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    Big Boomy Drum Sound

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted · Edited by Donna

    Hey thanks, you guys, I'll play around a bit with this. Where my bottom rims and heads are is a mystery to me. It's worth looking into differing padding thickness and placement. John, we used drum ringers (moon gel) when we were kids, I'd forgotten about them.

    BTW, what I've seen or used for drum mik clips - even at a recent drum shop trip - are still the outragesously expensive, flimsy things which one prayed wouldn't fall off the rim, and never turned the way one needed them turned, in the 90's. Maybe I'll just duct tape some pvc pipe to the mic, then tape the whole stick near the drum rim! Viola - miking and padding in one.

    Or better yet, tape a 7a drumstick to it - should fit just right into a tall candle holder set aground!

    signed, "Meatball Musician"

    Big Boomy Drum Sound

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted · Edited by Donna

    Hey Everyone,

    Anyone here have sucess tweaking the drums, room, or rec/eq to acheive that big boomy drum sound?

    Also...if anyone's messed with tuning the drum heads in order to get such a sound, how did you cut down on ringing? Er, I'm still looking for mainly acoustic solutions as I am compressor-less presently.

    Thanks a lot!

    -DD (aka DF)

    Monitors - Opinion Please

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    Atom quote:

    Hey there,

    So, I am assuming you are giving up on getting what you REALLY want? I know the Mackie's are expensive but you may (will) regret settling for less.

    Hasty there! Not necessarily, just looking around. There is a thread in music gear review on the Alesis (don't recall which Alesis, but active) which recommended them, but the reviews I've seen elsewhere show a sig. % of people having major problems. Some love them, some hate them. Alesis and JBL are pretty much all I've heard of.

    Anyway, ya see the list price (EMU's), and GuitarCenter sends a flyer...then re-check on Musicians friend, and they too are selling for 70 % off - WHY? I'd noticed too on Songstuff's Gear Review some EMU stuff favorable - again, ying and the yang. Yeah off with the gloves everyone, I really do want opinins - who else will discuss with me (Husband? Other Housewives?)

    BTW, I clicked on your Roland - that is certainly in a ballpark - and I liked their synth sounds. I recall on the other (guitar?) thread you'd said these work so good you needn't mourn not having Alesis. Is that right?

    Oh - what are the Mackies (besides 1250 a pair, thanks david)?

    John, I know about your tannoys, will check 'em out. I actually did search thru the forum a bit for other monitor recommendations.

    Another funeral today, check back when i can... pounded the drums a good while earlier..........

    Cassette To Mp3 Convertor

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    OK John, not sure what the icons mean on back of our computer, but I will soon. That picture you posted is helpful. Thanks a lot for all the info which I'm sure will aid others as well as me. I now understand about the soundcard basics, too!

    Re: Ebay, etc; just looking into opinions before I leap, and now I have some more!

    ATom, I went to Musicians Friend, looked at their Alesis monitors and at some product reviews of the lower priced power monitors. It was disconcerting as there were a significant percentage of unhappy consumers for the lower end products...just more to consider. If I couldn't go 3 x's the price of the new Seagull in order to get a lovely Martin acoustic, I sure can't for monitors. Sigh. Well, anyway, so the Alesis ain't set in stone.

    Hoe whoa, those JBL's are brutal! Nothing under 1200 or so.

    Well - getting the right guitar turned out really good, and after I was just sure it couldn't, lol. Reckon monitors shall, too.

    Hey Merry Christmas, you guys! You're the best~

    Cassette To Mp3 Convertor

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted · Edited by Donna

    Hey Nick, thanks.

    JB, when I need an MP3, I must track down a certain teenager, haul my cassette deck over to his place (not my 4-track, but the deck hooked up to 4-track, which I use to record the mixed 4 tracks), and get HIM to convert the finished song on cassette, into digital, or MP3.

    I just want the tools here at hand to do this myself.

    Yeah, I know (a bit) about Krystal and pc recording. Not an option right now. Although - it's intreresting to hear of one so newly into pc-ing, finding it friendlier as the days go by.

    About the soundcard....I asked Husband do we have one and he thought we must...like you said, if there's speakers and sound, there must be one (right?). Thanks for the description of it - I would guess we have one wired in already. But would getting a different (additional??) card make that much of a difference when simple conversion is all I want at this point? The digital will simply be a copy of the finished mix which I should be happy enough w/ at that point, otherwise I'd still be back recording and not thinking of MP3-ing it, ya know? If it did need tweaking from there, Loo'll do it, til I get settled. No gear to haul over, and a nice chat with my exiled limbs.

    The card itself has no plug in (laugh away, anyone :) I sure the heck don't know)?

    ATom, I'm even thinking used/ebay. Do you think that's a path of disaster, to buy monitors 2nd hand? Although...I know a guy via ebay who I think could be a resource to steer me if that's the way I go. Hmmm, maybe he himself even needs to unload the COVETED monitors...why the heck would a woman dream of diamonds when she can dream Alesis'?

    Cassette To Mp3 Convertor

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    Wow JB, thanks! A definite reference post to save.

    Yes - the free would be wonderful! That much closer to getting monitors.

    OK - about the soundcard...is RS a good place to get it? How is it installed? What kind do you have?

    At this point, I'm not looking to mix using PC...Loo told me about Goldwave, but it looks like the musicmatch'd be a good place to start when I'm ready.

    Cassette To Mp3 Convertor

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted · Edited by Donna

    What I need is to convert the mixed 4-track audio casstte to MP3.

    I just found this free download, but it never explained how "it" can record from cassette (to then, I assume, a conversion to digital?) - it's the audio "extractor" I was looking at.

    Reckoned I'd need a stand-alone unit - it'd be great to have a download, tho.

    Thanks for any help!

    Phase Cancellation / Gain

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    I just needa drink and to trust my ears.

    - but don't stop replying, ok -

    The whole song has to be done again...that I've known, and not just for tech glitches. But sometimes, I just don't wanna know it, much less learn how to do it. How many times, done again, who knows? Gotta try to do right by the song. I do not NOT NOT recommend trying to play everything and do everything alone.

    Unless you're Hari!

    Phase Cancellation / Gain

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    Adding any range of frequencies together can always result in what is called "beat frequencies". And some of these frequencies can be quite low. Speaker systems, however, can be classified in 2 grades for simplicity; high freq and low freq. low freq are driven by the woofer / base bin / the large cone. So 100Hz + 150 Hz will yield a meaty 50 Hz hum through the base bin. Not very nice. The same beat frequency can be created by adding 10000 Hz and 10050 Hz. But this time the beat frequency is played out of the tweeter (much lower power and also very poor response at low freq). So you wont hear it at all.

    Incedently, the pre-amp for the headphone socket on devices like iPods etc, use beat frequencies to give you base. The little plugs that go in your ear are too small to deliver true sub-1000Hz frequencies, so they choose 2 frequencies beyond the audible hearing range, add them together, and the result is a "beat" of the low frequency.

    Well, is there a general remedy for this, Bitstream?

    I assume the speaker info applies to not just monitors? I am monitoring once removed - of necessity currently - mixing via headphones, listening to the mix on several pairs of speakers (car, boombox, etc;).

    Phase Cancellation / Gain

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted · Edited by Donna

    OK...so less gain there, Prometheus? Or get the H outta that freq. range altogether (low mid)?

    99 percent of your frequency problems are going to be below 1KHz... It's usually standing waves and the harmonics form the low fundamentals that cause mud and boom, or badly miked instruments...

    Subtractive EQ on the low mid range usually greatly improves a sound...

    How Do I Know What Key I'm In?

    in Songwriting

    Posted

    Hey Nick,

    Another powerhouse, I see :)

    My apologies....but that side note in a post up there, about the no accidentals song? That is not the song I am asking about. And I neglected to make that clear til now.

    Otherwise, yeah...phrygian or SOMETHING.

    Thanks for all the info, Nick, which I find very interesting - esp. the anyalysis of he metal stuff! Um...does your opinion still stand (pointing toward E) if the F#'s are intact (which they are, chord-wise)?

    How Do I Know What Key I'm In?

    in Songwriting

    Posted

    Lazz,

    Your post knocks me out! Thank you so much. It deserves a better brain than I have at the moment...here's an instance also where the failure (mine) to have been imbued with, eg, the cycle of 5ths, makes for some heavier homework, when my answers should be cursory knowledge, easily given.

    So...you young drummers, don't thumb up the nose at learning piano when the 'rents urge you to. At least learn the xylophone! You'll be way ahead then when years later you wish to compose, or many other things.

    I'll come back on this when able.

    Donna

    (JB: yeah...d f# a - D major, got ya)

    How Do I Know What Key I'm In?

    in Songwriting

    Posted · Edited by Donna

    Yes...it may well be D. That vs. would then resolve on the vii...right logically straight up to...the II!?

    I wonder how that can SO not work on paper, but be so logical in the hearing of it.

    Although, something perhaps to revist and ponder...the secondary dominant thing. Thank God for wholesome things to wrap the mind around and you all to converse about it with.

    *thou dost more good than thou knowest*

    How Do I Know What Key I'm In?

    in Songwriting

    Posted

    I'm sure it will at some point. I do it the same way, but simply go from root to minor third. If there's a minor third, it's minor (that is the definition of a minor chord IIRC).

    But you're right...since we're trying to find the tonic, going bakwards makes sense. (pause for dong the math)

    I have made a judgement, then! The key is D Major.

    I think.

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