mad flows said:
Look i asked a simple qusestion, not for a lecture. I knew the question would probally be stupid to sombody like you. but I asked so i could find out not to be told some other stuff that imo has nothing to do with what i wanted to know. excuse me for thinking this forum was to help people just starting out.
and also everytime i post something and you answer you never do answer the question you just throw some rude comments out. and i hope you don't think that what you posted was help, because if you did you have some serious problems!
I'm a bit with Cloneboy, but what the hell? Here goes:
A bus is a mix. If you have a 24 channel 8 bus mixer, you can assign each of the 24 inputs to one or some or all of the 8 busses, which are then routed to various physical outputs of the mixer. If you like, a bus is a internal mix of the mixer.
If you have a 24 track HDR, typically you would route the 8 busses into 8 inputs of the recorder. The recorder can assign those 8 inputs to various track banks (1-8, 9-16, 17-24), so you can sequentially record all 24 tracks, 8 at a time, without rerouting any cables. Another way to do it is to use direct outs from your 24 input channels direct to the recorder, which lets you record more than 8 tracks at once, but requires repatching cables to change things around. Or you can do a combination; say have inputs 1-8 on the recorder from the 8 bus outputs, and the other 16 from direct channel outs.
A converter changes the audio signal from analog to digital (and back). If you are using an analog mixer, you will be using the converters on the recorder. If you have a digital mixer, it has its own converters, so you can simply connect to the recorder using digital connections, which are commonly optical cables.
When you are finished with tracking, you can transfer to PC a number of ways; some recorders have Ethernet connections, or can burn data CDs for transfer, or you can transfer via digital outputs if your soundcard supports that. Then you can finish up with the PC--or you can just do edits & effects, etc., on PC, and do the final mixing on your mixer; however, in that case you will need a soundcard with enough outputs to support that, OR you can transfer back to your HDR using whatever methods possible, then use the outputs from the HDR back to your mixer back to the PC with the stereo mixdown, then burn a master CD.
How's that?
