Originally Posted by echo unit

Always compress when recording! It does 3 things.

Gets you nice even levels so that you don't have to do crazy automation or riding of the fader levels too much after...just push up the faders and your mix is there.

Everything is even and all the articulation of your performances are clearly defined.

It also allows you to get nice big and even levels onto your recording medium without having the meters so low at some points and then almost clipping at others. It controls the dynamics of the playing to make everything well heard.

Originally Posted by ArcCirDude

....and to chew off their own tails.

Originally Posted by echo unit

You will be amazed at the degradation of your audio.

Originally Posted by echo unit

Get a distressor!!!!!!!!

It's the comp that does every instrument really well. Ask anyone.

Drums - very complicate, another discussion entirely.

Bass - ratio 4:1 or 6:1 compress about 10dB to 14dB Attack 5.4 release 3.7

AC guitar strummed - Ratio 10:1 10 to 14 dB of comp attack 3 release 9

E-guitar - ratio 6:1 10 to 14 dB of comp attack 5.5 relelase 4

Voices - ratio 10:1 14 to 17 dB of comp attack 5 release 3.5

Always compress when recording! It does 3 things.

Gets you nice even levels so that you don't have to do crazy automation or riding of the fader levels too much after...just push up the faders and your mix is there.

Everything is even and all the articulation of your performances are clearly defined.

It also allows you to get nice big and even levels onto your recording medium without having the meters so low at some points and then almost clipping at others. It controls the dynamics of the playing to make everything well heard.

If you are on a budget, use your one and only expensive and really awesome hardware compressor on everything in your mix by cuttting your tracks one at a time overdub style but always start with a good groove from a drum machine or samples/loops if you are doing rhythmic music.

Software plug-in compression is soooooooo awfully terrible yuukky ****t crapola please get it off me, it hurts!!!!!!!!!! ASAP!

Software is **** my friends. get a mixing board and send your tracks out into it. Use the board EQ until you can afford some decent outboard EQ. A really great and cheap mixer is the Mackie ONYX. Sounds nothing like the Mackie's that people know. It's a new design and the EQ is useable. Get a distressor to track with after the Portico preamp and get a used Lexicon for reverb and a used Yamaha SPX for delays and modulation effects.

Never put plug-ins on your raw tracks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They suck the tone out of your recordings!!!!!!!!!!!!

For a test, put a waves ren eq or any eq plug-in on a track. Set the controls so the EQ is totally flat ...theoretically doing nothing right? Then go back and forth A/B...listening to the difference when you bypass the plug and when you put it on with the controls set flat.

You will be amazed at the degradation of your audio.

Originally Posted by echo unit

Get a distressor!!!!!!!!

It's the comp that does every instrument really well. Ask anyone.

Drums - very complicate, another discussion entirely.

Bass - ratio 4:1 or 6:1 compress about 10dB to 14dB Attack 5.4 release 3.7

AC guitar strummed - Ratio 10:1 10 to 14 dB of comp attack 3 release 9

E-guitar - ratio 6:1 10 to 14 dB of comp attack 5.5 relelase 4

Voices - ratio 10:1 14 to 17 dB of comp attack 5 release 3.5

Always compress when recording! It does 3 things.

Gets you nice even levels so that you don't have to do crazy automation or riding of the fader levels too much after...just push up the faders and your mix is there.

Everything is even and all the articulation of your performances are clearly defined.

It also allows you to get nice big and even levels onto your recording medium without having the meters so low at some points and then almost clipping at others. It controls the dynamics of the playing to make everything well heard.

If you are on a budget, use your one and only expensive and really awesome hardware compressor on everything in your mix by cuttting your tracks one at a time overdub style but always start with a good groove from a drum machine or samples/loops if you are doing rhythmic music.

Software plug-in compression is soooooooo awfully terrible yuukky ****t crapola please get it off me, it hurts!!!!!!!!!! ASAP!

Software is **** my friends. get a mixing board and send your tracks out into it. Use the board EQ until you can afford some decent outboard EQ. A really great and cheap mixer is the Mackie ONYX. Sounds nothing like the Mackie's that people know. It's a new design and the EQ is useable. Get a distressor to track with after the Portico preamp and get a used Lexicon for reverb and a used Yamaha SPX for delays and modulation effects.

Never put plug-ins on your raw tracks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They suck the tone out of your recordings!!!!!!!!!!!!

For a test, put a waves ren eq or any eq plug-in on a track. Set the controls so the EQ is totally flat ...theoretically doing nothing right? Then go back and forth A/B...listening to the difference when you bypass the plug and when you put it on with the controls set flat.

You will be amazed at the degradation of your audio.

Originally Posted by echo unit

Get a distressor!!!!!!!!

It's the comp that does every instrument really well. Ask anyone.

Drums - very complicate, another discussion entirely.

Bass - ratio 4:1 or 6:1 compress about 10dB to 14dB Attack 5.4 release 3.7

AC guitar strummed - Ratio 10:1 10 to 14 dB of comp attack 3 release 9

E-guitar - ratio 6:1 10 to 14 dB of comp attack 5.5 relelase 4

Voices - ratio 10:1 14 to 17 dB of comp attack 5 release 3.5

Originally Posted by Matthew Murray

I like Thai food.

Originally Posted by Charles Dye

Tofu Masaman is a major fave of mine. What's yours?

Originally Posted by Matthew Murray

Moving on, do you find Diet Coke to retain all of the glorious nail-melting qualities of it's bigger brother? Because frankly, I find that it's lacking something.

Originally Posted by Charles Dye

Well Mathew, I love Coke compared to Pepsi, cuz it has that sizzly bite in the taste. But the sugar is just a killer, so I've been drinking Diet Coke for years, but, no, it clearly doesn't come close to Coke + it has that funny after taste.

But DUDE, that's all behind me now. Ya gotta check out Coke Zero! It's really amazing how much it tastes like Coke. Seriously. It tastes awesome. It has all the bite + edge of Coke, and is only missing the super sweetness.

It really tastes waaayyy better than Diet Coke + it ain't got any calories.

Originally Posted by Charles Dye

But DUDE, that's all behind me now. Ya gotta check out Coke Zero! It's really amazing how much it tastes like Coke. Seriously. It tastes awesome. It has all the bite + edge of Coke, and is only missing the super sweetness.

Originally Posted by by-tor

Have you tried coke with splenda? I am really diggin that stuff.

Originally Posted by Matthew Murray

You see Charles, I, like you, have been a sufferer of oversugarfikation.

Originally Posted by AdamJay

that should be remedied once you upgrade your converters.