Recent content by rcktdg

I have been using my DM24 with my motu 2408 mk3 (connected via TDIF) for over a year with great success. I recently added an Apogee AD16x to my rig and I'm having some difficulty recording through it. I think my question is can a return (ADAT Trk 1-8) be assigned to channels 1-16 and also be...

I have a fairly large recording/mix room. It's unusually shaped but not free of the typical problems. I feel pretty good about the way my mixes are progressing. As the mic cabinet is satisfied, my pre's are making me happy and my monitors are working for me I am beginning to think more about my...

I am wondering if the 3.1.1 patch might be giving me more problems than it fixed. I never had any problems before I installed it but now that I have I'm having trouble like never before. I installed a UAD-1 and the patch at the same time. I've had crashes galore and basically my once perfectly...

I posted earlier about my not so thrilling D12. I got some other d12's to compare and they are wildly different. The other D12's sound like the same mic generally speaking but the one I have is nasal and middy. Furthermore the other d12's read about 50 ohms and the one I have reads 200 ohms...

I have a D12 on loan for awhile. I have heard these are THE mic for kick drum. I have been using a D112 and it does not thrill me. The trouble is the D12 is not exactly doing it either. I set up both mic's and the D112 seems to have a "deeper" quality when I speak into them. I know this might...

A friend of mine just dropped some old tube gear at my studio for me to find a use for. One is some kind of Expaner modded to be a compressor. Seems to make more noise than anything. The other is an Ampex Mx35 4x2 mixer. Anyone know anything about them. He said the output is wired in a...

I am looking to replace my kick drum mic, currently a D112. I was thinking about a D12 but don't know the difference between the d12 and d12e. Does anyone know what the difference is? Thanks, RD

In an effort to piss off my bass player I replaced his part in the bridge of a tune I'm working on. After I got the part together the way I wanted it I tried to insert a mute envelope on his track during the section I re-recorded. When I played the track to hear the automation in action it...

I have an old Teac 3340s 4 track packed away at my parents house. I was thinking of having them send it to me and experimenting with tracking drums and such with it and then rerecording them into Sonar. Would I actually be able to get anything meaningful or would I just be wasting my time. I...

I have noticed recently that the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (a talk show in the US) uses some kind of LDC on guitar amps all the time. I am wondering if anyone knows what they are. Thanks, RD

I rarely post on the sonar feature I use more than anything else. I teach guitar and use the tab module all the time. It's a great tool. What I would love to see is a phrasing library or tool that would actually insert the appropriate midi effect on the selected note when it's to be bent or...

Are you guys using the automation in the DM24? How did you get it to work? MMC, SMPTE? Thanks, RD

It's been awhile since I have posted about construction stuff since the room is working but I am getting the itch again. I have a large open space that is half finished, half unfinished (It's drywalled & wired but not cosmetically or acoustically). The finished side is sort of memphis. It's...

I have a studio in a warehouse in a small, quiet town. Tonight I went there to do some computer maintainance before I do some recording tomorrow evening. I spend many late nights working in the space. Tonight I was defragging. Pretty mindless. In the meanwhile I was trying to listen to a really...

For the last few weeks I have been trying out a few different pre's. Mostly they have been the models without eq. I was blown away by how great many of them sounded. I could really hear the difference in the dynamics and detail. I find it a bit hard to describe exactly what it was like but the...