[AmR2m]

mmmh... How did u know my equipment before I told u? That's weird...

Ok, let's see.

The beats: I sampled sounds from cds and mixed 'em for, don't know, half the tracks I have. I've been using Wavelab, and I think the sound quality is pretty good (before adding the vocals...).

I also used a keyboard for some tracks. It's a Yamaha PSR-150 I received for Xmas a long time ago (12 years?). I connected it to the computer with a cable and recorded mono .wav files. Then I tried to make 'em stereo with Wavelab. The result is not so good, because the drums suck and sound ridicoulous, and just a few instruments can be saved.

I put the tracks I had on cd, and recorded the vocals while listening to them through headphones on a cd-player. To record the vocals I used a digital recorder, the kind journalists use. I think it flattens the sound beside being low quality. The recordings are mono, and with a strong buzz in the background.

Besides, I had a strange impression (don't know whether it can be true): when I recorded I methodically paid attention to the rhytm and the beats, going on time. Then, when I mixed it, it never fit. I was wondering if it may be because the cd player went just a bit slower or faster, or if it was the recorder itself. I'm talking about a difference of, don't know, half a sec every minute, or maybe less. But it's really strange, and sickening above all.

Then I try to clean the sound with Wavelab, but I really can't do much more than normalizing.

The last step is mixing the tracks, and by doing that I have to turn down the volume of the music to reduce the buzz of the vocals. I guess this explains the situation...

I know it's the kind of equipment a 12 year old would use, but it's what I got and I tried to do something with that to see if it my stuff was worth spending some money to develop or if I should just drop the ball.

Thanx, bye