Peter Perry
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I hadn’t either….thanks for the heads up.
Peter -
Hi,
I’m sorry if you thought my post was not helpful, and I didn’t realize that this combination was being recommended elsewhere, but I think that expecting this combo to sound as good as a wireless mic is ludicrous, depending upon what wireless we are talking about.
Mr Muir was very gracious in taking his time to explain what might be wrong and what you might try to fix it.
However, this is my take on this situation.
I realize that not everyone has money to buy everything they need, and some of us have to make do with less. But if you are in a professional situation and you BEING PAID to produce a professional product, then using this combo, even as a backup, is a travesty.
I bought my 7 year old godson a $99 video camera for Christmas last year. It produces a picture, somewhat in color, with sound on it and you can record it on tape. Would any reasonable person consider using that as a backup if their PD150 or whatever died during a shoot? Would any client consider that a professional product? Not in my experience. In my opinion, using your combo, even as a backup, amounts to the same thing. These products have no place in a professional environment.
This is just my opinion. I would love to hear what others have to say.
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Hutch,
Why don’t you tell us what you have for a budget. That would make things easier.
Peter -
Hi Jim,
I currently run a Digidesign Digi002 rack system running Protools LE on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with a 1.7 gig Pentium M proc and 512 of RAM. With a 80 gig firewire external drive, I can set up and be recording a single mic in less than 15 minutes. If you don’t bog the thing down with lots of plug-ins, it runs sweet. It has 4 mic inputs, but more line inputs, so you can run more mics through your mixer and into the unit.
total cost…….hmmmm, the 002 rack is under $1200, the laptop you could probably get now for around $1700 or less.
Be aware, though, if you go the Protools LE route, that last time I checked, PTLE doesn’t support hyper-threading or RAID.
Peter -
Well, I would say that the problem has little to do with mono/stereo, and everything to do with the fact that you are using a $20 dollar microphone, and recording it onto a device that doesn’t support .wav files, only mp3 and wma.
What did you expect to get out of this combination? I’m surprised you got it to work at all.
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Not that I am aware of. The Dorrough meters combine the two types in a proprietary way. Most others are either/or.
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Bob,
Here are a couple of articles which explain the differences between VU and peak meters. One is from the Dorrough website, and it also explains Dorrough’s philosophy of metering.https://www.transom.org/tools/basics/200207.analogbasics.html
https://www.dorrough.com/About_Us/Dorrough_Vision/dorrough_vision.htmlOr, just do a Google search for “peak vs VU meters”, and all kinds of articles come up. If you still need more help after that, post back, we’ll try and clear things up for you.
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Hi Bob,
I am assuming that when you say analog meters, you mean VU meters; and when you say digital meters, that you mean peak meters. I hope that those are correct assumptions.[Bob Cole] ” I recently have noticed some odd audio in a couple of DVD’s I’ve encoded, and I had to redo the audio at a lower level even though my analog meters said it was fine.”
That may be because VU meters do not show you real peak info, which is what you need. Peak meters do. The Radio Design Lab meters give you the choice of metering in either VU mode or in peak mode at the flip of a switch. The Mackie meters do not.
[Bob Cole] “If you had to pick one, digital or analog, which would you choose, keeping in mind that you are in both an analog and digital world?”
This meter relieves you of having to make that choice, because it can do both. So given your two concerns, this meter is “better” than the one on your Mackie. If by “better”, you mean “more accurate”, I don’t know.
Peter -
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
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https://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Articles/Equalization/
This will give you a basic overview of eq.
You could also look for books written by Jay Rose…smart guy, fun to read.
Peter