Peter Groom
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I accept all your points, but dont think it will become “the way” over here. When an agency is making a National or international TV campaign and are paying the VO possibly 5 figure sums (before the decimal) after tvrs, they will have the whole creative team in on the session and will spend hours getting it right. Its not because theyre incompetent (although not all are brilliant too) but the stakes are so high. Theyll also often have a particular engineer who they want to work with, and a particular mixer, composer etc.
I think the picture sync thing is more for tv programmes. The vo will be listening for what the in vision person is saying, and reflect that in their delivery. So viewing the programme in context can be very important, as you know.
Interesting different ways of working though across the water.
Peter -
HI
Im pleased someone is still using the AMS although youre an ever decreasing number. They are still the best editor as you know, but unfortunately fell so far behind with other issues that they got well beaten up by competitors. I know its more than a psu, but if youre still in love witht e platform and were feeling a bit flush you could do worse than this one on ebayMake them an offer. Probably be the only one theyll get, and they know it.
alternatively give ams neve a call in Burnley UK. Theyll have a suitable psu, and hopefully nothing else will have been taken out too.
MIne still sits there looking retro, but no audio these days. Havent seen a green screen one in years.
Long since moved to Pro Tools myself.
Peter -
NO, thatll blow it.
The car adapter i bought had a rotary voltage selector on it which allowed selection of multiple different voltages. It also had a whole variety of different adapter shapes and styles to choose the correct one. I recall i had to look carefully at the polarity too to not get things reversed.
But it did work beautifully in the end, recording continuously for a 3 day shoot onto 3 x 32 gig SDHC cards.
Im sure this was ithttps://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=37423
Cheers
Peter -
Hi
My zooms battery compartment has been held on with gaffer tape almost since i bought it. BUT when i used it in a vehicle where I needed a long record time recently, I used a car 12v adaptor to the 12v input to power it from the cigarette lighter. (best use of a cig lighter ive ever found!)Thast way id no worries about battery cost, running out etc etc.
Bits from Maplins in the UK were about £20.
Peter -
Have a look at Levelator.
https://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator
Its an app for pc and mac that uses a pretty eficient combination of limiter, compressor and agc, but doesnt just apply globally. It seems to analyse moment by moment and results are pretty good when ive used it recently.
Cheers
Peter -
HI JCB
Thanks for your input.
Ill have a good listen and play.
Cheers
Peter -
HI
Its not that I have a question, but wanted to quiz someone who actually uses it in a studio about a lot of detail re configuration and IO options with a 192 and 888.
I went and got myself a demo instead
Cheers
Peter -
aah.
im thinking about this console, but have a specific issue i need re assurance on regarding bussing a mix minus out or pt to my isdn codec.
peter -
have a look at the c24
peter -
HI
Im not failiar with your set up or equipment at all but will respond to your line
“I’m reading about bass management at the DAW, and my understanding would be that a discreet subwoofer would receive the lower frequencies from ALL channels during the mix, in addition to the LFE.”This would be incorrect. The .1 channel is ONLY LFE ie only audio that warrants the sub bass exposure. Def not everything goes to the sub. IN Pro tools (which is all i can comment on re 5.1 mixing) there is an LFE fader and only the LFE exposed audio is routed there by the dubbing mixer. I dont know about your software but youll need to find it.
Peter