Audionews.ru Sign Up - March 2nd
 

www.audionews.ru is having an open registration coming up. It's still a ways away, but everyone into recording software, plug-in's and VSTi's needs to be on this site.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6...dionewspv8.jpg

Those are all programs for Mac, but their forums are filled with mostly PC applications.

Haha, this is probably retarded, but do they have Guitar Pro 5.x for Mac?

Thanks I gotta check this out

Damn I'm pumped! Thanks for the info bro!

I'm gonna feel guilty about this software downloading eventually... When I realized that the Waves Mercury bundle I downloaded months ago is worth $12,500 I almost shit a brick.

Bookmarked.


12,500$? Wow

Who the fuck would pay $12,500 for software?

I'll be there.

Audio professionals. It's pretty unethical to profit off of downloading plug-in's and software if you're selling your services to musicians.

However, I don't think there is a problem using the software for personal projects or to learn it and try it before purchasing it. As long as you don't make money using it.

I want Waves C4 for Mac. Someone needs to crack that bitch.

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3344711/...d.OSX.RTAS.VST[k].sit (copy and paste that whole thing)

It's in there.

Waves Mercury is $12,500 because it has like every single plugin they make, and most of them are like $800 each if you buy them separately. I might buy Waves Gold or something some day, because I only mess around with like 4 of the plugins in the Mercury bundle, but the Mercury bundle was all I could find...

I LOVE YOU!!!

yeah that didn't work. laaaame. hopefully this Audionews site has more reliable cracks.

Bummer, sorry man! What part of it didn't work?

I couldn't open it after I d/l it. It was just a blank document that said, "Choose Application to open file" (was an SIT file) or something like that when I would click on it. I even uninstalled it, d/l it again and saved it in my VST folder. Still didn't work.

The SIT file is a webpage, you have to open it in your browser and download the torrent from there :P

Here's the direct torrent link...

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/334...d.OSX.RTAS.VST[k].sit.3344711.TPB.torrent

I know that, but I'm saying that after I have it d/l, it's still a blank document. When I double click on it, my Mac "grabs" it and nothing happens. Same thing happened when I d/l the file you just posted.

Do you have a Torrent client like uTorrent? You have to open the torrent file in a program like BitTorrent or uTorrent and then it connects to people all over the world who have the same torrent file seeding and it downloads the actual files from them...

I used Azureus for this file. I just d/l BitTorrent right now and I'll see if it works using that. Probably won't though, haha.

Haha well in that case I guess you're fucked. Sorry bro!

but what I noticed when I d/l Azureus was that it said it had an error d/l some read only file that mentioned plug-ins. I'm thinking that's why it didn't work but who knows. Still waiting on it to finish d/l in bittorrent though.

this is one of the reasons why I just fucking buy my software, haha. gets rid of all the bullshit that goes with illegal d/l.

damn, still didn't work.

You should start using Reaper as your DAW, it comes with a pretty fuckin' good multiband compressor that would keep you happy while you save up for C4 ;)

Forgot you're on a Mac though... Reaper for Mac should be out soon though!

REAPER OS X latest beta...
www.reaper.fm/files/osx_early/reaper071.dmg

but, but... I wanted to try out Andy's C4 settings, haha.

Reaper seems cool, but I just threw down $400 on Cubase 4 and I'm still learning everything about it so I don't really want to change platforms so soon if you know what I mean.

Do you use Reaper now or are you still doing all your audio stuff in Cool Edit Pro? Got any new clips besides that gay metalcore song :p

Reaper all the way for me, best fucking DAW software I've ever used. I was using Cubase SX3 before I switched over to Reaper. Reaper is faster, easier, has way better routing and has a ton of awesome features that a lot of the competition doesn't have. And it's 3mb haha... Plus it's updated like every 4 days and the creator is on the forum all the time adding features that people ask for.

I'll have some new shit up in a few weeks when I get home and start using my new Mackie Onyx 1200F, but for now here's a super rough demo of a thrash song me and my buddies sort of wrote as a joke, tracked through a Focusrite Saffire Pro and mixed in Reaper...

http://www.ashesofthefallen.net/sharkattack2.mp3

Damn, reaper sounds awesome. I'm going to give it a shot.

I used audionews.ru, but didnt like it that much. Now I use proaudiotorrents.org and audiozonetorrents.com, and I think those sites have open signups once a month too.

that sounds really annoying actually.

the clips you posted sounded pretty good. I take it that's the VAMP your using isn't it? how many mics on the drumkit? Sounds like you mixed in the sample kick you use too.

where's my Oink invite nigga :p

Oink? :emot-look

I've got the waffles invite just sitting there, but their invite system sucks. It's fully random when they open invites, and I check all the time, but they're always closed... I'll invite as soon as I see them open.

that's what I meant. Same thing right? haha.

7 mics on the kit, 2 overheads and a mic on each drum. Gonna try using a bottom snare mic as well next time though.

http://www.ashesofthefallen.net/alexdrums1.jpg
http://www.ashesofthefallen.net/alexdrums2.jpg

Try mic'ing the soundhole on the side of the snare with a pencil condenser or a 57. If it's a decent enough condenser, you might even use that more in your mix than the top. I really like this method. Just be mindful of it's position regarding the hi-hat and other cymbals, it will pick up bleed, but it's easy enough to gate that shit out. It's also much easier to keep in phase than having a mic underneath the snare, IMO. But, with DAW's, it's easy to sample nudge waveforms to fix any phase issues.

I'm all about the Zeppelin minimal micing techniques. 3 mics on the drums! If you have a good sounding room (very important), badass microphones, and a bad ass drumkit, then it should come out awesome assuming you know what your doing. I used 8 mics when I recorded my first band at school but ending up ditching 5 of them because of phase and bleed issues. Fuck 32 mics on a drumkit like some albums I've heard recently, that's ridiculous, haha.

I use 4, but I would use a couple more if I had the resources. Right now I've just got 2 overheads, 1 kick, 1 snare. All the recordings I do are just for fun anyways, so it's not a big deal.

Might not be able to record for a while though because our studios getting torn down due to a piece of shit neighbor... :emot-fail

I've heard of people damaging the diaphragms in their mics trying to do this... how far away do you position the mic?

1 inch off-axis, 2+ inches on axis. Both give different results. Though, I really don't think SPL damage is an issue with this method for a small diaphragm condenser microphone. Don't use a ribbon though. If you decide to use a 57, there's no way SPL's from any instrument on a drum kit could damage that mic.

And yeah, I agree with ChAAPY, I would never personally use more than 10 mics on a kit (and that is absolute maximum). I usually stick to 6 or 8. 2 large diaphragm condensers for overheads, SM57 and a Sennheiser e614 for snare (57 top, 614 side), 1 AKG D112 or an Audio Technica ATM-25 for kick drum, and Sennheiser 421's for accent toms (unless the overheads pick them up well enough). The only case this year where I went over 8 mics is when I had accent mics for 6 toms, two overheads, one snare and the kick.

Although, you can still get really nice drum sounds from just 4 mics, like ChAAPY suggested. One stereo mic, or a mono large diaphragm condenser right over top, then a snare and a kick mic.

The best drum mixes nearly always come from a good source signal. Never resort to "fixing it in the mix". Always try your best to get a great signal at the source, then mixing will become so much easier.

I would like to hear some of your recordings, Ouroboros!

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8...xdrums2sz6.jpg

How did this mic sound? If it's polar pattern is cardiod, then the pickup would basically be as I drew. Omni or figure 8 wouldn't have sounded too bad like that. But, is there a reason you pointed it towards the back of the room?

I will post some near final mixes in the "listen to my recordings thread". I'm doing another session on March 8 with a pretty wicked prog metal band. So I will post some mixes from that. But if you want to hear some alt. rock I've been practicing with, or some sketchy black metal with a drum machine, then I will post some mp3's. It would be nice to get some constructive criticism from you guys too.