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by Z-Plane
Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:41 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: *When* is something rightfully called "vintage"?
Replies: 42
Views: 8625

The correct answer is smell.
by Z-Plane
Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:36 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: midi slave and master? help~
Replies: 5
Views: 1806

Re: midi slave and master? help~

...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,...
by Z-Plane
Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:50 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Recommend me a fuzz pedal
Replies: 57
Views: 20426

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...
by Z-Plane
Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:09 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Processing latency with digital outboard?
Replies: 3
Views: 1497

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.
by Z-Plane
Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:36 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: That software that divides mixes into discrete tracks. ??
Replies: 20
Views: 5158

Identifying notes within polyphony is one thing, separating mixes into discrete tracks another. Time for that coffee.
by Z-Plane
Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:31 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: That software that divides mixes into discrete tracks. ??
Replies: 20
Views: 5158

Then you woke up and made some coffee...
by Z-Plane
Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:12 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: DIY de-essing with DAW?
Replies: 17
Views: 5104

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...
by Z-Plane
Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:11 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: DIY de-essing with DAW?
Replies: 17
Views: 5104

Re: DIY de-essing with DAW?

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.
by Z-Plane
Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:26 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: your two cents on mastering software
Replies: 22
Views: 9874

...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...
by Z-Plane
Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:58 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: your two cents on mastering software
Replies: 22
Views: 9874

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.
by Z-Plane
Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:24 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Recording in the woods
Replies: 27
Views: 8029

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...
by Z-Plane
Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:35 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: 10" and 12" speaker in one cab?
Replies: 17
Views: 5529

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...
by Z-Plane
Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:04 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Outboard Digital FX vs. Plugin
Replies: 20
Views: 5564

SPRING!
by Z-Plane
Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:21 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Green Tips for Musicians
Replies: 19
Views: 6893

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...
by Z-Plane
Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:25 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Pro Tools multiband compression on master fader?
Replies: 8
Views: 3069

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...