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    Bringing out picking?

    I don't let my clients pussy pick, got em using heavy strings / heavy picks and in the room it sounds awesome!
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    Bringing out picking?

    Dudes. Working on some songs with a band that basically sound like a deathcore band crossed with Fear Factory and I'm really struggling to bring out the picking at parts. They have riffs that are the classic "machine gun" style of FF, but i cant get the picking to come out, it just sounds...
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    Sample offer / some questions

    Hey dudes! I rarely post, but I'm here with an offer / some questions! Firstly, would anyone be interested in some Bodrahn (Irish drum) samples? I've got some time to kill and was gonna make some, but wondered if anyone here would have any use for them? (Multi velocity samples / different...
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    slow down, guitars....

    I really don't see why thats at all related? But to me, thats cheating in the highest order, qauntizing slightly out of time drummers... they played as close as dammit to their part, no matter how fast. But HALF SPEED, thats some lazy shit. EDIT : Honestly didnt realise this was an 08 thread!
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    Programmed Drums for People Who Hate Programmed Drums

    Holy crap this threads got... yeah! For real though, if people come on here asking "how do i do all this stuff in pro tools?" then if someone said "Hey, how do i do this in cubase?" and you started saying "Well, you have to pay for that info, i may 100k a year therefore pay me for my knowledge"...
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    Metallica's soundcheck in Caracas pictures

    I went to Caracas once, i didnt stick around long, scaryyyy place!
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    To iMac or not to iMac?

    October at the earliest, but definitely before christmas this year! So i'lll wait and see what apple brings to the table, hopefully the price of the equivelant of what exists (800 quid cheapest online) wont change, cos of the other gear!
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    To iMac or not to iMac?

    So erm, thats a yes to the iMac? :P Cheers dudes :) anymore opinions are warmly welcomed!
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    To iMac or not to iMac?

    I dont want a hackintosh, i want something thats supported by a company behind it. Erm, yeah, if i could afford a Pro, i totally would, depedning how my savings are, we'll see then, but my simple question :P iMac as a pro tools based recording system, y/n?
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    To iMac or not to iMac?

    Id rather work on an OSX based system, due to the fact that XP is getting antiquated and 7 is yet to support Digi drivers... So, iMac, 2626, Adam A7s and some room treatment, go go?
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    Mastering Software

    T-Racks comes with the single plugins when you buy it now, so awesome compressors and stuff for use generally with you're DAW too! Ive used T-Racks for 2 years, i dig it :)
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    To iMac or not to iMac?

    My budget for the system is 1000 GBP (Keyboards got to pound sign.) I've worked with old imacs whilst i did music technology at college, so thats fiine And HD is a no go, genuinely cannot afford that, absolutely definitely... So, an iMac with a firewire hard drive on the outside? Cheers for...
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    Post processing rythm guitars

    HP and LP, tiny bit of eq tweaking of necessary. Compress if appropriate, more often than not just out of my personal preference. sometimes use some saturation plugs, my go to plugin for EQ and Compression right now is the Blue Tube Analog Trackbox, which i bought when they had the offer...
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    To iMac or not to iMac?

    Hey dudes So, come October time, i'll be coming into a bit of money and I've decided that it would be best spent on upgrading my slightly antiquated studio equipment! I'm currently running a PC i built for gaming 5 years ago as my recording PC, safe to say, it isn't very efficient anymore...
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    How do connect preamp to MBox 2?

    Hey dudes So, on my quest for the ultimate bedroom tonez, i've decided im going to purchase a nice preamp to run my mic's into when im doing vocals or cabs! However, im using an Mbox 2 and i can't work out if it's at all possible to bypass the built in pre's and im not sure how it would...
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    Dimefest III: Tracks for mixxing, cool stuff!

    Dude can you re upload them to dropbox? Rapidshare is a bitch and megaupload dosent like simultaneous downloads, its a bit irritating :P Id love to give it a shot! :P!
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    Tips on blendin' kickz plz

    Im mixing a folk metal band at the moment, which im using 3 kick samples, notabley the Sneap kick to give it some click, a sample i made from the kit they used and the kick from (I think!) the midian era of Cradle of Filth to give it some seriously chunky low end, as its tuned uber low...
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    Bass Tone Help...

    First post, hey dudes! Im in the midst of recording my bands demo, were viking metal kinda thing, think Ensiferum or Equilibrium! Now, guitars are fine (bugera one side Pod the other) Vocals are fine, Drums are fine (DKFH with drumagog replacing nearly everything!) and additional instruments...