any site with gina's tip?please

[istyle]

ok i change my HD and the problem seem to disappear but i don't know much about those 8out of the card what's for?out into a mixer for what?and its website doesn't provide much tips,event1.com
thnx
istyle

[Jeff]

Hi there,

Well, I'm curious as to why you bought the thing if you didn't know why it had 8 outs, HOWEVER, that is not intended to be a smart a** response. However, your insticts is correct. Yes, you would send different tracks out of you Gina on different "out" channels or perhaps you would choose to send them out in stereo pairs, or maybe even a mix and match, and that would go out to a mixer, where you could perform other tweaks such as volume, panning, EQ, outboard effects (if you had any), etc, etc.

Jeff

[istyle]

hi thnx for advice the reason i bought it without knowing it bcos i wanna upgrade to digitalcard so bad ( from my yeah!awe32 )
and this one is selling in my friend's studio
seem like an entry level of audiocard for me
Now to the advice again if i pair them out into mixer Can i record them back into another pair of tracks in GINA again? full duplex?
thnx
i

[Jeff]

Well, let me get this straight... What you are asking is, if you are sending your tracks out to a mixer, and you mix them there, can you then send that stereo mix and have Gina record it as a final mix? If that is your question then, the answer is absolutely YES, as long as your computer and Hard Disk are fast enough to deal with it.

Jeff

[istyle]

thnx again my comp is pentium MMX166 HD10GIG,64 MEGram
Is this enough?
One last question b4 you get bored of me!
the common way other ppl do it with this card is:
Lay down at least 4 pairs of audio tracks,record from synth,of the whole song?
just like,drum,bass,chord?
that will be a HUGE amount of file,considering each pair of audiotracks of 4 minutes took about 40meg!
do the pro do it this way?
thnx you can hear my music mix with awe32 at www.mp3.com/istyle
istyle

[Jeff]

I would think the processor speed will be enough to do the Full Duplex work, but probably not run any plug-in effects. And of course your harddisk has to be fast enough also. The best thing to do is just try it, and seewhat happens.

As far as what the "normal" people do. It doesn't have to only be eight tracks, and it doesn't have to be stereo pairs. Most instruments work better as a mono track, and then panned into a stereo mix.

Even when I am recording drums, I will record each drum to a seperate track (Bass drum on onetrack, snare on one, high hat on one, etc, etc), and then you can pan them into the stereo mix so you've got one cymbal coming out the right speaker and another coming out the left, and your toms are rolling from left to right, etc, etc. Plus it gives to the power to EQ and process each sound individually to give you the best sounding drum kit in your final mix. So, for instance, you can take your individual drum tracks. Say you have two seperate cymbals, snare, bass drum, and the high hat. You pan a cymbal hard left, on hard right, the bass and snare to center, and the hi-hat slighl\y right of center. Now you have 5 seperate audio tracks recorded, but you play them out your Gina (for example) 7/8 OUT pair. You have a stereo mix of drums coming out 7/8. Now you have a bass guitar. No sense in wasting space for a stereo track, so you record it as a mono track, and pan it center. You can send that out Gina's (for example) 6 out, and then on the 5 out, you could send out your mono track electric guitar, and pan then mid left, etc, etc, etc, etc. This is all assuming you have an external mixer. If you DON'T then you need to make all of these adjustments in your program. In that case you would send all of your tracks out one stereo pair on Gina, and make panning and volume adjustments in your software.

And yes, doing it on many, many tracks is how the professionals will do it. It may take up a lot of space, but it gives you more flexibility and control over your mix. You can always later back the files up and remove it from your hard disk to reclaim space.

Any more questions?

Jeff


Are you mixing on an external mixer or internally?

[istyle]

i'm mixing internally but will try do with my 4tr fostex someday
BTW i can't use easytrim mode when i open srun.exe and advance it don't have 2 boxes of easytrim only one as 1solo
any idea?cos i can't record as loud a wave as
i did with my awe32 the mix is more accurate but the volume is softer not upfront though i tried using mixing meter in cakewalk7
thnx