Hi, I've been recording for a short while now. I generally don't use many effects, and when I do, I just use software plugins through Samplitude or whatever.

Greetings,

This unit was mentioned as a decent buy for 16 inputs, so I went to take a look at it to add it to my list of things to watch. I found...
http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/prod_ad16.html

"The balanced analog inputs are configured in two groups of eight channels on 25-pin D connectors."

Just received the CRane Song analog dither CD. Per their instructions, I mixed it into a tune I'm mastering (recorded/mixed on Pro Tools LE at 16/44.1 I think - took the CD-R & D/A'd it out of my Tascam CD-RW2000 (24 bit), ran it across my tube A/D at 24/88.2 & into the DAW - which was a huge improvement in itself).

The recent Dolby tone question brought up something. How many here can and have fully aligned a 24 or 16 track machine before their sessions, Dolby 361, SR, dbx ? Yea I know it’s not that big a deal for old guys like me. :(

I'd like to know you opinions on this subject. I am about to make some rock records on tape, and i have to make the decision on what speed to track. Tape costs are prohibitive here in Argentina, so 15 ips is a lot more affordable to us. I made some comparisons, and I didn't seem to hear any improvement on the bass response on 15, as i expected.

I am considering purchasing an analog reel-reel 8 track recorder and using it along with my DAW which consists of a Gadget Labs 824 soundcard and N-track. I would like to record bass and drums on the reel-reel and the rest on the DAW, can these two machines be accurately synced together? How does one go about doing this?

Hi Greg and everyone

I love my procontrol. I absolutely hate it's analog monitoring section. It's embarrassing.

Do you know of anyone in London who might be able to improve it for me.

Hi Jules and everyone.
I am posting this where it really belongs over on Greg's forum aswell, but it's not just a pro tools related question so...

I love my procontrol. I absolutely hate it's analog monitoring section. It's embarrassing.

Do you know of anyone in London who might be able to improve it for me.

From what i can gather in your previous posts. you have made the transition from analog to
DAW?

Analog compression before digital? I do it, because I am not totally knocked out with plugin compression so far. and I am pretty much doing what I used to do while recording to 2" tape..

I dont do it for "tape sound" (*see below)

Or to serve max level to my converters (*see below)

I do it to compress!

What do you DAW guys do?