[Ty Ford]

Perhaps it was divine grace, but I shot a set of music with an XL2 and double recorded a board feed. I was dumb that night and forgot to switch the 744T to 48 kHz. When I imported the audio in to FCP and did sample rate conversion, the 744t sound locked right up with the Xl2 sound.

Go figure.

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[Ty Ford]

John offers some very good advice. Also watch out for brighter monitors. For some reason, we have an inclination to think brighter is better too. This is frequently not the case.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Philip and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

You present a provocative question. Every test of monitors I’ve done has been with sources I know; a handful of CDs that I have listened to a lot and know very well.

Yes, once you have put the money down for something, you are involved. That doesn’t invalidate the choice necessarily. A lot still depends on your experience. For example, I have seen people rave about a mic or piece of gear they have bought. I have been reviewing gear professionally for over 20 years for trade magazines. I may know that the piece they are talking about is OK, but not as good as another. Usually, when I ask them if they have heard the better gear they haven’t, so they don’t have the experience to make the comparison. Regardless, the Internet provides them the ability to make their opinions known in a text block right next to mine.

Because I do this professionally, I have to be VERY careful and VERY up front about what I say about a piece of gear. When I see, “Ty Ford LOVES these (whatever)”, and I never said I “Loved” them, I have to correct that. Companies want me to write glowing things about their gear, but they get upset if I write with enthusiasm about their competition’s gear.

The boards are also populated by marketing and counter-marketing types who are on the web to sway opinions.

So, yeah, you’re at a disadvantage. My suggestion is to not put a lot of weight on what anyone says in a forum unless you know their credentials, and then still don’t use them as your main criteria. The AES has trade shows once a year. The next one will be in NY in October 2009. Most of the better monitor makers have separate rooms in which you can hear their speakers. Go. Bring CDs you know. Listen. Compare.

Some retailers have listening rooms. You want to be a little careful about them. Some are great, others just want to sell you the popular monitor with the biggest margin for profit. Having a solid relationship with someone at the shops is VERY important. If you have that and are serious and up front with them, they may let you try a pair and make changes as long as you’re not just trying to jerk them around.

Hope this helps.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Brian and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I thought the same as you, that TC could not be reliably recorded as an MP3. Iw as directed by Brian Pratt at Roy Cox productions to do just that on a shoot earlier this year. He said it works. I gave him split stereo MP3 files, audio on one track, lower level TC on the other. He said thanks.

Never heard a word about any problems.

Regards,

Ty Ford

PS: Try it and see.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Nayeli and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Every time someone explains it to me, it sticks for about 23 minutes and then slides right off. If someone doesn’t pop in here with the answer, I suggest you try a usenet newsgroup called rec.arts.movies.production.sound. Here’s an easy way to get there.

https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.production.sound/topics

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Jim,

Please look again.

They are all portable, run on batteries and are designed for location recording.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Jim and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Check this out.

https://www.sounddevices.com/products/

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Ouch, you’ve done that without cracking the boom?

Not with my carbon fiber pole ya don’t. 🙂

Go to a fishing store and get a rod mounting bracket.

I use a light stand with sand bags or I hang my mixer on the stand to keep it from tipping.

https://idisk.mac.com/tyreeford-Public/Video/Ty's%20Boom.mov

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Joshua. Welcome to the Cow Audio Forum. The doctor is in. 🙂

A lot depends on how badly the pooch is…well you know.

Sometimes the pod bay doors simply will NOT close.

I’ll be happy to talk to you about it via SKYPE: tyford

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Ty Ford
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[Ty Ford]

Hello Nat and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Pro Tools records .wav, .aiff and one or two other files. A production’s files are normally in one session folder on the drive. One those folders is the Audio Folder. If you have named the inputs, e.g. Trees, Wind, Bob, Water, the files should be named that way. Trees_01, Trees_02.

If you didn’t name them, they will be called Audio 1, Audio 2, Audio 3, etc.

Don’t know where they are, but if you find the session folder, the Audio folder should be in there.

Worst possible case, you may have to go back and open the original session with Pro Tools and export the files as aiff or wav depending on what the Avid wants. That’s pretty easy. When you pop out the right side of the edit window, there’s a list of files. Look for the little >> symbol at the lower right of the edit window and click on it to pop the window out. If you click on on of the files in that list, the file you clicked on will be selected on the timeline if it is being used in the timeline.

If you select all of the files you want and click on the little arrow at the top of the pop-out window, a drop down menu will offer, an “export files” choice. You can choose file format, sample rate, bit depth, and destination.

You can’t open the session without Pro Tools,

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Ty Ford

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