jlebre

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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 25	comment	Why is Pro Tools the industry standard in high end audio production? @LeeDumond if it wasn't fooling, you would see an apoggee on your I/O, not an 192, same with Lynx, SSL, and other manufacturers. The SSL MADI box is seen in ProTools as 4 192 units - and if you loose sync, you have to actually put the first unit back in loopmaster. it looks to me a bit like "fooling" ProTools - as opposed to the "you can now run ProTools on any slapdash hardware setup you want" that Ian mentioned!
Feb 24	comment	Why is Pro Tools the industry standard in high end audio production? True Lennart. tbh, it's not that stable anymore - tbh it's not stable at all when something as simple as saving is bugged on version 9.
Feb 24	comment	Why is Pro Tools the industry standard in high end audio production? +1 for the multitrack editing though I don't know what my life would be without it! now, support engineer? sorry, my experience is really bad. I got better help and support from random maintenance techs and from my Digi certification examiner than the phone calls/emails. Except if you own an ICON and they can take £300 for any little piece needing replacing
Feb 24	comment	Why is Pro Tools the industry standard in high end audio production? they didn't. In recent years they had a partnership with M-Audio when the whole buyout process begun. I do have to say that the hardware from the HD series (192, 96 and 96i) was getting really really outdated! other brands where doing better stuff for the buck. Some other companies where even fooling protools into seeing their devices as 192 etc. and they work great!!! (Lynx, SSL, Prism, Apogge)
Feb 24	comment	Does anyone have any experience with available RTA software packages for live venue application? oh, btw, smaart was bought out since then! :) it's part of EAW now
Feb 23	comment	Achieving uniform level in lengthy spoken word recordings just a note - normalize in ProTools can normalize within a selection of regions. Although probably not what you want to do.
Feb 22	comment	Remixes, Sampling and The Law Very good reply Ian! awesomeness!
Feb 22	comment	Audio Mastering Book Recommendations it is scientific. Nice way to brush up on the maths through the initial "concepts" bit. I had the "pleasure" (i guess, not sure pleasure it's still the right word) of meeting the guy last year.
Feb 20	comment	choosing gear and set up for recording live 16ch same time Which sound card/ AD/DA converter do you plan on use? the 32 channel allen heat you showed is a 32 channel mixer which would probably allow you a easy setup based on split mixer design, but the USB facility will only convert signals from Matrix, etc, not from Direct Out. What exactly are you trying to ask, if the desk would be a good choice for the value?
Feb 20	comment	Triggers on drums in the studio, why? maybe he was trying to go for something like this :P dailymotion.com/video/xay8gh_king-crimson-elektric_music
Feb 20	comment	How can I get the most clear sound out of an electric guitar? line in, or mic'ing? y I believe so :)
Feb 20	comment	How can I get the most clear sound out of an electric guitar? line in, or mic'ing? You put the guitar through a DI before going through line in, right?
Feb 18	comment	Synthesizer patch - how to do something like this this is still slightly ringy. was trying to smooth it out with LPF but... hmm... definetly the right direction
Feb 18	comment	When should I trust my ears over the phase/vector/lissajous scope? Uh, on this subject, I found this pearl fluxhome.com they have 2 freeware plugin their stereo tool is amazing and I can say the same about the transient designer - specially the flexibility of it!
Feb 18	comment	When should I trust my ears over the phase/vector/lissajous scope? Sam, it's not uncommon. I spent a couple of weeks with a award mixing engineer and he would do the pan in mono as well (specially things like toms/OH etc). It was noticeable the mono mix becoming clear. But he still re tweaked the image when back in stereo. I personally just check in mono. A lot!
Feb 18	comment	What is the best volume to work with studio monitors? @Kim thanks for that update. I did not know about this! cool stuff! I was mentioning the level which is "safe" for 8 hours which is still 90dB by OSHA, right? osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/noise/standards_more.html.
Feb 17	comment	What is the best volume to work with studio monitors? hmm yes and no. Yes 90dB is louder than some people might think at first specially with musical material and smaller rooms but I do believe tiredness will come quicker from saturated material (ie. heavily compressed) than from consistency loud volumes. I do not agree that mixing will take longer. Chances are you will have to spit out a mix in 1 day, and come back for revision sake only. Same with mastering.
Feb 16	comment	How can I get the most clear sound out of an electric guitar? line in, or mic'ing? "perfectly tuned space"? That would require some advance thinking when building the room - golden ratio for proportions, no paralel walls, and even then probably having to use some (more or less clever) form of diffusion. Unless you are trying to dry the room out of the offending frequency for that particular node - with a material with absorption coeficient of 1 for that frequency range, at least 1/4 of the wavelength you are considering. I really don't think users that would mic a cab only with a 57 would consider this much (no offense intended :)
Feb 16	comment	How can I get the most clear sound out of an electric guitar? line in, or mic'ing? "so pull it back a bit and you'll get a little more treble in the signal" not exactly true. Proximity effect will depend on the type of microphone and polar pattern. You might also pull it back and end up in a stationary wave reinforcement point, whilst your cab is in a null point.
Feb 16	comment	How can I get the most clear sound out of an electric guitar? line in, or mic'ing? Also, the genre of music? detail and clarity in metal would mean really thick, controlled low end, on some others, like your pop/rock ballads would mean really bright guitar (arpeggios, lead solos, etc), funk would also be a really compressed, bright guitar etc.