Digital recording and GAS

Anyone into home recording? Want to discuss GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) and toys?

 

i have a home studio here Allistair,i'm running Pro Tools,only version 7 still but,works awesome.

we call gas Gear Accumulation Syndrome....it's all the same i guess.

check my sig,all the tunes at my Sterling Studios site were recorded here at my home.

 

Nice work, Fly

I use Reaper. If you ever get tired of PT, I'd recommend it (quite a few ex-PT users on the very helpful forums).

 

i'm due for an upgrade one of these days.........i'll keep Reaper in the back of my mind..........thanks eh

 

you have a link to any of your work as Alistair?.........would love to hear some

 

I've only used Pro-Tools, but that's just doing audio cleanups and such for post-production for television consumption.

 

see we use the protools to bring the sounds in......but a variety of diff programs to clean them up.....like Abelton,that's our main one.......one of the buddies has a good grasp of it ,I deal with the in.......he deals with the out.......and the poor singer,if recording at his place, has to do both.......

mixing and mastering has got to be the hardest thing in regards to recording...IMHO.......I wish I had of taken a course or something.....

 

Television is completely different than audio consumption. We don't require the higher bitrates and such as one would expect on a cd. Now when I do Blu-Ray setups, I tend to try and get the audio on the same level as you guys would want to have it at.

You're right about mixing and mastering Fly it's an art form in itself to say the least. I used to be a DJ but it's completely different when you're doing things like you're doing.

 

never thought of it like that,so is it the audio for TV that uses diff bitrates or does picture quality and all that come into play too?

and yes you're right in saying "art form",my god it's brutal.........fun but frustrating all at once.....I pretty much go by memory as opposed to the actual knowledge of what the hell i'm doing.

have many guys teaching me little tricks here and there........like I said,wish I had of taken something in regards to recording,I was always too busy playing the instruments,now I kinda dig the part about sitting in a chair with a big board in front of you pushing buttons and sliding sliders.........oh well........off we go I guess eh?

 

well, if we're throwing a full 1080p project out the door for Blu-Ray then we use high def sound. However, since there is no such thing as true 1080p television signals, we rarely go over a 192kb bitrate on stereo for television. The most important thing is usually the voice-overs as it's easier to tell when the audio is off when it comes to voices rather than a sound track. So it really depends on the project and the demands of the client as well as if it's national consumption or private consumption.

I think you're doing it the way I like to do it. Just sit down and play with the settings and the board and see what happens instead of focusing on the way someone says it should be.

 

feels better that way.........kinda go with what the ear says..........nice.

 

I kind of hate to revive an old and dead thread, but being a newbie I feel compelled to post here because it's something that I really like.

I'm an amateur audio engineer. Very amateur. So much so, in fact, that all I have is my guitar and a Line6 TonePort UX2.
As for software, I use AddictiveDrums, a bunch of (mostly) freeware VSTs to shape my guitar and bass guitar sound, and REAPER for my DAW. I like to think it works really well.
Oh, and I also have an AudioTechnica AT2050 for vocals and acoustic work. There's also a Shure PG58 if I ever decide that I want to be a masochist that day.