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VEGANGELICA · 06-09-2009, 09:01 PM

Hi, SATCHMO and Freebase,
Ahh! You posted new messages while I was working on my last one. Thanks for your support and suggestions! I do definitely want to figure out how to improve the recordings of my songs in a home setting. For me, this doesn't mean achieving perfection, because I realize that my skills are mediocre and may always be, although this doesn't mean one can't make music that one enjoys! :-) Also, my songs are driven by the lyrics, so less-than-perfect music might be forgiven by someone who actually likes the lyrics.

However, when I listen to the recordings I have made so far, I do see ways to improve the recordings (such as with the timing issues) that I agree should be solvable. Additonal problems are the pop at the beginning and end of the recordings (I always have the microphone on and then click on the ACID record button...perhaps I need to try the reverse or edit out the pop somehow), and ACID metronome ticks that seem to always be faintly in the background when I record a track using the ACID metronome (but listening to it through earphones, so there shouldn't be any sound reaching the microphone). The quality of my instrument playing and singing is a separate area I will probably always be working on!!

--Erica

06-09-2009, 09:01 PM	#11 (permalink)
VEGANGELICA Facilitator Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Where people kill 30 million pigs per year Posts: 2,014	Hi, SATCHMO and Freebase, Ahh! You posted new messages while I was working on my last one. Thanks for your support and suggestions! I do definitely want to figure out how to improve the recordings of my songs in a home setting. For me, this doesn't mean achieving perfection, because I realize that my skills are mediocre and may always be, although this doesn't mean one can't make music that one enjoys! :-) Also, my songs are driven by the lyrics, so less-than-perfect music might be forgiven by someone who actually likes the lyrics. However, when I listen to the recordings I have made so far, I do see ways to improve the recordings (such as with the timing issues) that I agree should be solvable. Additonal problems are the pop at the beginning and end of the recordings (I always have the microphone on and then click on the ACID record button...perhaps I need to try the reverse or edit out the pop somehow), and ACID metronome ticks that seem to always be faintly in the background when I record a track using the ACID metronome (but listening to it through earphones, so there shouldn't be any sound reaching the microphone). The quality of my instrument playing and singing is a separate area I will probably always be working on!! --Erica Last edited by VEGANGELICA; 02-15-2010 at 08:11 AM.