Dude, Im dutch, besides the beer you can bet Im smoking on every post I make. My english grammar etc has it's limits, I know I can be confusing, not my pain though. In some ways you are correct, I lack the professional audio education and anything that goes to do with the entertainment industry in general. I never cared about recordings, anyone at my homesetup that want to records can buy and bring his own damn mic. Im techno, autodidact, electronicly biased and interested in anything vintage, with that in mind, most schools couldn't learn me anything nor provide a worthy diplome, let alone get an engineering job around with it. I certainly dont see myself wasting my time being a recording engineer when I rather produce. Second, I rock my own gear and dont work in a studio, cant you just give reference of what you use at home. Lets pimp out later or in the " what's your setup ? " thread or it means we need a thread for Fullsail/SAE to exchange experience. But this is not FP FGS!
'nuff 'bout me.
Cliché... If I consider that your house and those of most other members do not contain acousticly correct control rooms + studio or boot, than I can assume that the general concensus on the board have no practical use when taking 2" 24 track recorders, Neve or SSL, high quality pre amps THE mics, converters or PT HD for example. I know you learned that from school, so you should know how to use it, but really... Its a bit out of place, you'll end up convincing people their efforts are to waste because most cats wont ever buy half mentioned here for what gear concerns. They still want to be succesfull though, in their perspectives they need to gain that whatever is lacking to exploit their potentials. Dont get me wrong though, looking into a vintage 4056 but nothing on that console could serve of info here, unless somebody else here owns one.
I'd like the tips thoug, but I cant see everybody now calibrating their tapemachines, I do see em overclocking their pc's.
'bout the 48K, you know, my ears are already completly screwed but so far it sound real nice through the genelecs. Customers think so too, besides we're not into dvd authoring yet so in most cases we master to 16bit/44kHz. Also downsampling from 96K to 44 isn't always in favor of my ears pleasure, especialy on the high frequencies. It does depends though on wether you're talking software conversion or the hardware converters. Second, as mentioned before, it really depends for what occasion you're dealing with. Electronica comes out good in many different setups, Acoustics demand more intensive approach to the engineering part, this being advanced by modern technology trying to emulate the better vintage algorythms for a few good reasons. Compact controllable interfacing in order to be more efficient ( timewise ) and a reproduction of sound that is up to spec with the industry. I'd rather have a modular vintage studio hehe.
