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First studio demo of The Calm Before The Storm. :D

Dec 20, 2004 03:47

Ok, I've recorded a rough demo of The Calm Before The Storm now. I was in a bit of a hurry because my friend wants his bass back before christmas so the most important track was obviously the bass track. I will probably re-record at least the vocals, and I will make the drumbeat a bit more interesting too. I will also add some piano, or electric ( Read more... )

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mechanixx December 20 2004, 03:51:02 UTC

Steven Wilson! get out off that body ! lol

It's really nice.....I like this opeth/porcupine tree groove a lot.

Is the bass a bit too loud tho?

I need to compose seriously :p

fisken_uno December 20 2004, 04:33:25 UTC

Thank you. :)

Yes, the bass is too loud. Mixing with teh headphones suck. I always end up mixing the bass too loud.

Currently re-recording it a bit slower. :)

My fucking Creative soundcard should be blown to pieces btw. I can't believe that I actually paid as much as I did for this piece of crap. A friend of mine has an M-Audio soundcard and a slower processor than me and he gets a LOT less hassle when recording. Fuck it.

mechanixx December 20 2004, 04:47:02 UTC

I actually records with an old Sounblaster.......the one I had in my P3.....and it seems it doesn't like much my Athlon ...lol ... Sometimes it just..how to explain?..The sound will get all fucked up, as if there was a problem with my processor speed and the recording itself.....

Ah well...

fisken_uno December 20 2004, 05:16:40 UTC

...but the point is that mine is not an OLD Creative card. I've got an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro and it works fine for many things, but recording and working with audio processing is a bitch. They claim that the card is aimed at musicians, but what the hell do they know...? They can't even write proper drivers for their cards. Their forums are full of angry customers but what do they care?

I mean it's pretty funny because when the CPU load meter is at 25% or 50% the card will act as if the CPU was screaming with agony. Not always though, but every now and then. I tried changing the PCI latency setting in the bios yesterday and last night it seemed to work VERY well. But today it's teh fucking same again. I deeply regret that I didn't buy the Terratec card people recommended instead of this miserable excuse for a soundcard.

mechanixx December 20 2004, 05:39:05 UTC

MM I see........It sucks big time then....

The best thing would be to have a dedicated puter for recording music.
And a mixing table.....etc
All very expensive.......but oh well, I don't complain that much because I'm rather happy with what I can do....:D

fisken_uno December 20 2004, 05:59:54 UTC

Yeah, that's true. As a matter of fact I suspect that my problems are indeed *drum roll* IRQ RELATED :D Actually, it reports that the soundcard has it's own IRQ but after having looked up some info about ACPI - which is apparently better left off on W2k, but recommended to be turned on on XP - it seems that you can install ACPI with virtual IRQs (IRQs over 15 iirc) or withOUT it. It seems that XP installs with it turned on by default on a hyperthreading machine. In other words, despite reporting that the soundcard has it's own IRQ it might in reality share it with something else. I'd suspect the network connection as such activities seem to have a HUUGE impact when working with audio. Now, I'm on a broadband connection so I'm always connected - which means that I haven't really tried working with music and having it disabled... Maybe that would work a lot better. If I had some more money I'd be happy to have a dedicated machine - preferrably a mac ( ... )

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