Robert S.
Super Moderator
First let me say that Protools rocks. I still have way too much to learn but I have it up and running. Tracking is no problem and I have my keyboard midi controlling the sampler, synths and the rest of the cool stuff in Reason Adapted. I still have quite a bit to learn about sequencing and looping but it's coming.
Editing is a completely different thing and I haven't gotten into that too much yet and I'm just starting to get a grasp on animation. The first time I saw a fader move on it's own I was hooked. Way too cool for school!
I attempted to do some recording with my bass player and a new drummer who has a set of V-Drums. It'll take awhile to get it all worked out but the V-Drums should help my primitave set-up alot. I brought the drums in on 4 channels with seperate kick and snare and a stereo mix on the rest of the kit, and then brought in the guitar in stereo through my Pod and the bass in direct through my tube mic pre.
We were able to record live and monitor through my receiver/amp and the room speakers at a level that we could sing over live in the room with no mics. We played at a deceint level, got acceptable tone for a first run and after 3.5 hours of playing, no ringing ears!
I think the next step is to wire up my monitor section and run the ProTools through my Mackie mixer and insert a pair of vocal mics in post so we get a better "live" mix in the room and then lay the vocals down seperately. I got around the latency issue by adding a little reverb and some other effects to the mix post so that we can track in low latency mode and not have to tolerate a dry mix. It's cheaper than a HD system for now.
As an experiment I recorded an acoustic track, a bass line, some drums off of my DR-770 (need to learn sequencing) and then added some cello and a synth voices off of my Yamaha S80. It's probably too mellow except for the EMO crowd, but the tone is lush to say the least.
I have alot to learn yet, but the sound quality I'm getting blows away anything I used to be able to get prior to getting ProTools. hopefully it'll speed up the process of getting a finished product out as well. Alot of that depends on how quick this new drummer polishes up, but things are looking very promising.
Saw the PRS I sold for the PT stuff the other day and I didn't flinch. I definately made the right decision with that sale.
Editing is a completely different thing and I haven't gotten into that too much yet and I'm just starting to get a grasp on animation. The first time I saw a fader move on it's own I was hooked. Way too cool for school!
I attempted to do some recording with my bass player and a new drummer who has a set of V-Drums. It'll take awhile to get it all worked out but the V-Drums should help my primitave set-up alot. I brought the drums in on 4 channels with seperate kick and snare and a stereo mix on the rest of the kit, and then brought in the guitar in stereo through my Pod and the bass in direct through my tube mic pre.
We were able to record live and monitor through my receiver/amp and the room speakers at a level that we could sing over live in the room with no mics. We played at a deceint level, got acceptable tone for a first run and after 3.5 hours of playing, no ringing ears!
I think the next step is to wire up my monitor section and run the ProTools through my Mackie mixer and insert a pair of vocal mics in post so we get a better "live" mix in the room and then lay the vocals down seperately. I got around the latency issue by adding a little reverb and some other effects to the mix post so that we can track in low latency mode and not have to tolerate a dry mix. It's cheaper than a HD system for now.
As an experiment I recorded an acoustic track, a bass line, some drums off of my DR-770 (need to learn sequencing) and then added some cello and a synth voices off of my Yamaha S80. It's probably too mellow except for the EMO crowd, but the tone is lush to say the least.
I have alot to learn yet, but the sound quality I'm getting blows away anything I used to be able to get prior to getting ProTools. hopefully it'll speed up the process of getting a finished product out as well. Alot of that depends on how quick this new drummer polishes up, but things are looking very promising.
Saw the PRS I sold for the PT stuff the other day and I didn't flinch. I definately made the right decision with that sale.
