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Brian B2
August 9, 2006 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Wanted: Better mics and recording tips

This is what I would suggest to you.

Your SM57’s are great for guitar cabinets.
Your SM58 is great for Vocal. (givin that you have feedback worries)
If not then look at a large condensor mic. For cheap I had good luck with the Shure KSM27 ($300) that works great for Acoustic Guitar or Vocal. I’ve used it in live setting on Acoustic Guitar and had great success. Also used it in the VO booth with great success.

As far as a mixer I’d stay away from Mackie (personally I’m not a fan) look into Yamaha’s mixer’s or Allen & Heath those two are pretty good cheapies!

Adressing your “Hiss” Problems coming from the SM57’s. Well first guess would be your gain staging. Try bringing your Channel Fader up to Zero then tweaking your Gain (at the top of the channel strip) until you are getting a good level on your VU’s and, most importantly, it sounds good not muddy and not distorting. Of coarse this is with your master fader set to Zero.

I’d stay away from the Lav’s for the singer or guitar. Those two sources would put out too much SPL for a little Lav. Keep using your Lav’s for Interviews.

Hope this helps you out and isn’t too late. The way I look at it is Any knowledge is never to late.

Brian B–
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Brian B2
June 26, 2006 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Dumb question from a video editor

This is probably a little late but.
I have had luck using Bomb Factories “Clip Removal” plug-in within Protools. its a free plug-in on digidesigns website if you have Protools LE.

I used it on a couple of scenes that had really bad clip’d audio and it took care of some and masked some other’s. I had to do alot of tweaking to get to that point, but it fixed a majority of it.

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Brian B2
June 23, 2006 at 9:53 pm in reply to: Encore Dynamic Link to After Effects?

Perfect thank you for your explanation.
Now I can have some fun with this!

Brian B
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Brian B2
June 23, 2006 at 5:53 am in reply to: Encore Dynamic Link to After Effects?

Thanks for you help I believe it answers my question.

Except for the video clip (mpeg2) that encore created with its own templete.

By your explanation there is no way of exporting it to AE?
Does the Encore Dynamic Link not support Mpeg2 format just .psd?

Thanks

Brian B
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