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New Music. Are You Interested?
8 years ago
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I really need to start back recording new stuff. There was an attempt last year, but it fell short. I wasn't liking what was happening and I really do not like DAWs on computer. I miss my awesome all in one unit. My idea is to record tracks, ask guest musicians to add their talents and have the songs mixed and mastered professionally. This would lead to an actual CD, maybe an LP. Would you buy it???? Would you support my efforts as most do Fox Amoore, Pepper Coyote and Matthew Ebel?
I ask this because I'm in a funk. I have no other projects going on other than a cover band. I'm no longer on the bill with Matt Ebel and getting to cons to play with Fox and Pepper are up in the air. I would like to be able to get this original music recorded and possibly played with other fursuit musicians at cons.
I'd like to know before I sink a lot of money into it.
What are your thoughts?
I ask this because I'm in a funk. I have no other projects going on other than a cover band. I'm no longer on the bill with Matt Ebel and getting to cons to play with Fox and Pepper are up in the air. I would like to be able to get this original music recorded and possibly played with other fursuit musicians at cons.
I'd like to know before I sink a lot of money into it.
What are your thoughts?
Regarding sound I doubt that the older units sounded better per se. Computer based DAW softwares usually are completely transparent, and what we perceive as "good sound" depends on so many factors - which all would have to be the very same to really compare. Change the room, the mics, the preamps, the plugins you use in the DAW... - all for good or worse.
Like on our last jam we swapped speakers of the guitar amp and suddenly... the drums "sounded so much better" in the mix because the frequency response of the speaker didn't get in the way of the drums so much anymore.
Then there is the (psychological) effect of the workflow: I really hate using plugins for doing the very basic stuff, like EQing, compression and the like. The aversion of having to add plugins and open their GUI for every adjustment will certainly lead to less ideal reaults. Also too many options and features can slow down the workflow and lead to less satisfying results. Limiting your options and choice of tools might help quite a lot - similar to the limits those all-in-one units imposed.
So I also felt quite lost when my old external digital mixer died. Luckily since a few years there is a DAW that also implements a full mixer with all the basic stuff directly available on the screen, which makes it a lot more enjoyable for me again, as I only need to add plugins for some very specific stuff - basically only the things that you would have in an external rack in an analog studio.
Still it would be nice to add some faders for writing automation and stuff at some point...
For me instabilities, crashes, hangs have been resolved for the most part, but these might also depend on a lot of factors, OS, drivers, also buggy plugins that crash the DAW, etc...
As for audio glitches: I tend to monitor via hardware whenever possible and hence can run the DAW at high buffer/latency settings, which usually should resolve most glitches.