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Archive for October, 2007
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Yet another design for a subkick microphone. The design includes an additional DI circuit, not for the mic, for bass or something.
Suspending the speaker with bungee cords in a drum shell is a good idea. Although I’m not sure how much the shell would effect the sound. I think a speaker alone would have a bi-directional polar pattern.
The instructions for this project can be found here on instructables.com
See also: http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=214
Posted in Gear, Tutorial | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
I got this today while playing with De La Mancha’s Ringthing plug.
It was time to take a break anyway.
Posted in Software | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Ultra-small USB Pro Tools LE solution enables playback, editing, sequencing, and mixing on the go
As the much anticipated answer to one of the top requests from Pro Tools® users, Digidesign is excited to introduce the new Mbox® 2 Micro, the smallest member of the Mbox 2 family, enabling Pro Tools users to edit, sequence, and mix sessions created on Pro Tools|HD®, Pro Tools LE®, and Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems on the go, as well as compose music with virtual instruments and loops.
About the size of a typical USB flash drive, Mbox 2 Micro offers high-quality sound, a 1/8-inch stereo output for headphone or speaker monitoring (no audio inputs), and a convenient volume wheel for quick adjustments. While it doesn’t offer any audio inputs, Mbox 2 Micro does come with award-winning Pro Tools LE software, Bomb Factory® and DigiRack™ plug-ins, and Digidesign’s Xpand!™ sample-playback/synthesis workstation, enabling you to work with Pro Tools sessions and compose wherever inspiration takes you.
Mbox 2 Micro will be available at authorized Digidesign dealers within the first two weeks of November.
(above text stolen from digidesign press release)
My comments: Its about f**king time! After everyone asking for years, this thing could have been made up in an afternoon. I’m actually a bit surprised no one had hacked an original Mbox and stripped out all non-essential parts like preamps and made their own dongle. That said, I’m still going to end up buying one of these damn things. Next maybe they’ll just sell them from gumball machines.
Posted in Commentary; Rants and Jokes, Gear, Software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
This article has been updated and moved here: Getting Started: A Guide To Home Recording
Posted in Gear, Getting Started Guide, Tutorial | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Rodgre at the Tape Op forum just completed building an ISO box for recording electric guitars.
Built inside of a large road case, it houses a Celestion G10L 10″ speaker and a short mic stand on a baffle close to half way across the box. The purpose of the box is for recording loud electric guitar amps without all the volume and leakage. Its a great piece of gear for re-amping tracks as well.
I’ve been thinking of building one of these myself, those road cases are always on ebay or craigslist quite cheap.
The original post is here.
Posted in Acoustics, Gear, Tutorial | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Every Monday I highlight free plugins new and old that are worth checking out. See all posts in the Free Plugin Of The Week Series.
Flux Bitter Sweet has been updated to version 2 (1.2.0.18). Bitter Sweet is a free dynamics processor to manage audio transients. Turning the central button on the sweet side, decreases the transients amplitude. On the bitter side, the transients amplitude is magnified. Bitter Sweet also features a control for the signal to be processed. When the main position is engaged, the process affects the stereo signal. If Center is engaged, only the M signal of the internal MS matrix is processed. If stereo is selected, only the S signal from the MS matrix is processed.
Changes include:
- The transient processing doesn’t depend anymore of the signal level.
- Three new parameters have been added to allow a tighter control of the transients.
- Three transient durations can now be selected and a varying period of integration for transients processing can be accessed and a link function sets the output gain depending of the processing amount.
Flux Bitter Sweet II Available in VST or RTAS for Mac OS X and Windows.
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