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Yeah, I think people will learn more by doing than by reading about it! Or rather, having something to try out, and hearing how someone else's use of some technique sounds, and being able to replicate it themselves. The other great thing about mixoffs is that you eliminate tracking as the source of ...

I've created a new site, dedicated to mixoffs, and we're looking for people willing to post some tracks for others to mix. If you'd like to share, please do! I've posted tracks to a couple of songs, and we have a few other contributors so far, but the site only went live a couple of days ago, so it'...

The DDrums are pretty reasonable, they look a lot better than the drum dial ones!

Here is the cheapest pre-made ones I've seen:

http://www.drumdial.com/drum_trigger.htm

set of 5 for $40, that's cheap enough to skip the work part of it!

Just use some two-sided tape and stick them right to the head.

I have 4 channels of PM1000 racked up, with the Power One supply, trimmed back to 44v. Works great, very quiet. 44v is more than enough for any phantom power application I've come across. Many recorders only provide 18v. Mounting the power supply in an external case was key to eliminating some noise...

I have a little plug-in that I made in Sonic Birth, which does that, and I find it works surprisingly well. I use it to mix at night when the boys are asleep, etc. Mine takes the Left signal and crossfeeds it to the right, while delaying it by about a millisecond, and rolling off the high end. This ...

You can also try having them sort of face a hard wall, then mic the wall. It sounds silly, but it breaks the air coming out of the horns a bit, and takes down some of the brassiness. If you're going for that traditional sound, get the mics back a bit, use the dynamics, and track them as a group. May...

There are a few message boards with work postings, I've gotten an occasional job from that. Just being active on the boards is a start. For moving files around, there's a neat service called 'dropbox' that works pretty nicely. It allows you to move large files, setup a shared folder for a client, et...

digitaldrummer wrote:should be simple enough to pickup a small project box, mount the Linear power supply (Power-one) inside it and then run cables to the rack-mounted modules.

Yeah, that's what I did for my rack, but I was trying to find another solution for the one I'm doing now for my friend.

I'm just racking a pair of PM1000s for a friend, and while the switching supply I bought works, if you get the gain up a bit, you start to hear a sound that's not unlike the sound of a UFO in a 50's sci-fi ('beeeeow, beeeow, beeeow') It's in both channels, I'm fairly certain it's the power supply. A...

I uploaded the few that I took that came out ok. Every year I take the Camera, then forget to take any pictures!

Great conference, as usual!

OK, well I agree that their information is goofy. And you have to be a little suspect of a company whose site misspells 'bass'. Marketing them as a quick and cheap alternative to auralex is maybe a little misleading, though I think auralex is hugely overpriced and overhyped. I don't know about you g...

I wouldn't call it snake oil, either. Engineers, myself included, have been using packing blankets for years. This looks like a decent packing blanket perhaps a little heavier. The price is fair, as well, pretty much in line with decent packing blankets ($20 each or so). I'm no fan of audio supersti...

I'll keep that in mind!

For now, my resistor bypass seems to be working...

I'm working on racking 4 PM1000 strips, and I have the first one in a working. BUT, the high eq pot has broken on me (the connector part broke away from the rest, ina rather nasty way.) I've been told these are 50k pots, center-tapped. I can't seem to find replacements, though. I thought of using a ...