeceit/work-in-progress I was away over the weekend so havent been here, but how do you think it sounds atm? I'll try...

I do read a lot, I promise I just don't expect to instantly be good! im not planning to become an audio engineer or anythign of the sort, it's a bit of fun to understand the process of everything i bit more (trying to get a grasp on all aspects of the industry.. (so ive put on shows, in a...

Ok I think I can hear the difference.... now the uncompressed, seems abit quieter, and say im not sure how to put it.. but say after the vocalist has sung a line theres a second or 2 where it 'fizzles out' on the compressed that's not there, so it seems tighter I guess in that sense? Yeah'...

Hey :) thanks for suggestions I'll have a butchers when I get up in the morning (2am atm) Ok i'm personally against piracy i buy all my games/music/applications etc... its more that i dont personally value a program as worth 1000's! unless it did something amazing (now in the right hands...

But why's it SO much more different this time around from dual tracking to single tracking? is it just not as tight as I thought it was? Thanks for explaining the functions of a compressor/compression... but could you explain what it actually does to the sound? to me it just sounds like...

ahh ok, i've never really messed around with compressors.. literally use a preset and forget about it... to me I personally can't 'hear' the difference, I think i'd need someone to demo and show me a before/after and be like OHHHHHHHHHHHH okaay.... I was actually looking into getting a...

Ok... Piracy.. Let's not go there *sigh*.... I'm not using it for personal Gain.. It's purely for an educational purpose and non profit... but meh I understand peoples views on the matter. Ok so.. what I do have is amplitube... Various Reaper plugins, and the free set of Bluecat plugins, plus...

Hey there, Im trying to record our band... I have various amp-sims (amplitube, reaper etc..) and will be using EZ drummer to do the drums now.. im recording straight into a Tascam Us-122 into Reaper.... Everything I've got sounds bloody awful at the moment and I need your help on tips/advice...