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First, welcome to the world of surround mixing! I love it, and I wish more people were doing it. All those home theater systems are just sitting out there, waiting to pump out the tunes in surround sound.... I use Compressor to create the Dolby soundtrack, leaving the parameters at their default set...

I use an iMac with a second monitor and I like it. I think a Macbook Pro's screen size would be irritating. A Mac tower would be cool, though. They seem to be much more powerful than iMacs. Other World Computing sells refurbished Macs now, and they're tested and guaranteed. I've bought maybe four or...

I don't have a solution, but I just wanted to say how glad I am to be reading this thread. I think I'm the only musician in my circle of friends who thinks acoustic guitar pickups sound shitty. Of course, they're great to have in a live situation, but they really sound awful and I can't imagine why ...

I usually cut the EQ like you do, but only by 1 to 1.5 db. I listen really carefully to the trade-off until I feel OK with it.

I've tried the multi-band compressor with it, but it always sounded weird to me.

I think you're doing it in the most efficient manner. Each channel should have a post-fader aux send, and that send can go to your headphone output on your laptop. When you open up the project in your studio, that aux out may not make any sense to your DAW, but at least you don't need to change 16 t...

Wow squared - no, cubed! No - wow to the fourth power!

Congrats! You've earned the right to brag.

I work in the box exclusively, so running out of inputs on the mixer is never a problem for me. However, I use busses feeding submixes to group the drums together into one kit so I can adjust the overall level of the drums without messing the balance between the separate drums. It's easy to then put...

If you're using Digital Performer, put a bit of blank audio at the beginning of each track, select everything, and choose "merge soundbites" (don't worry - it doesn't merge them all into one big file, it just merges all the little bits and pieces on each track into smooth continuous files). DP will ...

Well, I still hope he buys some real monitors....

iriebill1 wrote:Alphabet soup of less and better quality:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software

J-H-Christ! I just looked at that list! Who really NEEDS that many formats?

Man, almost the last thing I want from studio speakers is a narrow sweet spot. All of the speakers I've mentioned have pretty great side-to-side dispersion, which is ideal for moving around a console or adjusting equipment in the rack. Chris Garges Charlotte, NC Yeah, but the wider dispersion = mor...

studio monitors are designed to make you hear everything as compared to home stereo speakers, which are designed to make everything sound good. I'd just like to point out that as a generalization, this isn't exactly true. Yamaha NS10s, B&W 805s, and ProAc 1000s have all become studio standard refer...

You need to get a pair of studio monitors. Seriously. You don't need to spend a lot of money on them, but studio monitors are designed to make you hear everything as compared to home stereo speakers, which are designed to make everything sound good. Picking up a cheap pair of monitors will make your...

...and if there's a frame rate setting in your DAW, set it to 29.97 drop frame. Otherwise things may not stay in sync when you give him the files.

Leave your work as editable and as repeatable as possible - the guy will change a scene and suddenly your music will be too short or too long. If it's just a matter of adjusting the tempo or adding a bar and all the elements are still in place, you won't tear your hair out every time this happens. A...