Recent content by KungFuKid

Chrome is clearly faster than firefox fully loaded with cool plugins. trouble is, chrome aint happnin for the plugins yet. until firebug at least works on chrome, serious webheads can't really use it. there's really a whole list of plugins that chrome will need to support or include the...

that was very good advice, to get a bass guitar on there. there's lots of great bass guitar samples available for free, do you have a midi keyboard? of course, a real bass is best for rock if you can afford it. If you're super broke, spend 50 bucks on a cheap used PEAVEY bass, some people swear...

altiverb is nice IR reverb, BLUEVERB also is very useful (not IR). in general, reverb is very frequently overused and makes your mix sound muddy very easily, but I also think it can be magical. I havn't heard the EMT or the 480L modeling software yet, but the hardware was epic. every studio...

LIVE Is more for hiphop or electronica I think, because it was designed for working with LOOPS primarily. The transport is not anywhere close to logic or Pro Tools. I don't know anybody tracking bands on LIVE< but if its just you by yourself, and you got it for free, whatever, its fun. The...

get a DELL precision 490 on ebay for 400-600, try to find a used hammerfall multiface soundcard for 300-400 (old but SOLID and very high end). get a the best deal you can on an ACER lcd. the p490 is great because its not the LATEST (most expensive) machine, but it can hold 32 gb of ram (64 with...

whoa, bad call. don't buy anything from Behringer, that is total crap. buy anything else. buy Alesis monitor ones, those work great for mixing if you're broke, I know lots of producers that make incredible mixes with those. Do you want flat monitors for mixing? or colorful ones for crankage...

best for the money is HAMMERFALL, they are so solid, I don't think they had to update their drivers for many years... which is just WEIRD, they are all about stability. never crashes, sounds great. of course you can spend a fortune on other sound cards like Apogee etc, but hammerfall is a real...