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It's called a "Digital Snake"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_multicore_cable
It is gaining popularity, but it can be cost prohibitive.
Several manufactures offer solutions including; Mackie, Aviom & Roland.
Most are based on EtherSound or CobraNet, but may also be proprietary.
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TL;DR: it depends on the recordings. You can't make a blanket statement about it.
Vinyl has one advantage over CDs: mastered audio, pressed to vinyl, cannot be extreme in its nature. Brick wall limiting just doesn't work on vinyl because the extreme peaks and valleys it creates in the playback groove cause the needle to skip and jump out of the groove. The ...
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The job of a foam screen is to attenuate the velocity of wind before it hits the microphone. If you don't reduce the wind, then the mic will be overdriven, and you will get a badly distorted signal. You can't just filter that out after the fact.
This is also why an analog compressor or a digital compressor with a lot of headroom is a good idea between your ...
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As always, you get what you pay for.
I have been using the Yamaha 01V for years now, and have never had to restart it. Nor have I ever had any real trouble with it.
As long as you stick with a major brand that has a good reputation, you should be fine.
One thing to keep in mind however, a digital mixer is basically a computer. Having a solid source of ...
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You're right in that when your digital signal "clips" at 0dB, it's an absolute maximum limit. 16-bit audio has 2^16 possible volume levels, and once you get to 2^16, there's no higher number to express your sound, so it maxes out, or clips.
With analog signals, your "clipping" limit is less well defined. The term distortion in an amplifier just refers to ...
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Analogue medium do technically have a higher dynamical range than digital due to the nature of being analogue ("atom"-level wave description, although you have material limitations of the material vinyl itself, but still). If the human ear can hear the difference of a 24-bit digital version of it, or even a 16-bit version, is of course open for debate.
If ...
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It's not an illusion - it's called chroma subsampling.
Most video codecs do not represent colour in full resolution as a way of achieving greater compression by taking advantage of the way that the human eye is more sensitive to brightness ("luma") than colour ("chroma"). Many codecs don't bother giving you too much colour information when you're not going ...
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It's a well known issue that red component in video devices suffers in presentation.
The reason is the red color's long wave length and that our eyes respond more to long wave ranges (not to be confused with color sensitivity which would be in yellow-green range).
For us to perceive the colors as equal (ref. responsiveness) the green and blue are ...
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While pure red is tough to match, partly due to our visual sensitivity in that region, I've never noticed any tendency for red to 'pixelate' more than any other color. Maybe you're seeing an artifact of compression? Do you also see this in non-electronic displays like backlit signs, etc?
Another answer here claims that manufacturers kept secrets about color ...
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You're going to want to qualify exactly what "better" means. The quality of sound is a highly subjective topic, especially where digital and analog recording media are concerned.
Many people prefer the sound of vinyl. Lots of people prefer "cleaner" digital sound as well.
Personally, I like the sound of recordings on vinyl. This includes the cracks and ...
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I'm not sure which model of macbook you have, but most of them have a digital (optical) input built in on the line input. You would just have to grab a mini-toslink adaptor and change it to optical on system preferences > sound.
You could try it by searching apple database or trying to enable this option on your settings?
If I remember correctly I could see ...
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My biggest complaint with the MidiVerb series is they tend to be noisy. All the MidiVerbs I've used introduced a fair bit of hiss.
My preference would be a Lexicon MPX110 for a budget reverb unit. I really like Lexicon's reverbs and despite the simple interface, it's actually pretty tweakable.
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A long VGA cable with a proper amp/spliter on the TX side, would be the simplest option. You can get good VGA cables up to 150' at modest prices from http://www.pccables.com .
Another good option is a CAT5 extender kit.
http://milestek.com/p-16209-vga-over-cat5ecat6-decora-wall-plate-set.aspx
Without a more detailed description of what you are trying to ...
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The technology is sometimes called Audio Over EtherNet. There are several incompatible proprietary protocols from several manufacturers - EtherSound, CobraNet, A-Net, DANTE (more at wikipedia), but a proper Ethernet standard is being introduced called IEEE 802.1 AVB (Audio Video Bridging).
AVB is a combination of several extensions to ethernet protocols, ...
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With analog equipment, if the signal level rises above the maximum input level of the equipment, it will begin to distort. The corresponding output level may or may not continue to increase, depending on the equipment. At some point, you will begin to damage the equipment.
Equipment that has Line-Level inputs will typically not accept levels much beyond ...
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An alternative to this is MADI: it uses 2 coaxial cables to connect the AD/DA converters to the desk.
In my opinion: the cable itself is more rugged than an ethernet twisted pair, but the connectors are not so sturdy as the Neutrik RJ45 you see with e.g. Aviom.
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The best quick, comprehensive, practical introduction to the film pipeline that I know of is the DV Rebel's Guide by Stu Maschwitz. It doesn't cover everything in depth, but it will give you enough terminology to know what else to search for. Film and video have very different workflows, but based on your question, it sounds like that may be part of what ...
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First, make sure the head of your "new" 424 is in good shape. Tape heads can go out of alignment, which will significantly reduce the quality of the signal you are able to get our of your tape.
Next, even if you can get your system to recognize a pair of 2-channel recorders (easier on OS X with its Aggregate Devices than on Windows), they still won't be ...
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This type of photography is called 'available light' which covers shooting subjects without adding strobes or other lights. It is favored by many photographers for many reasons. I personally favor this because the subject and scene appear more natural to me. Things that glow interest me as well and there are tons of things that fit this: the moon, neon art, ...
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Further to the thread; the 2nd press of the MTX key that lights the last 3 faders allows sending mix L, R & Mono to your chosen matrix bus. This '2nd press' was required since on the smallest Si Compact control surface there are 16 faders and 17 sources (14 buses + L, R & M and the Matrix bus master to manage) so another system was required and to ...
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The M-Audio KeyStudio is a MIDI controller keyboard - it doesn't make any sound, rather, it sends MIDI messages to instruct something else to make sound. Since you're running it into FL Studio, I presume you intend to control some software instrument, so you will need to load that instrument, route the MIDI messages to it, and enable monitoring. All of that ...
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For $300, you aren't going to get good quality audio and good quality video in the same device and for $300 total, you probably aren't going to get them in two separate devices, but it may produce better results than a single device.
The problem is that for $300 there really isn't enough funds for both the necessary image processing hardware, a decent ...
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If you want something pretty standard and with good quality with DV. The most important thin, whatever the codec you choose, configure it for an interlaced source (since VHS signal is interlaced). If you don't you will end up with a digitized file that will need more space and have much lower quality.
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VHS is already highly 'compressed', so capturing to an uncompressed format is likely overkill. For your purposes MJPEG with a reasonably high quality setting will preserve all your options and shouldn't degrade the images any further than VHS already has.
MJPEG goes by other names -- the idea is that it's all "I-frames". It is a lossy codec, but there are ...
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I think the issue you see here is actually because of bright pixels against a very dark background.
Most lossy compression takes into account that we are far more perceptive to lightness differences than we are color differences. Depending on the codec used, and encoding options chosen, the blocks used for approximating the video can be fixed size, which ...
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To at least partially answer this question:
Is there a name for this feature (assigning/pairing analog audio with HDMI/DVI video) that I can use as a search term?
Most audio/video receivers produced now handle analog and digital audio and video. Even most of the least expensive receivers nowadays have HDMI in/out. There isn't really a term for it, ...
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This is a bit of an adventurous idea: try to set the LS9 as clock master and both computers as slave, split the S/PDIF with a well-shielded passive splitter and feed it to both computers, and just don't use the actual audio in computer 1.S/PDIF is definitely not meant to be used this way, but it might still work.
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to answer your question:
basic setup: camera, scene, computer with editing suite (after effects, premiere, vegas, final cut express, quicktime)
You must trigger record frame every second or predifined interval of time, setup your editing timeline at 25 fps and import your footage.
if you are doing frames you must import frames interpet them and put it on ...
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I prefer the sound of well looked after vinyl through a decent record deck - and enough people feel the same that high end audio companies tend to specialise in this area.
A CD will sound the same every time, but the vinyl will sound warm and lovely at first...while degrading over time.
I have to admit I prefer the sound of a good tape deck to a CD so ...
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Vinyl has the potential to sound better than CD, especially for frequencies higher than 10kHz. But to get the full potential of the vinyl, the copy of the vinyl must be one of the first from the master, not been played before, and you must have a very good record player that is correctly calibrated and have a new pickup. Every time you play the record you ...
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