Recent content by Phildo

...hitting your studio PC with a hammer is NOT the way to make it work. I do feel much better about things now, though.

OK - long story short - studio computer commits hara-kiri, new computer in place, more powerful, more memory, less glurge on the o/s (bare-bones Win XP install), Cubase re-installed, files rescued, ready to go. Sort of. But it's being a bit odd. Doing some recording last night, and I'm...

Just what it says on the tin, really. Basically, I'm involved in a project which is aiming to result in a spoken word CD (over musical backings). I recieve the rough versions of the tracks, with instrumental sketches and vocal parts as Cubase projects on DVD, so I then fire them up in my DAW...

Probably old news to most folks around here, but I've just tried loading SIR (freeware convolution reverb) up with some IRs of speaker cabs I downloaded a while ago (Apeg 8x10"s, etc). How F@*$%in' cool? It really brings a DI'ed bass part to life! Just thought I'd mention it, as I was...

Sorry about the cross-posting on this one (I've put it up in the Cubase forum, too)... I'm just after people's impressions of the above VSTi's - ease of use, CPU overhead, etc - what do you guys think of them? I'm treating myself to one or other of them after Xmas, so I'd value any input you have.

Sorry about the cross-posting on this one (I've put it up in the Drums forum, too)... I'm just after people's impressions of the above VSTi's - ease of use, CPU oerhead, etc - what do you guys think of them? I'm treating myself to one or other of them after Xmas, so I'd value any input you have.

http://www.polyvalens.com/vl1/index.html Absolute frickin' genius!

...so I'm working on a LP for a friend, and we've got some pretty good work done on a few of the songs. One of them was eluding us, though, until last night, when we finally started nailing it. So I've got some instrumental parts down - it's in need of arrangement, but the ideas and sounds are...

OK, so my setup's been fine. Until the last couple times I've tried to burn CDs from a montage on Wavelab. I'm on v5, and although it's never recognised the drive in my laptop as something it can burn to, it's always been happy to read stuff from it. That's not been much of a problem, though...

Here's something that's just occurred to me, two bottles of Chardonnay down the line: Could I achieve M/S recording with 3 cardioid mics? Surely if I position two cardioids at 180 degrees - i.e. to give me a figure-8 pattern - and another as I would normally in an M/S setup, record them to 3...

www.myspace.com/weirdoiom I'm interested to know what you guys think of the recordings/mixes.

Right - my ol' 1680 has a function called "optimize" which you use if you're happy that you won't need to keep your multiple undos. You just "optimise" the disk and it dumps the unnecessary audio, freeing up disk space. I've looked in my SX3 manual, but I can't seem to find whether there's a...

Hi Guys - need your help. Is anyone running one of these wee beasties? I'm considering getting one to act as DAW control surface/audio interface for my laptop (I know Tascam say not to use 4-pin FW connectors, but SOS mention that it seems to work OK). Anyone got any thoughts on them? I'm...

...I've checked in the documentation, and I'm either thick or lazy, but I can't find anything about this, so I was wondering if you guys could help me. When I'm recording synth or drum parts using my VSTis, I can't get any sound (which obviously makes playing somewhat awkward). The note data...

Hi guys. Please help prevent me from setting fire to my nice new setup. I'm running Cubase SX (well, OK, then, not so new) on my laptop. Audio/VSTi operations are taken care of with my Edirol PCR1 mini master-keyboard/audio interface. I've been hugely chuffed with the brilliant way this...