...it's usually ^^^this.
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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: General Recording
- Topic: Compressors?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 419
Re: Compressors?
I'm still old-school: I have a hardware compressor -- or two, in series, sometimes -- in between the mic pre and the A/D converter. But when I do use a plug-in for VO compression
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
- Topic: MacOS error: Unexpected error (-2009)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6988
Re: MacOS error: Unexpected error (-2009)
Ooh, good idea, thanks! I'll let y'all know if that succeeds.mikehalloran wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:16 pmStart by opening those mp3s in QuickTime to see if you can do so without an iTunes error. If you can, then export to .wav or .aif and see if those will drop in. You are expanding a compressed file without making DP do the conversion.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
- Topic: MacOS error: Unexpected error (-2009)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6988
MacOS error: Unexpected error (-2009)
Anyone ever encounter this alert when trying to import an audio file into the Soundbites window of a project? " Digital Performer has encountered an error MacOS error: Unexpected error (-2009) " It's happened to me with three or four different audio files, all MP3s that I ripped from youtu...
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 10:17 am
- Forum: General Recording
- Topic: Pop Goes the Weasel, But Not the Microphone!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5209
Re: Pop Goes the Weasel, But Not the Microphone!
"Hold"?!?!mikehalloran wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:30 pmWho's going to tell a client to hold a pencil in front of his/her mouth while concentrating on words/music/vocal delivery/phrasing and a half dozen other things?
We always just attached the pencil to the body of the mic with blue painter's tape.
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Recording
- Topic: Pop Goes the Weasel, But Not the Microphone!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5209
Re: Pop Goes the Weasel, But Not the Microphone!
Doesn't anybody use the pencil trick for plosives anymore?
:shrugs:
:shrugs:
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Recording
- Topic: Your Favorite Mixing Tips...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4412
Re: Your Favorite Mixing Tips...
I suspect it has more to do with the listener's "auditory memory"
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: General Recording
- Topic: Your Favorite Mixing Tips...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4412
Re: Your Favorite Mixing Tips...
Here's a mixing "trick" I've been using for over 40 years and still find it helps make a drumkit gel: Identify where the "point" of the kick drum tone is frequency-wise -- that narrow register (that either occurs naturally and/or that you've chosen to emphasize) where the snap/sl...
- Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:35 am
- Forum: Composing, Orchestrating, Songwriting, etc.
- Topic: Can someone please remind me of this tech term and examples?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7436
Re: Can someone please remind me of this tech term and examples?
Apologies for zombie thread resurrection, but I think "diegetic transition" is the term you're looking for
...although the number of musicians who would recognize what you're talking about when you used that term is probably woefully small.
...although the number of musicians who would recognize what you're talking about when you used that term is probably woefully small.
- Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:05 pm
- Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
- Topic: Yamaha Guitar
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1014
Re: Yamaha Guitar
Are there any opinions about Yamaha? My very first guitar in 1972 was a Yamaha FG-50 acoustic. It served me well until ~1980 or '81 when I (foolishly) sold it 'cuz I needed $50 cash. Then in 1985 I won an entry-level Yamaha solid body electric (model SE200 I think?) in a raffle, and that guitar was...
- Wed Dec 29, 2021 7:48 am
- Forum: Composing, Orchestrating, Songwriting, etc.
- Topic: Tempo Map When There's No Tempo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3395
Re: Tempo Map When There's No Tempo
I'm curious to see if anyone chimes in with suggestions, because I wind up using DP for recording a lot of music that doesn't easily conform to grid-based conventions. I'd especially be interested in ways to hide the bars/beats markers in the audio editing ("Sequence"?) view, or replace th...
- Wed Dec 29, 2021 6:08 am
- Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
- Topic: Yuja Wang in your living room.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1216
Re: Yuja Wang in your living room.
Thread title is misleading!
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:05 pm
- Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
- Topic: Six reasons why I love DP (and a few things I wish were better)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3086
Re: Six reasons why I love DP (and a few things I wish were better)
That would be cycle record. Been there forever. I use that rather than Polar which seems fussy to control. AFAIK the important difference is that Polar used RAM so you didn't have to worry about slow disk drives. Okay, so Polar is the one I was thinking of, I definitely remember its RAM-based memor...
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:17 am
- Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
- Topic: Six reasons why I love DP (and a few things I wish were better)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3086
Re: Six reasons why I love DP (and a few things I wish were better)
Polar- I recently rediscovered this, top notch looping setup. Ha! So this is literally the opposite of the “Man, I wish DP did x,” I later learn that it does do that, and has done that for like 10 years thing that OP mentioned: I coulda sworn Polar disappeared somewhere around DP Vers3 or 4! Or wai...
- Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
- Topic: Six reasons why I love DP (and a few things I wish were better)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3086
Re: Six reasons why I love DP (and a few things I wish were better)
Whenever I think “Man, I wish DP did x,” I later learn that it does do that, and has done that for like 10 years. LOL! ^^^This literally made me laugh out loud. What keeps you coming back? The fact that I never have to say “Man, I wish DP did x” I made a deal with myself a number of years ago: As s...
- Thu Jul 29, 2021 1:14 pm
- Forum: General Recording
- Topic: DiY Balanced Patch Cable
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3592
Re: DiY Balanced Patch Cable
Studios use Ethernet cables for audio wiring now Mike. The Cat6a is incredibly excellent for audio... tight twists and a nice shield with drain. Pro tip: If you're shopping for bulk cable for these balanced analog audio runs make sure whatever you're buying explicitly specifies " shielded &quo...