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Post by formatcyes on Feb 17, 2016 14:11:17 GMT -6
Hi swartzfeger welcome to the party. You cannot go wrong with a svart box
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 16, 2016 5:33:02 GMT -6
I have been doing a bit of testing its simple enough just plug your output to an input and record. See how much slip as you get adding plugin's I haven't found one that causes trouble yet so mixbus must have some delay compensation working. BTW its calibrate audio is not that accurate you have to manually adjust it.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 14, 2016 22:14:12 GMT -6
I am good a math to wait that's not right....
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 14, 2016 15:35:44 GMT -6
ENTP-A I think it got it right..
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 10, 2016 4:49:57 GMT -6
Mixbus 3.1, OSX, melodyne working great thanks Harrison will use logic for midi editing everything else mixbus swweeeeet.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 7, 2016 15:57:19 GMT -6
Destructive editing sound like a drummer I know.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 6, 2016 0:01:13 GMT -6
Ok I am impressed. Your ITB vs OTB have you tryed the harrison mixbus? No refection on this mix just curious what you think. thanx man, i have not tried Harrison MB, i've heard from a few pals that it's good stuff, what do you think of it? hopefully i'll try it when i go up to winetree's place next time. I love it sounds very different to the other daws but I don't operate at your level. I also have no experience OTB so would be keen to hear what you think it may take away your OTB craving and it may not.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 5, 2016 21:45:01 GMT -6
Ok fella's, rip me to shreds!! Ok I am impressed. Your ITB vs OTB have you tryed the harrison mixbus? No refection on this mix just curious what you think.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 5, 2016 14:53:05 GMT -6
Blind tests are very revealing the only issue I have with Slate's test's are they are done by the company trying to sell plugin's so there is a bias there. But what it does show is just how close the emulations are getting. The only real way to test is a double blind test much harder to set up but.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 5, 2016 14:30:29 GMT -6
Eric, since you're around... in future just put a call out here and one of us will supply something more interesting that will be more challenging to mix in the good way. For example, I've just finished doing a record for a Canadian/Irish/American punk outfit with guest vocals on a couple of songs from one of Dan Lanois's former artists. Stuff is killer and with 22 tracks for drums, 14 guitars, 2 for bass, 8 backing vocals, leads and doubles for lead vocals and lead guitars plus overdubs including horns... and the scattered bit of accordion and mandolin, it would have bit something for contestants to really dig their teeth into. And I'll bet some other guys here have got even wilder things to throw at this!! It's not unheard of. Celine Dion, Angelil and record company allowed the multitrack of one of her songs to be used for a similar contest a few years back. The result was also that an up and coming mixing engineer suddenly got a huge career boost! kind regards. The problem with this is that the purpose was to record something using all Locomotive preamps, which they did. That's not an option if we lay the tracks. They could loan the preamps out for the tracking. The "we have a song but haven’t practised it just fix it in the mix" does no one any favours. This thread has been great but the music could have been so much better and really shown of the preamps which is kind of the point.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 4, 2016 21:21:21 GMT -6
and then a few minutes later, nothing continues to happen (with a nod to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). Love the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't" yep. Some of Douglas Adams can be applied to real life such as this navigation technique which I have adopted ""Zen" method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it"
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 4, 2016 15:30:32 GMT -6
In future, when companies like these have these types of contest... they should first hold a contest for material submission and not have us work hourly with things that make us want to slit our wrists. JMHO... YMMV. Yep this has been great to hear what people did with this everyone here who did a mix has good skills but the material for fuk sake. Need more of these contests the little tricks invaluable. Great thread despite the material.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 4, 2016 15:06:46 GMT -6
hi svart, would you please tell me what the headroom or max input will be for your svartboxes? my RME Babyface's is: Maximum Input Level for 0 dBFS: +12 dBu Scaled for 0dbfs, I believe the measurement was around +16 to +18 before 1dB compression(flattening of a sine due to headroom limits). The compression is relatively linear for another 5-6dB or so. I routinely push my levels into the A/D to get transient shaving a some harmonic enrichment. That's a really cool feature when you get the odd spike in level you don't get the standard converter clip noise it still sounds great. Wouldn’t be surprised if someone doesn’t want to license your design in the future.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 4, 2016 14:48:13 GMT -6
I concur and would like to thank wiz for his profound first post that started the whole please delete this thread thread a true genius.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 2, 2016 19:20:35 GMT -6
I don't know how it was done by the likes of Lindsey Buckingham back in the good ol' days, but speaking as someone who tries to do as much as I can in the studio, playing all the tracks, etc. I'm becoming more and more aware of how my bass playing doesn't always line up nicely with my piano/guitar playing and singing., and how the drummer that comes in to do the session after just a few tracks are down has to deal with how all that slop sits mostly in front of the click, etc. I know part of it is that I am not a first class player; I consider myself a singer/songwriter first and foremost, but even after applying some subtle flexing to smooth things out, I wonder how much the 'back and forth' between the asynchronous musicians sounds different than if there were 4 or 5 of me's recording live and reacting to each others' tempo shifts in real time. Latency, latency and latency, My light bulb moment was when I played bass live with the drummer it was lock in recording bass after mmmm no. Its not good enough to just rely on your daws loop back results Test it loop the output back to the input and adjust as necessary until it lines up. Don't use digital monitoring the latency hurts your playing especially bass and drums.
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 1, 2016 20:41:31 GMT -6
Those last two posts got an actual laugh out of me... Over breakfast... How do you get blueberries and yoghurt off the iPad screen? Attachments:
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Post by formatcyes on Feb 1, 2016 13:56:23 GMT -6
I can count to potato.
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 30, 2016 20:30:51 GMT -6
Round these parts they call it a departure tax. Hang in there.
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 30, 2016 16:46:06 GMT -6
You can’t stop this thread nobody can stop this thread. singing while dressed in my best 80 disco out fit, hope that doesn't kill it :0
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 29, 2016 14:48:59 GMT -6
If you can get real payed work by saying yes I have PT get it (rent) if the work does not cover the rent stop PT is not that hard to learn get the keyboard with the commands that is a game changer.
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 29, 2016 14:15:42 GMT -6
I did a null test between protools and logic 9 and ableton Live a couple years ago. Once I set them to all use the same Pan Law (-3db), the test file generated by SpectraFoo and rendered by each DAW nulled out inside each DAW when I compared them all. www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/813082-curiosity-satisfied.html It's an old thread so the dropbox link is dead. Thanks chuck debate ends there.
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 29, 2016 2:01:45 GMT -6
Sm7b wait wrong site.
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 28, 2016 14:29:02 GMT -6
Is anyone recording into mixbus or just editing? all I hear about is importing and mixing First up not a pro. I edit in mixbus but have to take vocals out for tuning. Its ok and a lot better than it use to be really depends on how much editing you need to do if you are doing a lot of deep edits taking it out would be the go. It works very well recording it to it.
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 27, 2016 20:38:11 GMT -6
Got my hands on 3.0.3 OSX melodyne shows up but it does not work will still have to tune up in logic and mix in mixbus for now I love the sound of this DAW and it is taking giant steps forward so I am sure they will get it sorted, happy to wait.
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Post by formatcyes on Jan 27, 2016 20:31:09 GMT -6
M57 said, " This many sound persnickety, but I just hate the dated look they bring to the room", referring to wooden panels. Man, are we ever on the same page sometimes. As I was looking around at wood panels, thinking, well.. they might offer some diffusion if the had enough variations in the panels, but damn, they're fugly. I bet there's some modern style wood panels somewhere that still have variety in the panel stripes though. I did a quick look around, and wood panels with a variety of shapes were so expensive, the wall treatments that were mentioned earlier were less expensive. I did see this at Home Depot and thought it interesting. It said they were made of "plant fiber".. hmm.. I wonder what the heck that is.. www.homedepot.com/p/threeDwall-32-4-in-x-21-6-in-x-1-in-Off-White-Plant-Fiber-Glue-On-Wainscot-Wall-Panel-6-Pack-EKB-02-119/205784189 Not dated vintage and vintage always sounds better I think its some kind of universal law or something
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