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If anybody has any computer recording or audio questions, please post them here. This could be equipment, software, anything. If I don’t have the answer, maybe someone else will
Thanks!
Danny Jones
How to give your voice recording a “Pro” quality.
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i was wondering if there are anyways i could make my vocals sound “studio quality” or a little better. thanks.
To make your vocals sound more “studio quality”, add a compressor pluggin and just use a “voice or vocal” standard setting if you haven’t used it before. This keeps your voice level and out front. You also might boost the hi end a little, and maybe the low end to make the voice sound fatter if necessary. This also depends on what you are recording…voice over or vocal. Be careful not to add too much of anything…this usually sounds better at the time you are doing it, and bad later.
Danny Jones
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Recording with Samson G-Track
Hello
This question came in:
Hello, I have a problem with my cakewalk sonar le, When I playback the audio I have to? unplug the mike in order to hear it on my computer speakers and when the headphones are in it is really quiet playback PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
If you are using the G-track, and the output is assigned to the mic, which is an interface within itself, it’s trying to playback through the mic
You could plug your speakers into the output of the mic and play back, because the output will be better than through the standard computer sound card.
Danny
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How to export wave in Sonar
Got this question in:
How do I export to an mp3 or wave in Sonar LE.
Answer: To export to mp3, you will need either to buy the Cakewalk mp3 decoder or download the lame mp3 encoder, so my answer will deal with only a wave file. Make sure all the tracks you are mixing are selected, or highlighted
Go to file and export audio…click OK
When the box comes up, make make the file type “wave”
On the left select “What You Hear”, asuming you want to mix what you are hearing, make sure it’s set for stero, 44.100 Hz, and 16 bit if that’s what you want, choose a file name and foilder that you want your file in, and click “Export”
That should do it
Danny
www.dannyjonline.com
IPad…so cool!
My buddy just got an Ipad and wow, what a cool toy! Instead of carrying around his laptop and blackberry, he now is going to have everything on the Ipad…no need to use the laptop…he gets his email on it, as well as being about to surf the net quickly…it hooks up to whatever WIFI is in the building if possible, or uses the cell phone connection if WIFI isn’t available.
He got the 64 gig version, so memory isn’t a problem. The graphics are great!
He’s been on a diet, and gets all his weight watchers stuff on there, as well as an app that lets him look up all the fast food restauants to find out how many points the food has…
Oh, and he has over 5,000 songs on the thing!
And the features go on and on…I’m jealous!
Danny
www.creative-digital.net
www.kwiksounds.com
www.buyprosound.net
Adobe Audition good recording tool
Adobe Audition is a good editing software, although not as good or versitile Sonar in my opinion.
Before Sonar, I used Cool Edit Pro for years..it was a little tricky when it came to making sure all your files were saved…also, no midi
In Audition, midi in a limited form has been added, and you can import loops.
It also has some really good tools for cleaning up hiss and hum, etc.
Otherwise, for the composer, Sonar comes out way ahead…Audition isn’t even in the same league as Sonar..Just my 2 cents.
Samson C01U Great For Voice Talents
The Samson C01U mic is a great choice for the inexperienced recordist. It comes with Sonar LE, a truely professional recording program…this keeps you from having to resort to Audacity, which is the free program that many newbie’s use.
It have many built in effects, and, when you get ready, you can upgrade and already be used to the program.
The C01U is a large diaphram condenser mic, which means you get a professional quality sound, for under $100.
The cool things about this mic is, you can grab your laptop, go on location, plug in the USB cable, and you’re ready to record a podcast, audio book, whatever, with little setup or trouble.
Then you can go home and edit what you’re recorded with the Sonar software.
Cool! I’ve used it just this way for recording audio tours, and the results are terrific!
Danny Jones
Cakewalk Sonar-Fading
Quesiton:
How do you fade out a song when finishing .
Answer:
One way to fade out a song mix:
If you have each track output assigned to the Master Bus at the bottom of
your screen in the bus section. If they are not, or are assigned to something else,
but all on the same one, simply fade the mix creating a volume envelope on that bus track, make your nodes on that volume envelope and fade as you wish.
You can also group all the tracks involved and fade all the volume envelopes at the same time
Danny
Cakewalk Sonar question
Question:
Samson G Track
Thanx
_Josh
Answer:
Here are a couple of things to try:
Select Options-Audio, click the Advanced tab, and try different values in the I/O Buffer Size textbox until you find a value that works well for your particular hard disk:
The default value is 64. Try reducing this value, to 32, then 16. After each change, close the dialog box (click “OK”) and re-test your project’s recording/playback behavior.
If problem(s) persist, try increasing this value, to 128, then 256, then 512. Again, close the dialog box and re-try your project after each change.
If you have an older, slower computer or an older, slower hard disk, you should try increasing the buffer size; decreasing is not advised on slower hardware. However, increasing this setting uses more of your computer’s RAM. If you have a smaller amount of RAM in your computer, increasing the buffer size may not help.
If problem(s) persist, restore this value to its default and continue with the next step.
Try higher latency settings:
Select Options-Audio, and click the General tab. Move the Mixing Latency Buffer Size slider control to the right in small increments until you see the value to the right of the slider increase; close the dialog (click “OK”) and re-test your project after each increment.
If problem(s) continue, move the slider control back to its original position, and try increasing the number in the Buffers in Playback Queue textbox. (This value starts out at 4; try increasing it to 5, 6, 7, or 8). Close the dialog (click “OK”) and re-test your project after each such change.
The total effective latency is displayed below the slider; it is determined by multiplying the per-buffer latency time (in msec) by the number of buffers in the playback queue.
If problem(s) continue, click the Advanced tab in this dialog, and turn off the WavePipe Accelerator checkbox. Click OK to close the dialog and re-test your project.
If problem(s) persist, turn the WavePipe Accelerator checkbox back on, and continue.
Mixing latency may be set too low
Samson C01U/Sonar question
Question: When I record with the stereo setting on a track in Sonar using my Samson C01U mic, one side has a lower setting than the other…is there something wrong with my mic?
Answer: No…your mic has only one signal since it’s mono. You should record in mono because there isn’t but one signal coming into your mic.
Samson C01U Driver Settings in Sonar
Question:
I plugged in my Samson C01U and don’t see my mic when trying to select it in the driver settings in Sonar
Answer:
You pobably need to change the driver settings by going to audio options, advanced, and under “Playback Recording”, Driver Mode, set it for MME-32bit
Then, move to the next tap called “Drivers” and see if your USB mic is in there
make sure it is checked
If you have a version of Sonar before Sonar 8, it will have to be closed and reopened to reset the driver settings
After making these changes, you should be able to see your USB mic in there
Be sure to select it
Good Luck