Jean-christophe Boulay
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This is going to be such a popular mic for project studios! I just tested it on Voice Over today and it sounded very sweet. The integrated pop-filter/windscreen also does a good job on its own so it’s super-easy to set up. Can’t wait to put this near a snare. Just don’t tell my Sennheiser rep!
JC Boulay
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SDI and AES are just two ways of sending the same digital audio information to the VTR. If you won’t need to record audio to or from an AES-equipped device that doesn’t support SDI, I doubt you’ll miss the functionality.
If your audio workflow involves dumping both audio and video to tape at the same time from one source, you should be quite alright without AES. If you ever need to digitize audio from AES sources (and don’t have a separate AES-equipped audio interface) or if you’ll ever need to write audio to a device which lacks SDI (pretty much any audio-only device), the AES could be important.
If you haven’t used AES before and don’t plan on big changes in workflow, I’d guess you’d be OK without it. But we all know new toys often open up new workflows, so only you can answer truly. It’s not a format that will see a rapid expansion in the next few years, I’d say.
IHTH
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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I don’t know if Toast Light will do it. When you open the main window, right above the big red “burn” button in the lower corner is where you’d usually set the destination media in Toast. Options are CD, DVD and DVD DL.
To create a disc-image, I’d personally use Toast with its “Save as Disc Image” feature. The other way I know is to go to the Utilities in Mac OS and open up Disk Utility. There’s a “New Image” button on the top bar. When you click that, you can set the parameters for your disc image, such as size (with a DVD DL preset available) and permission. I think you’d want “read/write” and not a sparseimage. Once the image is created, the OS opens it as if it were a connected device. You can put what you want in it and eject it. The .img file you created in Disk Utility should now contain what you put in the container. You can then move around the img file with all its contents. Super-useful. You can keep adding stuff until you reach your image’s maximum size. The img file can be burned in most burning software.
IHTH
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Hi Alan,
Your computer originally shipped with a drive that supports DL burning, so I’d guess your problem comes from software. You don’t state what software you’re using, but I usually use Toast and have to select DVD DL as my destination or I’ll get the same messages you get. 4.7GB is the maximum capacity of single-layer DVD’s, so either your software thinks you’ll be writing to standard DVD or your media is not really DVD-9.
It should be entirely possible to burn your complete file.
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Hi César,
Pro Tools LE is not made for surround. All the features for surround are in Pro Tools HD, where it is very easy. There are ways of doing surround in LE, but it’s a little more complicated. Here is a short article from EQ Mag on how to do it: https://www.eqmag.com/article/digidesign-pro-tools/Apr-04/2020
This would work in PTLE 7. No need to upgrade.This method makes panning a little difficult at first, but you’ll get more comfortable with practice. This is only a workaround. If you want all the very good Pro Tools surround features, you need a PTHD system.
Good luck on the thesis.
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Hi Patrick,
In my experience, there is no real downside to having your audio interface on at all times. They’re made for that. Our Digi interfaces haven’t been shut down in at least two years and are all humming along nicely.
as Ty suggested, plugging your computer’s output to a free input on your audio interface puts everything in the same place and is the universally accepted way of working with Digi gear on the Mac.
For switching between Mac audio devices, Rogue Amoeba make a great little free app called SoundSource (https://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/), which lets you switch from one device to another on the fly. It may not do what you want, though, as Mac OS sees the internal speaker and line out as one and the same device, as of Tiger. Not sure how that’s handled in Leopard or the upcoming Snow Leopard. Still, SoundSource gives super-fast access to Sound Prefs and AMS for reconfigurations.
As for the kids using the same computer, while it’s not super-kosher, it’s pretty easy to keep a handle on things with two different OS Users and file/folder permissions. Plenty of parents do that to protect their… erm… “sensitive data”.
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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I don’t know of any device that would do what you want in the direction you want. TOSLink-to-AES is more common in QA products. If anyone could get you a definitive answer for that, it would probably be a Dolby pro audio rep. It’s right up their alley, though the Dolby devices I know don’t have the consumer optical output. Chances are such a device would pretty darn pricey, too. It can’t hurt to try, as I’ve always had great experiences with Dolby pro audio reps.
You can find the closest Dolby offices here: https://www.dolby.com/about/contact_us/locations-english.html
If I had to mount such a system, it would probably imply a dedicated computer, some Dolby encoding software and two audio interfaces. Not to mention a few headaches and late nights. I haven’t done the research to confirm it would even work, though.
Good hunting, Marco!
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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There is no true advantage to “unclippable” technology, as it’s barely more than a fancy marketing name for “automatic compressor/limiter”. It auto-adjusts itself, which makes me, the guy who’d be receiving and mixing the audio, cringe. I’ve heard some ridiculously squashed material come out of that process. You’d be better off using a fixed-ceiling limiter and leave plenty of headroom on your input levels, which is really the important part. In fact, if you leave some headroom, it shouldn’t really matter what kind of limiter your device uses for the few peaks it’ll have to catch. We don’t record to tape anymore, so maximizing the input signal to combat hiss should not be a priority. I’d much rather receive lower-level audio than already-limited audio. You can boost level, but you can’t un-limit.
As for specific field recording devices, I really can’t help there.
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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Send it using a service such as https://www.webcargo.net. The client gets a link where he can stream or download the file. Works like a charm.
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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For really techy, geeky audio stuff, https://www.gearslutz.com is the place.
JC Boulay
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
http://www.audioz.com