Steffan Andrews

There's actually 5 monitors plus the laptop, including two 22". And they're all LCD, so I'd say we're about even

Don't worry, I'm yelling at myself.

I also have a machine room located a few feet out of the photo, housing my noisy/heat generating equipment (3 towers, UPS power supplies, etc.)

I've read most of this thread but forgive me if this was brought up already.. I'm wondering what your plans are for this exactly? I think it's important to clarify it before this agreement settles. What are the criteria, and what is the process for removing a mix? The agreement just says you retain the right to decide whether to honor removal requests or not. It does not say whether requests for removal are possible or will ever be honored. Even if this remains in the "grey area" I'd still be interested in knowing what your plans are.

Broke down and bought an MBox2 Pro. Also picked up a Digi Universal Slave Driver (the old Sync I/O) and added more LCD monitors. And bought another dualcore sampler machine.

One Winged Angel has a locked arrangement now. Waiting for parts to be recorded. There is hope for all

Working on it. I'm trying to have an arrangement done today so everyone can record their parts.

Yeah, then you can be really disappointed

Play much WoW?

Interpretation aside, the man is a fantastic orchestrator.

It's best if we keep the discussion on the FF7 project so people who are interested in where it's at don't have to sift back through pages to find the relevant posts. That being said, we're moving ahead full tilt, trying to get this project out the door. Just have a little patience, we've been saving the best until last.

Stay tuned for the FF7 project.

Good. Now if only we could get rid of iLok.

Is it unno or dunno? You be the judge.

In terms of choir, we are working the details out as we speak. I won't divulge any more details than zircon wants to have public at the moment, but rest assured it will be awesome. It's likely we will have pixie singing parts from the choir. It's also in the cards to have additional vocalists.

How about we take care of this in PMs and keep the thread on topic.

Whoa there tiger. Don't start makin work for us

Here's more stuff I've added... Alesis AI-3 AD/DA converter rack Alesis AI-1 AES/EBU-SPDIF-ADAT format converter rack 2 ADAT racks complete with ELCO snakes (you can use these racks as cheap converters if you aren't fussy about 16-bit) 1/4" patch bay (makes me retch, but whatever. I can't drop a grand on a TT patch bay right now) Furman PL-8 Series II power conditioner rack Yamaha power amp that I made custom rack ears for Fifty 2x2-foot Open Cell Polyurethane soundproofing foam

To be honest, I never considered the Trial in Concert to be an OC grade remix - it just happened to be received well. The production was terrible because I was just learning recording technology at that time, and the playing was less than perfect because it was improvised. Given that was at least 5 years ago, if I were to have produced that track today, it would be far better. But at the time, I used little more than a couple ill-suited vocal microphones to do a hack job of recording. I believe a good knowledge and education about music theory and the proper technological way to go about producing can make someone with very limited gear do fantastic things. But the reality is that given the right tools, someone capable of using them can undeniably produce far better results. These days, it does not take very much of an investment in gear to acquire a base level of technology that empowers you to do crazy things that weren't possible even a few years ago. One can only hope the general level of musical competence of people adopting new advances in affordable gear would not decrease inversely, from a fast growing complacency resulting from taking for granted the freedom that is offered by such cheap and powerful technology. The saying holds true often that less is more. The technology should not limit you from exploring, but it should not cause one to let its freedom make them indecisive, and as a result the quality of the music suffers.

Yep. Guaranteed both ridiculous and over the top.

I want a "I remixed FF7 and all I got was this lousy shirt" shirt.

Added/changed some stuff in my setup... Tascam FW-1804, Furman PL-8, Rode NT2-A, new rack, Yamaha NS power amp with old speakers, 22" LCD, subwoofer http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2541529#2541529

Of course he's going to say that about all of them, he's the diplomat of this shindig.

Hardware * KRK Systems V8 Series 2 Nearfield Studio Monitors * Yamaha KX-88 weighted masterkeyboard * Custom retrofit 32-note AGO organ pedalboard * 3.4GHz DualCore and 2.8GHz P4 each with 3GB RAM and 2 x 74GB 10000rpm drives in RAID for samples * Tascam FW-1804 rack audio interface * M-Audio FireWire Audiophile * Furman PL-8 power conditioning rack * Rode NT2-A * Shure SM58 * 2 x 17" LCD and a 22" LCD * APC 1400VA UPS redundant power supplySoftware * Steinberg Cubase SX 3 * Adobe Audition Main Sample Libraries * East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold Pro XP (EWQLSO) * ProjectSAM Brass * Stormdrum * Trilogy * EWQL Symphonic Choir Waves Renaissance bundle handles my digital dynamics and processing needs. I have other plugins that I use once in a while but considering I do tracks mainly orchestral in nature, I'm not using a lot of effects.

Yep.