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| location | London, United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
| seen | May 15 '11 at 11:48 | |
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Sound engineer tech based in London. Started a career very young doing Live sound on the road, touring with bands as FoH or stage tech, later progressed with studies in Cinema and later on Sound Engineering and Recording Arts.
Currently, managing studios in an educational institute pays the bills, but all the spare time is spent watching movies, recording bands, editing in ProTools or with the head stuck in a videogame.
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Feb 12 |
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How do you replace a broken volume pot? can we please have a picture? |
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Feb 11 |
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Scratchy volume pot Ordered myself a can of DeOxit spray (i have the 100% solution with applier)! have a G series channel strip in my bench being cleaned and will give it a go. Only not to sure about the fact that it doesn't have any lube factor. |
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Feb 11 |
answered | Scratchy volume pot |
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Feb 10 |
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Computer keyboard/mouse location believe me if you put the keyboard in front of the console, only place to put the screen is behind the D-Command. Worked on a place with a nice 40" screen and I was still stretching my neck forward to edit. Really confortable when you are mixing and only refering to the global EDL but editing it's a no-no. And really, you shouldn't be needing the mixer that much if you are editing so does it hurt to face one side for that task? then you would be sitting ergonomically with everything at range! |
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Feb 10 |
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Wiring a 1/4" headphone jack to headphones. Not sure if I made myself clear, but you will be testing the cable on the remainder of the plug that @Patick cut out. As said on the awesome @Brad post below, you'll get 2 of those guys going to the ground, one to the tip (left) on to the ring (right). You would only have a phase problem inverting the shield with the tip or ring. Now, sometimes they have a common earth, or 2 separate earths. Which means that it might be that 1 of the cables is actually not used, or that 2 of those will be wired to the sleeve! |
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Feb 9 |
answered | Wiring a 1/4" headphone jack to headphones. |
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Feb 9 |
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looking for adsr plugin (adsr) SPL transient modifier? or Sonnox? or you don't plan to use it as a transient shaper but as an actual ADSR? |
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Feb 9 |
answered | Why are drums generally panned to the listener's perspective but piano panned to the player's perspective? |
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Feb 8 |
answered | Are outboard processors dead? |
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Feb 8 |
answered | Computer keyboard/mouse location |
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Feb 8 |
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Computer keyboard/mouse location Hey Gary welcome to audio.SE. I used those trays before and they were really nice (not that specific model). When you say dual monitors to the side, you mean both to one side or one to each side? |
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Feb 7 |
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Wiring a 1/4" headphone jack to headphones. hmm just saying because my £20 multimeter came with aligator clips. Maybe if @Patick still have the bare wire on the original plug you could quickly test which cable goes to which pin, either by using resistance metering or continuity test |
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Feb 7 |
answered | General rules for panning? |
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Feb 7 |
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General rules for panning? @Kim sorry, yes indeed! I misunderstood you on that point! |
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Feb 7 |
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General rules for panning? @Lennart Yes, yes I have. And we are going subjective here on that. That album is given by many artists as reference - NIN, Neal Morse, Dream Theater, Mars Volta to name a few. I don't believe it's much of a headache since some blues and jazz to this date still have that approach but I see your point. I do have to say that most regular listeners don't even notice that until you point it out to them (like the vocals panning left to right on Sgt.Peppers etc etc) |
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Feb 7 |
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General rules for panning? @Lennart having the sound panned out to the center will translate in an increase of acoustic power. Regardless of what medium are you mixing in. Some pan laws try and balance this out but you'll find that they don't aim for 3dB that you would find in acoustic spl doubling. ProTools LE is -2.5. Some desks are -2.5 or even 6. Most SSL's are -4dB. Not too sure right now, but the ProTools HD surround desk is even -5dB. It's also funny to notice most people don't notice that tons of beatles songs have drums to the left, or bass hard right... I don't find it distracting IMO. |
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Feb 7 |
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The most common mistakes for newbies recording When I'm recording, the autobackup is on 5 minutes, so as not to weigh on the hard drive. When Im editing, its every 2 minutes. And i do a save copy in at every milestone (finished comping - save; finished editing - save; downmixed - saved; Created a satellite session - save etc) |
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Feb 7 |
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The most common mistakes for newbies recording "It's really hard to mix only in headphones and get a great mix, but it's also hard to properly align studio monitors and to acoustically treat a room." so VERY, VERY true!!!! |
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Feb 7 |
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The most common mistakes for newbies recording I always give a monitor mix in the studio, regardless of the session. When I know ahead of time that instruments will be recorded separately I'll still get the whole band to play. Usually in line mixers give you a really easy, painstacking workflow that allows you to do this without even thinking. For instance, on an inline console (SSL, NEVE, Harrison, etc) I'm always in Fader swap for the monitor path unless I'm bouncing (using groups). That way i can give the band a complete rough mix on the very first day of recording, and all the following. |
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Feb 7 |
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The most common mistakes for newbies recording I do it before, after the sound check, or right before the doors open. Afterwards you will have the normal standbyers and the restless roadies packing up to go home. Also, you might have the DJ act coming up (pretty common in clubs and raves, festivals etc.) |
