Sunday, July 18th, 2010
This is what @theaudiogeek did this week
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Have a drink for me and
@KeyOfGrey it’s our birthday.
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Just got back from the Meetup. Very successful I’d say. 14 home recordists came out.
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Looking forward to dinner tonight with
@chckn8r and
@KeyOfGrey and the rest of the Vancouver Home Recording meetup group.
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I sneaked a peek at
@gmgranka‘s next article. I think he should get a promotion.
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@chuck_russom although the crash is the cause of the swear so I guess its the same thing.
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@chuck_russom you should be owed that money, it’s not your fault. [in response to: You know those swear jars, where you put in $1 everytime your swear? I'm going to make a software crash jar, gonna put in $1 for every crash]
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@KeyOfGrey Sputnik sounds cool with an LA-610 but might be too colored depending on your tastes. I like my P-Solo preamp, uber clean.
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staying up late to watch Anchorman ftw
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@theRyanHarvey Interesting idea, never thought of that. How did it work out? [in response to:
@theaudiogeek dude was messing with a weird idea using autotunes throat formant thingy on a snare to tune it]
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Reason 5 looks SICK! Do want!
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@CreateMusicTips well that would be out of character for AVID to do anything on time.
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@gmgranka I think that’s a great idea! U87, sm57, 1176, LA2A, EMT plate reverb, Fender amps, Moog synths would be a few I’d want to read. [in response to: To the people that read AGZ, would it be interesting if I did posts on the history of famous pieces of gear?]
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It probably wouldn’t even be that hard to write. I hope some devs are reading this, I’m too lazy to do it myself.
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I need to write a plugin that will order food for me so I don’t have to stop working. Choose preset: Pizza/burrito/sub etc. then delivery
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PC completely locked up when
@ihazadoodle came over and sat down. Hey I was working on that! I wonder when the last time I saved was…
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anyone else noticed super slow horizontal scrolling in the Pro Tools 8.0.4 MIDI editor?
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Here’s what theaudiogeek said this week
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dammit I should really label my drives. Which one of you is Nick Nolte, Gary Busey and who is the third??? I have 7 hard drives now.
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help name my baby girl. We can’t think of anything.
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I have the fun task of installing and authorizing ALL my plugins again unless I can figure out how to migrate them.
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yes I’ve googled it
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I cannot figure out how to get basic networking going with Win7 and 10.5.8 together.
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As with everything I do, my Win7 install didn’t work the first time. At least I have time.
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Listening to the new A Plea For Purging. My ear’s asses are being thoroughly kicked.
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@recordinghacks re:chinese mic co. they must know it’s shit. LOL [in response to: So, the Chinese mic company won't send me a mic to review after all, because they're afraid I might publicize the mic. Umm, what?]
Talking about mics
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[ME] Got an Nt1a today.
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- [quiztones] RT @theaudiogeek: Got an Nt1a today. /// I like that mic, what are you going to rec with it first?
- [ME] @quiztones I got it because I needed some kind of decent mic right now. A lot of my studio gear including all my mics is still in Toronto.
- [RandyCoppinger]@theaudiogeek New mics are always fun. What else you got in yer mic collection?
- [ME] @RandyCoppinger Nothing special, 2×3035, sm58, EV Raven, RE410, some cheap AT pencils. The store was out of SM7b, what I wanted.
- [Randy] @theaudiogeek sm7b is a cool mic, but not sure I’d consider it a workhorse for vox. I love the AT 4k series and Studio Projects C series. [note- This lead to many replies in praise of the SM7b. Randy went on to try and like the mic for vocals on his next session. This is why Twitter is great.]
- [Randy] @theaudiogeek M Audio Sputnik is pretty amazing too. Hoping to get a Brauner VMX approved at work this year. WAY outta my personal reach.
- [ME] @RandyCoppinger I’ve quite a bit of experience with the Sputnik. I like it but is not transparent at all.
- [Randy]@theaudiogeek Agreed about Sputnik. But neither is a u47. Both are likely gonna sound good on voice though.
- [molebomb]@theaudiogeek NT1a: great value, nicely made, decent sound
- [ME] Unfortunately I may not be able to actually use the mic until it cools down in here b/c the AC has been running non stop. LOUD! HOT!
Other stuff
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It’s HOT, we’re lazy. Megabite pizza online ordering is epic win.
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topping the list of baby names this week is Murgatroyd. LMAO
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Pro Tools 8.0.4 for LE and MP out today. The last version to work with XP, Vista or OSX 10.5
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Woot! New Air Conditioner!
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this upcoming podcast has an inspiring interview with Paul Ward. It’s long but a lot of fun.
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Here’s what @theaudiogeek said this week:
- Spent most of the day making useful FX presets with Amplitube x-gear. Time to rest my ears now.
- @gmgranka I’ve heard it’s decent for the price…depends on the price. [in response to: Anybody have any experience with the ADKVienna mic?]
- Exclusive http://audiogeekzine.com interview with upcoming superstar engineer/producer Joey Sturgis @joeyismusic coming next week.
- Oh no! What a terrible problem to have. RT @ihazadoodle: @theaudiogeek I have sooo many tits, where am i going to put them all?
- New AGZ post: Synthesizer Basics – Lesson 1 http://bit.ly/aZnXJh
- Ask @Mixerman RT @TomDavenport: ANyone know who mixerman is?
- New Podcast – Home Recording show 81 – Synth basics and doubling guitars. http://homerecordingshow.com
- Just about done editing the newest HRS podcast…
A discussion on Firewire breaks out!
Joe Gilder – I really don’t like firewire 800. If you LOOK at the cable wrong it disconnects. Now where did I put my crazy glue?
Randy Coppinger -@joegilder But FW 800 is so fast.
Joe Gilder – @RandyCoppinger Not when it’s daisy-chained to FW400 devices. As long as the 003 is FW400, my system will only be 400-fast.
Randy Coppinger – @joegilder I make a point NOT to daisy-chain out of kind. FW 800 isn’t stable enough for recording, but it is BITCHIN’ for transfers.
theaudiogeek – @RandyCoppinger but if you have a Macbook Pro (like me) or an iMac (like Joe) you don’t have a choice. Not that I have issues with it.
Randy Coppinger – @theaudiogeek Granted. I’m lucky. At work I record to an 8TB SAN via fiber. I run out of DSP long before the drive buss craps out.
theaudiogeek – @RandyCoppinger I’ve been editing drums off the MBP desktop (5400rpm!) in REAPER with no lag. Unheard of with PT and its stupid fade files.
Randy Coppinger – @theaudiogeek Fade files go all the way back to Sound Designer! Of all the legacy paths still in use, that one takes the cake.
- iZotope plugins have been updated. Go get them.
- Kenny Gioia is a REAPER user? Didn’t see that coming. http://www.groove3.com/str/reaper-explained.html
- @Dubwax I’ve recently noticed and I’m starting to enjoy working in REAPER most of the time. certain things are still clunkycompared to PT [in response to: REAPER is extremely underestimated.]
And suddenly a discussion on USB3 and latency
theaudiogeek – Alright recording world. Who’s gonna be the first with a USB 3 audio interface? Won’t be AVID. Maybe RME.
Joshua Conti -@theaudiogeek hate to say it but it’ll behringer (cringe!)
Ben Brasile -@theaudiogeek Even with the speed of USB3 I feel like I’d still prefer my audio on FireWire.
Monkeypusher69 -@theaudiogeek do we really need the extra speed of usb 3 for audio? i mean there is a reason no one really makes Firewire 800 interfaces
theaudiogeek – @monkeypusher69 yes absolutely I think the extra speed is needed. Absolutely, no doubt. FW 800 – Why wasn’t it developed? I’d love to know.
theaudiogeek -@monkeypusher69 You think FW400 is good enough? Its not at all.We have the technology to make latency a bad dream, it’s not being developed.
Monkeypusher69 -@theaudiogeek that the pipeline that fw 400/usb2 provides is more than sufficient. I just assumed thats y there is still no fw800 interfaces
Monkeypusher69 -@theaudiogeek i didn’t but there are egineers who build this stuff who says it could be fixed with drivers and modern computers
Monkeypusher69 -@theaudiogeek i think part of the fw800 problem is that its mostly only supported on macs & most cards like 2 b cross platform
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Another week of updates from @theaudiogeek
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@KeyOfGrey 25% usually sounds like crap. I found PT’s Xform offline works best for long stretches. VERY slow though.
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@KeyOfGrey I think Ableton’s Algorithms are written for efficiency, REAPER has a ton of options & eleastique Pro 2 sounds very good.
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You East-coasters go to bed WAY too early! It’s only 10!!
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Going to meet
@chckn8r and have burgers soon
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@HunterOnTheRun Burger was great, slow service and the Vuvuzela concert was annoying. Went to Vera’s Burger Shack on Commercial Ave.
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LOL just noticed the Soccer mode on YouTube. :)
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There are 2 new Futurama episodes to be found online.
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“REAPER Notes” becomes a monthly column in Sound On Sound in August. Great news!
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Going out for coffee then recording a podcast.
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
OK this one is for my own reference. While traveling and the time I didn’t have internet at home I was tweeting and I know there was some good stuff in there. So there’s about 3 weeks worth of tweets here to catch up. Read if you enjoy my misery. Everything from more than a week ago is in full post view.
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Perhaps its excessive. I need an easier way to set the bands. RT
@ianshepherd:
@theaudiogeek Ouch – 6 bands as a default ? I use max 3
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I think that was my all time favorite Dr. Who episode. Can’t wait till next week.
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theres some kind of organized shouting outside, mostly white folk.
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Ontario sales tax transition benefit. SWEET!!! didn’t know that was coming, with 2 more in december and June. I <3 free money.
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WOOO YEAH!! New IT Crowd episodes coming sooooon!!
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@7eleven you’re the reason I get up in the afternoon.
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headphones acquired. L & M had Shure SRH440 on sale. Hmm not much else to keep me from working now.
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I haz internetz. What did I miss?
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