Where are all the reference files located?

The easiest process to use if you are unfamiliar with eq’ing would be to find similar music and extract it using the process below and create a reference that you can use as a guide Or if [...]

How can you tell if your tracks are level?

Within Har-Bal you can check your level by looking at the bottom right of your program. It is the second set of numbers from the right (Track power figure of merit). This is how you can check the [...]

Which sound card driver is Har-Bal using? I do not see an option in Har-Bal to choose.

Click on Option/Driver and choose your sound card. HarBal supports ASIO, DirectX and multimedia drivers.

When do you anticipate that a DirectX version of HarBal will be available? I do all my mastering work in Sound Forge 6, and it would be a lot more convenient if a plug-in was available.

We have no plans for a plugin. You can’t do what we want to do with Har-Bal as a plugin. The interfaces are too primitive in what they give you access to. It is important to note that it is [...]

There are too many lines in Har-Bal and I only want to see the green line.

Har-Bal is completely configurable. Go to Graph/Options and change whichever line you don’t want to see to the background color. This will cause the line to disappear. You can also toggle the [...]

Can I harbalize individual instruments?

The answer in short is yes, you can Harbalize individual instruments but the references supplied with the product will be of no use for this purpose, basically because the spectrum with an [...]

What is the cost or policy on upgrades?

The introductory offer includes the same level of free upgrades as the full price. Our upgrade policy is to provide free upgrades of minor revisions and improvements and paid upgrades for major [...]

I clicked on the Pan Cursor and moved my song from my view and now I can’t get it back or see it anymore. What am I suppose to do now?

Go to the toolbar on the menu and click on “graph/zoom all” or right click anywhere on the graph and click on “zoom all”. This will return your view as it looked initially.

How come I don’t see a reference file named Rap? Are you guys nuts!!

HB3 has .hbref files instead which you create using the “File/Export as reference” menu command.

Thanks to George Robert Schulze Lutum for submitting this FAQ from the Cubase forum: Why is it that monitor speakers don’t seem to thump through the floor as much as hi-fi speakers? Just curious. Put it this way, I have fewer complaints when I play music

One big problem when mixing is: Is there enough bass in the mix? Is it too toppy, too squawky, too woolly and muffled? Well, you don’t know. Even if you had God’s own monitors, you wouldn’t know, [...]

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