I can has Pro Tools?

I just spent a full day trying to figure out what was causing my sessions to get corrupted and the general system instability. I believe it is a combination of a hard drive error and outdated plugins.

Everyone follow along at home:

Check all your drives for errors.

Install the latest version of Pro Tools, 7.4 cs4.

Run the digidesign plugin updater. http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=100&navid=54&itemid=28250

Check all your other plugins to verify they are up to date.

Don’t worry, I’ll write a real post soon.

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Prescriptions for Fever

Via GraphJam

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Pro Tools Session archiving video

Remember this article from way back? http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=200

Here’s a video I made for to go along with it but never posted do to the lack of video capabilities at the time.

Its also available on YouTube

Online Videos by Veoh.com
Comments please.

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F.U. Pro Tools

I’m getting pretty sick of things like this multiple times a day. This is after it refused to save my project.

I guess I should add some more explanation to this.

This error was caused by corrupted database files. At first it was unable to save a backup, then it refused to save, then it refused to exit.

It can be corrected by deleting the “Digidesign Databases” folder from each drive.

This situation cannot be prevented as far as I know, other than to delete the databases folders regularly and SAVE OFTEN!

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Shocking News!!!

I’m switching from Pro Tools to Sonar.

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Cheap Mic Shootout #1 part 2, now 600% geekier!

Since someone geekier than myself has requested graphs and charts etc for the mic shootout, here they are. I used Sigview for the spectral analysis, I have no idea if I did it right, nor do I care about the results. I use my ears.

Geek on, click to embiggen.

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