Album not being recorded! Studio time wasted!!

[myperfectapathy]

So I got to the studio today and we bull****ted for awhile and then started to set **** up.

This is what we have:

Toneport UX2
Gearbox
Acid 6.0
Windows XP SP2 Computer
Condensor Mic
Mogami Cables
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card

Now, previously....last time I was in the studio...acid would record the vocals. To our knowledge, nothing has been changed...this time, no vocals.

The monitors picked up the vocals, we could hear ourselves through the monitors, toneport was working fine, gearbox was working fine, the problem was acid.

Sound Forge wouldn't record vocals either....now, do you think this is a problem with Acid 4 or Sound Forge 8.0, or some bull**** setting on the windows volume control?

I need your help guys! I need to get my album recorded but its not working out!

[Bops2000]

Sounds like the settings on soundcard got changed.
Check that first.
I would be curious to hear an album done with a soundblaster card.....

[myperfectapathy]

Sounds like the settings on soundcard got changed.
Check that first.
I would be curious to hear an album done with a soundblaster card.....

http://www.myspace.com/myperfectapathy

check out "picking up the past" we did that song on the DAW

[dcwave]

I would be curious to hear an album done with a soundblaster card.....

Well... Acid = loops with minimum recording - should be okay since the card is just primarily playback and you're not layering 30 tracks recorded through the noisey analog cicuit , unstable clock, and poor adc.

[dcwave]

Dude - like Bops said - there is probably a creative control panel/mixer setting not selected correctly.

[dcwave]

BTW - nicely done myspace page. I hate going to myspace because I have to turn on my brower's own stylesheet to see stuff half the time.

[MrHope]

Make sure you have selected your soundcard's drivers in each of your audio programs in their preferences/settings windows. Also check that the recording inputs are selected and levels are up in the soundcard's control panel.

When I had a Riviera SoundBlaster card, there was a control panel called Audio Rack which controlled the soundcard. I'm not sure what it's called for your card.

[myperfectapathy]

Well... Acid = loops with minimum recording - should be okay since the card is just primarily playback and you're not layering 30 tracks recorded through the noisey analog cicuit , unstable clock, and poor adc.

well...yes and no.

I don't use acid for acid loops or anything like that...I make most of my music in Reason 3.0 with a Korg Kontrol:49 midi keyboard controller.

But acid is so easy to just line up the tracks, paint, record, do the vocals, send the vocals to the HDR and mix / master / effect them there and do all of that ****.

I just like the ease of the program use, and we actually fixed it by installing acid 6.0 and choosing the toneport ux2 ASIO device as the recording device!

[Bops2000]

Hello ?
good fer you, It;s funny how you can just vent and by venting, you can figure it out,
Thats why I love this site, Personally, I can think like a complete idiot, vent my thoughts, and get some thoughts in response with a bit of respect, whether I deserve it or not, and badda boom badda bing, it hits you, the 'Eurika',....good group of folks here to say 'da least'

[Bops2000]

http://www.myspace.com/myperfectapathy

check out "picking up the past" we did that song on the DAW
not bad for sample stuf. on the delivery, You don't grab me on the tune though, commercially or emotionally.
(PS the rule from Bops is 'never take it personal')
Being an acid user, I can hear the samples, (that is a problem), I also can hear the acid mix,(another problem) a cool thing to to do is run thr samples in tandem, as far as the scratch/drum mix, then move a sample a nudge a hair back or forward for that slapback feel, which would sound nice in your tune....
ok I shaddup now, have bigger fish to broil, scallops tonight, in garlic butter sauce, and a bit of chardonnay....chardoney? whatever..
Acid is a tool, not the instrument

[Bops2000]

Heres a tune I did in 2000 strictly with a soundblaster card, no pluggins, vst's nada..
its on soundclick 11 minutes..
tune is called 'Dream 16 bit

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=413831&songID=4758516