Harmony

I've got those same white hooks on my desk to hang my headphones on. One night when it got really hot in my room, the glue melted and the hooks and my headphones came crashing down scaring the life out of me

HappY BiRthdaY!!

Good stuff with an interesting prediction as to how it will end. It's difficult for me to judge how popular auto-normalization is -- I don't use it -- but it doesn't sound so far fetched that it will become as standard as similar practices have become in broadcasting. Ummmm... what? Digital audio is pretty much the same "format" regardless of the final file type. CD/WAV, MP3, FLAC represent the same information, just using different compression schemes. That statement shows a flawed understanding of digital audio, and the whole article goes downhill from there I actually read that differently than you. I've heard plenty of arguments against recording at 24/96 or even 24/48 simply because the final target will most likely be 16/44.1. Similarly I've heard of people wanting to record at 24/96 but end up settling for 24/88.2 because of the even-number sample rate conversion down to 44.1, for whatever that's worth. However, if we're not bound by CD Red Book standards, we can record and distribute at higher bit/sample rates. MP3, OGG, FLAC, etc. can handle it so I read the authors statement as one of a hope that we could lose those boundaries. In that sense, I share that hope.

Good suggestions in here. Have you read it yet? http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3483

Beautiful work guys! It flows so cleanly from start to finish and it's one of those pieces that make me want to drop what I'm doing, open up SONAR, load up my favorite synth and just jam. Great composition and rearrangement value, but I'm most impressed with the mixing a mastering. The highs are silky smooth without sounding dull, and the lows--even with that active bass line and full kick--are well defined and easy on the ears. Bottom line: you can crank the volume on this baby and it only gets better! Congrats on a first for OCR and another great mix added to the pile

Yeah, it sounded a lot more fun than he played it down to be.

Well, if you look at it as just another weapon in your musical arsenal, I don't think anyone actually needs it. I think it would be great to have though, income aside. Plus, having presets with names like "Angelic Destiny" and "Compassion for Life" can't be a bad thing

Guess I'll be subbing everything at 192 now

Thanks, I'm loving it so far! Very very sexy. Check out my last response in this thread to see why I went with it over the Lexicon. Pics to come Yeah, that would work, but you can't compare it to the original sample since you've got D/A converters, speakers, a room, and mics changing the sound before it hits the preamp. Better might be to take a sample and route the output directly into each preamp for comparison. I don't hear a difference, but I think the source has a fairly limited frequency content. That may have been on purpose, but I bet there would be more discernible differences in something like an acoustic guitar

I'm curious, but I'm more curious to hear how you'd go about doing comparison samples. I've been trying to think of a way to compare the preamps in my new ProFire 2626 to those in the FastTrack Pro and I can't think of a good objective test. From just playing around with it, I can't hear a difference in vocals, but I swear my direct-in guitar sounds cleaner and more...realistic(?).In fact, it would be really cool if we had a way of equally comparing EVERYONE's preamps in this thread so we could try to hear the difference between a $100 pre and a $2000 one

Do you hear a difference with the Art pre over the preamps in the Fast Track? Nothing wrong with having more pres lying around, especially a tube preamp; I'm just wondering if it gives you any additional capabilities.

Well, sort of. According to the common definitions of mixing and mastering, you can't really mix at the end; it's the process that takes place throughout the recording process in preparation for mastering. Continuing with my cake analogy:Audio Mixing is: Blend 2cups flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1/2 cup milk. Add vanilla to taste. Check consistency, if too lumpy, add more milk. Bake at 400deg until golden brown. Let cake cool. At this point you have a pretty good cake that you could share with friends. But to kick it up a notch... Audio Mastering is: Spread frosting on cake. Garnish with those little candy things. Slice into serving portions. So yeah, at the mastering stage, you shouldn't be adding more vanilla the mix, and at the mixing stage you shouldn't be trying to garnish the cake while it's in the oven. Of course everyone does everything differently. That's just what I'd call the textbook application of the terms mixing and mastering. Don't know if that helped, but talking about cake never hurt anyone.

Agreed. To bake a cake, you don't start by putting frosting on the eggs, sugar and flour.

Nero does that if all you need to do is crossfade a few seconds at the end of each track. You just arange the order of songs, set the crossfade length between each track, and burn. I forget exactly where the option is, but I'm pretty sure Google remembers. As said, Audacity is free and would be just fine for this, but it would be more work if you've never done anything like that before.

Tons of guitars = Nice setup! I'm most jealous of the wide angle lens though

Yeah, for sure. My bro is being wishy-washy about being able to come so I may have an additional spot for the road trip. Hit me up on Facebook and we can get the details down. Bring the twins if they pop out early. I'll give them the egg shakers during the jam sessions!

Went with the ProFire and it arrived today. Joy! The ultimate decision was based on the mountains of positive reviews for the ProFire compared with the relatively few mentions of the 810S anywhere (admittedly because it's new). Another huge factor was the lack of any sort of online knowledge base for the 810S on the Lexicon website, as well as a relative lack of videos and tutorials about it, again reflecting how new the product line is. Finally, I read through both manuals and the ProFire's made me feel like it was an entry level pro product as opposed to the 810S's manual which made the interface seem like a top of the line hobbyist product. It's pro or no in my studio, haha! There was also a ridiculously good deal on it at Amazon (even the zZounds people were shocked when I price matched it with them), however that didn't significantly affect the decision since I had already committed the money. In the end, the choice was easy for me. I went with Jessica Biel and I won't regret it Thanks for the help guys.

I want to be on whatever mailing lists you're on! For $10 that's a great sounding guitar.

HAHA, that show was awesome!

Yeah, you really should quantify what you mean by "extremely limited" then decide if you need those additional features that your current software lacks.

Just bought something from zZounds and I had a little trouble getting the affiliate link to work with their lowest price guarantee. Not sure if this was just me, but here's the short version of what happened and how to make sure OCR gets the commission if you're ever in this situation: Item A was $XXX + free shipping on zZounds. Item A was $AWholeLotLess + free shipping on Amazon. I did my "I'm gonna save a lot of money" happy dance. I wanted to have zZounds price-match the Amazon price to save an additional whatever%. I called zZounds and they said they would do it but the affiliate commission wasn't gonna happen. In order to give OCR the commission, you normally have to go through the OCR site to the zZounds site and buy from there. But if you do that, you can't price-match. To have it work out: Go to zZounds through the OCR links. Write down the 7-character priority code that is plastered all over every page at zZounds. Search for the item you want to buy and price-match. Add it to your cart. That's the important step. Call 1-800-ZZOUNDS, give them your priority code and tell them what you want to do. They should be able to look up the OCR->zZounds->Item In Cart history and all should be well for the commission and the price-matching. Hope that helps someone out there. Stay thirsty my friends...thirsty for savings.

15% off sale at Guitar Center this weekend, now's you're chance! Although I'd go in and listen on a few other pairs before taking the plunge. I like them, but I could see someone not liking them as well. Before I bought that, I held a sock (a clean, one mind you) in front of my mouth to keep plosives out without having to angle my head away from the mic. After years of practice I had perfected the technique, and the results were great, but it wasn't too impressive when I had people over to record. Ladies love a rock singer, not a sock singer :tomatoface:

I love those kinds of stories. Like analoq said earlier in this thread, OCR musicians really should be commended for how much they're able to accomplish with the limited/cheap/broken/homemade/"consumer-grade" equipment that fills most of our studios. I've heard a lot of music here that doesn't just sound "good for someone with limited resources". I've heard lots of music that's just plain good. sexy

Looks like you've got a Lambda interface there, but is that another interface in the 5.25" drive bay?