[Ty Ford]

Once you’re at 16, going to 32, 64 or whatever doesn’t do a lot of good.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello 33 and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

16-bit, 48 kHz was what DATs were and a lot of movies were made with double record DATs.

Can you do better, sure A Sound Devices 702T or 744T.

An experienced person with 16-bit 48 kHz will probably get better sound than an unexperienced person with 24-bit, 96 kHz.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Again Steve,

De-balancing three wire audio to two wire audio is fairly simple.

With digital audio you also need to pay attention to impedance and voltage.

Many companies make these “baluns” converters. Googling found me this one.

https://www.computercablestore.com/AESEBU_Digital_Audio_Balu_PID7397.aspx

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Kazden,

Digidesign like to “get it right”, so as we speak there are people in in Alpha testing who have been working on this since before 10.5 was released to the general public.

As a digi user it’s good to keep in touch with the “mothership” by going to the site.

The Digidesign Users Conference (DUC) has been talking about this issue for several weeks.

http://www.digidesign.com.

You’ll be fine.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Kazden and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Your new Mac Pro; is it running OS X 10.5?

There is no version of Pro Tools compatible with OS X 10.5 yet.

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[Ty Ford]

The rear panel shows two BNC in (for four inputs) ann two BNC out (for four outputs)

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Joe and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Choosing audio monitors for TV mixing begs at least one question. Are we talking home theater or a five inch speaker (or smaller) mounted in the TV cabinet itself? Mixing for both requires some tricks to get the low end to sound right.

Take your rockets home and see how they sound plugged into your TV. Same? Different?

What’s the TV/Cable station doing to your audio before it gets to your set? (hint: a lot)

Placement of the monitors is key. If they aren’t in the right place, you’ll hear too much or too little bass, midrange or highs. The KRK rockit 5 have EQ switches on the back to compensate for room problems, but they can CAUSE problems if they are set to the wrong position.

So, even if you had the “go to” monitors, if you had ’em in the wrong place in the room or had them tweeked wrong, you’d still be unhappy.

The KRK data is confusing. On the main page, they are described as having 75 watt amps. On the pdf, it’s only 15/30 amps. I guess they hope you’ll never read the fine print.

And….at the moment, I can’t think of ANY audio monitor with a 5 inch woofer that really delivers any low end. The rockit 5 data says it goes down to 55 Hz, but how many dB down is it at 55Hz? Bottom line, you may really need a subwoofer to hear what’s going on down in the basement, if you know what I mean.

A reference monitor without calibration is just another speaker that’s not telling you the truth. I helped a studio during a transition form older JBL to a big Genelec system some years back. They had the Genelec installed in the same room and the two systems sounded absolutely NOTHING alike!

The engineer/producer called me. He was very worried. They had just spent a lot of money on the new Genelec system and he was unable correlate any of his mixes when listening back and forth on the two monitor systems.

About an hour of placement and electronic adjustment and I got him in the ball park. While what he heard from each system was different, and to be expected, it was close enough for him to make sense of everything.

Maybe you could more completely describe your problem, but I’m guessing it has to do with not having a subwoofer and having the KRK adjustments in a weird position and/or not having them mounted in the best spot.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello John and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

HVAC problems normally boil down to compressor/heat pump, fan and duct noise.

If the air handler, heating and cooling stack is in the next room, you better have good construction so you don’t hear it through the wall, or up over the wall though the ceiling.

Duct noise is about the size of the supply and return ducts, whether they are lined, and whether or not noise blocking panels (diffusors) are built in to the duct to reduce the noise in one room from being conducted up through a vent, down a duct and to another space.

Air noise itself is also an issue. The smaller the ducts, the louder the sound of air running through them.

Good HVAC design for “quiet” areas requires attention to all of these areas. Licensed HVAC installers may not have experience in designing or installing a “quiet” system correctly. For the best results (and boy are they worth it) you may need some extra help in designing and installing. I mention both, because I know of correctly designed system that were improperly installed. The result? Noise.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Christian and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum

Over the ear headphones may still be open back. (vents in the back of the headphones that let sound in).

Closed back headphones like the Sony MDR 7506 or Audio Technica ATH-M50 provide more isolation.

In-ear phones like the etymotic also improve isolation.

Which headphones do you have?

Point #2: Are you recording audio to camera with the on-camera mic?
I don’t know anyone who has had a lot of success with trying that in a live venue. You do get the music, but it doesn’t sound good because you’re mostly recording PA sound and when you move so does the sound field.

Even without PA, you’ve got problems if you’re not using mics and a mixer feeding a camera.

Check out my YouTube link below. One mic on me, one on the guitar, to a mixer to the camera (and in this case) firewire to an apple laptop.

What are you recording?

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Jason,

from sources inside Digidesign..

>>>With a full price ($199) TDM software upgrade to 7.4 they will get a full iLok authorization. They will not get the HDpack, nor the Ignition Pack etc