Posts Tagged ‘computer recording’
Recording with Samson G-Track
Hello
This question came in:
Hello, I have a problem with my cakewalk sonar le, When I playback the audio I have to? unplug the mike in order to hear it on my computer speakers and when the headphones are in it is really quiet playback PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
If you are using the G-track, and the output is assigned to the mic, which is an interface within itself, it’s trying to playback through the mic
You could plug your speakers into the output of the mic and play back, because the output will be better than through the standard computer sound card.
Danny
www.dannyjoneline.com
Cakewalk Sonar-Fading
Quesiton:
How do you fade out a song when finishing .
Answer:
One way to fade out a song mix:
If you have each track output assigned to the Master Bus at the bottom of
your screen in the bus section. If they are not, or are assigned to something else,
but all on the same one, simply fade the mix creating a volume envelope on that bus track, make your nodes on that volume envelope and fade as you wish.
You can also group all the tracks involved and fade all the volume envelopes at the same time
Danny
Cakewalk Sonar question
Question:
Samson G Track
Thanx
_Josh
Answer:
Here are a couple of things to try:
Select Options-Audio, click the Advanced tab, and try different values in the I/O Buffer Size textbox until you find a value that works well for your particular hard disk:
The default value is 64. Try reducing this value, to 32, then 16. After each change, close the dialog box (click “OK”) and re-test your project’s recording/playback behavior.
If problem(s) persist, try increasing this value, to 128, then 256, then 512. Again, close the dialog box and re-try your project after each change.
If you have an older, slower computer or an older, slower hard disk, you should try increasing the buffer size; decreasing is not advised on slower hardware. However, increasing this setting uses more of your computer’s RAM. If you have a smaller amount of RAM in your computer, increasing the buffer size may not help.
If problem(s) persist, restore this value to its default and continue with the next step.
Try higher latency settings:
Select Options-Audio, and click the General tab. Move the Mixing Latency Buffer Size slider control to the right in small increments until you see the value to the right of the slider increase; close the dialog (click “OK”) and re-test your project after each increment.
If problem(s) continue, move the slider control back to its original position, and try increasing the number in the Buffers in Playback Queue textbox. (This value starts out at 4; try increasing it to 5, 6, 7, or 8). Close the dialog (click “OK”) and re-test your project after each such change.
The total effective latency is displayed below the slider; it is determined by multiplying the per-buffer latency time (in msec) by the number of buffers in the playback queue.
If problem(s) continue, click the Advanced tab in this dialog, and turn off the WavePipe Accelerator checkbox. Click OK to close the dialog and re-test your project.
If problem(s) persist, turn the WavePipe Accelerator checkbox back on, and continue.
Mixing latency may be set too low
Samson C01U Driver Settings in Sonar
Question:
I plugged in my Samson C01U and don’t see my mic when trying to select it in the driver settings in Sonar
Answer:
You pobably need to change the driver settings by going to audio options, advanced, and under “Playback Recording”, Driver Mode, set it for MME-32bit
Then, move to the next tap called “Drivers” and see if your USB mic is in there
make sure it is checked
If you have a version of Sonar before Sonar 8, it will have to be closed and reopened to reset the driver settings
After making these changes, you should be able to see your USB mic in there
Be sure to select it
Good Luck
Questions about…
If anybody has any computer recording or audio questions, please post them here. This could be equipment, software, anything. If I don’t have the answer, maybe someone else will
Thanks!
Danny Jones
Make Money As A Voice Talent? Why not?
It is possible to make money as a voice talent! Many people have a great speaking voice just naturally. Some can do character voices..that is, they can annimate their voice to sound like different, but believable character. I owned a professional recording studio for 20+ years, and saw many people work very little to make lots of money just standing in front of a microphone.
Here is one case that even amazed me… We had a friend renting space in our building to book bands. He had been a drummer/singer for years, so he did have some experience being in front of a microphone.
We were working with J Walter Thompson ad agency on some Ford radio and TV commercials at the time, and they needed a voice to put on a musical demo we had just recorded. We asked “Jim” if he would record a demo voice over so they could present the music to the dealer group, to which he replied, “sure, why not?”
To try making a long story short, the dealer group liked his natural, believable voice so much, that he was hired to be the voice talent for the whole campaign, which ran several months! It also had to be a union job, so he got paid scale, which was as much as other professional voice talents were making.
Jim would go to the mailbox everyday just to see how much money would come in the mail! He must have made about $25,000 over the next few months, for very little work. Not bad!
You could be the next discovery in the voice over business…you just never know.
Stay tuned and I’ll give you a few tips on how to get started…