Quote from Dajmin :

So obviously if you prefer the warm sound that you get from analogue then by all means go for it. But CoolEdit has a filter that can add emulated noise like you'd get on analogue, and it works pretty well.

Which filter is this?I have Cool Edit and would like to try this out.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Ok, seeing all you sissy girls are sound experts. What's a good way to take a mic input and put it to line input. my iMac (and MBP) only have Line inputs, but I want to have Mic in for them. What's a good (but affordable) amp/explosion that will do that job?

You'd need a preamp for the mic to bring it up to line level. Don't shit your pants if you google "mic preamp" and see loads of very expensive gear - you can get decent cheap preamps too.

Personally though I wouldn't want to record directly to a sound card in a laptop. You get much better results with dedicated audio kit - a breakout box with the inputs (and often decent-quality preamps on those inputs) that will connect to a firewire or usb port. Look up "Mbox" or "Tascam us-122l" (probably the cheapest solution).

.. All of those are much out of my application reach. All I need them for is taking a Mic input to Line for use in TS, nothing too elaborate, because I'd not wanna record my terrible voice anyways.

Oh I see. Well then you'd be better off with a USB headset, and ignore the line in entirely.

Although it doesn't sound like it to me, I am told by many people my voice sounds like Brian The Dog from Family Guy.

Quote from wien :

Personally I think the main reason Vinyl often sounds better than CD is that they usually don't get raped by modern mastering processes. There's actual dynamic range on Vinyl, letting sounds that need a bit of headroom (drums for instance) pop out much more easily. I don't think there's an album released on a major label in the last 10 years that hasn't made my head throb after about 10 minutes of listening. I just can't stand it.

I'm far too much of a lazy git to read the entire thread, so if someone's already said this, then my apologies.

But, the reason vinyl sounds better is because your ears work in analogue not digital I don't understand it enough to explain it, but, that's the main reason afaik.

I've never been a fan of CD's mp3 or the like since the day they came on the scene. Give me an old diamond headed needle covered in fluff any day of the week.


@Jayhawk, it's probably all those cigars

Quote from jayhawk :

Although it doesn't sound like it to me, I am told by many people my voice sounds like Brian The Dog from Family Guy.

I can't tell from here, but you sure don't type like him.

Who's leg do I haffto hump to get a dry martini here?


Kev?..

Hank, wasn't your Bruce Lee baddie (can't remember what he was called) animated earlier today? Have you changed him or have I broken the internet?

Mighty Champion Ultimate Fighter Green Yamo is always animated!
Tiny English man has brokened the interblang!
YAMO SMASH!

Dude he's not punching shit right here. More like Green Lamo.

This does explain why a webpage template I'm working on is confouding and exhasperating me though.

Grand Champion Green Yamo takes offense! Do not blame Ultimate Yokozuna Green Yamo for your foolish gaijin ways!

Might I point out to the big green lamo that he was little more than a minor annoyance to me when I was a small child, so I am finding it difficult to take his threats seriously as an adult.

I would go as far as to say that the ninja was a better fighter than he was.

Bah! Puny ninja is laughed at by Mighty Yamo! Anyone troubled by annoying ninja is no match for even a tiny bug!

Here, Kevbo, effect a clicking action on these words to secure a PC-happy version of Bruce Lee, the greatest platform game in history.

Well I quite liked Chuckie Egg too. Saved it - probably won't get to play it until Monday or something. Being a grown-up sucks.

I simply refuse to be one even though I'm a Red Cross employee, so tonight I'm gonna play Bruce Lee and then play a gig with me band[/plug]. Long weekend too, no work tomorrow. And Mrs H is out of town til Monday! Rock out with various appendages out

Very rocky! Not quite my cup of tea. I like the second tune better - I like the way you've managed to make a useful song out of an inhuman tempo. You should show the techno knobheads how it's done.

I'm currently trying to get hold of these bitches ("Monty" will give you a laugh, and the last tune on that list is especially tasty), who I saw in a local pub the other weekend and they don't have a live bassist. I'd love to be doing their tunes. I do have another iron in the fire but they're hard work just to get rehearsals happening...

Ah my weekend starts... in about five hours.

Train to Wakefield, bus to Horbury, drop both my basses off with the local luthier (Warwick needs fret work, Stingray needs a ground buzz sorting out), bus back to Wakefield to visit my sister in hospital (elective surgery - nothing wrong with her, just major dentistry), back to Horbury to stay at my mum's to share the load of my sister's manic 4-year-old.

Friday: Work at biz partner's house while boy is at school (he conveniently lives in Horbury too), get boy, take him back to York.

Saturday: We've got my girlfriend's 4-year-old nephew staying with us too. This has never been attempted before - a two-nephew sleepover. I am shitting bricks.

Sunday: Assuming nephew is still alive, return him to his mother after attempting to mask missing fingers/limbs/eyes with papier mache.

So by Monday I'll have my house back, and straight back to work. Incidentally I finished work about five minutes ago (4:30am).

Being Kev might look like a bundle of laughs but SRSLY...

Ew, mega-active weekend for the ultimate in sads But good luthiery is always exciting - I love Warwick basses!

Thanks for your critique, glad you like the mad one - that slower song of ours is quite the stylistic anomaly actually! The rest of our tracks are probably closer in style to the insanely fast one, but we wanted to preview a couple of tracks that provided some contrast - also we wanted to keep our big guns up our sleeve until the album's out On that note, I'd like to hear any recordings you've got - ya never know when our bass player's going to get blotto on a world tour, requiring us to find a stand in. Actually, he always gets blotto, it's just a question of how severely...

Now get some sleep Kevinator.

I don't really have anything for public consumption - I only really use my setup here (M-Audio 1814, Roland 64-key controller -> ProTools, Reason rewired in for the synths) to demo ideas for rehearsals. Never attempted anything production quality so I'd probably struggle to be honest.

Yeah my Warwick is rich creamery butter ('91 neck-thru - one of the last hand-built Thumb basses, back when the Thumb was their flagship bass). You have excellent taste in basses! The Stingray's nice too - totally different sound compared to the midrange honk of the Thumb bass, but very full. I don't think it will ever unseat the Warwick though.

I think the only thing that could is a Wal, but Pete Stevens has stopped building them so prices on the used market have gone through the roof. For years I've been saying I've got to buy a Wal before Pete gets sick or retires and I think I must've cursed myself.

Right... Bed time. I can still get four hours!

Shared the stage many a time with an Aussie band called PreShrunk, the two-bass band (lead & rhythm bass, duh). Both guys had Warwicks and Warwick rigs too, best sound I've heard from a bass in my life! Our bassist (and the bassist from my previous band) has himself a brand new Fender Jazz (and a backup Stingray) which suits our sound perfectly. A really nice sturdy axe, that.

Good night. May you not dream of Poison Alien Zombie Robots.

Girls, there's these things called "PM's" and "Instant Messengers".

Try that kthx.

Your mam's an instant messenger.

Or something.

Pfft.

Quote from Hankstar :

Contrast: latest from my current band From The Ashes. Debut album in progress. Pro studio, up & coming producer, pro everything (professional pricing too, oh boy - hope we sell some bloody records :zombie.

Thanks mate, many wasted hours

I really like it!! :wow:

The quality of the sound/production is awesome too
Keep working and let us now if you tour on Spain

Gracias Rocks, you will be the first person in Spain to know when we're coming
We're very happy with the production on these and we're very excited about how the album will sound. I better go have a nap, we're playing in four hours.

Speaking of naps...