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REQUEST: Windmill recordings

Hi folks, I've been enjoying Social Sound Design for many months now and find it to be an incredible resource for picking creative brains all over the world. What I haven't seen much of, however, is requests for sounds / offers of trades in return.…
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Real time fx in Reaper

I have a guitar fx vst that works fine in Reaper if I'm playing back the track. It adds the effects correctly and I can hear it. But how do I get it to do it in real time as I'm playing? Here is my ideal scenario: Have it record clean on one track,…
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Better playback in Sibelius

How can I get 'better' sounding playback when composing in Sibelius? Poor (or clearly synthesised) playback puts many people I know off using Sibelius. Or is this something that varies depending on the operating system, and version of Sibelius?
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Speed up a selection in reaper

I have a track recorded in reaper which I want to variably speed up and slow down as an effect behind my other tracks. Is this an option? Do I need a plugin?
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What is the difference between a balanced and unbalanced mono jack?

My Behringer Xenyx 1202 FX has "Balanced or Unbalanced Jacks". In addition the answer to this previous question reference both. What's the difference between the two types of Mono Jacks.
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How can I clean up my laptop's sound card input?

My Windows XP laptop has a sound card that's integrated with the motherboard. I've tried doing some recording directly into Audacity using my headset microphone, but I always get an unacceptable level of noise when I record that way. Using the…
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Propellerhead Reason: Tutorials?

I just love the kind of electronic music that people create with Propellerhead's Reason. I just acquired the software but I find it very difficult to use (I'm not very experienced in producing music) and would love some easy step-by-step…
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How do you properly place studio monitors cheaply?

I currently have my monitors sitting on foam but they are not at ear level. I am looking for ways to improve their positioning without spending a fortune on something like an IsoAcoustic stand. I was wondering if using a computer monitor stand to…
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Mono mixing - How to avoid mono "fatigue"?

I'm mixing down a live album from a mono source. The tracks contain guitar, mandolin, vocals, and backing vocals all on one mono track. The audio was captured straight from the tape-out of a mixing board, sent to the recorder before EQ and reverb…
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Is a MIDI-enabled keyboard and a Windows machine enough by itself to record piano music well?

(Apologies in advance if this is a vague question but it's probably my lack of understanding.) One of my keyboards is a Yamaha S90 ES. The piano voices on this KB are very nice out of the box. Ideally I'd like to capture my playing in a file that I…
John
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How to move a sound back and forth or up and down

It's easy to move a sound from left to right with panning. But is it possible to give the illusion the sound is moving away / toward / up / down the listener ?
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"Extreme" EQ curves

Is it bad to use EQs to an "extreme" extent? I use that word because of what my friend said about the settings of an EQ on a song we were helping a mix and master. He had something like this, but more a extreme frequency cut at ~75 and ~125 hz. I…
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Stereo panning, headphones and speakers difference

Should stereo panning be done differently while using headphones or speakers?
Sami
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How do I generate a chord (one bit)?

for a project, I am trying to generate a sound by directly accessing a loudspeaker. I can send a one-bit signal to the speaker and I know how to generate simple sounds by controlling the frequency (due to the rectangular pattern of my curve, it…
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why is higher sample rate changing the sound for the worse? I think its changing the pitch

I'm working on a current song which I posted an example of a while back when asking about why low frequency sawtooth oscillators change the sound. Since then I changed the base of the synth from NI Massive to Ableton's built in Operator synth. My…
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