Monthly Archives: May 2008

Drum tracks for 5 days

Man I’m tired. 8-12 hours per day for about a week on drum tracks. We had 18 microphones on the drums, including Neumann U87′s on the overheads… Hell of a set up. After drums it was bass tracks for 2.5

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Why ProTools sucks #6: Cost per bit

I just converted a session from ProTools to Cubase. I had to convert the files from 24-bit (ProTools) to 32-bit (Cubase). Seems odd I’d have to “upgrade” my audio files to go from an insanely expensive and industry standard system

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Why ProTools Sucks #5 – Tab button doesn’t work in OS file dialogs

In the Mac operating system, hitting the tab key while in an open or save dialog box tabs you through to the filename and highlights it. So say you want to save a new file, you hit save as and

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Why ProTools Sucks #4 – It thinks it owns every drive, and marks its territory like a cat pissing on your carpet

If you have ProTools running (I’m on the Mac OS by the way), hooking up any kind of drive results in a pain in the ass. Let’s say you’re working in a ProTools project and your daughter comes in and

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Day 1 – big technimetal double album

It was a loooong day, 12 hours or so. We were going to start the downbeat at noon, but didn’t really get started till quite a while later. There were still tweaks to do on the levels as expected, but

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