Recent content by zenpicker

I am upgrading to a new studio iMac from a very old one with a Firewire port which connects to my Focusrite Pro40 D/A interface. It looks like to maintain this signal chain I would need some spit-and-bailing-wire, multi-adapter rig like: Mac Thunderbolt 3 port->Thunderbolt 3/Thunderbolt 2...

I've had a home studio for some years that should be a disaster acoustically but somehow has allowed me to do some recordings that sound surprisingly good. It breaks every rule: low ceilings, carpeting, little treatment of corners, hard walls and windows, you name it. But it works—I can't fathom...

Hi - I'm in a new home studio space, having moved from Chicago to Colorado, and am thinking through what I need to do to set up my studio optimally. The room is pretty quiet - we live next to the woods now, not the train! - but I do get some noise from my computer fan and occasional outside...

Hello all, I have just published a new release of Audio File Cleanup, a utility that simplifies the process of spotting and removing obsolete WAVs - those no longer referenced by your project. Audition doesn't make this easy to do, and Audition 3 doesn't improve on the situation. With A3 out...

I keep refining my home studio logging system to capture all the settings I need in order to properly document a recording and/or mixing session. My setup is very simple as I am a solo player - a few mikes, a couple pres, compressors, and the DAW. So I've stripped this down pretty carefully...

Anyone ever used a 788 to control Adobe Audition or the like, using the 788 essentially as a remote control for faders and transport? Is this a matter of MIDI mapping? Can it even be done?

I think it's time I got a compressor/limiter. I've got some sensitive mikes that occasionally distort when my dynamics change, basically ruining everything; but when I back the mikes off and twiddle knobs to try and handle my loudest signal, I lose the proximity effect from the mikes to the...

Four mikes, one acoustic guitar: Oktava MC012 over my right shoulder MC012 dangled over the 9th fret, 8-10" up, pointing straight down ADK A51TC about 20" in front of the soundboard, pointing back toward the soundhole Neumann KM184 18" from the body/neck joint, angled back toward the soundhole...

I've got a pair of Behringer Truths as my monitors and one of them has unfortunately been damaged somewhat. The woofer's center "bubble" has been puckered in a bit (picture a ding in a car door and you've got the idea) and I just noticed a hairline crack in the cone material. Yikes. :( To...

I'd like to hang a second hard drive off my music PC, which is a beefy Vaio laptop. My Firewire port is already taken by my Yamaha i88x PC interface, so I'm looking at using a USB hard drive. My question is: Is a USB 2.0 bus fast enough to provide for skip-free, real-time direct-to-disk recording?

Like everyone else, I routinely convert WAVs to MP3 for posting. There is noticeable difference in quality, but we put up with it.... However, I just did an MP3 conversion on a new acoustic guitar tune and the change in quality was DRASTIC. Much more harshness than I've ever heard before in a...

I have a good large diaphragm condensor (ADK A51TC) and have ordered a good small diaphragm condensor (Neumann KM184). What's the optimal way to place these for miking solo acoustic guitar? Having worked with stereo pairs of SDCs (Oktava MC012s), I'm well aware of the need to avoid wave...

This may be something everyone but me discovered long ago, but I will jot it down here anyway. I find that it's very hard to get a headphone mix, while recording, that sounds similar to what you hear when you're just listening to yourself play in a non-recording situation. As intended, the...

All, I just posted a simple utility program aimed at simplifying management of obsolete WAVs in your Audition 2.0 project. It's just a little public domain thing and I'd love to have some people take it for a test drive (on a non-essential project, please). There are some folks on the AA forum...

All, I just posted a simple utility program aimed at simplifying management of obsolete WAVs in your Audition 2.0 project. It's just a little public domain thing and I'd love to have some people take it for a test drive (on a non-essential project, please). There are some folks on the AA forum...