Recent content by Chromer

Play it back as loud as the amp was playing. If the monitors are even capable of it. Odds are your perception of the recorded sound will change.

Rounds, a pick, a little bit of chorus, and lots of repeated 8th notes with some melodic runs. Nastiest fuzzbox you can find for "Living it up." Not sure why the obsession over "must be this particular bass and amp" as post-punk covers a lot of ground and sounds. Unless you're going for...

The nice thing about reaper is that it lets you define your own shortcut keys, including a macro of several actions. The stock one I use most is 's' to split an item at the mouse cursor. And then I created one for Ctrl-Shift-s to drop a stretch marker at the mouse cursor. With one hand on the...

It's common for all the gain to be bunched up at the end of the adjustment on inexpensive preamps. My cheapie Tascam interface does the same thing. Recording digitally, it's better to have slightly less than optimum gain at the preamp than to overload the interface input. An average level...

I try a bit of that for sub-bass vocals, it supports a fry down to stupidly low notes. Got a link? Google isn't being real helpful with such a short search term.

You know who covers songs exactly the way the record was? A DJ. Put your stamp on it.

Added a couple new tracks, a cover of Peter Murphy's Strange Kind of Love, with all the pretty bits taken out: And an original with chill, heavy and post-punk aspirations. Feedback always welcomed!

Personally, I only check this thread every couple of weeks now. Still appreciate the likes, and am still returning the favor for the new arrivals. Carry on!

Oh, and unlimited time... Here's the latest, a bit lounge/chill, a heavy bit, and a post-punk Cure-ish bit. The bass doesn't actually come in until around 2:45. Everything with pickups was direct into a tube preamp then through amp & cabinet modellers, no physical amps. And I...

In Reaper, I'd set a time selection around the song, and have it export all tracks to a new folder, repeating for each song. The latest pre-release versions support a render region matrix for batch render, so you'll be able to set all time regions and then have it spit out track wavs for each...

It looks like a drag bike. For bonus style points, remove the front brakes. And yes, it entirely ruins the cornering and handling, especially when combined with an extended swingarm.

Any Reaper questions, just fire them over... Other than synching to video, I've never played with that bit (though apparently it will do it).

The qualities of the iron make a huge difference. One that is too weak (or too powerful) for the particular job can make it pointless to even try. There's a reason repair shops have temperature-adjustable irons. That said, don't ask me to braze anything...

I'm sorry, I just don't buy it. Unless you're hiring in string sections, orchestras or big choirs, there is simply no need to book a room at Abbey Road for a full year to make a giant-sounding album. I really do believe that the majority of the tracking and overdubs really can be done by a few...

There has never been so much great new music being created before at one time as there is right now, The problem is sorting through it to find the gems. I've been having decent luck with genre-specific podcasts and internet radio shows. When DJ's want freedom to play what they want these...