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TimOBrien

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  1. Go with your spouse or girlfriend to the fabric shops. You can often get great deals on older styles of curtain fabric. Look for something heavy and think multiple layers.
  2. Noisy? How could it be 'noisy'?? The BCF passes MIDI commands to your daw, not audio....
  3. No, because when you get old enough you'll see that everything goes in cycles. Vinyl still sells and someday they'll be calling CD's "high-def MP3s"...... ;-)
  4. Lock it down on 24bit/44.1. The only time I'd consider doing 88.2 would be on something with a lot of dynamic range - say a small classical group or classical soloists. Otherwise its just not worth it.
  5. There is no downside to going 24bit. You will capture a greater headroom. There is NO reason to go 48k unless you have equipment that requires it (SBLives that are 48k fixed internal, ADATs or video gear - video is 16bit/48k to synch with NTSC video). Plus you'll have to worry about conversions back down to 44.1 Lock it down on 24/44.1 and forgetaboutit.
  6. Race cars don't really use much in the way of gas. There is FAR less gas consumed by the race cars at a NASCAR or IRL event then the fossil fuels consumed to power the lights at a night baseball game, and I won't even go into the gas consumed by the people driving to the stadium. Do the math - 40 cars at 500 miles = 20,000 miles. At 5 MPG, that's about 4000 gallons. Now, for a stadium that has 20,000 people in it, averaging a 40-mile round trip to the park, that's 800,000 miles. At 20 MPG, that's 40,000 gallons - ten times what is consumed by the racecars. Yup, I wasn't talking about the race cars. It's all the fans, the beer trucks, the concession trucks, the vehicle trailers, the TV crew trucks, the RVs and all the trucks for the stuff that supports the races. Probably closer to 100,000 gallons per race and that's multiplied dozens of times weekend after weekend after weekend for every sporting event out there...
  7. Why do 13 different football stadiums pack in about 60,000 people every Sunday, who spend umteens of $$$ for tickets, beer, parking, tailgaiting, hookers (err, that's what I hear)? Let's not even begin to talk about all the other sporting events like college ball, hockey, etc. Apparantly we Americans are only broke when it comes to our house payments. You forgot another one: When gas prices doubled this last year and people were waiting in gas lines (or unable to get gas in the SouthEast after Hurricane Ike), NASCAR racing events continued on as if nothing happened. In fact, one Georgia lawmaker cried on CNN that special fuel deliveries should be shipped into Georgia so sporting events could continue.....
  8. All of my foam panels are mounted on 20"x40"x1/4" hardboard panels (cheap $8 masonite from Home Depot, Lowes, etc.) Use 2 standard picture-hanging screws in plastic wallboard anchors. That can be easily patched or taken down for future painting. Best glue I've found for foam is ARLENE'S FOAMTASTIC... a single $4 bottle will easily do 50squares as you only need a quick squiggle. It looks like white glue but dries to a clear rubbery glue. In 2 years I've had ZERO squares fall. You can get it at any craft or sewing store...
  9. NEVER throw away or give away a secondary computer. Lots of jobs for it to do. Start a home network immediately....
  10. Look at the photos on the page link; it shows you everything. Whatever clips will hold the blankets around whatever you're using to hold them up... CD cases are NOT absorbent like books. If anything CD cases will cause you more reflections. You want MASS and soft non-uniform surfaces.
  11. Or make a PVC frame and use spring clips: http://www.palmcitystudios.com/timobrien/music/soundbooth/simplesoundbooth.html The old trick is to use a couple of heavy-duty screw-eyes to make a triangle of rope in the corner of the room and then hang heavy moving blankets using spring clips. My solution above is a bit more portable and can give you a full booth for about $60 or so.
  12. More basic: Proper wiring--- not cheap stuff thrown together by hack electricians looking to save $1.50 on every house they complete in a subdivision. If your wiring at home hums, you got problems that need to be fixed. And it can be fixed by someone who will do it right....
  13. MIDI just doesn't care.... I've got an AlesisQS8.2 hooked up with a MidisportUSB2x2, a Keystation49 hooked up by its own USB, and on my 828mkII I use the midi for a windsynth vl70-m box and a FCB1010 foot controller. All midi needs to know is what track or device is coming off of what port. (Remember that MIDI was designed in the days of >>8MHz computers
  14. Easy way to decide: Mono - a 'point-source' instrument (a horn, a guitar amp, a single person singing.) Stereo - a 'moving-source' instrument (a piano with keys spread out, a drumset spread across the stage, chimes that move across the soundfield, a choir, etc.)
  15. The what about this? http://johnvestman.com/digital_myth.htm Different HARD DRIVES sounding different?? Yeah, that's a myth alright.... I agree that you can get errors in nearly any file transfer, but that line of reasoning would lead you to believe that nobody else can ever hear your files on any other system but yours. Subjective "well >I Just get good quality disks, back your stuff up and keep it safe.
  16. Bad for data too. Your disks will just suddenly become 'unreadable'. It's not the bits not lining up, it's imperfections in the disk causing data drops and errors. I always use Taiyo-Yuden and have never had a problem (and they're not that much more expensive than 'cheapies'.) Here's a good article: http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-to-choose-cddvd-archival-media/
  17. Good book for you to look through (I found mine in Barnes&Noble, preview it in the coffee shop...) The Art of Mixing, a visual guide to recording, engineering and production by David Gibson He defines panning, eq and space in visual graphs that grabbed me.
  18. It's not just Sonar..... A lot of sequencers continue to eat up CPU cycles when tracks are muted. "Freeze" buttons or "print-to-disk" manually are good things. So is rendering down sub-groups.
  19. Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Great post AJ - thanks for the heads-up. I may well be among those who goes out to buy one last copy of XP... Well, here's the thing - they've already got a time bomb strapped to our XP systems - it's called "authorization". Once they drop XP for Vista, and once XP OS support dies, how the heck are we going to keep XP running on our systems? What will we do if we have a HDD failure, or build a upgraded system and install a new C drive once MS will no longer support XP? How are we going to get an authorization? That won't happen immediately, but it is only a matter of time - MS isn't going to support XP forever... That's been my thought from the first day, Phil..... The reason M$ put authorization in was to be able to control the average user (they knew that true hackers would be able is some way or form to bypass it) and FORCE an upgrade and a profit date. You do not buy Windows..... like beer, you only rent it.
  20. USB also goes through your CPU, taking up resources. Firewire doesn't....
  21. A soundcard IS an interface and vice-versa, you don't need both (you're just wasting money). Here's a good basic guide to get started: http://www.tweakheadz.com/soundcards_for_the_home_studio.htm You can also always add a separate MIDI interface; I've used a Midisport USB 2x2 on 3 separate DAWs now with zero problems.
  22. Free: www.dbpoweramp.com Bunch more over at www.hitsquad.com (good place to go when you're looking for music software...)
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