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The correct answer is smell.

...i once witnessed an engineer transfer tracks through midi, setting a digital 8 track to slave, and his daw to master.... As just mentioned, all that can happen here is a transport sync so that one machine follows the play and stop of the other. The audio still needs to go in and out down a wire,...

Harmonic Percolator ? Always surprises me with what pops out of this thing, especially in front of another OD or something. Gonna want a noise gate with that too...

Not got specific tech details, but lets just run with the basics of clock speeds on older kit. A lot of 80s and 90s DSP kit has what we would now call massive latency, but it didn't always present any particular problem.

Identifying notes within polyphony is one thing, separating mixes into discrete tracks another. Time for that coffee.

Then you woke up and made some coffee...

Eww...the traditional starting place for side-chaining a comp is to get an EQ on the SC, loop a bit of harsh essing in SC listen mode, and then cut every freq (boosting none) except the ess bands, usually to be found clumped together in the upper mids. On future sessions, I'd suggest tackling the pr...

Corey Y wrote:No plug-in suggestions please.

Shame, I find some of the de-essers are among the more respectable plugs that generally improve on their analog counterparts.

...I've already got UAD for plugs and prefer individual effects to "all in one"s... Exactly, and this would be the most rewarding philosophy to employ. Many people schooled in T-racks and similar would be surprised at how little EQ and dynamics are sometimes used at the mastering stage. What a clie...

OK, lets do a quick show of hands - who is flying the flag for software without ever having attended a real actual mastering session in a dedicated mastering facility ?

I have attended dozens and worked in one for a while.

If you can record 8 tracks straight into PT or whatever, then do that and mix it later. This way you only need to establish a reasonably healthy signal going in, but you could still do with knowing someone who can turn up with a box full of mics and a small PA for vocal monitors. If you are just doi...

The two inch difference between drivers can be critical, but can also be trivial, possibly meaningless. Far more important would be the choice of speaker model and design of the cab. Lets say you have a handful of cabs hanging around, then one day you figure out the sound of model X 10" combined wit...

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My best tip - get yourself a copy of James Lovelovelock's The Revenge Of Gaia and discover how we are probably at least fifty years too late with all of these ideas. Also discussed is how overpopulation is the real problem, how to make the (often overlooked) distinction between human disaster and pl...

Check it out. But as already mentioned, by the time you get to hear each band doing anything noticeable its probably already turned to semolina. The C4 will give you enough of an idea of how this works, and there's another multiband in the logic bundle too. Multiband rarely delivers any kind of magi...