yep - simply add an extra measure to the beginning of your recording and add the click

(I prefer cowbell - "I've got a fever, and the only prescription... is more cowbell!" ")

Just a real quick thought - how loud are the headphones, and could the sound be bleeding through them into the open mic?

also - try freezing tracks you're not working on. other tracks with effects on them eat up CPU in a hurry. One thing I've noticed is that sometimes it happens most where other tracks end, whether they're frozen or not -if you can, drag the ending spot of the culprit track out a little, or snip it of...

try this - use a condenser mic placed right about where your ear is (i.e., just off your left or right shoulder, about 12 - 18 inches from the guitar). Don't place the microphone directly in front of the sound hole - all you'll get is boomy bass. Aim the mic about at the point where the fretboard me...

I recently purchased the M-Audio Session USB mic at my local Best Buy ( http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/SessionMusicProducer.html ). It includes the ASIO drivers, so there's essentially 0 latency on my system. It works great, sounds great, awesome condenser microphone! A few things about it, t...

good tips Eric - Here's a few more for the output end of recording: Have a few different kinds of speakers available for playback. Back in the day, I had a set of really nice studio monitors, some plain-jane regular home stereo speakers, and a set of car speakers mounted in a box that I'd switch pla...

As you've discovered, headphones are NOT a good way to master your music, since the left & right channels are isolated from each other completely (unlike a speaker setup, where the left and right channels can "blend"). When you do your mixdown to MP3 or whatever, listen through speaker...

Ozone is kind of pricey - if you're looking for free, check out Broadcast from Jeroen Breebaart. In fact, grab all of his freebies (Omnisone is incredible as a widener, and the brickwall limiter works very well, too - both of those are included as part of the Broadcast VST). He's got nice usage guid...

Hmm, I just don't see it as doable, since they're really two completely different things. Has nothing to do with rights and owndership - it's like trying to fit a 12" drum head on a Fender P-bass: it just ain't gonna work. MC is a tool that uses uses, essentially, finished sounds (analog record...

the easiest way to do that is to insert splits where you want the effect to begin & end on the track, then: 1. duplicate the track, 2. add your FX to the duplicated track, 3. delete the non-effected sections from the effect track, 4. delete the effected section from the non-effected track. Does ...

Heh - oops! (anything good there...? )

I gave the wrong name - it's X-cita - download here:

http://www.uv.es/~ruizcan/p_vst.htm

I record my own voice with existing songs, does anyone know of a good database containing kareoke so I the original voice is not in it? iTunes. There's an entire category for karaoke How do I make my mic louder? Turn up the volume slider :wink: Check input levels - in Windows, open the mixer and to...

HI - new to MC but not recording. I've got a request for feedback and opinions on final mixing - I've read that some folks prepare a final mix, output to WAV and then load that into MC for additional tweaks (compression, limiting, sonic enhancement, etc.) - I've also tried doing these tasks while do...