Originally Posted by camog
Quick question Alan - "Sent it to Audacity and did a small amount of EQ-ing. Saved it and sent the WAV file to Soundcloud, mastered it and here it is."
I'm curious regarding your mix & master sequence - I do everything in Logic Pro X beginning to end, how did you send the WAV file to Soundcloud and then mastered it afterwards??
Would love to learn how you went from having copied the chosen BB files and RTs into your DAW to finishing the project, please if/when you can manage a few mins??
After your long stint in country bands (was it arthritis or tendonitis which hampered your playing ability in recent times?) - presumably you were a Telecaster/Fender Twin player when
you were gigging?

Warmest wishes to you and Di!!!!!

Carl


Hi Carl,

I'll try to answer all your questions as fully as possible.

First, I don't use a traditional DAW - Audacity is as close as I come to a DAW. I do have Presonus Studio One and Cakewalk but I have no idea how to use either. For whatever reason, I can't wrap my head around them. I'm reasonably intelligent (have a degree in Physics), but the DAW thing totally escapes me. I do all my significant mixing on the BAIB chord entry page. I then save it as a stereo mix and record the final mix in Audacity. I have a pretty good ear for the frequency ranges for the various instruments and use the Audacity equalizer to make final, minor edits to the soundscape. Then I load it up on Soundcloud. I have a premium account there and I can master 4 songs monthly free of charge (other than the normal monthly fee for a premium membership.). Then I choose a graphic, usually from Pixabay, and make the post public. It's actually a very simple process and I can almost always get the sound I'm looking for. I typically get pretty nicer comments on my mixes, so why change what's working?

The problem that impedes my playing skills is a disease called focal dystonia. It interferes with my ability to properly grip the neck, and it makes my fingers painfully stiff. i can still play reasonably good, but not clean enough for decent recording.

If you're interested, here's a link discussing focal dystonia: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dystonia/symptoms-causes/syc-20350480

My dystonia is focal to my hands.

II hope that clarifies a few things for you.

You didn't ask about this, but this is how I record our vocals. It's rather unconventional, too. We use an AT-2035 condenser mic. I plug it directly into the low impendence input on my guitar amp (Peavey Nashville 112) with a quarter inch jack rather than an XLR jack and get the tone settings and reverb how we want them We record with reverb rather than dry and adding reverb later. I run a cable from the amp's headphone jack to the PC's mic input. We start Audacity and record the vocal. It sounds neanderthal-like, and it is. But we get a great sound using that method. Here's a link to two of the many songs we've recorded using that method:

Di (my wife) on vocals: https://soundcloud.com/alananddi/you-remix

Me on vocals: https://soundcloud.com/alananddi/callin-your-bluff-mastered

Alan

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