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#988982 - 08/23/03 06:11 PM Recording tips for cakewalk!
PETE_COMBS
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I've used the cakewalk software for awhile before and now me and a few other musicians are going to make a solo abulm on my laptop computer using cakewalk homestudio 2002 this time working on sonar right now,still in the waite of things,but I need some tips and tricks on how get better qaulity sound and efects,tools and and different ways of using the program.
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#988983 - 04/02/04 02:55 AM Re: Recording tips for cakewalk!
koolkid
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Originally posted by PETE_COMBS:
I've used the cakewalk software for awhile before and now me and a few other musicians are going to make a solo abulm on my laptop computer using cakewalk homestudio 2002 this time working on sonar right now,still in the waite of things,but I need some tips and tricks on how get better qaulity sound and efects,tools and and different ways of using the program.
get some good a/d convertors,24 bit soundcard,decent monitors and headphones,
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#988984 - 04/04/04 06:05 PM Re: Recording tips for cakewalk!
theblue1
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Nice mics are nice, too. ;\)

Take your time. Learn your way around Sonar. I don't know how much CW and Sonar have divereged (if much). I used CW Pro (or whatever it was called) until Sonar 1 & 2. (I'm sitting 3 out. Money was extra tight last fall. I'll pick it back up with 4.)

Sonar (like any of the major multitrackers, no doubt) has a lot of great features, and probably few of us use all of them.

Make sure you know how to use automation. I prefer "envelope" automation to running the console view and trying to record fader movements. (Even though I have 20 years of experience with analog recording and mixing boards.) Make sure you understand how the non-destructive editing features work -- they can save you an enormous amount of time and retain a lot of flexibility. (I missed the draggable cut/fade aspect of the clips for a couple weeks when they added that.)

Understand how the buss system works. It can be enormously handy. Heck, you can even "master" right in your project by putting EQ and compression on the master output buss.

Make sure you know how to use and automate your FX plug-ins, and, depending on your hardware, when to "print" an effect instead of keeping the live (CPU-sucking) plug-in, and so on.

Hmm... there must be more stuff I'm not thinking of. No coffee yet... Must get... coffee.
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#988985 - 04/30/04 11:44 PM Re: Recording tips for cakewalk!
artnoiser
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Hi Pete,

You might get more responses posting in another forum...
Since this is the business forum, a lot of folks that would feel that have the answer but are not business inclined never get to see your post...

...and never respond to it for of that reason.

Just a thought. Good luck!

artnoiser
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