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  1. Mr Brownsound that is absolutely brilliant Sir - thanks so much! I'm not familiar with the concepts of synch pulsing / time-stretching but, armed with your suggestions, I shall do my homework and venture forth. Thanks again - master stroke amigo!
  2. Hi! Looking for some suggestions here ..... I've just stumbled across an old reel-to-reel machine that can play some of the old, dusty reels of muzak which I obviously made in a former life (I can't remember recording most of this - maybe they're not my tapes!) Anyway, the idea is to get them off said tapes and tart 'em up a bit! The machine is a TASCAM 38 eight track unit (the tapes are 1/2" wide with 10 1/2" reels in case anybody's interested!) What I'm hoping to do is bring in each of the recorded tracks (there's 8!) into Logic so I can then 'mess about with them' but in the digital domain (sorry, I meant to write: spend ages mixing, editing and re-mastering!). Thing is, although the recordings made to these tapes were individually multi-tracked they weren't played to a code/metronome so there's no timing reference to hang stuff on. In light of this I'm guessing, with the random nature of reel tape playback (never mind the actual recorded material timing), that no two run throughs will be at exactly the same speed so I will need to dump them into Logic 'in sync with themselves' simultaneously right? Hmm .... That's gonna be a bit tricky with a 2-input Apogee Duet methinks and I can't afford a Reel>Mac interface with 8 separate inputs. Any workaround suggestions spring to mind good folks of the Logic Pro Forum?? (Or cheap 8-input interface recommendations that'll just get the job done?) Much obliged to anyone who answers as I'm a bit stuck this end. PS: If I can find a solution here then, in the future ("Like, WOW man!") I might even try experimenting making some new recordings with this method: Mixer/Pre-amps>Printing to Reel tape>Mac interface>Logic but that's an entire other post so first things first. Need to learn how to walk before I can run with this. Interested to hear any thoughts/comments/advice mind. I do still like my analogue me - it's what I grew up with.
  3. Hi, I've got myself in a right pickle this end and was wondering if anyone on here might be able to help me out. I'm running OSX 10.6.8 with Logic Pro 9 and, up until very recently, an Apogee Duet interface. Again, prior to very recently, the 3rd party stuff I had on my system was: '60's Abbey Road Drums' (with 'Kontakt 5' free player); 'Omnisphere' and a Waves 'Maserati' vocal pack. Everything was running okay (although I was aware that this Kontakt player was really zapping my systems power since downloading it - I was working around this by purging & freezing tracks). Anyway, I got hold of this Line 6 Toneport KB37 MIDI controller keyboard / interface thing and thought I'd try it out but it's been downhill ever since! I took my Apogee out of the picture to try it and uploaded the bundled 'GearBox' CD software that came with the KB37 to begin with. I wasn't massively impressed and read that the free Line 6 PodFarm 1.12 software was a better option so I downloaded that. While I was at it, I then downloaded a free demo taster of NI 'Guitar Rig 5' to try that out too. After a session of installing drivers & downloading said software I then set myself up for a recording session to try everything out. Thing is, there's some really freaky weird stuff happening in Logic now! For example: I'll arm a track to record and it'll randomly solo another channel and change the pan position or I'll try to change the volume on a channel and it won't let me. Just a load of really random, weird stuff going on - 'ghosts in the machine!' To top it all off I've just gone to check my previously existing 3rd Party stuff and everything I had bar Kontakt/Abbey Rd Drums (ie: the 'Maserati Vocal Pack'/'Omnisphere') has disappeared! Any thoughts as to what I should do here?? There's obviously some major conflicts going on that are preventing me from being able to record. Any help/advice as to what best to do here would be MUCH appreciated as I'm not great on the technical side and, as you've probably gathered, I don't really know what I'm doing. THANKS!!!
  4. ARRGH! I've just discovered that the latest upgrade (Guitar Rig 5) is for OS 10.7 or above whereas I'm on 10.6.8 operating system (and plan to stay with this platform as it seems the most stable).
  5. Thanks J! That's a shame, yeah, I should hae checked but it was 'last one - when it's gone it's gone' & all that! So, do you reckon I should go through the motions of registering it in the hope that I can then upgrade to a Guitar Rig version that will be compatible with my set-up? (My set-up being: OS 10.6.8 running Logic Pro 9). I don't mind paying a little extra just so long as I can get up'n'running sometime soon! Perhaps I should have just bought the right version to begin with eh?!!
  6. Hi, would anyone happen to know if the original Guitar Rig from Native Instruments will run with OS 10.6.8 & Logic Pro 9. I made an impulse buy (too good to be true perhaps!) ie: an official new / old stock unregistered box. It's going to take a week to ship but now I've bought it I'm thinking it might not be compatible ie: too old. Anybody here know?
  7. Stumbled across this cool 'tone boost' thing. I record my guitar mostly DI using the amp modellers in Logic to sculpt my sound. To date I've been fairly happy with this arrangement but recently got hold of a Fender Jag and the tricks I use to get a good, workable electric guitar sound weren't really working with this Jag - it wasn't cutting it. Don't get me wrong, it sounded 'OK' just not as good as I'd hoped for. Thing is, I really love the guitar and I wanted it to work for me in my recording arrangement so I tried a couple of other ideas that I don't normally have to bother with where my other electric guitars are concerned. I got out my old pedals from my 'gigging days' and was trying a few in-line between my guitar and interface. I wasn't hearing anything better than I get with the Logic amp modellers so I gave up and just got reacquainted with my old Dunlop CryBaby pedal (it's been a while!) by having a little funky 'wah wah' jam with myself. Once I'd got the 'Starsky & Hutch' theme out of my system I disengaged the wah sound and .. "WHOAH! What's that beautiful clean guitar sound & where's it coming from?!" With the 'Wah' function disabled (so I'm just bypassing the effect) I'm hearing the guitar in a completely new way! All the lovely sonic tones of the guitar are jumping out at me and, for the first time, I am now hearing this particular guitar in a way I want to hear it. Of course I then took the pedal out of the equation and just plugged the guitar directly straight back into the interface for comparative purposes and there was noticeable ... I dunno, 'tone suck' would be a way to describe it. So now I have my sound (for Fender Jags at least). A simple CryBaby pedal unengaged between my guitar and interface and the guitar is now sounding great - a happy accident I thought I'd share with you. It worked for me! (One for the techies out there: Why should this be the case? It's not like the pedal is activated.)
  8. Continuing with my 'Explorations In Equalisation' studies I have become interested of late in the human hearing frequency range spectrum and how to address my mixes in light of this. I work in isolation and, as a result, rely on heavily layered multi-track recording techniques to realise my full song productions. Up until very recently I'd never considered using LOW & HIGH filters meaning all my previous 'finished' (or so I thought!) recordings to date must feature whole rafts of 'stacked' accumulative extraneous noise! So, continuing my studies into this, my question to you today folks is: WHAT instrument(s) do you filter in your mixes and WHERE (what frequency) do you tend to filter them? To get the ball rolling, here's some seemingly useful opinions on this particular topic which I have stumbled across so far to date. That said, I'd be VERY interested to hear more thoughts & comments about this (especially particular to working in Logic): HIGH PASS FILTERS A male vocal isn’t going to have much below 80hz so cut off everything below 80hz with a High-Pass Filter helps ensure that no additional content unrelated to the mix makes its way into the mix. Most often High Pass Filters are set to around 40Hz. We ‘feel’ these low frequencies more than we hear them. Most instruments and vocals have nothing besides mud below 50Hz. Use a low-cut filter on almost every instrument you use in your mixes, even for the bass. There isn´t much going on below frequencies of 80-100Hz, there’s nothing the human ear can hear way down there. All there is, is a sound mud which prevents your mixes to sound "clear" and makes all sound kinda muddy. Conversely, human frequency hearing range is 20 to 20000 hz therefore you should be careful not to over use filters! LOW PASS FILTERS Like-wise Low-Pass Filters can be used to restrict and reduce high frequency content. Use Low Pass filters on instruments that aren’t contributing significantly to the high frequencies of a mix. A 12” guitar speaker doesn’t produce much useable content above 8K.
  9. Eh?! That's what you get for typing with your left foot! Anyway, thanks again!
  10. Hey David! I'm sorry man, I thanked Jarle but, prior to that I THOUGHT I'd posted a long reply thanking you along the lines of 'what great analogies' but it appears I obviously didn't!! OK, unfortunately I've got 'bass player's thumb' tonight and having to type with 'my left foot' so I'll have to keep it brief suffice to say ... it was great help amigo & really helpful. I'm slowly working my way through the reference material and the penny is starting to drop. This is a GREAT forum! I'm starting to put theory into practice by getting used to experimenting with the digital gear and trying to understand where best to place those low cut filters! Thanks again.
  11. "Yup 9.1.8. on 10.6.8 is the most stable Logic Pro ever" - Lagerfeldt Just read this on another thread. That's what I've been running with NO problems up until I tried running the Abbey Road Drums software using the free Kontakt player - "D'oh!" So it's a Kontakt/AR problem then! Any advice folks? Drums sound really good but I can't get to the end of a song in play mode and, as for recording a stretch, forget it!
  12. Hi! I've been running Logic 9.1.8 on my OSX 10.6.8 Mac Mini with NO issues for some time now however, I recently bought the Abbey Road '60s Drums software and, in order to run it, downloaded the free Kontakt 5 Player. Unfortunately I've been getting crashes left, right & centre ever since! In fact I can rarely make it to the end of a project playback never mind trying to record a take! I've just realised that Kontakt 5 is designed to run with OSX 10.7 or above so that could perhaps be the root of my problem here? I've always been a bit cynical about upgrading my OS to be honest and have to date been of the opinion: "If it's not broken, don't fix it!" but since the addition of this Abbey Road software and associated Kontakt Player my system now feels very broken indeed! Any thoughts, advice and/or recommendations gratefully accepted as I need to get things back up and running again ASAP. Do you think I need to consider upgrading my OS and, if so, to what platform (oh, and how exactly?!) Thanks in advance good folks!
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