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Elitesmg on "Certain Death Vocal Effects (Q for Brad)"

Elitesmg — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:46:04 +0000

Thank you, Brad:)

Brad on "Certain Death Vocal Effects (Q for Brad)"

Brad — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:40:56 +0000

I've never used GarageBand before so I'm not sure. Off the top of my head I think the vocals are doubled, low-end rolled off and very compressed. Then there's some delay on everything I think.

Elitesmg on "Certain Death Vocal Effects (Q for Brad)"

Elitesmg — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:14:04 +0000

Hey, Brad, I was wondering;what effects did you use for your vocal track on Certain Death? I plan on doing a cover and can't really get the vocals completely right in GarageBand. Another question, would it be possible to get the exact effects with GarageBand?

cole_us on "Help me start out with acoustic guitar"

cole_us — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:27:14 +0000

If you want to http://www.hotstrings.net/order.php?cat_id=2learn acoustic guitar I think that the best going would be to get an online source.

This is our new fast-track beginner course without notes. In 30 daily lessons youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll learn the most important chords to accompany various styles. YouÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll learn the different styles such as easy ballad, folkpop ballad, groove pop, pop ballad, and more, by playing together with the band. Direct downloadable to your pc.

Brad on "Help me start out with acoustic guitar"

Brad — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:20:52 +0000

I recommend the book Guitar For Dummies. It comes with a CD and is a pretty good introduction.

It depends what your goals are. I never had much interest in reading music or becoming a virtuoso, so I was more interested in learning to play songs I liked via guitar tabs & chords rather than practicing scales. Though I did wind up doing some scales eventually.

njerry on "Help me start out with acoustic guitar"

njerry — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:06:50 +0000

My regards to the community. I already have a taste of music as I played Saxophone for 6 years and sang in choir for 5. I want to have my fingers going on an acoustic guitar. I already own 2. . I was wondering if anyone could tell me a good way to start out. What should I be doing, etc... That kind of stuff. Any advice would be great.

Thanks

buildingonfire on "producing"

buildingonfire — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:46:05 +0000

Yeah, Behringer equipment is a good way to get started. It's not the best out there, but it's cheap and it works okay.

Brad on "producing"

Brad — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:26:07 +0000

SPDIF is just a digital connection. My BOSS GT-6 has SPDIF out but I've tried it a couple times and it didn't make much of a difference quality-wise and it was weird. Word clocks and odd syncing things I didn't want to mess with.

I use a PreSonus BlueTube, it's pretty decent. I assume the m-Audio Buddy would be fine to start with though. Can't be worse than the Behringer preamps I recorded a lot of my stuff on.

I've never used the XENYX but I have a Behringer Eurorack UB1204 PRO and it's fine. The preamps are a little gross to me now and the phantom power seems to be stuck on for some reason, but it was cheap and has done the job.

mcr1s on "producing"

mcr1s — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:00:48 +0000

I guess youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re right about the spdif and delta 44. By the way, where do you use spdif?
About the microphone of course I need a preamp and I'm thinking to buy PreSonus BlueTube or m-audio Buddy (economical)
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/AudioBuddy-main.html
or m-audio DMP3
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/DMP3-main.html
Now what about the mixer? I mean if IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m going to buy a mixer do I need a mic preamp? As I know the mixer is a preamp too and whatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s your opinion about the Behringer XENYX 1204 Mixer?
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHXENYX1204
Thanks

Brad on "producing"

Brad — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:33:25 +0000

Looks good to me, though I have no experience with M-Audio's monitors or microphones. They're probably fine though.

Unless you have a use for the SPDIF on the Delta 66, I'd save the $20 or whatever and just get a Delta 44.

How are you getting your microphone into the Delta 44? Got a preamp?

mcr1s on "producing"

mcr1s — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:04:34 +0000

Hi brad.
I want your opinion about some of the recording equipment that IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m ready to buy.

1) Studio monitors M Audio-Studiophile BX5a.
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=studiomonitors

2) Sound card like yours M Audio Delta 66.

3) Microphone M-Audio Aries or Nova.
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=microphones

Any suggestion or advice from you is respectable.

Brad on "BFF account management"

Brad — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:56:11 +0000

Okay the CSS in this forum is pissing me off. Making that column wider is blowing my mind.

brianwanamaker on "BFF account management"

brianwanamaker — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:20:59 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up; I've added my icon.
Note: I am not secretly French.
Note: "Not that there's anything wrong with that."

brianwanamaker on "BFF account management"

brianwanamaker — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:51:19 +0000

Huh. Thanks! I did /not/ notice that the usernames are hyperlinks. I'll add an avatar pic shortly.

Brad on "BFF account management"

Brad — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:44:32 +0000

Once my computer issues get sorted out I'll widen the username column a bit so it's not overlapping like that.

Also if you click on your username there should be a link to "edit this information" on that page. I should probably make that clearer and easier to get to as well.

brianwanamaker on "BFF account management"

brianwanamaker — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:29:49 +0000

Thanks -- I can't even figure out where to add the pic to my account though - did you do it during signup? I remember that link, but didn't have anything handy at that moment, and now I'm stumped.

Austin on "BFF account management"

Austin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:57:07 +0000

I can't help with the username part but for the icon i had to convert my picture to a gif and then change the size of it, im not entirely sure to what though but i will try to find out

brianwanamaker on "BFF account management"

brianwanamaker — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:38:38 +0000

I'd like to change my username so it doesn't cut into the text boxes. I'd also like to associate a silhouette icon with my account.
Where can I do these things?

Brad on "producing"

Brad — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:15:46 +0000

I put compressors on most tracks. Specifically vocals and bass and drums. Then generally I add a little bit of compression on the master.

I don't have much experience with mobile recording. I have a Firewire 410 for my laptop but I'm mainly trying to use it for live performance, not recording. Seems like it would work okay.

mcr1s on "producing"

mcr1s — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:35:34 +0000

Hi Brad.
I have some questions again.
When you use compressors you use them for each instrument separately and then on master again for all instruments together? Is it right? I think that the studios doing this.
Also, whatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s your opinion about the mobile recording Interfaces like m-audio Fast Track Pro?

Brad on "producing"

Brad — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:02:05 +0000

Well, it definitely can be nice to have a real mixer. It's quicker and easier to adjust your mix real-time instead of using your mouse to individually adjust everything. But you can't easily keep a permanent record of your mix, so I'd be more inclined to use something like the BCF-2000 to control the software.

Also those huge mixing consoles have built-in effects and the ability to route to external effects, which is very useful if you have those things.

I used to use a mixing board back when I had a soundcard that had very few inputs (and I had different gear that needed more). My current one (Delta66) has four analog ins. I really only use two these days -- one for my microphone and one for a DI for my guitar/bass.

mcr1s on "producing"

mcr1s — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:56:49 +0000

Hi Brad,
You know I was in disagreement about the mixer with a friend who he is a musician too and he is producing his own songs with an almost similar to your equipment.
He was told me that the mixer is absolutely necessary because you canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t record many instruments or voices in one channel. I was believed that if you record one instrument at the time directly to pc with a good sound card and make the mix in software is right without using an outside mixer.
But why in all the Ã¢â‚¬Å“expensive studiosÃ¢â‚¬Â have so big mixers with 64 channels and more and they stand with pride in front of a mixer as big as a room? Just to put the monitors or headphones?
I guess that is for publicity and promotion. Probably is useful for live bands using many instruments or making music for movies. But this is not the bad thing. The worst is that even if you want to take your songs and go to a studio to record them they donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t care a lot about making you good job or they donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t know many things about producing. So you loose your time and money and the result is just a demo But
You are the living example of what I was thinking for a long time now and you did it with a very good idea good work and songs.
Anyway I want to send you something of my music to hear but I havenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t the right equipment yet to record something good.
To imagine how I record I use my guitar and an old notebook HP with onboard sound card. I have many softwares but no hardware. ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s why I'm going to take as a driver your equipment with a new athlon pc something that I wanted to do a long time now.
IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll do as soon as possible as I can to get the equipment to record a song for send you.

Brad on "producing"

Brad — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:12:55 +0000

Hey no prob about the questions, lets just see if I can answer them.

The only things I use my mixer for is as a switch for my headphones/monitors and gain control. I should replace it with something smaller. You may need something along those lines unless your sound card has a headphone input. But I do all my mixing with software.

Do you have any examples of your music? I might be able to give better feedback if I heard it. Also there are a lot of other folks around with skills far superior to mine that may be able to chime in.

mcr1s on "producing"

mcr1s — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:48:54 +0000

Hi Brad,
I understand that the key is compression and I know that is the most important thing but,
1) Even if I use plug-in compressors I canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t approach your excellent sound. I guess that I have a lot of practice to do.
2) The kind of music that it comes out to me is pop rock with some resemblances with yours Ã¢â‚¬Å“making me nervousÃ¢â‚¬Å“.
3) Do I need a mixer even If I have a good sound card like yours m-audio delta 66 or delta 1010? I mean that if i record for example the guitar or the voice directly into the sequencer or mixing software and then mixing with the mixing software is it right? or the sound must be mixed before.
Thanks and sorry for asking so many questions.

Brad on "producing"

Brad — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:31:40 +0000

Hi mcr1s. Glad you like the music.

Home producing isn't too hard but it's very time consuming. If you're already making demo songs you're already there. You just need to develop some more skills on recording/treating the sound.

The answers are different depending on what type of music you're making, though I would say the keys to having a professional sounding recording are practice and compression.

The #1 characteristic in "amateur" sound I think is crappy dynamics, audio level compression will help you get that under control.

mcr1s on "producing"

mcr1s — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:06:36 +0000

Dear Brad,
I learn about you accidentally.
I download the reaper audio software and when I run it
opened automatically a project song with the name
Ã¢â‚¬Å“making me nervousÃ¢â‚¬Â that is a super hit.
I admit that immediately found about you and I
congratulate your whole effort.
Now I want to ask you some questions because IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m a
musician too and making my own demo songs with my
guitar using Cubase, Fruity loops (for drum machine)
and Sound Forge.
How difficult is home producing? How can I process
your sound and producing level? I admit that I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t
have much knowledge in producing.

Thanks for your time
Emmanuel

Tony on "Anyone know what remix of Borderline this is?"

Tony — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:38:44 +0000

yeah reload magazine, you were in it too

Brad on "Anyone know what remix of Borderline this is?"

Brad — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:10:35 +0000

I seem to remember some Dutch snowboarding magazine/film company getting in touch with me a while back. Sweet.

Tony on "Anyone know what remix of Borderline this is?"

Tony — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:34:09 +0000

the DU mix was the first song i ever heard from brad sucks and it was in a dutch snowboardfilm called 'Today' or 'Fully Charged' i'm not sure and thats how i found your music Brad (the credits sed bradsuck.net)

nedrubwerd on "Anyone know what remix of Borderline this is?"

nedrubwerd — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:22:49 +0000

It's my favorite as well. I actually had it playing in the background of this video I posted on YouTube in which I was blowing up an old PlayStation unit in my kitchen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-1J_a0DuY

I must warn you, I get a bit too excited in that video.