Darangen

Yeah, like if I turn off guitar rig all you'd hear is the clean direct-in guitar sound.

The big reason I went with guitar rig in the long run is because I can go back and change the sound later on if it ends up needing tweaking without having to re-record the track. Since you just record the straight guitar signal into your DAW you can change settings like any other plugin.

That's sounding good IMO!

http://www.darangen.com/music/GuitarRig.mp3 That's my latest metal tone which is basically using a blend of a few presets that come with Guitar Rig 4 (haven't upgraded to 5 yet). The guitar you're using will play a part in how your tone is coming out too, I mainly use Ibanez guitars. This one I used an Ibanez SZ320, tuned down to B.

Heard the Double Dragon song when Kyle put it on facebook. Very impressed, looking forward to the rest of it!

http://co.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=gr4demo Wouldn't hurt to grab the demo and try it out.

Best thing to do is grab your guitar and head to a music store that has a lot of different options available. Plug your guitar in and test each one out. I used a Digitech RP200 for years and loved it's versatility, but I've recently switched to using Guitar Rig. Just know that you're not going to find a magic pedal that gives you the tone a JVM or MesaBoogie amp is going to give you.

If there was one, I'd think the response time would be too erroneous to be able to use it for anything.

Haha, EA Remix, that was a good april fools joke

Clicking the number on the post will give you the link to that post. You could also just add &postcount= then the number. Like http://ocremix.org/forums/showpost.php?p=841038&postcount=3

Most of my "remixes" are practically original songs, they usually start out that way and then something in my brain says "hey, this source could fit in here!" I don't see anything wrong with them pushing the line between remix and original. Make what you wanna make. Just don't get mad if you submit it to OCR and it gets rejected for not being enough source.

You mean something like this? http://www.amazon.com/Multi-Voice-Changer-Toysmith-different/dp/B000FK3WDC

Even though I've lost my fervor for the Final Fantasy series, I'm still planning on buying and playing this. Even if just for the hope that it might redeem itself from past flubs.

I usually do 4 tracks when I want a thick and heavy sound. I do two identical takes though and duplicate them and nudge the copies over about 10-15ms. Guitar rig makes it easier to do this since you can just apply different amps and effects to a duplicate track. I don't like scooping around 400hz because I hear it affecting the warmth and tone of the guitar too much. Unless there's a lead or vocal that absolutely needs that cut to be heard, I leave it alone, and even then I automate it to just cut when those necessary tracks are playing. I usually just dump the sub-120hz frequencies and do about a 3db cut around 2k and that's it. Unless your pickups are wacky and have abnormal frequency response you shouldn't need to do much else to the guitars.

If it's been a while you should PM one or two of em. It's easy to slip through the cracks when there's a lot of activity.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn the ins and outs of music. As long as you keep in mind that theory is more of a guideline and not absolute rules it can help you out immensely. Just don't let it stomp out your creative side. Music is basically math, but when you start thinking of it as more math than art you start losing creativity.

Good stuff You did all that with just the Kontakt 5 samples?

Good to see housethegrate Loved the game, love this mix. It sticks pretty close to the original but the performance is nothing less than I'd expect. Awesome all around.

There might be one or two releases every 3 or 4 days, so on average there might be 10 new mixes each month. To make a torrent every month just to update 10 songs might be time better spent on other projects.

You can play live with a MIDI controller, I do it all the time with mine. There are a few ways you can do it. - Get a sound module. They usually come in the form of a rack gear module, but you basically plug it in via MIDI cables and it translates the MIDI data to sound. - Plug it into a laptop, plug the laptop into a sound system. This is what I do. Make sure you have something like ASIO4ALL or something to translate your audio to ASIO or else you'll probably have a lot of unwanted noise and pops. Make sure you're laptop is plugged into a grounded outlet too, it can get a mean humming sound if it's not properly grounded. For live play you'd probably want at least a 49 key controller, but if you're looking for something just for studio use a simple 2 octave controller like Yami posted is usually more than enough unless you're wanting to do piano pieces. I'd recommend going to a local music store that has a decent amount of equipment and playing around on all their controllers. You can get recommendations all day, but until you feel the keys under your fingers you won't know which one is right for you.

You can find links to them all on the www.therecordingrevolution.com website, or you can subscribe to his youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/recordingrevolution?feature=g-user-u

I've been watching the videos on youtube since Jan 1st. There's some really cool, easy to understand concepts that he presents that are definitely useful. I ended up purchasing his Jump Start series from www.therecordingrevolution.com as well. It's a good series that I'd recommend to anyone that wants a little more understanding of the concepts. He's got a way of explaining it in a clear and easy to understand way.

Looks like NI is giving Studio Drummer away for $85 for a short time. It's a great and versatile acoustic kit library. http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/powered-by-kontakt/studio-drummer/

I think the first part of the mix really brings this down for a few reasons. - It's kind of dull, imo. There isn't a whole lot going on except for an almost note-for-note cover once the sax comes in. The spanish style guitar was good, but... - The fake acoustic guitar is obviously fake, and would sound 100x better played live. - I don't know if it's your eq or your reverb, but something is making it sound like most of the instruments are playing in the room next door. - That celeste/vibra/xylophone is very unemotional. - The string section in the transition is a good concept, but not well executed. Humanization would make it a thousand times better. The first 2 minutes or so is this way until the guitars come in. After that it's not too bad. I think it would actually do better for the song if you moved things around a bit, put the intro as the outro or blend it in the middle as a break from the rock to give listeners ears a chance to rest. Monobrow mentioned the kick drum, but I think it's fine. It's normal for the kick to be like that in this genre. There's a lot of good concepts, I just think by the time the track gets really good the listener is probably already bored and has hit the "next" button.

I think it's a good start. It's obviously very early in development, so I won't state much other than the obvious by saying it's a good foundation but needs to be built a bit more on.