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Post subject: Question on recording
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:13 am
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My cousin owns a recording studio in Montreal and send me a recording with no voice. He wants me to put my voice over it and send it back but I don't really know how to do it .If I transfer the sound track to a thumb nail and put it in the 500, can I record my voice over it without erasing the original sound track ?Kinda lost on how to do this. Louis


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Post subject: Re: Question on recording
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:20 pm
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While the Fender Passport 500 is not designed to do what you are trying to do, it might work as a tool toward the end you seek. It can't play a track through the USB port and record a track on the USB port at the same time. You'll need something else to play the track while the Passport mixes the track with your voice and records it.

If you have a Mac, it might be simpler to just import the track to Garage Band and use the Mac's built-in mic to add your voice. But Garage band can be pretty hard to use if you've never played with it before. And maybe you have Windows instead.

Anyway, set up your Passport 500 Pro so the speakers are plugged in. Make sure the master volume is very low so that you can bring it up as much as you need, but don't start out painfully loud.

Assuming that you have some kind of computer or other device that can play the track your cousin sent you, why don't you get a 1/8" TRS stereo patch cord and connect the headphone jack of your computer or iPod or MP3 player or whatever to the 1/8" input port on channel 7 of your Passport? Play your cousin's track and adjust the volume of the computer to maybe half to 3/4 full volume and then adjust the volume on Channel 7 while the track is playing so that the LED above the channel lights up green, and during the loudest moments, briefly flashes amber. If it never flashes amber, turn the computer up until it does.

And if it never flashes amber with everything turned all the way up, well, work with what you've got. If it flashes red, back off on the volume until it stops doing that. Flashing red is bad. Solid red is worse.

Now, plug a microphone into channel 1 and sing along with the track, turning the volume up on Channel 1 until you think your voice matches the track volume the way you want. If the LED above Channel one flashes red, back off the volume on Channel 1 and Channel 7 until nothing flashes red, and either or both Channel 1 and 7 flash amber now and then.

Practice this until you are comfortable and you have it the way you want it to sound.

Now, put a USB FLASH drive formatted appropriately into the USB port on the Passport 500. Get ready to play the track on your computer. Press the record button on the Passport and do your performance while recording onto the FLASH drive.

Watch the LED for Channel 8 while you do it. If it flashes red, stop the recording. Turn down the volumes for both Channels 1 and 7. Turn up the Master Volume if you need to hear the track better.

The LED for Track 8 is telling you how loud the recording is. The Master Volume level on the Passport does not affect the recording level. The recording level is simply the "sum" of the individual tracks, so if it's too loud, you have to turn down all the tracks until it is right.

In an ideal world, it will be green most of the time, flashing amber now and then. If it never flashes amber, it's okay, but maybe not very loud in the recording. It's better to flash amber a little.

But it can't flash red. If it flashes red, it's not just loud. It is horribly distorted. So, if it flashes red, you have to do it over again.

Good luck with the recording.


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Post subject: Re: Question on recording
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:27 pm
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Ok Contra I'll try and follow your lead on this , and for sure I'll watch for clipping .I'm sure I have enough plugin's and laptop to do it .I'll repost to let you know how it went .i recorded with the USB a while and it sure wasn't plug and record , I did about 40 takes to get the balance right .By the way I took you advice and bought the Mac 150 for a monitor. I like it for the venues I play, got to watch you don't turn it up too too much or she'l distort ,but I was aware it might happen when I bought it cause it's only 150 watts.For me as a solo vocalist it's plenty good.


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Post subject: Re: Question on recording
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:19 pm
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Well you wrote a lot to help me out with this so it's only right that I reply. I did everything you said and I think I got it not too shabby after about 20 takes of small adjustments here and there. Now try to send a 31 MBwav file by g-mail was a challenge and still don't know if it made it :roll: But thanks again Contra


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Post subject: Re: Question on recording
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:52 am
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Sending attachments via Email is convenient, but it's like taking a bag of groceries and duct-taping it to your car door instead of putting it in the trunk, where it belongs. The bigger the bag of groceries, the more obvious it becomes that this is a bad idea. Email was designed for text, not for file transfer.

Clever engineers came up with a cheat that allows attachments, but it is inefficient because Email uses 7-bit bytes, while the attachment uses 8-bit bytes, so a 10MB file suddenly gets bigger than 12MB for no reason. It kills the email servers. They are dying under the load.

It's better to use Box or Dropbox or some other system designed for file transfer. I prefer Box, though there are likely many more options out there than I know about.

Email attachments: Just Say No.

Yes, putting a file in an email message is simpler than creating a shared Box folder and putting your file in the shared folder, but it's also simpler to pee in your pants than it is to go to the bathroom. The simplest solution is not always the best.


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Post subject: Re: Question on recording
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 7:03 pm
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Thanks Con gonna go for box and see how it is .


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