[Ty Ford]

Hello Patrick and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Do you want to monitor the 003 output and the computer at the same time?

If switching from one to the other is OK, leave the 003 on and run the system audio into the 003 alternate input. You can switch by the front panel button. I do it all the time.

You may need to put an in-line transformer box in the computer audio lines to stop hum.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Sally and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

My experiences vary from those of Thax.

I have had everything from, “works fine even with a sample rate convert” to “no way this will work.”

The conventional wisdom dictates that an audio recorder with SMPTE time code be slaved to the camera’s timecode output.

My successful experiences have not always required time code. The best advice I can offer is to try the specific gear you intend to use, using 48 kHz as the audio sample rate on the recorder and see what happens. It sometimes takes minutes for sync to creep; sometimes sync will only be off a few frames after an hour. Please do let us know what you find.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Dave,

We would have saved a lot of words had you mentioned that.

In that situation, the quality of your mixer is irrelevant.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Megha and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

You don’t tell us much about your band, but the louder the music, the more difficult the ability to record it well with a built in mic. Most of these mics are not engineered to withstand loud sounds. When they do, they distort and can’t be turned down far enough not to distort.

Recording bands properly is trickier than most people imagine. Even good mics mounted on a camera don’t do the job very well, especially if the band has singers. The sound of a singer’s voice through a PA system is very inferior to the sound of the same voice recorded directly from the board. The person mixing the live event is blending certain sounds from the mix with the sounds from amps and instruments on stage to get the total sound.

To get good live music event recordings, you need each source on a separate track and mics to record the room (or space) as well, in order to recreate the live event properly during a mixdown later.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Don and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I suspect that there is something going on either in the output configuration of your video editing program or the burn to DVD or in the specific audio output configuration of your DVD player>audio amp.

To eliminate the second of these, try playing the DVD in someone else’s system.

If the problem persists, there may be something switched a certain way in you mix outputs. Did you combine the stereo to mono?

The track has a lot of stereo information. Sometimes combining stereo to mono causes some pretty dramatic cancellation side-effects. In the old days, there was a keyboard, the Yamaha DX7. It had some lovely stereo patches that became inaudible when the tracks were mixed to mono!

Hope this helps,

Regards,

TyFord

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[Ty Ford]

Hola Cesar and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

I have an 002R and an 003R. The main outputs, as you have probably found are only stereo. The difficulty with using an 002, 002R, 003 or 003R is that you must use the individual track outputs to make the surround.

Perhaps not impossible, but inelegant.

For specific tips and tricks, try the Digidesign Users Conference on the Digi site.

Your english, btw, is above average even for people in the US, and incredibly better than my spanish.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Dave,

They are probably sending you line level. The 442 has more gozintas and gozoutas that can be very helpful.

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[Ty Ford]

Dave,

OK. It’s the MixPre, BTW and it’s circuitry is a lot better than the ENG-44.

I have had a MixPre here and they sent me an ENG-44 which I also reviewed, which is why I made the comments.

If you don’t need 4 inputs, the MixPre is a much better piece of gear than the ENG-44.

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

JC,

What I meant to say was that the Sound Devices 442 has saved my butt in several situations (train whistles and live ammo fire) by keeping clipping from happening. It is exceptional in that regard, but it is not a “set and forget” mixer.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Dave and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Unclippable, well, yes, but at some point you won’t much like the sound of the unclipped audio.

If you want 4 inputs step up to the Sound Devices 442. It’s a few exponents ahead of the ENG-44.

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Ty Ford

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