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Yeah, I don't do subscription anything, so I am not sure if I'll end up doping a perpetual license or what. What is the cost of the support thing for a year? Honestly, other than some just plain stupid stuff, like not being able to arrow up and down between tracks and having to create a group every ...

So I dove into the monthly subscription for now and I am really digging it. The playlist comping is unbelievably easy, especially for drums. Anyway to your post I went through all the Avid plugins and found a few that were pretty great. The Mooger Fooger, Real Tape effects, the Studio Reverb actuall...

Starting mixing on a mono auratone changed my mixing life. I work so much faster and better because of it. Do you guys start the mix on the auratones? So far I’ve just been popping in and out to check things but the next track I do from scratch o think I’m gonna start there as an experiment and jus...

Dude, I started on Cool Edit Pro like a 25 years ago? That’s amazing you are still using it. I dug it back in the day, but once I tried Cubase I didn’t look back. I tried Reaper a few years ago and felt the same way. But everyone raves about it. Since you are PC that kills garage band, logic and Lun...

I’ve always had a little set of computer speakers sitting right next to each other on my left side. This was my - mono / vocal & snare level / can I hear the bass and bass drum in tiny speakers - reference. Several months ago I bought some Auratones and I liked them, but I wasn’t using them much. Ma...

Another really good one if you have an Apollo is the UAD Century Tube channel strip. It has a mic pre, a subtle EQ and an opto compressor. I've been using that lately at home for vocals and acoustic instruments. That opto strip is really good, I’ve used that for some thin vocals and it’s nice. That...

It’s funny, as much as I bitch about not having a console and how fast I could mix with those limitations, I’ve never really jived with channel strip plugins. I bought the Plugin Alliance SSL E and J when they were in sale, and I have the Lindell and the UAD API. I created a template with the SSL on...

Logic just instituted swipe comping not too long ago. They had alternate takes for a while but this allows you to just highlight and drag pieces of audio from the alternate takes below and drag it to the main lane. Basically exactly the same as the video posted but you don’t have to cut and paste. B...

Is playlist comping also part of your new reality? I can't remember when that came out but I've found it indispensable ever since. So what is this feature? I didn't realize there is a free Pro Tools now (8 track maximum, basically to demo it) so I downloaded to mess around with a bit. It's funny ca...

drumsound wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:40 am

If you're ever driving north through Illinois, stop by and hear mine.

That’s awesome, I appreciate the offer!

But that magic low mids thing IMO is more about balances and eq than ITB or OTB - being very selective about where you add top end and how much is such a big part of it. Can you expand on this a bit? Also agree with the Peter Katis thing whenever possible. I spent a while experimenting with the tap...

vvv wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:10 pm

all y'all!

That pic reminds me of seeing Iron Maiden circa 1980.

Top o' th' page to ya's!

I LOVE Iron Maiden. Legit. One of the few bands from my youth that I never moved on from.

So I had a medical issue a few years ago that ravaged my right ear; good amount of loss between 2-4kh and some raging tinnitus. Yay me! I’ve learned to work with it and my brain has done a really good job compensating, but I’m super interested in feedback from anyone with hearing aids. I have avoide...

Seems like a lot of trouble. . .

When I downsized and got rid of my ghost, I bought a used D box. Honestly I wasn’t that impressed with it. It was a BIG jump going from the console to summing my 4 stereo busses etc so I may have been biased. But personally I didn’t get enough mojo out of it to justify not just going all the way in ...