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  1. A friend of mine recorded some tracks for a song with the instrumental I gave him. He sent them over and I find they're ever so slightly off. I've zoomed way in to see if there was a measurable amount they were moved but it's so small as to suggest any point I pick wouldn't be 100%. Can this result from not exporting with certain specifications?
  2. This must have a simple solution. When I edit volume automation, I might put one value on part of the track, let's say -17.4, and when I try to do the same elsewhere one the same track it only gives me -17.3 and -17.5. It never shows all the values, and it seems to switch between odd and even kind of arbitrarily. I don't know a way around this and I just keep moving the line until it eventually shows the correct values. Right now I've been doing it for like 10 minutes trying to get the value, hence my post! Thanks
  3. Hey everyone, I've been working for a composer for some time, and one thing we've been working on is promoting his music. I've tried different things myself, and I recently took a course on how to use FB/IG ads optimally. Thing is, this isn't my area of expertise, and I find a lot of my efforts to be futile. I've done research and tried to find paid services that try to promote an artist's music, but every time I look at reviews there are always some glowing 5-star ones, and then the ones where people give it 1 star and cite some pretty terrible stuff, like total lack of communication, 0 results, or no indication whatsoever of any real work behind the scenes. The one I looked at today was "Music Gateway", but I've found the same thing every time whenever I try to investigate a service. Does anyone know of any legit services?
  4. Seems the sound was on another track, my apologies. I think it's just the plugin that emulates an amp and causes my single coils to buzz a bit when I'm not touching the strings. Or it's just real buzzing cause of the single coils. Either way, I think the workout around is modifying my playing. Mods can delete this thread if they like. I have been trying to record guitar parts for a project. I have a bunch of guitar tracks (10 or so, most muted) with plugins in the project, and I'm using a Scarlett 2i2 and a MacBook Pro 2016. I don't know if I've overloaded the computer, but I keep trying to record guitar parts and here and there there's a computer buzzing sound, similar to when you hear the computer working hard or "thinking", but it gets recorded onto my track. I've tried a couple different guitar jacks, but no luck. I've tried the buffer at 32 and 64, and as far as I know you keep it low when recording.
  5. I recorded a bunch of different acoustic songs onto one project, which has a few project alternatives. I wanted to separate them, and so I saved-as and deleted the extra tracks. Then I found that this project too still has the alternatives and is still a copy of the former project that's valued at 7+GB. I realize that the 7GB isn't being duplicated each time, but nonetheless I made a new project and tried to simply drag the tracks I want onto it from the other project. This time a different issue occurred. I make two audio tracks on the new project to drag the audio (with takes) from the other project. The first audio file is dragged without problems, but when I try to drag the second audio file onto a different track, it instead goes onto the track where I dragged the first file and replaces it. I hope all of that is clear, kinda of difficult to explain concisely.
  6. Hey can anyone recommend a good online course that focuses on mixing? I've watched many videos online and I've been playing/composing/recording for years, but I still have a trouble making my songs sound good and professional. I think maybe the finer details require me to invest a little cash otherwise I'll never get there.
  7. Hey thanks, I'm gonna try that too later. My friend said my version with sample delay is too messy. Of course I'm no engineer so I don't even know what I'm doing. Will do some more trial and error tomorrow.
  8. Hey nifty trick man, thank you. I guess that's akin to copying the same file to another track and moving it just slightly forwards or backwards?
  9. I would like to have the same guitar lick playing both in the right headphone and the left headphone. When I create a second track and pan it to the other side though, it just ends up sounding like the lick is in the middle. I realize this might have to do with the fact that panning is really just the amount of volume you give to the track left vs right. So I tried with the binaural option and the result is the same, plus I don't really know how to use it. Sometimes I see a stereo panning option but this time it's not there. Is this inevitable? Maybe the only solution is to record the same thing twice so that they're similar but not exactly the same? This is actually a piece of guitar recorded with chorus. I know that the chorus effect also can have something to do with stereo, but I imagine I would have to use Logic's chorus effect and not my own pedal.
  10. Ok I get it now. The only drawback here is that you can't tweak the drum region to suit the exact part of the song, since you have to prepare the region elsewhere, the convert to midi, and move it. I think it would be a useful option to be able to make the regions work independently of where they're placed. Another option would be for them to correspond more rigidly to the arrangement markers. I think they do, ordinarily, but in this case I guess the placement has priority.
  11. I wanna clarify because it seems strange that Logic wouldn't have an option to get around this. I have a 4-bar drummer region. I like the way it sounds and I want to copy it to the equivalent area in another part of the song. When I move it, it no longer plays the beat but rather an elaborate fill. I haven't changed any of the parameters. What changed is where it is in the song. Also instead of being from 31 to 33, it's from 31.2 to 33.2. I think it's just the fact that it's placed in an odd spot that causes it to think it needs to play a fill or something. I also notice that because of the odd spot where I placed this drummer excerpt, if I add just a tiny bit of fill in the parameters it plays this long elaborate fill, as if it thinks it's closing some long region. I wish I could explain it better. Put simply, is there no way to make the drummer NOT adapt when I move it? It thinks it's adapting to the part of the song, say the end of a verse, when in reality it's the beginning of the verse, so I don't want it doing crazy fills.
  12. I have a song set up, with verses, chorus, bridge etc. There's also a recurring part that only has an irregular amount of beats. My theory isn't great. What I mean is that It doesn't have a multiple of four. For this reason it throws the drummer out of wack and makes it play fills at the beginning of the next verse when it should go right into the beat. Can I get drummer regions to act independently depending on how large they are? I was hoping that making markers above designating verses, choruses etc. would work, but not so.
  13. I recorded some vocal tracks on a project around 8pm and then left it it open, without saving it seems. Around 10:30 I began to listen to the tracks and was doing some mixing. Then I went to revert to the saved version cause I didn't like what I'd done. The vocal tracks are gone and the the only autosaves go up to 9pm. Is there a reason there are no more recent autosaves? If there was anything in between 9 and 10 pm I'd be able to recuperate those vocals. Kind of irrelevant, but I was just listening to a track that I was really surprised and happy about. I'm not a consistent singer so it's a real let down. Guess it happens though.
  14. Thanks for the replies guys. The tracks are in fact mono. The one playing chords is in the middle, while the one playing arpeggios is on the right. What makes that moment of muddiness strange is that it only happens there, in the beginning of the song. Those two guitars continue to play throughout the song without issues. Plus it's the same progression through out, so if it was a frequency issue wouldn't it repeat at some point? Maybe I will have to just redo one of the tracks. Unfortunately the main guitar (center) was recorded with the vocal so it's flawed from the start, and I can't tweak the eq too much cause of the vocal, but I could redo the arpeggio guitar. I also some times change positions, or use the jack on my electro-acoustic to vary the sound a bit. I can't remember if I did it that time though. I'll also try panning them a bit differently to see what happens.
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