Oh, one more thing: whenever I’ve done digital mixes in the past, I was able to get away with using headphones. I haven’t heard the Focusrite pres, but am willing to bet that my API’s sound better for electric guitar. The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 looks about right price-wise, but it has a bunch of features that I don’t need.
The guitar parts that I’ll be adding are mostly background and incidental, and this kind of situation doesn’t come up that often, so it’s not necessary to buy the most high-quality gear. Does such a thing exist? I’ll just be doing guitar overdubs, so two channels would suffice. I’ve looked around and can’t seem to find an interface without preamps I already have loads of great pres that I would like to use. Second, and maybe related, I need an interface to get audio into Reaper. They files are 96/24 WAV files and when I import them into Reaper, the upper right corner of the program says:Ĥ8kHz 24bit WAV: 2/2ch 1024spls ~41/174ms WaveOutĭoes this mean that Reaper is resampling the files down to 48/24? How do I make Reaper not do that? Would that be because of my computer’s sound card? I have an upcoming project that will require me to do some overdubs on a recording that was sent to me digitally. So, there are two things that I’m not so sure about. I’ve used Reaper to mix things for video games and commercials and such, but I’ve never recorded using it. Never had to, and the people that record with me don’t want to either, I suppose. Never used a computer in the making of an album. I’ve owned a studio for a bit over 15 years now, recording solely to tape. Hey guys, I heard a few shows, seems like maybe you can help with some issues I’m having. I apologize in advance if I screwed up some of the technical terms! If there is a way to do this, I would be able to compare both the original and the remaster at the exact same average RMS dB rating. With the above 3 plug-ins, you can see the dB rating move up and down with the music, but doesn’t give me the average for the selection I played.
I need some kind of RMS monitoring where I can listen to a 10-second clip, stop it, and then get the average RMS decibel rating for that 10-second clip I played.
I’ve used the TT dynamic meter range, free G Sonalkis and even the dfx rms buddy to accomplish this, but RMS can only be monitored in real time. I’ve tried to do this by ear, but it becomes very difficult because the remasters have lots of low end and the originals have more high end. It is absolutely imperative that both be played at equal volume because as we know, as humans, we tend to favor slightly louder versions of the same music. I have a blog where I compare the original versions of metal albums vs. I love this podcast and am glad I found it.