[Ty Ford]

Hello Nick and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I have never used an H4N, so I don’t have a clue as to how good or bad it’s preamps are, but it sounds like you have it sussed out. If your mixer is a good one, like most Sound Devices mixers, use their preamps and go line level into the h4n, if you can.

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Ty Ford
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[Ty Ford]

” And as far as getting to know you on a more personal level: it’s been my privilege. ”

Dude,

You do NOT know what you’re setting into play.

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Ty Ford

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If you’re in Washington DC, around the capitol and other government buildings, there is a requirement to register and have a card that says you can use a tripod. The reason given (last time I heard one) was that someone might trip over the tripod and hurt themselves.

I always wondered what would happen if you tried a mono pod………..

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Thanks Malcolm,

It was the editor who sent me the contract. When I called one of the sub editors to say, “Looks like we won’t be working together any more.”, he said the main editor had “passed my email around.”

Thanks for your support.

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Ty Ford

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And now, I have a Dropbox link to voice, acoustic guitar and electric guitar/amp samples.

https://tyfordaudiovideo.blogspot.com/2014/04/schoeps-v4-not-what-youd-expect-from.html

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Jeremy and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

You’re right, you don’t hear a lot of panning in small films.

It’s easier to pan mono tracks than stereo tracks, but you can pan stereo, just do them together or move one side from full pan to middle and the sound should shift past center to the side the extreme pan is on.

Entering of leaving frame pans are not that typical, but I do hear them fairly regularly.

Just make sure to check your pans by listening in mono to make sure they still sound OK there.

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[Ty Ford]

Thanks for the thoughts, guys.

About them: These particular folks have a fairly long history of disrespecting writers.

About me: I am a writer who seldom uses the passive. It does put me in people’s faces more, but it’s not vitriol, it’s point of fact. That does unnerve some people. I don’t care when it comes to this sort of communication.

Have you ever been in negotiations between unions and management? I have, and this is not far from that. In some cases those negotiations are a lot harder at times.

BTW, I never got angry or lost my temper with any of this, but, yes, I did use the language forcefully. Text is very interesting. Different people people take away different emotional twists. Maybe you guys are in California. I have had some really interesting talks with people from CA about coastal communications differences. It’s pretty fascinating. You just don’t push very hard.

Back here in Maryland I posted my letter to a forum and got, “Good for you, especially the way you showed your knowledge of what’s going on inside their heads.” comments.

If I was from NY or NJ my message would have been even more amped up.

Regards, thanks so much for your input and have a great weekend.

Ty Ford
Cow Audio Forum Leader

PS: I don’t care if they don’t hire me again…..ever. I’m at a point where I just don’t work with jerks.

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Here was my last reply to the editor.

Dear X,

Again, I disassociate you from “the deal.” I’ve been writing in a mutually beneficial way for “the company” for TWENTY SEVEN YEARS. These are troubled times for publishing, but for publishers to take out their frustrations on those who write for them after realizing that they have lost control of the market is simply misguided and bad business. The fact is, they have never truly been in control of the market, however without this illusion, fear and desperation drive them to control SOMETHING ELSE to feel right about themselves. For them, the easiest way to achieve this is to attempt to subjugate others; the writers.

I encountered my first bully when I was in 5th grade and it took me a year to shake him. I did. Since then I have had Zero Tolerance for bullies. No publisher will bully me into allowing them to steal from me what is rightfully mine and at the same time also plunder my archive, even if the impetus is their collective mid-career crisis.

I don’t mean this lightly. I know the emotional roller-coaster that your publishers are on right now is very real to them. Things will shake out and clearer minds will prevail. There will likely be a generational shift as the hands of those who have been at the helm for years, but have lost their way are ripped away and replaced by younger, (and hopefully) clearer minds. Within every crisis there are abundant opportunities.

Here is such an opportunity.

I will sell my choice of parts of my archive as a part of an agreement. For a total, perpetual buyout of each article that will always include my name and current URL in a point size and visibility equal to that of the article itself, in clickable form if it’s in e-form, the buyout fee will be $250/article.

Because of these new conditions, my new buy-out rate for an 800-1200 word article will be $700-$750 with an additional $100 for any custom photography, with the guarantee that each publishing in whatever form will always include my name and current URL in a point size and visibility equal to that of the article itself, in clickable form if it’s in e-form.

If after having been commissioned to write an article, the publisher decides for whatever reason not to publish the article, I will receive a kill fee of $350 and I will retain all rights to said article.

May God protect you and yours from all bullies.

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Walter,

Who do I talk to about penning for the Cow?

Tim Wilson?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Joel and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

If Sony Vegas 12 won’t import them like regular wav files, SHAME ON SONY! 🙂 It’s not like this is new technology.

I believe you can use WAVE AGENT to split them into individual files.

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

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