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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81712 is a reply to message #81697] |
Sun, 18 March 2007 22:51   |
Doug Wellington
Messages: 251
Registered: June 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
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for these
things... even a slight difference in diameter can ruin your day with
punch blocks. This means you can't use *just any wire*. There is a
guy over on GS that built a room and used them:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/48460-steves-new-rec ording-studio-start-18.html
Start reading the thread about mid-way down the page. He had quite a
bit to say about the blocks and wire.
I don't like them personally... something frightens me about
insulation displacement connections...
David.
DJ wrote:
> As my old cheap modular (switchablenormalled/half normalled/straight thru)
> patchbays start to age, I'm thinking about getting something a bit more
> *pro*. I'm looking at some o the ADC and Bittree products with punchdown
> blocks just because I don't want to spend the next three months sucking
> solder fumes. I could probably clip the TRS jacks off my existing snakes and
> have these punched down in a couple of days, if it's as simple as it looks
> to be. Then again, since these old modular PB's have lasted over 8 years
> with only two modules going south, maybe I should stick with what
> works???............nawwww...........
>
> Any problems with reliability with punch down PB's?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deej
>
>Bittree programmable.
Use the E3 connector rather than the punchdown. You can do it all with
their crimp tool, but we crimp and then solder. Great gear, easily
programmable for normalling on the front panel and with the E3, easily
changed on the back. We have had zero service calls on these.
I can get you a good price once you get your part number.
DC
"DJ" <www.aarrrrggghhh!!!.com> wrote:
>As my old cheap modular (switchablenormalled/half normalled/straight thru)
>patchbays start to age, I'm thinking about getting something a bit more
>*pro*. I'm looking at some o the ADC and Bittree products with punchdown
>blocks just because I don't want to spend the next three months sucking
>solder fumes. I could probably clip the TRS jacks off my existing snakes
and
>have these punched down in a couple of days, if it's as simple as it looks
>to be. Then again, since these old modular PB's have lasted over 8 years
>with only two modules going south, maybe I should stick with what
>works???............nawwww...........
>
>Any problems with reliability with punch down PB's?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Deej
>
>I started a thread over on GS about this today as well, please chime in over
there, it may help the cause! Hey all, long time no see by the way.
Chris Ludwig <chrisl@adkproaudio.com> wrote:
>Hi Lamont,
>Imagine if Justin got all the code for Paris what he could do!!
>Chris
>
>
>LaMOnt wrote:
>> Guy, the developer of Reaper & Cujo has a thread going on gearslutz.com
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/two-week-special-guest-forum- justin-frankel-designer-reaper/119736-reaper-emu-paris.html
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>> It seems that Justin (Reaper) can get Reaper to read Paris's audio files,but
>> not a Project file and nneds information or documentation..Chuck?????
>
>--
>Chris Ludwig
>
>ADK Pro Audio
>(859) 635-5762
>www.adkproaudio.com
>chrisl@adkproaudio.comHey D,
I missed something along the way, can you tell me more about Vertex?
Man, I'd love to dig in to your set up, but I must admit I am not that intrepid,
I'm afraid to touch my working system.
"Dimitrios" <musurgio@otenetNOSPAM.com> wrote:
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>Hi,
>Vertex is very light on dsp.
>You can use the mono version which is even lighter.
>No problem with your athlon and vertex.
>I put vertex on 64 channels and I have an intel 2.6 ghz.
>I am left with much power for vst...
>Regards,
>Dimitrios
>"Mike R." <emarenot@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Hey Dimitrios
>>I've been considering getting Vertex, but I'm alittle concerned about the
>>CPU hit. If I've got it running as a plug on 16 channels, it seems that
>it
>>would suck up a good deal of processing power. I'm currently running Paris
>>2.0 on 98SE and an Athlon XP 2200. Of course the benefits of Vertex are
>>worth a solid hit, but I do
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81726 is a reply to message #81696] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 10:44 |
vlad
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arget="_blank">chrisl@adkproaudio.com <mailto:chrisl@adkproaudio.com>
>>www.adkproaudio.com <http://www.adkproaudio.com/>
>>(859) 635-5762
>On 16 Apr 2007 23:32:22 +1000, "Neil" <IOIU@OIU.com> wrote:
>
>In short, yes and no. Do i think album is all but dead? Yes.
>Do i think CD's will go away as a medium completely? Nah, not
>for awhile anyway; some people still like to hold a product in
>their hands.
>
>What bothers me the most about this trend, however, is the fact
>that music has become just another low-end commodity, worth
>anywhere from nothing, to a buck; depending on the perception
>of who it is you're asking.
>
What also bothers me about the online music thing, as well as the
online video thing, is that we are developing an entire generation of
consumers who accept 128k mp3's as hi-fidelity. Same thing with
online video and most dvd's. Unreasonable mpeg compression, chunky
artifacts, sections of background that drag along and just jump....
And yet all I hear at the local Best Buy is people raving about the
image on the new hi-def tv's when compression artifacts are plainly
visible.
They're just all being trained to accept crappy,
super-high-compression content as "pure digital quality."
Gives a really bad name to digital.
pab, curmudgeon-in-training.This is still new but so far so good. More tweaks may be coming as I learn
more.
Config for Audio XP box
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#control panel / sound and audio devices
volume all greyed out......no audio device
sounds sound scheme, no sounds
audio
sound playback HDSP9652 ADAT1 Out (23+24)
sound recording HDSP9652 SPDIF
midi music playback Microsoft GS Wavetable Synt
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81730 is a reply to message #81706] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 10:49 |
Doug Wellington
Messages: 251
Registered: June 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
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ect the Advanced tab of the Systems applet and then select the Performance
settings button. Then select the Advanced page. In here it is possible to
customise the Virtual Memory. For custom size, this is often recommended
to be 1.5 to 2 times the amount of your total RAM for both initial and maximum
size. Set this to a fixed minimum and maximum value according to your existing
RAM
#Speed Up Menus (I use powertoys to speed up menus)
You can use this tip to speed up the Start Menu in Windows XP. You can customize
the speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key. Click Start, and then
click Run. Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK. Expand the menu in
the left panel and select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop folder.
Scroll down in the right panel and double click on the MenuShowDelay file.
In the Value Data box, change to default value for the menu speed from 400
to a lesser number, such as 1. Click OK.
#Disable Internet Synchronise Time
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Date and Time > Internet Time > Untick
"Automatically synchronize with an internet time server"
#Disable Hide Inactive Icons
Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu > Taskbar TAB > Uncheck "Hide Inactive
Icons"
#Disable Automatic Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Desktop > Customise Desktop
> Untick "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days"
#Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips
Click Start , click Run , type regedit , and then press ENTER. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Right-click the right pane, create a new
DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips . Double-click this new entry,
and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0 . Quit Registry Editor. Log off
Windows, and then log back on.
#Disable Offline Files (is off by default)
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options > Offline Files > Untick
"Enable Offline Files"
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#Disable CDROM Autoplay
Start > Run > Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom
Set autorun to 0.
Open My Computer Right Click on each CDROM and choose Properties Click on
the Auto Play tab In the drop down box you can choose the Action for each
choice shown in the drop down box
Go to Start->Run->gpedit.msc Computer Config -> Administrative Template ->
System -> Double click Turn off Autoplay Enable it.
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#Disable Disc Indexing
Indexing Service is a service that extracts the information from a set of
documents and organizes it in a way that makes it quick and easy to access
that information through the Windows XP Search function, the Indexing Service
query form, or a Web browser.
This information can include text from within a document, (its contents),
and the characteristics and parameters of the document, (its properties),
such as the author's name. Once the index is created, you can search, or
query the index for documents that contain key words, phrases, or properties.
#Remove Messenger
Messenger starts up at the windows load up but we can get rid of that in
no time at all..
Start Menu>Run
Type this in exactly as it is here:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Hit Enter...you will see a DOS-like shell appear and disappear very quickly
and then it will ask you to restart.
#Classic Start Menu
Right-click the Start button, and then click Properties. Click Classic Start
menu. Click the Customize button to select items to display on the Start
menu. By default, selecting the Classic Start menu also adds the My Documents,
My Computer, My Network Places, and Internet Explorer icons to your desktop.
#Disable background applications - Background applications start up when
your computer starts up and can use up unneccicary resources. To prevent
these from starting up go to Start » Run and type "msconfig" in the run box.
Click on the "startup tab" and disable (uncheck) programs such as "taskmon",
"load power profile", "real player", "office startup", "winamp agent" and
so on. Keep programs like "scan registry", "system tray" and programs relating
to interfacing with your audio card (such as console software to control
its features).
#Folder Options
Graphical window settings - Go to Start » Settings » Folder o
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81734 is a reply to message #81706] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 11:13 |
Deej [4]
Messages: 1292
Registered: January 2007
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I also would be hard pressed to consider anything outside of Dreamweaver and
Flash for web development - integration with Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. is
excellent.
As far as Premiere, imho, it's hard to beat Final Cut at this point. Adobe
wavered there and
gave up a jump on the NLE market before they really won a stake in it vs.
the Avid tradition.
I know film/video studios considering having Premiere on hand (now that it's
returning Mac)
just for compatibility with Premiere editors, but FC rules the non-Avid
market, and is making
a big dent in the Avid market, or so it seems.
Dedric
"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:46240a58$1@linux...
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> I don't know if this article is really all that accurate. Would _anybody_
> be stupid enough to try to compete with Photoshop? I mean, there aren't a
> lot of applications that can be said to have launched, nurtured, and
> enhanced
> and entire market. That's what Photoshop is, Quark almost is, and even
> Apple
> hasn't seriously tried to enter either of those markets. They thought
> (correctly
> it turns out) they could take on Premiere with a better mousetrap and have
> a pretty good shot, and tried the same thing with Logic and it hasn't
> panned
> out nearly as well. But Photoshop? C'mon, that's just pissing in the wind.
>
>
> TCB
>
> "James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Chris Ludwig <chrisl@adkproaudio.com> wrote:
>>>Hi James,
>>>Yes the new Final Cut looks awesome. Ha Adobes gonna be pissed.
>>>
>>>Chris
>>
>>It looks like Adobe is about to get some other competition on another
>>front.
>>
>>Microsoft, Adobe Competition Heats Up
>>
>>http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070416/D8OHV5880.html
>>
>>>
>>>James McCloskey wrote:
>>>> Final Cut Studio2 $1299.00 $499.00 to upgrade.
>>>> http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/
>>>>
>>>> Final Cut Server $999.00
>>>> http://www.apple.com/finalcutserver/
>>>&
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81735 is a reply to message #81712] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 12:22 |
DC
Messages: 722
Registered: July 2005
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gt;
>>>> http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2007/04/fcoverview/i ndex.php?lsrc=mwrss
>>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Chris Ludwig
>>>ADK
>>>chrisl@adkproaudio.com <mailto:chrisl@adkproaudio.com>
>>>www.adkproaudio.com <http://www.adkproaudio.com/>
>>>(859) 635-5762
>>
>Well, last night was our 5th concert with Jim Peterik and friends.
Concert went fantastic. Some immense tech glitches during soundcheck,
but we all pulled together and got through 'em.
How immense?
Let's just say there's another kid at the theatre who's been doing
some sound stuff recently, and not been telling me about it.
Things like rearranging all my gear, deciding which we need to keep
and which we don't, and then taking that stuff home and denying that
he's ever seen it. Until the chairwoman called, and then it's "Yeah,
we have that. We were just sorting through it and will bring it right
back down."
Right. And we're still missing stuff.
My main amp rack at the theatre consists of two Crown Microtech 1200's
for monitors, and three bridged Behringer EP2500's for FOH. All wired
through a dbx DriverackPA controller, and cusom input/output patch
panels on the back. Has been that way for three years.
So, I go down on Friday night to go through my cables and stuff to see
what's missing. Had to make up 4 new mic cables to replace ones that
went "missing". Had to replace a speakon on one main monitor cable
because he decided he needed it for something else.
Annoying, but not a deal breaker.
They decided to put a matinee of the current play on Sunday right
before my concert. Stupid power plays and politics (how long can it
take you to set up a concert? It's just a couple of mics and guitars,
right???) so I don't get my usual whole day to set up and troubleshoot
before the artist arrives at 4pm. I get to start setting up an entire
stage at 4:40. Nice.
So, we get the mics set up, get the cables run, run the drive snake
from the monitor board to the back of the amp rack. So far, so good.
Then I open the front door of the rack and notice a huge, gaping hole
where my two Crowns should be.
What the F&*K????????????????
So, I run back upstairs, and find the two crowns stacked up on the
floor in the storage room.
So my helper and I run back downstairs, toss 'em in the rack, and try
to patch them back in. Meanwhile, I'm swearing up a storm and
threatening to drive to someone's house and kill them.
Now, this is a permanent instsll, mind you. These amps have been
there for three years. They are not needed anywhere else. I know
they pulled them to use for sound for our annual fundraising banquet,
which I refused to do this year (9 years of being treated like shit
and yelled at by control freaks with no clue about sound.... I'd had
enough.) But the thing is, there was no reason to pull those amps.
I built a portable amp rack on wheels specifically for the banquet.
Has a FOH amp, a monitor amp, Behringer DCX2496 crossover/controller,
and a couple of GEQ's with front-mounted custom I/O panels. I showed
him the damn rack. Explained the damn rack. They didn't use the damn
rack.
The thing is, the theatre people there last night were saying it was
my fault for not checking on it earlier in the day. Like when they
had a fucking play going on. Nobody blames the idiot who pulled the
damn amps and then didn't have the fucking courtesy to reinstall them.
If I had pulled a major piece of equipment, told no one, and then
didn't put it back right before one of their plays opened, they would
have crucified me. Yet, all of this is my fault, not the idiot stoner
kid's.
This is why I've decided to walk away from those people after 26
years. And my friends and I are forming a production company to
continue the acoustic concerts at other venues.
Fortunately, Jim, Larry Millas, and company are good friends, know I'm
not an incompetent fool, and also know the problems I've been having
with the group. So, we sucked it up, soldiered on, and got the show
underway only 15 minutes late. And once we got it dialed in, the PA
just sang, and the show just plain rocked.
Anyhow, enough bitching. Onto the recording stuff.
I've been multitracking these shows into Paris since the beginning 6
years ago. Gives me good source material when I play engineer later
on.
The last couple of years, though, we've also been recording the show
straight to cd and selling it to the audience at the end of the show.
Been taking the feed from the FOH insert. As you know, that never
sounds good in-your-face on a cd.
It occurred to me that I could mix in Paris at the same time I'm
tracking. Duh. Hadn't thought of that before....
My cd guy has a dual cd-recorder rig being fed by an Alesis 6-channel
a/d converter with lightpipe inputs.
This is why I was trying to figure out how to use the adat card just
on output and use the two 8in's on inputs.
I ran a cable over to his position, gave him a C16, turned the monitor
so he could see the mini-mixer up on the screen, and fed his rig from
lightpipe channels 1&2.
Worked like a charm. This "cd-now" cd is the best-sounding one we've
ever done. Giving the recording engineer control over the mix turns
out to be a good thing.....
Then it also came to me that I could toss a couple of EDS verbs on the
auxes to add some "room" and strap a limiter across the global fader
to make sure we didn't clip the outputs. Yes, I've got two audience
mics, but they're facing out from the stage, so they don't work so
well as a natural reverb source. Next time, I might try them in the
back of the house.
We've been contemplating getting a mixer for the cd guy so he could
mix, but this system elminates the need and accomplishes two
recordings from one set of inputs. In fact, there was another guy
videotaping the show, and I paralleled the outputs with the MEC outs
and fed his camera with the same mix as our cd guy was getting. At
least one of those songs will end up on YouTube soon.
I love Paris. And I love the fact that I tracked 16 freakin' tracks
for 2 hours straight on a 300MHz G3 Mac with nary a glitch.
This system just rocks. I think I'm going to build a rackmount XP box
for the home system for final mixing, but I've had such good luck with
reliability in the field with the Macs that I wouldn't use anything
else.
pabHi James,
Now that is just plain silly. Apple might have a chance with their
Aperture software but only because their name being already established
in the desktop publishing market.
Chris
James McCloskey wrote:
> Chris Ludwig <chrisl@adkproaudio.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>> Yes the new Final Cut looks awesome. Ha Adobes gonna be pissed.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> It looks like Adobe is about to get some other competition on another front.
>
> Microsoft, Adobe Competition Heats Up
>
> http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070416/D8OHV5880.html
>
>
>> James McCloskey wrote:
>>
>>> Final Cut Studio2 $1299.00 $499.00 to upgrade.
>>> http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/
>>>
>>> Final Cut Server $999.00
>>> http://www.apple.com/finalcutserver/
>>>
>>> http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2007/04/fcoverview/i ndex.php?lsrc=mwrss
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Chris Ludwig
>> ADK
>> chrisl@adkproa
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81739 is a reply to message #81736] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 11:40 |
Deej [4]
Messages: 1292
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ems applet and then select the =
Performance
settings button. Then select the Advanced page. In here it is possible =
to
customise the Virtual Memory. For custom size, this is often =
recommended
to be 1.5 to 2 times the amount of your total RAM for both initial and =
maximum
size. Set this to a fixed minimum and maximum value according to your =
existing
RAM
#Speed Up Menus (I use powertoys to speed up menus)
You can use this tip to speed up the Start Menu in Windows XP. You can =
customize
the speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key. Click Start, =
and then
click Run. Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK. Expand the menu =
in
the left panel and select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop =
folder.
Scroll down in the right panel and double click on the MenuShowDelay =
file.
In the Value Data box, change to default value for the menu speed from =
400
to a lesser number, such as 1. Click OK.=20
#Disable Internet Synchronise Time
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Date and Time > Internet Time > =
Untick
"Automatically synchronize with an internet time server"=20
#Disable Hide Inactive Icons
Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu > Taskbar TAB > Uncheck =
"Hide Inactive
Icons"=20
#Disable Automatic Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Desktop > Customise =
Desktop
> Untick "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days"=20
#Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips
Click Start , click Run , type regedit , and then press ENTER. =
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Right-click the right pane, create a =
new
DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips . Double-click this =
new entry,
and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0 . Quit Registry Editor. Log =
off
Windows, and then log back on.=20
#Disable Offline Files (is off by default)
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options > Offline Files > =
Untick
"Enable Offline Files"=20
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#Disable CDROM Autoplay
Start > Run > Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom
Set autorun to 0.
Open My Computer Right Click on each CDROM and choose Properties Click =
on
the Auto Play tab In the drop down box you can choose the Action for =
each
choice shown in the drop down box
Go to Start->Run->gpedit.msc Computer Config -> Administrative =
Template ->
System -> Double click Turn off Autoplay Enable it.=20
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#Disable Disc Indexing
Indexing Service is a service that extracts the information from a set =
of
documents and organizes it in a way that makes it quick and easy to =
access
that information through the Windows XP Search function, the Indexing =
Service
query form, or a Web browser.
This information can include text from within a document, (its =
contents),
and the characteristics and parameters of the document, (its =
properties),
such as the author's name. Once the index is created, you can search, =
or
query the index for documents that contain key words, phrases, or =
properties.
#Remove Messenger=20
Messenger starts up at the windows load up but we can get rid of that =
in
no time at all..
Start Menu>Run
Type this in exactly as it is here:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection =
%windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Hit Enter...you will see a DOS-like shell appear and disappear very =
quickly
and then it will ask you to restart.
#Classic Start Menu
Right-click the Start button, and then click Properties. Click =
Classic Start
menu. Click the Customize button to select items
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81740 is a reply to message #81730] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 12:44 |
DC
Messages: 722
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to display on the =
Start
menu. By default, selecting the Classic Start menu also adds the My =
Documents,
My Computer, My Network Places, and Internet Explorer icons to your =
desktop.
#Disable background applications - Background applications start up =
when
your computer starts up and can use up unneccicary resources. To =
prevent
these from starting up go to Start =BB Run and type "msconfig" in the =
run box.
Click on the "startup tab" and disable (uncheck) programs such as =
"taskmon",
"load power profile", "real player", "office startup", "winamp agent" =
and
so on. Keep programs like "scan registry", "system tray" and programs =
relating
to interfacing with your audio card (such as console software to =
control
its features).
#Folder Options
Graphical window settings - Go to Start =BB Settings =BB Folder =
options. Click
on the "View" tab.=20
Uncheck Automatically Search for network folders and printers
Check Do not cache thumbnails
Under "Visual settings" check off "Show window contents while =
dragging. This
is more of a usability tweak, as it will allow you to see the contents =
of
windows on the screen as you drag them around (instead of them going =
blank).
Uncheck Show pop up description for folder and desktop items
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Good stuff John.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Tom</FONT></DIV>
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81751 is a reply to message #81735] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 13:43 |
Doug Wellington
Messages: 251
Registered: June 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
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en I open the front door of the rack and notice a huge, gaping hole
> where my two Crowns should be.
>
> What the F&*K????????????????
>
> So, I run back upstairs, and find the two crowns stacked up on the
> floor in the storage room.
>
> So my helper and I run back downstairs, toss 'em in the rack, and try
> to patch them back in. Meanwhile, I'm swearing up a storm and
> threatening to drive to someone's house and kill them.
>
> Now, this is a permanent instsll, mind you. These amps have been
> there for three years. They are not needed anywhere else. I know
> they pulled them to use for sound for our annual fundraising banquet,
> which I refused to do this year (9 years of being treated like shit
> and yelled at by control freaks with no clue about sound.... I'd had
> enough.) But the thing is, there was no reason to pull those amps.
>
> I built a portable amp rack on wheels specifically for the banquet.
> Has a FOH amp, a monitor amp, Behringer DCX2496 crossover/controller,
> and a couple of GEQ's with front-mounted custom I/O panels. I showed
> him the damn rack. Explained the damn rack. They didn't use the damn
> rack.
>
> The thing is, the theatre people there last night were saying it was
> my fault for not checking on it earlier in the day. Like when they
> had a fucking play going on. Nobody blames the idiot who pulled the
> damn amps and then didn't have the fucking courtesy to reinstall them.
>
> If I had pulled a major piece of equipment, told no one, and then
> didn't put it back right before one of their plays opened, they would
> have crucified me. Yet, all of this is my fault, not the idiot stoner
> kid's.
>
> This is why I've decided to walk away from those people after 26
> years. And my friends and I are forming a production company to
> continue the acoustic concerts at other venues.
>
> Fortunately, Jim, Larry Millas, and company are good friends, know I'm
> not an incompetent fool, and also know the problems I've been having
> with the group. So, we sucked it up, soldiered on, and got the show
> underway only 15 minutes late. And once we got it dialed in, the PA
> just sang, and the show just plain rocked.
>
> Anyhow, enough bitching. Onto the recording stuff.
>
> I've been multitracking these shows into Paris since the beginning 6
> years ago. Gives me good source material when I play engineer later
> on.
>
> The last couple of years, though, we've also been recording the show
> straight to cd and selling it to the audience at the end of the show.
> Been taking the feed from the FOH insert. As you know, that never
> sounds good in-your-face on a cd.
>
> It occurred to me that I could mix in Paris at the same time I'm
> tracking. Duh. Hadn't thought of that before....
>
> My cd guy has a dual cd-recorder rig being fed by an Alesis 6-channel
> a/d converter with lightpipe inputs.
>
> This is why I was trying to figure out how to use the adat card just
> on output and use the two 8in's on inputs.
>
> I ran a cable over to his position, gave him a C16, turned the monitor
> so he could see the mini-mixer up on the screen, and fed his rig from
> lightpipe channels 1&2.
>
> Worked like a charm. This "cd-now" cd is the best-sounding one we've
> ever done. Giving the recording engineer control over the mix turns
> out to be a good thing.....
>
> Then it also came to me that I could toss a couple of EDS verbs on the
> auxes to add some "room" and strap a limiter across the global fader
> to make sure we didn't clip the outputs. Yes, I've got two audience
> mics, but they're facing out from the stage, so they don't work so
> well as a natural reverb source. Next time, I might try them in the
> back of the house.
>
> We've been contemplating getting a mixer for the cd guy so he could
> mix, but this system elminates the need and accomplishes two
> recordings from one set of inputs. In fact, there was another guy
> videotaping the show, and I paralleled the outputs with the MEC outs
> and fed his camera with the same mix as our cd guy was getting. At
> least one of those songs will end up on YouTube soon.
>
> I love Paris. And I love the fact that I tracked 16 freakin' tracks
> for 2 hours straight on a 300MHz G3 Mac with nary a glitch.
>
> This system just rocks. I think I'm going to build a rackmount XP box
> for the home system for final mixing, but I've had such good luck with
> reliability in the field with the Macs that I wouldn't use anything
> else.
>
> pabI know I'm nuts. Cubase 4 has every friggin' thing that Paris does not and
my system sounds great. I went ahead and worked out a deal on that Neve 5042
so now it's mine and is a permanent fixture here. I have no complaints. I
guess that it's just that having used the Paris system for 9 years, I was so
comfortable with certain things about it that I didn't think I'd
miss.....like the plate reverbs. I didn't know I liked them that much.
Chucks modulation FX sounded great too and NoLimit???....well, it had
something that nothing that I have here had. I'm able to use anything I want
nowadays as a channel insert or on an aux and I can create as many busses as
I want ..........and don't have to worry about not being able to patch
acorss submixes and the Paris mono delays are just wonderful in a mix. It's
easy to take a lot of things for granted I guess.
Would I go back??...I don't think so..........not now. If I had it to do all
over again, would I sell the Paris rig and the insane digital routing matrix
that was sometimes so confusing and frustrating and full of so many
potential clocking disasters, but that I knew so well because I had created
it and was familiar with it's quirks???......I don't think
so....................not now.
With the Cubase rig......I turn it on....it works.
(yawn)
;o)On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:28:05 -0600, "DJ" <www.aarrrrggghhh!!!.com>
wrote:
>Paul,
>
>Can I come up there and help you *git midevil* on this kid's ass? Glad
>things went well. Was that my old MEC you were using?
>
yes, feel free.
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81752 is a reply to message #81748] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 14:54 |
chuck duffy
Messages: 453
Registered: July 2005
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At this point, I'm all about whuppin' some ass.
However, what I'm going to do is make a list of all the equipment they
won't be using once I stop doing One Night Jam, make them an offer on
it, and see if they'll sell it to me. That will then be the basis
that our new group will build our smaller PA around. For larger acts,
we'll probably have to rent until we have the cash to buy bigger
stuff. We're hoping to find a semi-permanent venue, and the
advantages of a permanent installation over the vagaries of rental
equipment seems to me to be worth the cost.
The MEC I was using was one that I bought a couple of years ago.
Yours will be going, along with the one I just bought from ebay, in my
studio rack with the new XP Paris rig. I've got a rackmount case -
just need a good mobo/cpu combo and I'm ready to explore what plugins
are available in the Windows world. One of the C16's you sent me last
year, the one with the funky monitor knob, will be used as the
tracking C16 for the road rig. Don't care about the monitor knob
then. The one I just bought, with the loose bandwidth knob, will be
my second home C16, provided I can reattach the encoder and there's no
pcb damage. I've got the second malfunctioning C16 you sent me as
well for spare parts, if it looks like I can fix it. Otherwise, it
goes off to The.
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| Re: Well, this sucks... [message #81784 is a reply to message #81740] |
Mon, 19 March 2007 21:02 |
Doug Wellington
Messages: 251
Registered: June 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
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>>reproductive cycles, boys should be taught about this special aspect of
>
>>their physiology, and the emotions it can produce. Instead of thwarting
>
>>their natural aggression and energy, we should teach them to channel it
> into
>>creative, constructive activity. We should also teach them that empathy
> and
>>compassion are not "gay," and that having brain and a heart are more
>>important than having "balls," so to speak. I bet most of the men here
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>>avoided violent behavior in part when they were growing up by beating the
>
>>shit out of drums or guitars instead of other guys.
>
> And there you have it. A nearly complete version of a "man" as
> determined by women... One problem, it's all wrong.
>
> I avoided violence, as my daughter is, by years and years of martial
> arts training. Oh, and shooting... Oh, and my relationship with Jesus
> Christ.
>
> In short, by becoming a better man, not a womans version of one.
> Ironic huh?
>
> Traditional martial artists are the least violent people on the planet,
> as are shooters. As were the real people of the old west, not the
> Hollywood lie that has replaced them.
>
>
> DCthat really does suck. is this your first sessions (major) with 4?
i'm sure you checked all the usual suspects with cahcing and all.
anything new in the converter or pci card department installed? a
friends brand new AD16x and symphony card was doing the same thing and
was replaced just yesterday.
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:16:15 -0600, "DJ" <www.aarrrrggghhh!!!.com>
wrote:
>Had to call a session tonight and send everyone home. This is the first time
>in my entire studio career that I've not been able to figure out a
>workaround for a problem in a tracking session, but when your recorder
>freaks, it's time to wrap. Cubase 4 has gone completely apeshit. Clicks and
>pops, tracks playing back out of sync, suckage of fidelity.....total
>disaster. The first thing I would normally suspect is the clocking but
>everything shows to be synced rock solid and I can play back entire (large)
>projects in Cubase 4 that were recorded in Paris and then the tracks were
>imported into Cubase SX 3.0.2 with nary a click, pop or hiccup and this is
>using the AD/DA's that I have here as insert I/O so it's not the converters
>and not the clocking.
>
>It's creating a new project in Cubase 4 that is the problem. It is
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| Re: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! [message #81802 is a reply to message #81758] |
Tue, 20 March 2007 07:47 |
Doug Wellington
Messages: 251
Registered: June 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
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oes.
Just a thought...
DC http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04 /18/AR2007041800162_pf.html
Well here's your Mr. Testosteroni...
"Shy" "near tears" "depressed" "terribly lonely" "a loner"
"wrote disturbing plays" etc etc
Not an honorable, selfless, actual male, bone is his scrawny body...
A whiner and a narcissist.
Surprised?
Not me. Leave "men" out of this discussion. He doesn't qualify.
DCI realize the stats can be misleading, and a good statistician can make them
say anything anyway. Nevertheless, there _are_ a lot of fatal gun accidents
in this country. Also, I'm the least likely demographic to be a victim of
violent crime, I white, male, 6'2", and look a little menacing. So for me,
having a gun is probably a bad idea, statistically speaking.
But, it's a good idea in the sense that I can walk safely pretty much wherever
I want, which is something any citizen ought to expect as a matter of course.
Sadly, in this country we can't. Unfortunately New York State doesn't recognize
out or state carry permits, so when I'm in NY
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