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  1. Oh hell yeah. Thanks Jakob, that might be the last step I needed.
  2. Ahh interesting, got it. Yeah I see how this could work, although I guess, to your point about Producer v. Regular kit, I'm losing my control over the individual drum tracks this way. Maybe I could move the snare only to a separate sampler track to control the randomization. Seems like this kind of workaround shouldn't be necessary, but I very much appreciate you helping me locate the source of the problem!
  3. Thanks, David - I've never actually used Sampler before, so I'm not totally following - what do you mean by "load the Speakeasy patch"? I successfully created a new track with Sampler as the instrument, but I'm not sure where to go from there (the Speakeasy kit isn't one of the selectable kits within the Sampler drop-down menu).
  4. Hi David, thanks for the response. Yes, it's Drum Kit Designer, and specifically the Speakeasy+ Producer Kit (see attached). I was wondering if this might be some kind of intentional randomization...I'm all for it if it's subtle, but this definitely is not. Is there any way to control the randomization or the degree of the modulation?
  5. This problem has plagued me across a few projects now, and I've scoured the internet as best I can (including on this forum) without being able to find a direct answer. I use Drummer to outline drum parts for my songs, then I pull the Drummer part over to a MIDI track for more tweaking and so that I can have full control over velocity, etc. Lately, I've been getting random modulation on some hits, most notably the snare (it could be happening to other drum parts too, but those would be less noticeable). In other words, a snare hit with a particular articulation/velocity/volume will fire normally and sound as it should, and then the next snare hit - with EXACTLY the same parameters - will hit way louder or softer. What's more, it's not even different identical notes this applies - if I repeat the same note over and over, it will modulate dramatically from play to play (I just did this and watched the same snare hit go from -24 to -21 to -18 and back). Needless to say, this makes a huge difference to the sound of the drum part in a very negative way - volume is just all over the place. Not sure what's going on, and any help would be extremely appreciated. I don't understand how literally the same MIDI note can fluctuate like this. Happy to provide additional screen caps or notes if helpful, please ask!
  6. Just for reference for anyone else who encounters this problem and is as stupid as I am: It turns out that I had the low-cut switch and the -10dB switch on my condenser mic on for all of those harsh treble-y recordings. Explains everything, and I'm an idiot. So if you ever find that there is a curious lack of mid-to-low range on your recordings and a surplus of harsh treble, check for any offending switches on the mic before you do anything else. Whoops.
  7. Yeah, sorry I meant 6 khz. I'm not particularly awesome with my terminology.
  8. Problem solved. Looks the main issue was definitely the room in which I recorded my vocals, which should come as no surprise to anyeone - I'd just gotten sloppy and lazy with setting up a good environment. All it took was me changing rooms to find one that sounded relatively "dead" and then setting up a blanket behind my mic. New vocals sound phenomenal, and I still did a little bit of EQing around the 6db level to smooth it out. Thanks for everyone's input.
  9. Once again, thanks for all the suggestions. I've tried out a couple of the plug-ins that were linked to above and they seem pretty solid, although I'm unsure about how exactly to use them most effectively. I've messed around with the EQ analyzer and it looks like the harshness was happening somewhere 6db, not at the very top like I had thought. Still not sure I'm skilled enough to eliminate it entirely, but I'm working on it. In the meantime, does anyone have any suggestions for plug-ins to make vocals sounds generally awesome? Specifically, I can't ever seem to settle on a reverb in Space Designer. Is there one that is your go-to reverb for vocals? I'm going for a very warm, smooth, present sound. Any other methods to go about achieving this sound? At risk of offering a really lame example, John Mayer's vocals on Heartbreak Warfare (and that album in general) are sort of what I'm looking for.
  10. Thanks guys. At the very least this will be helpful as a tutorial for the proper chain of plug-ins - mine have been sort of haphazardly arranged without a lot of thought put into the order. Also good to know that my mic is not a dinosaur. What would yall suggest as the easiest way to acoustically treat the recording room? All my stuff is in a small sunroom on the side of the house. Should I just hang blankets on the walls or something?
  11. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voices-only-2009-college-cappella/id333148614?uo=4 Sorry, there's a working link.
  12. I use an AT3035 from circa 2003. No, the room that I record in is in no way acoustic treated, but I don't really have a whole lot of good options to correct that. Also, I don't use a preamp, I just plug directly into my MBox. Obviously, I'm working with a pretty budget home studio, but I was hoping there was a way to at least keep my music from making listeners' ears bleed. Ha and no, I don't really consider my voice harsh. I've been recorded by others on various occasions, so I know that my voice can sound fine at high volume, I just don't really know how to do it. Listen to "Gotta Get Thru This" on the following album - that's me: Voices Only 2009 College a Cappella (Disc 2) - Various Artists But that was professionally done. I'd like to be able to do that myself. Thanks for the help so far, guys.
  13. This is a pretty broad question, but it's been bugging me in my recordings for a while. Even if I have the source volume at a reasonable level (not close to peaking or anything), the sound of my vocals at the top of my range (loud + high) creates a harsh treble-y sound on the track. While a "you suck at singing" joke is obviously appropriate here, I'm only talking about the texture of the sound recorded. I record using an older AudioTechnica condenser mic - could it just be old and crappy? Is there a way for me to EQ the harshness out? Any other tricks? Can it be fixed by a professional mastering studio? I lost the shock mount for my mic a while back - could that be doing it? I currently just have it directly clamped into a standard claw mount. I've tried to get a shock mount a couple of times, but apparently my mic is a little fatter than most today and it won't fit in any that I can find for sale. Any kind of help would be much appreciated.
  14. Option #2 was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, Redlogic.
  15. Thanks for the help, everyone. I don't know how to automate the Bypass function of the Delay Designer (since I don't see it in the drop-down menu for the plug-in in Automation) so for now I'm muting and then turning up the Wet Signal. The problem now is that Delay Designer seems inclined to apply itself the entirety of the phrase, no matter where in the phrase I automate the increased Wet Signal. For instance, I want only the word "sting" in the phrase "static sting" to delay, so I had the Wet Signal automated to increase from Mute to -12.0 DB right in front of the word "sting," but the entire phrase is being delayed. Is there some kind of knob I can tweak or button I can push to prevent Delay Designer from effectively looking backwards in the phrase? I want to pinpoint short words to be delayed without incorporating everything around them. For reference, I'm using a delay that I created myself with the Tap feature.
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