Where are your Limitations?

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As we all get on in the DAW- or perhaps still studio domain, where are your limitations now?

Are they real? Or are they perceived?

[Nick Sevilla]

As we all get on in the DAW- or perhaps still studio domain, where are your limitations now?

Are they real? Or are they perceived?

Slight tinnitus :

Left ear 8015 HZ about 1/2 octave.

Right ear 8018 HZ about 1/3 to 1/2 octave.

Both are dips of about 5-6 dB. My brain compensates by always thinking I am hearing these frequencies.

Supposedly there are some therapies out there, I'll be trying some this year.

I am more careful EQing around this frequency because of this limitation.

Cheers

[MoreSpaceEcho]

i still can't play a very convincing shuffle.

[T-rex]

i still can't play a very convincing shuffle.

Amen to that!

[roscoenyc]

where are your limitations?

on the flip side of a coin labeled "strengths".

They work together.

[JGriffin]

As we all get on in the DAW- or perhaps still studio domain, where are your limitations now?

Are they real? Or are they perceived?

There are always limitations. There always have been. In analog land, in digital land, in big commercial studios. Real and perceived. Space and gear trades off to time, or to money. Personnel trades off to scheduling and personalities.

But the limitations I find myself facing are the same ones as years ago: the creative ones. The vicious stare of the blank page, the elusive initial concept of the sound design, the first note to play or theme to write.

[drumsound]

I'm with Roscoe here. I think the way I've set my room up and the way I work is geared (no pun intended) around my strengths. Yes, there are things I cannot do, and honestly, things I'm just plain not good at. There are also many things I do quite well.

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I think back to the threshold of a 52-input SSL like we had at Master Control. Tracking/Mixing sessions with 24-busses, 6 headphone mixes, etc. went smoothly. Lovely outboard gear like a Neve Sidecar, a rack of Trident A-range modules and a plethora of API and Pultec gear made things sound really good. We had ample supply of pretty much every kind of mic you could imagine.

In doing this now under different circumstances, the main bottle-neck for me is with computer power. Short of a full-blown HD system or some alternate program, what's the answer?

Letting going of needing 24-inputs to track a band isn't going to happen. Letting go of headphone mixes did. Letting go of the need to mix through a console did, but tracking without one- or having ample interfaces for tracking didn't.

The space I'm in now is small. It's probably the most ergonomically offensive thing I've dealt with I think. Focusing and working here is easy, but the will to work and sit in one spot all day isn't. Is that about vantage point?

[Brett Siler]

I guess mine would be I don't know what a microphone is.

[mjau]

But the limitations I find myself facing are the same ones as years ago: the creative ones. The vicious stare of the blank page, the elusive initial concept of the sound design, the first note to play or theme to write.

Absolutely. When I can overcome that limitation, everything else previously limiting seems immaterial.

[Ryan Silva]

My day Job.

[finleysound]

My day Job.

Amen brother!

[CurtZHP]

My limiter plug-ins. Quite limiting.

[Ryan Silva]

My limiter plug-ins. Quite limiting.

and there we have it

[ofajen]

January through May is my tough work time, and between work, family, sleep and exercise time, I don't have much left for music. OTOH, I'm getting better at including the kids in music practice time and even in having them do vocal tracks, so there is hope of progress.

If I had more time, the limitation would be creating coherent musical ideas and getting them done quickly.

Cheers,

Otto