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But also, I thought I had a pretty good grasp on how computers fundamentally worked, and this now is causing me some cognitive dissonance - I don't understand how the BLA stance makes any sense. Are they saying there is no Santa Claus too? Presumably, after the initial DA conversion, the only "cloc...

I am curious what BLA says too on this. Thus far their email responses to me have been lengthy, and they are standing by the assertions made on their page. I don't want to get too into yet, but they are saying that by "clock based errors" they mean the "DSP clock". So, not the digital audio "word c...

(at accelerated rates of course), which leads me to feel the internal clock is engaged with this process. The "at accelerated rates" is the key here. If it's happening in anything other than real time (such as bouncing a 5 minute song in 2 minutes), it's not using the sample word clock for the boun...

Thanks Leigh, intuitively I figured differently. Yeah, understood... intuitively, it would seem like the clock would be involved in a sample rate change. Which DAW do you use? In Pro Tools, if I remember right, it would make the ITB bounce to a temp file at 96K (or whatever the session's sample rat...

KennyLusk wrote:So in summing ITB if you are re-sampling from 96kHz down to 44.1kHz and rendering from 24 bit word length to 16 bit, the internal clock of your device is not involved?

Correct.

@rhythm ranch and @Marc - I haven't yet contacted Black Lion directly about this. I'll drop them a line now.

More clarity is required, that's all. It's easy to take simple statements and finish the thoughts with your own conclusions. Yes, there is no word clock used in suming. However, there are more than one clock operating here. The system master clock is always operating even if the word clock is not. ...

Hi Kenny - I have no doubt or disagreement about what you're saying. I wasn't saying at all that ITB and OTB summing are the same, or that one is better than the other. Rather, I was taking issue with Black Lion's explanation that the difference is due (at least in part) to ITB suffering from "clock...

Someone posted a link to the Black Lion PM8 summing mixer on another board, and I was checking it out. Go on and read the first paragraph here: http://www.blacklionaudio.com/content.php?p=36 Or, for your convenience, here's the first 2 sentences (emphasis mine): Summing in the analog domain is widel...

I will say that working in the trades, you run across a lot of people who think they know your trade better than you do. My favorite is: "My dad was an electrician so...." Agreed, that THAT kind of shit is annoying. And yes, that applies to any time you get a weekend warrior telling a real tradespe...

I feel your pain. I went through similar insanity, trying to get sheetrock hung on resilient channel. The guys were driving long screws right through the channel and into the studs. Had to check their work over and over and keep correcting them. We finally had to mark the partially-hung sheetrock wi...

What's the issue you're having? Are you trying to connect them with an old printer cable?

I'm bummed I missed this show - never have seen John play live, and it's been ages since I've seen Larry rock the bass! Just stumbled across this today, though it's from a few years back - Merlin Mann doing a long interview with John in three parts, totaling about 50 minutes: http://www.themerlinsho...

Hey, just happened to check over at Gearslutz and noticed they're doing a Phill Brown Q&A right now!

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-engineer-phill-brown/

That's a really good point. Balancing the pragmatic and the creative is one of the big challenges of grownup life. And of course it's easier for me to be critical, since I'm not paying the bills with music right now. ------- One more thing: It would be great to see the WRECKING BALL documentary men...