Gear that you wish existed

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I was just having a laugh over an up/down pan control in another thread. It got me wondering about gear that people wish existed. I'll go first.

A glove and tracking surface for virtually reaching into a pc for mixing. You put on the glove and lay your hand on the tracking surface. The surface tracks your hand/finger movement. When your fingers are over a knob/slider/button, your fingers are snapped to the control. When you turn your fingers, like turning a knob, the control responds like your turning a knob. Spread your fingers apart over some faders and your fingers are snapped to the faders. If you reach out of the area that is on screen, like on a big software mixer, the screen pans to follow your hand movement.............retarded you say? :D

What piece of gear do you wish existed? A swiss army mic?
 
Strangely I have a colleague who is building one of those at this exact point in time. He's writing proprietary code in PureData's commercial sibling software, and has wired a load of sensors into a glove which now triggers MIDI instructions in the computer. It's pretty hard going for an enthusiastic amateur, but it CAN be done! :)
 
noisedude said:
Strangely I have a colleague who is building one of those at this exact point in time. He's writing proprietary code in PureData's commercial sibling software, and has wired a load of sensors into a glove which now triggers MIDI instructions in the computer. It's pretty hard going for an enthusiastic amateur, but it CAN be done! :)
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Holy sh#$. Ok people. See what happens when you wish for things. :eek:
 
How bout a pair of tits that made everything easy when you grab hold and jiggle them? :D

Come on babies..........make it easy for daddy.
 
A control surface....

But the faders would be blue laser lights under glass that had all the necessary markings on it. When you touch it the light would move with your finger up and down. and you would also be able to tap and the "light fader" would jump to level you tapped. Some chrome pan knobs with yellow LEDs surrounding them. Same for EQ. Oh and Mute, Solo transulent buttons on each channel. Firewire MIDI Cable and so on...

yeah that would look cool and be the bomb... :D
 
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you Hip-Hoppers and your bling-bling :D

cool idea man.
 
How about a time tracking feature in software so that you could look back and see how much time you spent tracking, mixing, editing, etc.
 
I think I'm going to print a sign in my next studio that says...

"I'm trying to tell you it sounds like shit in the nicest way possible..."

yeah that would be a cool sign... :D
 
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How about a D-Verb, for that song you mixed to the singer's taste, and now sounds like it's under water? Or a D-Compessor to attach to the radio to return some dynamics to music?
 
Both sound very handy, especially the D-compressor.
 
bigwillz24 said:
A control surface....

But the faders would be blue laser lights under glass that had all the necessary markings on it. When you touch it the light would move with your finger up and down. and you would also be able to tap and the "light fader" would jump to level you tapped. Some chrome pan knobs with yellow LEDs surrounding them. Same for EQ. Oh and Mute, Solo transulent buttons on each channel. Firewire MIDI Cable and so on...

yeah that would look cool and be the bomb... :D
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Something like a Lemur?

http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM05/Content/JazzMutant/PR/Lemur.html
 
I wish there was some sort of device that would automatically record me whenever I start playing air drums to one of my mixes.
 
reshp1 said:
As far as wishlist, off the top of my head, I'd wish for acoustic treatment material that could be electronically programmed to absorb sound of specified frequencies and intensities, or better yet a system that could be user controllable to emulate different acoustic spaces.
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These guys are working on the tunable absorption.
 
that control surface looks pretty cool.........the touch screen even has some "bling" for bigwillz24 taste. the e-absorber thing sounds cool but I'm trying to figure out how in the hell it works. :D it's a speaker and software? does it create nulls with comb-filtering?
 
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