View All Students
Vanessa Agosto
April 16th & 18th, about 7 1/2 hours total
So! The drama began this week. Steve updated Pro Tools for me, and it's been wacked out ever since. I need some tutoring. Trying to zero in on the problem has been hard because I'm so computer illiterate. The latest possible reason for not hearing anything play, new or old: the output pathway has been deselected or inactivated or some mess that I would never want or intend. So. It's been a very frustrating last couple of weeks.
This week was good for review and going over the bass edits I was able to finish. Some good refresher points I'd forgotten:
The energy in music is both electric and magnetic. "Ground" doesn't just refer to that third wire or that wire sheaththat unwanted noise can run backwards on, it refers to the actual ground. Buildings are grounded, meaning a wire sunk into the earth to dissipate charge.
Forums are a better way to research equipment than magazine reviews, because ads are how magazines pay the bills and reviews are of advertisers' products.
Textbook pictures of miking techniques are really good starting points when unsure how to mike something, assuming everything else is following the Good Rule.
If a mic is plugged into a box, it 1) contains a tube. 2) requires multiple charges to work.
The more off-axis you go on a mic, the more mid-rangey it will sound. This can be desirable or not.
Left/right = imaging, front/back = sound stage.
If your recorded sound is too bright, instead of adding high's in te EQ change the mike configuration or position; bidirectional mic's pickup a brighter sound.
Steve went over Pro Tools DSP cards and the difference between plug-ins being run natively or from host cards, and how that affects how fast/well the computer will run. We also went over how convenient it is to be able to make changes in real time when using TDM as compared to not doing things in real time, like on Audio Suite. Steve also showed me the clip gain on the wave form, so that you can adjust as you listen. Pretty cool.
