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by Professor
Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:28 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Exporting a 44.1k session at 48k in PT-can it be done?
Replies: 3
Views: 1614

So do you mean that you like the sound of the session better when it is played back faster and higher-pitched? If so then I don't think there is a way to export the session, I think you just have to feed the system the wrong clock exactly the way you are doing it now in order to hear it played wrong...
by Professor
Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:48 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: how to unravel TIGHT cable shield?
Replies: 6
Views: 2629

Nothing wrong with cutting it down the center like you described as long as you don't accidentally cut the wires inside. Besides, if you don't cut off about half of the copper there is usually way too much to fit into the solder points. I use a pick or small screwdriver to unbraid and I'm pretty qui...
by Professor
Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:04 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Analog vs. Digital: Stanford Professor Tests Students on Tas
Replies: 5
Views: 2472

So in a few more decades that non-sizzle music is going to sound "old" the same way old 78s sound old to us. That seems reasonable enough. Compare it to something like film where that yellow haze betrays a film from the 70s and the over-saturated technicolor can give away a late 50s spectacular. An...
by Professor
Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:37 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Analog vs. Digital: Stanford Professor Tests Students on Tas
Replies: 5
Views: 2472

Ordinarily I would just assume let analog vs. digital posts slide down the pages to a quick death since they rarely get much further than a bunch of "well I like this so it must be better" posts. But something struck me as being kind of interesting about this little news blurb, and that's the fact t...
by Professor
Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:46 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Mics for field recordings
Replies: 6
Views: 1974

As already mentioned the mics they use at football games aren't likely to be what you are looking for. They don't use any special device to amplify distant sounds. Rather they listen in a particularly narrow direction (think like a 30? cone from the microphone, like a flashlight beam) and then the r...
by Professor
Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:05 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: SMALL MONITORS
Replies: 44
Views: 10671

Easily the JBL LSR for my tastes. I was working at a JBL dealer when the previous version LSR 25p was introduced, and I loved them as soon as I heard them. I have the larger models of the previous generation in the studio here, 3 pairs of LSR 28p 2-ways, and a 5.1 rig of LSR 32 passive 3-ways. But t...
by Professor
Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:10 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Mixing so you can understand the lyrics
Replies: 22
Views: 12038

I have to disagree with Professor's philosophy somewhat. Ultimately the listener is going to walk away humming the MELODY, and I'd be willing to bet that they are going to sing along with lyrics that aren't exactly correct. No problem there, it really is my philosophy and approach most of the time ...
by Professor
Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:45 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Mixing so you can understand the lyrics
Replies: 22
Views: 12038

I run into this issue all of the time except that for me it always seems to be the other way around - I want the vocals higher in the mix for intelligibility and the band wants them quieter. It took me a while to come around to an understanding of what was happening but eventually I realized that I ...
by Professor
Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:49 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: recording quartet
Replies: 4
Views: 1878

I love these sorts of questions because they always serve to remind me of how we all manage to find the most difficult projects and situations for ourselves when we are either just starting out or trying to keep things cheap. It amazes me to think of some of the things I tried to pull off when I onl...
by Professor
Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:35 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: To our dear drummers, drop the knowledge
Replies: 20
Views: 5339

For me it's a little different because not only do I play drums, but I'm also really quite good at tuning and tech-ing drums, and I have more gear than just a single drumset around the studio. So when I have someone come in for a session, I try to get them in ahead of time to check out the studio ki...
by Professor
Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:30 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: What is an Hour?
Replies: 20
Views: 7843

Isn't it typical for doctors to charge a full hour even if they are only in the exam room with you for 5 minutes? Their argument is usually something about how there is additional time spent outside of the room filling out paper work, reviewing files, etc. Maybe that's the case, maybe not, and I'm s...
by Professor
Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:17 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Help - need to find Beatles interactive studio website...
Replies: 1
Views: 1664

Help - need to find Beatles interactive studio website...

I know somebody on here knows about it because I saw it in a post a couple years back but I can't find it now. There was a website somebody put together where they stitched together the available photographs of one of the Abbey Road studio sessions and built it into a 3-d interface where a viewer co...
by Professor
Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:31 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: 300 Hz and below in MONO? (for vinyl)
Replies: 6
Views: 3025

For that matter, 300Hz is hardly just the low-end, that's just above middle C. That's 4 octaves out of ten that we can hear. Nothing wrong with choosing that as the starting point for your roll off, but you may want to keep that at a more shallow crossover point. The thing to be more concerned with ...
by Professor
Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:04 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: static electricity
Replies: 9
Views: 2623

Dry air and carpeting are the usual suspects, so the humidifier could really help especially if you can get something that is self-regulating and attached to the air handing system, although even a simple in-room one will work. I used a 'mist of dreams' one for a while that is one of those shallow b...
by Professor
Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:04 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Good (cheap!) tracking headphones
Replies: 9
Views: 2953

The best deal on tracking headphones is still the deal that BSW up there (the banner ad at the top of the page) has been running for years now, the 5 pairs of Sennheiser HD-202 headphones for $89 . They sound good, are closed ear & block a lot of sound escaping from the cans into microphones, they a...