On 1/16/13 09:54 : , Ken Norton wrote:
> Paul, you and I have that audio thing running through our veins. I've
> now been at it for over 30 years now. Never had golden ears, but
> tarnished silver (of course) might be an applicable description.
Yeah, me too. I've been playing with audio since grade school,
essentially. I really got interested in live sound in high school. I'm
a ham radio operator as well, and I grew up around Bob Heil and spent
quite a bit of time in his shop in Marissa, IL. Bob gave me the bug to
be an engineer.
> I actually like the LS-9. I'm a Yamaha junky, though.
I've gotten pretty used to it. We started with a 24-channel Mackie
8-bus, then replaced that with a Mackie TT24 until it finally died, and
then last year got the LS-9/32. I've got it connected to a 802.11BGn
router, and I use the iPad app to tweak the mix from the back of the
room during the first couple of songs. Pretty handy. And having all of
my presets on a flash drive makes a huge difference - a band repeats at
our club, I pull up their preset, and I'm 90% of the way to done. We've
got two M7cl's in our big room for touring acts that don't bring their
own consoles, and another LS-9/32 in the other club. I maintain all
four consoles and keep the firmware up-to-date.
> At the church, I'm still using an 01V, but the home studio is built
> around a hot-rodded AW4416 with WAVES plugin card. I'm using Audacity
> for individual track maintenance, but almost all multitrack work is
> done on the AW4416. Also running video editing and sequencer software
> in the computers tied to the keyboards. Everything is MIDI time-coded
> for my in-home system.
At home I run an obsolete Ensoniq PARIS setup with two cards, two
control surfaces, and two interfaces. I'm not doing any midi yet, so it
works fine for mixing down live recordings and sounds awesome. I'm
looking at something newer so I can dink around with a keyboard and try
to make some interesting sounds - will probably try Reaper on the iMac
with some sort of USB midi interface.
> The daughters are doing stuff with the setup and I do a couple things
> a year, as well as do mixdowns for bands. Bands will provide me with
> the multitrack source material, I'll load it in the system and do my
> magic (Audio version of Moosifications). It never ceases to amaze me
> when musicians will buy amazing instruments, preamps, etc., but won't
> bother to record in a proper acoustic space. The amount of cleanup
> work required to get rid of a nasty acoustical environment is, well,
> one of the reasons I don't do much of this anymore. I tired of dealing
> with overly sensitive ego driven idiots. And then, horrors of all
> horrors, they think that they can "master" the songs themselves on the
> same equipment they recorded on, in their own nasty environment, with
> blown speakers. Speaking of such, I'm really enjoying my new near-fields.
"Dude! I can make an album on this $300 laptop! Why do I need you????"
And then they take all of your careful work and play it as a 128k mp3
through $11 earbuds....
--
Paul Braun
Valparaiso, IN
"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." - David St. Hubbins
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Harlan Howard
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