http://www.prosoundblog.com Rants of a professional drummer and recording engineer. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:19:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reason #7 ProTools sucks? Plug-ins cost more. Say you find a plug for VST or other systems which runs around $200. The same exact TDM plug for ProDrools would cost about $500. http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/06/21/why-protools-sucks-6-protools-plug-ins-cost-more/ I'm in Palm Springs in the press room covering a golf tournament. Next door the Charley Daniels band is doing their sound check. Kick drum, kick drum, fiddle, fiddle, bass, keys, and then it happened... The guitar player started playing. The tone was perfect. The notes were ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/06/06/charlie-daniels-guitar-player-is-cool/ 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 days. The stress level was high because ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/30/drum-tracks-for-5-days/ 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 costing thousands of bucks, in order to work ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/30/why-protools-sucks-6-cost-per-bit/ 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 then a save dialog pops up. If you ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/25/why-protools-sucks-5-tab-button-doesnt-work-in-os-file-dialogs/ 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 needs you to print something off of some flash drive or ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/25/why-protools-sucks-4-it-thinks-it-owns-every-drive-and-marks-its-territory-like-a-cat-pissing-on-your-carpet/ 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 the drummer wasn't tuned. He was going ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/25/day-1-big-technimetal-double-album/ Tonight I just completed the setup for the big double album technical rock band 1.5 month project. Now I know it is likely that some of these band members I'm working with will be reading my journals here, so be warned not to take any of it too deeply. ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/23/drummer-needs-a-vacuum/ Here's a blog post about a cool waterproof case made by OtterBox. These are great for storing professional audio or video or small high tech items. An audio engineer could fit several microphones, digital recorders or other stuff in this case to protect them from dust or moisture. http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/22/cool-waterproof-case/ I'm engineering a big double album for a technical rock band. No doubt I'll have some rants about it which I'll post here. My schedule is going to be hectic. My first "concern" came when I consulted with the keyboard player. He didn't know what kind of "files" ... http://www.prosoundblog.com/index.php/2008/05/22/big-project-starts-tomorrow/