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First of all - considering your level of knowledge and kit thats a great effort - and a really nice song, well done!! Reaper is a fantastically powerful tool, you wont need more software for a very long time! Listening to this you need the following kit:- Decent audio interface Decent mic for vox/general Decent preamp (good idea if it takes line level as well as mic) Decent need not cost the earth!!!! Read a lot of reviews and check back with us first before buying. OK in terms of the mix, you need to look at the Reacomp effect. Its a fantastic compressor that used properly will really control those dips in the vocal volume etc Sound on SOund have an online review/guide to it, but read up on how to use compressors first, they are tricky to get your head round, but vital pieces of kit. You also could learn a bit more about using EQand frequency mixing to be honest. Another must have is reverbate, which is a good reverb. Finally did you know that Reaper has a superb inbuilt auto tuner? Look up Reatune in the manual. I'm not saying you need it or not, but its nice to know its there! Also look downloading other good free vsts - there are huge numbers out there! (my favourite soft filters are free for instance) If you send me the wavs/mp3s I'll do a Reaper mix for you and send it back. That way you can see what I've done with the effects to make it sound like it does. Hopefully I'll be able to give you some pointers. PM me if you want.... Track 1 on my myspace was recorded in Reaper with a drum kit VSTi called mydrumset which (used to be) free (might not be now).

It was all so simple when I was gigging a lot in the early 90's, course we was immortal too so none of thie lectricity gubbins could harm us, however dodgy the toilet we played in. I have no idea how I have survived this long - really My boy just got told he'll have to have his lovely LH500/Berg rig PAT tested if he wants to use it at the local Rock School course/gig. Shame, I think Herbie F would have liked it !

Oooooh I'll bite... Flea - 12" version of Higher Ground - havent heard that version for nearly 20 yrs mind, but it was soooo good! (v grateful if anyone has a copy!!) Michael Manhring - Adhan - totally blows my mind (along with Selene and Watson and Crick) Les Claypool - Tommy The Cat - off Sailing The Seas, daft as a mudflap, love it! there are plenty more but they are superb...

I picke dup a new DTR2000 for £125 at the beginning of the year. Its fantastic.... But the strobo-whatsits are meant to be the bomb.......

Back on topic: The Big One: The Only One (you'll ever need or buy again) springs to mind

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='556114' date='Jul 30 2009, 01:07 PM']Maybe marketing should have thought about that a bit more: I read that as "Ultra Piece of sh*t". [/quote] Nah it stands for UltraPointOfSale, and thats pretty accurate as it goes In the circles we work in POS is always PointOfSale, never Piece Of S**t, so in that regard the marketing boys were/are spot on, but the capitalisation drives me up the wall!

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='530333' date='Jul 2 2009, 10:23 AM']That won't stick. Camel case never does. How many people (apart from me and probably you, Alex, you anal fella you) actually go to the effort of writing eBay or PayPal? It makes me wince every time I see Ipod or Imac too. Mind you, don't get me started on people writing MAC when they mean Mac. [/quote] Bwaah count yourself lucky, my day job involves a product called UltraPoS, and yes spell it wrong you get pistol whipped by marketing

my son has a Squier Bronco, does a superb imitation of a very old beat up P to my ears. Love it!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='128656' date='Jan 27 2008, 02:10 PM']"And the winner for most pickups in a single bass goes to..." [/quote] bootsy's star bass normally....

Freeway is just sublimely funky, how come I've not heard of this lot before then????

Never heard of them, listening on groove shark now. They're excellent, like it alot! Bit Jamiroquoi, but without the edjit singer..... Ta

Nope, I'll give it a go, but bear in mind its up against a couple of 18v active beasties, so it aint gonna compete really

Thats a sweet bass, love the case too. Whoever gets it is going to fall head over heals I reckon

normalise will help BUT all it can do is make the loudest level in a track hit 0db (max loudness). If the dynamic range of that track is wider than most (the peaks are higher than the average on the rest of the tracks) you will still suffer the same issue. Then you have two choices - make the loudest tracks quieter, or compress the quieter tracks. You are getting into the beginnings of mastering at this point... If you dont want to have to master it yourself ther is another option... Foobar2000 is really helpful here. It can set replaygain on mp3 files then run a conversion including the replay gain tweak. This will take into account peaks versus average vol etc.

Anything Michael Manring played on a Zon hyperbass...

If that fails I reckon you should strap a nuke to your forehead and nut the smegger, or hit them with a major leaflet campaign.....

"And the beat goes on" - The Whispers