I'm looking to bring in an fx unit to my MPC setup (I'm very very new to learning about outboard gear). I randomly came across these at a pawn shop. From what I can tell the Line 6 is mostly a guitar-based fx unit. Would they have any functionality in a dance music production setup?
https://reverb.com/p/line-6-pod-xt-pro-rackmount
https://reverb.com/item/13180269-tl-audio-ivory-2-series-5001
Hey everyone - looking for some advice from people recording all-vinyl mixes and uploading them to SoundCloud, Mixcloud, radio shows, etc.
I’m trying to figure out the right workflow for getting my vinyl mixes sounding bigger, louder, and more polished without overdoing it.
When I record a vinyl mix, the waveform naturally has a lot more “mountains and canyons", quiet sections, louder sections, more dynamics, and more variation between records. Compared to digital mixes, which often look pretty rammed in Audacity but somehow aren’t clipping, my recordings feel softer in volume and not quite as punchy once uploaded online.
I know digital tracks are usually already mixed/mastered louder and are probably being pushed harder with compression/limiting before they ever get played. With vinyl, I’m dealing with different pressings, different eras, different master levels, surface noise, and the natural dynamics of the format.
Right now, my rough Audacity process is something I pieced together from YouTube tutorials and ChatGPT, so I’m not totally sure I’m doing it correctly:
I’m mostly wondering:
How are you preparing your mixes before uploading?
Are you normalizing, compressing, limiting, EQing, or just leaving the recording mostly untouched?
Is “mastering” even the right word here, or is this more just light post-processing?
Any Audacity-specific tips would be especially helpful. I’m not trying to make the mix sound crushed or overly digital. Just trying to get it sounding fuller, punchier, and closer in perceived loudness to other mixes online while still keeping the natural feel of vinyl.
Would love to hear what your workflow looks like.
I saw this post James Hype and I just couldn’t hold it in anymore… I need to tell you my story…
I’ve been here for 2 years now and I can see that all this talk about supporting others and motivating people isn’t really about anything else but only for Instagram reach…
I remember when I was starting out, I bought your course for $297 with your tricks, I always tagged you, you were my idol, I loved your mixes and listened to you the most. After some time, it turned out you’re not the kind of person I thought you were, someone who actually supports new young talented people…
Later I managed to figure out your super difficult 4-deck trick – the only thing I got was 3 “👏👏👏” and that was it. No comment after, no like, no follow. You didn’t reply to DMs even though for a long time after I liked almost every one of your posts and left comments, and you didn’t even bother to respond.
So yeah, from my side, that’s what your “support for young talent” looks like. I hope you’ll be strong enough not to delete this comment. And if you do think about deleting it, I’ll post it on my profile, because honestly it makes me feel sick reading those captions…
Why does nobody want to give me a chance? From the very beginning, not even my biggest idols want to give me a hand… I don’t know what makes me worse than u/djelfigo … maybe it’s just that I’m a young girl who can do too much, who has big dreams, but unfortunately no one wants to stand next to me and help promote me… probably if there was money to be made from me, then yes, because I’ve already had many offers like that to sign…
I know there will be a lot of James supporters who will start hating me… but I don’t care 🤷♀️
Sorry for the honesty ❤️