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How to pick drum notes for a song?
Drum tuning is largely dependent on the style of music being played. A jazz kit will usually be tuned to exact pitches in a scale, such as the snare being tuned to the root, one tom tuned to the ...
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Festival requests DCP with mix level changes
This is a very old thread, but I just saw it.
I am the technical manager of London Short Film Festival, and the author of the "how to make a DCP" guide the OP referred to.
First off, I'm really ...
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Convert speaker stereo mix to headphone
You could have a look into processing the recordings with the help of a binaural panning tool such as the one included in Logic. You would import the two channels of your audio files as two seperate ...
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What app can I use to create mixtapes?
What I would advice would be to use a mixing software like Native Instruments - Traktor for mixing tracks together.
If you prefer non-live mixing you should definitely learn how to use a software ...
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Discussion: Theatrical release vs. BR/DVD
I would guess TV shows are often "mastered" either the same way or very similarly for broadcast versus DVD and Blu-Ray since the final output equipment is the same in either case. The release of two ...
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Temporary increase in signal/sound level/volume?
This is partly a mic-technique issue for the person talking and singing - they need to be a lot closer to the microphone than they currently are. Vocal microphones such as SM58 are designed for hand-...
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In regards to live sound, what is "Mix Coherency"?
Here I am slightly older and slightly "smaarter". I attended a system tuning training by Rational Acoustics and was able to get an answer to my question!
Mix coherency refers to the ratio of change ...
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Convert speaker stereo mix to headphone
Using any of a large number of audio processing applications, such as Reaper, Logic, Garage Band, Cubase, Pro Tools, Live, etc., you can import the audio as either a stereo track or two separate mono ...
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What app can I use to create mixtapes?
I recommend Ableton - Session View. You can drag each clip onto a track and set the global BPM (the clips will automatically fall into time with each other) - then draw in the fades and such.
There ...
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Mix sounds terrible in PC, while it actually sounded good with headphones in other devices
There’s an entire science to mixing a master. The low and high frequencies need to be separated so that the wave spectrum doesn’t inter-lap and cause competition or distortion.
The solution in the 90’...
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