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http://us.moo.com/ these are those thick, half-height, full color graphic ones you may have seen from some people. i love these things. they cost a little more than a regular card from an office superstore. mine has a funny picture of a mic held over a smashed ukelele on one side, and my name, city...

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: it helps if both people in the relationship are equally busy. if one person has tons of free time and the other doesn't, it's likely not gonna work.

sigh. ::looks around at big, newly half-empty room, lights bowl::

i was the busy one. she hadn't worked in a year.

joel hamilton wrote:I just put a jensen transformer on the output of one of mine and it made a HUGE difference in the sound. like huge. Like choose it over many other choices huge.

ooh... that's going on the to do list, but somewhere around #300.

for another perspective: at a certain point it's just the sound of this particular singer. trying to alter it is, maybe, questionably admirable? but i'm getting into recording philosophy now. sound like you've got some good suggestions I suppose that's a valid point, but... EW! Just thinking of tha...

when i work on decently budgeted musicals, everything's always the latest Shure series, usually with DPA 4061s elements. but this one outdoor shakespeare thing i do every summer we use the AT 3000 series, i think, with the standard AT element in past years, and the nicer AT version of a countryman E...

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:we can get this thing to 10 pages. c'mon people.

i have my doubts.


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i've always been curious




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is a page a fixed length or a fixed amount of




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thank god we got this all straightened out. now, can we talk about PUnctUATION>>

the stereo input on your mac is shit. you need a quality converter, and it need only have two channels if you continue to mix analog and just want to bounce to stereo. since you only need two channels, you could even go USB, but I'd recommend firewire. there are options starting with the MOTU Ultral...

this is why i like to use various old omni dynamics right in the center of the kit - it helps me get kick attack, under snare, and often the "note" of the toms.

hm, interesting. apple juice makes me kinda phlegmy.. but you do a lot of VO work, right dwlb? is that what you usually suggest to clients?

give him a glass of water before you re-record it.

some of us working digitally actually don't mix or master using WAVs - my version of Digital Performer still uses Sound Designer II files internally.

losthighway wrote: -Send through a Deltalab Effectron with all the buttons out and the input cranked

yes! that distortion sounds awesome on guitar and vocals.

i never understood the idea of "mixing for X medium." make a good mix on the best speakers you have in the best room you can, and let the listener choose their playback system.

Gentleman Jim wrote:So a gain knob, by design, is a less precise controller than most faders. This in addition to any other differences in engineering.

yep.