Category : Tips and Tricks
I find that even though I have been mixing for years, there is always something more to learn. In that spirit – take a look at this quality article from SOS that’s a few years old but still great for folks new to the craft! http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul08/articles/reverb1.htm
This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
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Making a perfectly looping track is more difficult than it can seem. Many audio programs generate “extra” stuff at the beginning and end of your bounces, making perfectly times loops difficult. In this video, I demonstrate how to avoid this problem by using a “Make Markers from Tempo” function in Peak Pro. Similar functionality may exist in other two-track editing software.
To best view the post, I recommend clicking through to load this in youtube and then view full screen in 720P mode.
This entry was posted on Friday, January 14th, 2011 at 4:33 am
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Had a fun experience tonight “debugging” something that turned out to be a simpler problem… I mounted the mic wrong! Cardioid microphones, as most folks know, pick up sound from most angles except directly behind them. Thus, if you mount your mic 180 degrees away from where your noise source is, most of what you are hearing then is the room reflections. I figured something was wrong when I found myself cranking up the preamplifier to get a decent line level. So, next time your mic seems “boxy” or too quiet for the preamplifier settings… Check the positioning first!
This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 4:28 am
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Sure, I know what you’re thinking… “when would I have to do that!?!”
Well, that’s what I would have said until lately when this became an issue!
Right now, in the studio I am running a “samples only” slave machine without a monitor or keyboard, relying simply on Apple’s built-in screen sharing feature to help me manage Kontakt on that machine. All is going well until I decide to load another sample library onto the slave computer from some DVD-ROM’s I have and I run into this issue! Using the eject key on my main computer’s keyboard does NOT translate “through” screen sharing to mean “eject the SLAVE MACHINE’s optical drive”. Instead, it only ejects the master machine. Oops!
After some searching around, I found that a feature DOES exist to create what is shown in the screen shot above – a way to eject the optical drive tray from the menu bar!
To set this up, simply navigate on your system to:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/
There will be a file in there called “Eject.menu”
Simply double-click this and presto! You will have the option to click and eject! Enjoy!
This entry was posted on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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I’m a definite believer in cleaning house in order to be more creative. For a composer, this means lots and lots of computer work. Perhaps its setting up backups, cleaning out files, installing a new PCIe card or hard drive, updating (all!) your software programs and sample libraries. Maybe calibrating your monitors. Whatever it is, eliminating the clutter is a great move towards improving focus during some downtime. (more…)
This entry was posted on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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