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    Buzzing/Fuzz artifacts

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Look, I know this must be annoying for all of you, but I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing! My track, whether I push the master volume up to 100% or 0%... the db level stays the same. Shouldn't that go...you know. Lower? It brings that monitor way out of the red, but then the track is even quiter than before.

    Is there a way, that without sending that monitor into the red and starting to clip, that I can keep the track loud? It seems the only way for me to get it down, is to turn the volume down, and it's already too quiet.

    Look, like I said, I know this must be a pain for you to have to explain this, but I would really appreciate some help, rather than a search function. I checked out all the topics I could find on this matter, but I didn't really understand what they were talking about. Sorry.

    Buzzing/Fuzz artifacts

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Edit: I got the volume and monitor levels right, check the latest post for my problem, thanks.

    Alright, so I'm doing this piece, and I finish the song, listen to it a couple times...then listen to some other stuff, and find out that the track is way too quiet!

    A little disclaimer here :P I've searched the forums already, but couldn't find anything that was of a lot of help, so I'm asking this here.

    Now... the track itself sounds really quiet compared to other music, and yet at the same time, I'm getting pretty close to clipping... I really don't know why.

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    Right, so you see, it's only reaching -5 db here, and yet that monitor is showing a bit of red. I'm curious, how high/red/filled does that monitor have to be before it's considered clipping, or it interferes with the song?

    I'm really confused right now. I've taken a couple other professional tracks into FL, checked things out, and while the volume gets nice and loud, that monitor stays pretty low, and the waveform is pretty tame, whereas mine... well, you can see what's going on in the picture.

    So, if anyone could help me with this, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

    Sample Request

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Alright, I'm looking for some sort of "percussion" sounds. I don't mean drums, I'm moreso just looking for some of the more rare/random sounds, like... woodblocks, guiros... hmm, a few sounds in particular. If you have heard... the Tales of Symphonia OST >__> "Shinobi Life", there's those woodblock sort of "taps" going on. You can find a similar sound in the Goemon games, or heck, a ton of oriental music. That and that sort of shaker... again, I have no clue what instrument they used to get the sound, so I'm going to refer to House of the Flying Daggers for this :lol: . It's that sort of sleigh bells/shaker hybrid. You can hear it in the beginning of the movie, where... Zhang Ziyi is singing the song while she does that test.

    Whoo, movie/game references.. Look, I'm sorry about that, but I just don't know how to describe those sounds. So I guess any asian percussion would be what I'm looking for... minus the drums. I've got lots of those. Hopefully free...?

    Getting into recording. I have some questions on "hardw

    in Music Composition & Production

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    The Proteus X can't be used for recording? Well, alright then. I'll take a look at the 0404 then.

    When you say a large membrane condenser mic... Would something similar to the SM58 be better for that? I'm planning on doing vocals, yes, but I want to be able to get good quality recordings on other things too (instruments, random objects ie: rain, glass, tapping, cracking, basically just any sound in general). Is the SM57 good enough for doing a wide range of things? (I hear it's good for snares :P)

    I've heard about Behringer before, and I'll be sure to look into, as well as Line6. Any personal preferences?

    Thanks.

    EDIT:

    Alright, I've done some revision to my list. I think this stuff might work better for me?

    -Emu 0404

    -SM57

    -Tube Ultragain Mic200 (By Behringer, but I'm not sure how good it is really. It's cheaper than the other one, at only $70 CAD)

    Getting into recording. I have some questions on "hardw

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Alright, so I'm starting to get interested in doing some vocal recordings, and I know so far that I need:

    -Mic (of course)

    -Preamp

    -Better Soundcard

    So here's what I was thinking of going with.

    For the mic, I was a little undecided, seeing as I'm new to this and don't know what would be considered "a good deal" or a good buy. I've heard people like to use Shure microphones, but any more info on that would be great.

    For the Preamp, well... I'm wondering whether I'll actually need one. The soundcard is going to most likely be the Emu Proteus X, but if you think I'll still need a preamp for recording, should I go with something like Tube, or what?

    Thanks.

    Sample Request

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Thanks. I guess it'll do for what I need it for, even if there IS a whole bunch of un-related stuff in it :P

    Now here's another tricky one... seeing as I don't know if it's an actual instrument or what, does anybody have a sound of that sort of... metal type drumstick that people use repeatedly right after each other really fast in some pieces?

    Here... if you want to hear what I'm talking about, check out Palpable's Mystical Ninja Goemon remix at about 01:35 http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01255/

    I can't seem to identify what that sound is. Let me know though if you have any samples of it.

    Sample Request

    in Music Composition & Production

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    I've done some searching, but I can't seem to find any "nature" sounds (VST, soundfont, what have you) such as birds chirping (And not the synth kind of trill, or just the same bird in different keys) or water, or rain or wind or anything.

    I suppose soundfonts might not be the way to go, but if anybody has any links to sounds like these (free or otherwise) would you mind linking me to them?

    Thanks.

    A question on soundcards (Don't kill me :p)

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Well, right now I'm using a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS... however I've heard that they are very inferior to soundcards such as the Emu404, Audiophile, etc.

    My question is... since I don't do any recording with a microphone, would I benefit from getting something like the Emu404? Just how much better would it be for working with things that (Aside from a few audio/wav samples) are mostly digital? (ex: VSTs, Soundfonts <--bleh, and stuff like that).

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