So My drummer friend recorded a drum track for me, sent it to me and told me he was having some issues with it, the main one being that the track, although he recorded it just fine, is intensely quiet and tinny compared to how it should sound. He uses an audix drum mic kit, so there's nothing wrong in that department. I've checked everything three times, and the only way I can get levels up to a suitable output, is when I turn the bus output to 0 instead of the usual infinity which works fine for me all the time. I've even tried removing the audio track directly from garageband (the original recording) and putting it into an autoload template that I use all the time for my recordings (which have never had this problem before). So what is happening, is when I add an insert and then remove it while the track is playing in the arrange window, the track becomes loud and beautiful, bassy and balanced like it should be. What the heck is happening to my poor drummer's track!?!??! I can upload the files/projects to people over AIM if you think you can help me figure out what is wrong. I have tried everything I can think of, reducing gain slightly to remove the few clipped waves the track had, EQing it differently, removing all inserts, audio energizing it, normalizing it, everything I can think of.... HELP!

> > Message posted by Ken Wigginton <Hailstorm350@...>: > >So My drummer friend recorded a drum track for me, sent it to me and >told me Do you have a different program (ie: Amadeus, Peal...etc) that you can load it into and resave. Just an idea. HW

I just tried opening it in quicktime, and it still sounded the same, only this is VERY interesting... I didnt notice this before, but when I pan the audio to either just the right or just the left channel it sounds like it should... perhaps the bass drum is out of phase I'll attempt to fix that, maybe just by inverting the one side of the recording I can fix it... any suggestions?

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, "Ken Wigginton" <forums@...> wrote: > > Message posted by Ken Wigginton <Hailstorm350@...>: > > I just tried opening it in quicktime, and it still sounded the same, only this is VERY interesting... I didnt notice this before, but when I pan the audio to either just the right or just the left channel it sounds like it should... perhaps the bass drum is out of phase > > I'll attempt to fix that, maybe just by inverting the one side of the recording I can fix it... any suggestions? > Hi it sounds like you have a stereo file with one side inverted, load it into logic (or any other app that does it). And insert a gain plugin (utilities) and you can invert the phase of one of the sides. If its the fact that one side is slightly delayed (not inverted) you can use the sample delay and your ears to delay one side of the signal so it matches again. Mike