Sound Design Stack Exchange
Sound Design Stack Exchange

Most Popular

more tags
1500 questions
7
votes
2 answers

How to reduce bleed on vocal and instrument mics in a live recording?

I've been mixing the multitrack Logic project files of a live performance. Overall audio quality is good, but there's a lot of bleed on the tracks. Bleed is expected in a situation like this, but it's worse than is usual due to the acoustics of the…
Goodbye Stack Exchange
  • 1,641
  • 3
  • 12
  • 23
7
votes
5 answers

How can I manually emulate the sonic abilities of the NES?

I am interested in recreating chiptunes in a NES (8 bit) style A google search has shown that the original NES had 2 pulsewave, a triangle, noise, some sort of sampling channel and that emulations of these sounds can be obtained from various VST…
Willbill
7
votes
5 answers

Voiceover drowns in music. How do I make it more dominant?

Total newbie here, not sure if this is the right place to post this. I'm trying to record some station IDs for an online radio station thingamajig I'm doing. I'm using a Samson C03U. My voiceovers sound okay when isolated. However, I've noticed that…
Pieter
  • 413
  • 6
  • 10
7
votes
1 answer

Imitating a phone call?

I was wondering if there was an easy way to do a voice over of a phone call with it actually sounding like someone on the phone instead of just a voice over?
johnny1bucket
7
votes
1 answer

What are the most common text-based music/audio notation systems?

I am trying to find a good all-text (type able) musical notation system that already exists* and that has some usage and credibility. Ideally, such a system would allow very simple musical notation: D2 E2 C2 C1 G1 As well as allow for the…
jlarson
  • 153
  • 1
  • 8
7
votes
6 answers

What key features should I look for when purchasing a mic for podcasting?

I'm looking to set up a podcast, and want to get started with the right equipment. My problem is I have no idea what I'm looking for in a mic, and what other things I need to record good quality audio. I would prefer it if I could have some kind of…
Ciaocibai
7
votes
4 answers

How to reproduce any sound

This may be a silly question, but it is one I don't know and I haven't found an exact answer to it. A speaker can reproduce virtually any sound through vibration sequences, using an electromagnet. This means virtually any sound can be stored on a…
dthree
  • 191
  • 1
  • 6
7
votes
3 answers

creating glissando/portamento with piano roll editors

I've been using several Midi sequencers with piano roll editors (Ableton, Reaper) and none of them seem to have a straightforward way to join two or more note events into a single glissando or portamento. I don't see a way to edit pitch bend wheel…
lurscher
7
votes
2 answers

Why does does my audio go out of sync every time I reencode either the audio or video stream?

I have a video in an AVI container. The video is H264 AVC and the audio is VBR MP3. (I don't know if this is relevant— I recorded it in from an analog video capture card, from a VHS. The frame rate can vary when playing VHS tapes.) When I…
jnm2
  • 171
  • 1
  • 4
7
votes
2 answers

How to judge preamp and A/D quality on a USB audio interface?

I'm looking for an audio interface for casual recording. There are things it's easy to tell from specs -- number of channels, connectors, phantom power, etc. -- but I don't know any way to tell if an audio interface actually sounds good. I'd say…
thehiatus
7
votes
5 answers

Headphones to block outside noise

In a live recording environment, what "style" of headphones should I use to monitor what I am recording - in other words which block out the outside sound best. Are in-ear headphones completely inappropriate for instance?
fluteflute
7
votes
3 answers

What's the difference between dynamic and condensor microphones?

When someone talks about a dynamic or condenser microphone, what do they mean? How do these classes microphones differ, and are they used for different things? Are there any more subdivisions of microphones within the spectrum of dynamic and…
WLPhoenix
7
votes
3 answers

Getting the kick drum to really come out in the mix?

When I get done with a mix, no matter how much I work on the bass drum it barely comes out. I'm mainly working with metal bands, so I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers/ suggestions/ answers on how to make the kick stand out in the mix.
Jasper James
7
votes
1 answer

Is there a 'diff tool' for audio?

Ideally in Premiere Pro, I'd like to have a way of seeing the changes I make to an audio file that I edit in Audition to be reflected in a workable format for the video editing in Premiere Pro. I've got an audio-video recording of an on-screen…
Sean Allred
  • 171
  • 4
7
votes
4 answers

How can I get a basic transcription of an audio recording using voice recognition?

I like to record the older folks in my family. I put my recorder on the table and we just chat. Just hanging out. Most of the resulting footage is not interesting but occasionally, I get a gem. Some story from way back told in a way that's just…
mmccoo
  • 171
  • 2
1 2 3
…
99 100