I work at Nike and they feel like if you aren't using Pro Tools, you aren't being a professional. Every time I have to edit a podcast of record some voice over I spend the first hour or so frustrated and yelling "Why is something so simple so hard to do?!" It feels like I'm using Excel to work in audio. I've been so tempted to sneak Reaper onto he studio machines and just use it anyway, but they kinda don't have much of a sense of humor when it comes to drawing outside the lines.benadrian wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:38 am I'm in the middle of the DAW hellscape right now.
You see, I use Reaper at home. It's been fantastic for personal work. However, my spouse has been getting a ton of voiceover work recently and I end up being her engineer at home. As we travel, we sometimes need to do work in random studios. Almost every place has Pro Tools and when I sit down I feel like a 90 year old trying to use a smartphone. It sucks. I don't want to own and operate Pro Tools, but I feel like I need to have a general understanding of it as an audio professional.
Secondly, we do a lot of remote hookups from my home studio to various production houses around L.A. Everyone seems to be using Pro Tools. These are all production studios; TV/film/radio sound. They are not places to make music. Everything is AVID because Pro Tools and Avid editing hold hands very well. Also, they are businesses that have on site techs and just throw money at problems. Knowing all this, I realized that if I want to work more in this world I really need to take some Avid lessons or something.
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822What would be your recommendation for a budget or bang for your buck guitar with P90s?
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823Seems like you could get a big corporate place to pay for PT certification?Kniferide wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:42 pm I work at Nike and they feel like if you aren't using Pro Tools, you aren't being a professional.
Honestly I feel like the product people like is what they are used to or at the very least fits the way they would intuitively go about it. I'm sure some tasks/processes are easier in one vs the other but once you have committed the "how" to muscle memory, the way you know feels like the only right way to approach the task and the other feels alien and stupid.
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824Dawg, I got a PT cert on Version 3 in 1998! I've been at that shit for a really long time and used almost every DAW there is at least once or twice. Pro Tools, aside from Ableton, has the most confounding workflow of them all. It just has always felt like I was working against it. If you are into PT, I get it. IT works great for people who like it. For me, it has always felt like a speedbump.
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825The 2019 gibson les paul special DC, WERE pretty great, although the used prices are kind of high now. Finish was terrible, but overall guitar played fine, sounds great.Owen wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 10:09 pm What would be your recommendation for a budget or bang for your buck guitar with P90s?
https://reverb.com/p/gibson-les-paul-sp ... ZfEALw_wcB
I would probably go for one of these though. Guitar player in my band has one and it's totally fine
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826eeeehhhhyeah no I'm not a fan boy or anything - feels gross just thinking that anything I've posted may have come off that way. I just got used to it because a guy I trusted at the music store sold me an Audiomedia III card in 1997.
Since I'm working a 8-5+ job & the occasional live sound gig and trying to make some music from time to time the idea of having one more thing to slow down and re-learn (especially w/ the age and abuse I've done to myself over the years my brain feels like cement most days) seems like something I might rather throw money at just for one less headache. IDK. I'm not there yet and hope my system continues to work for at least another few years before I have to make decisions.
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827Honestly I bought Cubase a while back and it seems really foreign since I have been using PT and Abelton for so long. I don't record professionally but I drank the pro tools Kool aid a long time ago. Having one of those Digi 001's, eight tracks at a time, you felt like Jesus Christ. Honestly I "know" of some grammey nominated live sound enginners that are using version 9. My system is nine years old since the last up grade an until the converter or the computer die I won't upgrade.Garth wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:42 pmeeeehhhhyeah no I'm not a fan boy or anything - feels gross just thinking that anything I've posted may have come off that way. I just got used to it because a guy I trusted at the music store sold me an Audiomedia III card in 1997.
Since I'm working a 8-5+ job & the occasional live sound gig and trying to make some music from time to time the idea of having one more thing to slow down and re-learn (especially w/ the age and abuse I've done to myself over the years my brain feels like cement most days) seems like something I might rather throw money at just for one less headache. IDK. I'm not there yet and hope my system continues to work for at least another few years before I have to make decisions.
Honestly if a person where just starting out with a DAW then they use should Reaper. You where all talking about it on the old forum, I read the manual then. What does this program do? Oh guess what everything you want.
"There's a felling I get when I look to the west"
"When the meaningful words. When they cease to function. When there's nothing to say."
"When the meaningful words. When they cease to function. When there's nothing to say."
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828Honestly that's where I'm at. If you were starting from scratch I'd say Reaper, if not, Id say don't bother learning a new DAW at all. Stick with what you know. On a basic level, they all do the same thing.Mickey242 wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 8:56 pm Honestly if a person where just starting out with a DAW then they use should Reaper.
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829Does anyone have first-hand experience of the difference between BroadTrons and Filtertrons? I've recently got a Gretsch semi-acoustic which I'm loving, but I am finding the stock BroadTrons a bit thicker and more middly than I'd like, and I was wondering if it was worth swapping them out for actual Filtertrons or more Filterton-ish pickups? Is there enough of a difference to make it worthwhile?
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830I had to move my guitar head/cab setup in the studio today. It was silent in there so I noticed that without the power cable plugged in or (obviously) the amp turned on I could hear a little hiss from the speaker when I plugged the speaker cable in.
At first I thought I was going mad and even turned the light off to see if I was just hearing a lightbulb. I proved it to myself by plugging and unplugging the speaker cable while my ear was next to the speaker.
I understand transformers can hold electricity long after the power is off. Is that what I'm hearing? We did have band practice last night.
At first I thought I was going mad and even turned the light off to see if I was just hearing a lightbulb. I proved it to myself by plugging and unplugging the speaker cable while my ear was next to the speaker.
I understand transformers can hold electricity long after the power is off. Is that what I'm hearing? We did have band practice last night.