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Most "time based processing" I ever did; on a nice indie rock acoustic/drum driven song. Small verb room Small Plate verb Big/long Hall verb Short slap back delay (wide) Big stereo delay lotsa repeats. Right only repeats once for every two repeats on the left. So if the left side is at 200msc then t...

Here's a set up I have gotten good results from on loud heavy rock guitars (distortion on Mesa's and Marshall's) Guitar A Condenser Dynamic Guitar B Condeser Dynamic I Like to put each pair of mic's in an XY pattern just to get an even "of axis fill". I won't use the mic's in stereo the way they are...

If you have pro tools you can do sys ex dumps into that, its pretty easy.

Ah the mac life is sweet. I just got myself a mac mini and a 20' cinema display. The computer is pretty quick, Im not recording on it yet. Not real fast, the the G5 is over twice as fast, and you can get way tons of ram. anyways, the display is awsome!! Its a beautiful peice of hardware. Its pretty ...

Modern Recording Techniques says "...Sound Designer II or .snd format....Was developed by Digidesign for their Pro-Tools and other digital editor systems." But weren't earlier versions of Pro Tools called Sound Designer (pre Digidesign)??? The only other thing i can find on "Enforce Mac/PC compatibi...

I think you should also consider apples tech support cost. I read somewheres that its like $200 a case!! Also when Logic 7 did have major issues when it first came out. I don't know what the story is today. Just because apple owns the 'rights' to the software dosent mean they make it better. Editing...

oh man I think the sans amp is anything but versitile! I love it on my acoustic guitar, a little tochey on the highs but i like to cut!! I dialed up the SVT setting in the instruction manual and though it sounded exactaly the same as the svt-4 in the adjacent room. Lately I been using the thing on d...

The inforce mac/pc compatability thing only has to do with file name size. Mac limits the number of characters that can be used in a file name its something around 30. So if you want your pc files to "always" work on mac then do that. .aiff its the newer mac standard file extention for audio files. ...

I was in on a recording of one lone shuttle pipe player. We used an over mic, in front of the girl (player) a few inches above her head about a foot infront of her. We also used a close mic just above the bottom of the pipe that is fingered to play the different notes. I think it was an LDC in cardi...

I love lots of records with tons of studio trickery, but sometimes it feels like the engineer, producer or whoever is taking the paintbrush out of the real artist's hand. Maybe that's why there are so many homerecorders. I kind of think thats its the producer or engineer who by the very act of remo...

Wow, such a wide river you have just jumped into. Apple pretty much has the market of professional everything cornered. Video editing, sound for film, photographers, recording studios. If you want people to learn how to do sound for film, I think pro tools is the only option. Pro Tools HD is still i...

This sounds like it could be a million things. I would guess that its a driver issue first. I would look at that. Make sure you have the newest drivers possible for audition and for the Dakota. Make sure those can talk to each other. Some PC boards don't some PIC cards. That might be an issue. Is yo...

I picked up some good ones at Guitar Center, back in the "pro" audio department. I think they said HR or HD on them. They are reall good. All of the wing-type nuts for tigntining were ergonomic and would stay tight without too much force. They were also a lot heavyer that the cheep quicklok ones (wh...

Oh man. You will be so happy when you switch to ballanced pachbays. The studio i was at before made that switch when we "went office space" on the ADAT's (not literally). When the last of the unballanced gear when out the door (adats, behringer pachbays) all was better. Signals were better. The big ...

Thank you dave for pointing out that there is some science to recording (frequency responses) and not just an art like using your ears.