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I used Slate Drums and then layered some more natural samples on top of them.

Honestly.. Youtube is your friend

Got back to the main classifieds page for an SM57... Hog is selling one there

Due to the demise of my band, I'm considering selling/trading my SL-X. It's a 1993 model. It's recently been retubed with Svetlana =C= 6L6's. There are 2 NOS RFT 12AX7's in V1 and V2, Pretty sure there's a Tung Sol and JJ in V3 and V4 but I've yet to confirm that. The power tubes have about 10 hours on them, max. It was biased by a tech and checked over at the same time.

The cloth on the front of the cab has been ripped, it's about the same size as a 50p.

I'm looking for 450 or I'd trade towards something interesting

For the ill informed who put the 900's under the "no good Marshall" column, this is one of the good 900's. It's based on the 800's with an extra gain stage. These are excellent amps for rock through to thrash metal.

The amp on top here.

You'll need something like Addictive Drums, EZ Drummer/Superior Drummer, Steven Slate Drums to make your midi file sound like a decent drum kit.

Look them up. I don't have a VST based recording setup, so I'm unsure if there are free options available.

Real sounding drums are doable with this method(note the velocities to get it to sound a bit more real). I'm working on a mix just now using midi drums. Not finished it yet, but I'm getting there, but I think these drums sound quite real.

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Good post. I've seen a few people on here, whose opinions I respect (yours very much with regards to audio recording especially), defend the use of auto tune very well. Personally, it's something I never even consider. It may come down to the fact I like little oddities in vocal performances, as it's more natural and adds charm and personality to a song. Well, in certain branches of music, anyway. I obviously understand that most music is almost obliged to have perfectly in-tune and in-time everything. Just a personal preference, I guess.

I should probably consider auto tune, because my vocals are gash. But the one time I tried it, my vocal was so out of tune that the auto tune aligned it with a completely different key. LOL. Fail.

Thanks very much man, I spend a lot of time reading and trying to learn stuff, so I appreciate that. I definitely agree with what you're saying about oddities. Sometimes stuff that isn't perfect works the best, I like character in things as well. Some stuff doesn't suit being perfectly in time and pitch perfect, but likewise, not everything suits being out of time and tune. There's a line... it's a fine line, but it's there.

As for your autotune, there's a graphical mode and an auto mode, use the graphical mode, gives you a lot more control over your tuning. It takes longer, but you can just fix one word in a whole phrase instead of tuning a whole vocal take.

Upi have pretty much summed up what i have never been able to say. Spot on in fact, exactly how i feel about it. It's subjective as well though, some musicians might suit there vocals to not sound clean and polished and have a rough sound to them. For the most part though, what autotune was made for was to fix small blips to save you rerecording everything. I consider it cheating when people use it as an effect by turning all the parameters to ten. Everyone knows it's just because they can't sing.

I consider it cheating when a vocalist sings like shit and expects the engineer/producer to fix it

I also hate the autotune "effect" that bands are using.

See this video for reference!

Wait for the bass player to sing

Out of interest, do you find you have to use auto tune a lot when recording vocals? Or are most singers you work with capable of singing? I'd like to know how many people actually utilise this feature. I initially thought pretty much nobody did...ever...but it's becoming apparent that it's increasingly common for vocalists to use auto tune when recording vocals.

Read an interview with any producer/audio engineer and if the question of autotune comes up, most of the time they say it's used. I think most stuff has autotune on it these days. I still try and get vocalists to sing as correctly as they can. I find if they go sharp, it's a lot better than going flat.

If they're going flat, the headphones are usually too loud and they can't hear themselves properly.

I use Autotune. Vocals are what most people focus on, especially the non-musicians, so they need to sound the best. I used to overdo autotuning, but I use it a bit less than I used to, that's for sure. At the end of the day, if a singer can't sing, then there's not much autotune can really do for them, especially if they want it to sound real. If you can sing and you're ill/having trouble with a line/having an off day, I see no harm in using it. It's much the same as when a drummer does a great take but hits a rim on a tom hit or goes out of time on a section, it can be fixed. Why would you spend another 3 hours of possible frustration to get that one bit perfect when the rest of the song was great?

I don't see Autotune as cheating, I see it as a handy tool that can fix a simple problem quickly. If you can use it well, it's great, if you don't have a clue what you're doing with it... it's a fuckin write off.

If you've got a good vocalist then comping is a great way to do stuff. I had a girl with a great voice doing a couple of acoustic songs, she was a great singer, none of this auto tune carry on, and we just did each part of the song twice and picked out what worked best for the song. If she/we thought she could deliver a line better, she went back and did it again.

Depends on the singer/time, as Adam pointed out. If you've got loads of time and the singer is good enough to deliver a consistent performance, go for it. If you've not got loads of time, perhaps doing verse by verse is the best way.

I recorded myself singing a Foo Fighters song not so long ago (I'm a fuckin horrible singer) but I did each verse at a time, dropped in for bits I thought I could get better and I ended up getting a better performance. It made me really concentrate on the bits I was really shit at.

I ended up with this, there's some tuning on this, but not that much

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I usually get vocalists to sing the song all the way through first time. Gets them into the swing of things and lets me hear all the vocals. Then I go back and do it all section by section, line by line if need be.

Can you not split the stereo file into mono?

My band split up this week and my old bass player is selling his rig.

Ampeg SVT-4 Pro Head in a rack case

Ampeg 4x10 HLF cab.

No idea how much he's looking for, drop me a PM and I'll put you in contact.

I got some new stuff, I need to post a rig picture. In fact, I need a decent camera, I'll get that first

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It's fairly gash. In fact, on a gash scale of 1-10(10 being really gash), I'd say it's easily a 9...9.5

The XT can be had for cheaper than that. If you got the XT Pro (which I had and sold for 200) then it's got S/PDIF and XLR outs as well. USB isn't really important when sending patches to the unit from your PC as the files are tiny. I have Pod Farm 2 Platinum, basically XT/X3 in software form and the dual amps are horrible sounding.

Just trying to save you some coin man

The X3 uses the same processing as the XT as far as I'm aware, and you could get the XT Pro with the add on bass packs for less than the X3. I sold mine for 200! Or you could hold off for the HD bass stuff and see if it's any good?

True dat, but by the time he buys the X3 and a good power amp, surely that'd be about 700? The X3 is 550 from Thomann, plus a good power amp... probably more than the 700 I thought of actually.

Get an Ampeg. My bass player got the SVT-4 Pro and it's great. Pop up occasionally for good prices every now and then.

Entirely disagree. If it's on par with the recent Squier output, I'd totally scoop a maple-necked jazzmaster. The butterscotch one is the tits.

Squier seem to have upped their quality of late. The Vintage Modified stuff is rather tasty... om nom nom

Not heard much about the X3 tbh. It's got the same models as the bass Pod as far as I remember but with the xlr ins and the USB stuff.

I'd stay away from it. Get an upgraded Ampeg rig

Look up videos on Youtube mate, the processing on them is far better than anything else I've heard. Pisses over Line 6 from a great height. It's a shame they cost so much though

Would love one of these

It's cool man, Balmedie sand is a bitch

I play two Les Pauls, both sound different. I just like the feel of them. He had a Jazz Bass before but he didn't like it as much

Jesus...chill out, I'm not having a go.

There's nothing not to like about the situation, I was just asking.

Perhaps it's you that needs to chill man, I wasn't having a go and you've clearly misinterpreted my response.

If I'd said "Because he fuckin wanted two" then yeah, have sand in your vagina, but otherwise... nah.

It's a great thing for sure. Two USA Precisions = win