Wayne Vollweiler
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Sorry for the delay on this… The Mackie boards are ok and more importantly are inexpensive. They sound fine – not great – fine (to my ears). Their circuitry is not as clean or accurate as many of the higher quality (more expensive) brands. The reason Mackie is so widely used in our industry is that they make acceptable sound at a low price. If you are looking to do better-than-average audio work, my preference would be with a company that has much cleaner electronics. If you have the opportunity, do a side-by-side comparo of similar level boards in a good acoustical environment – you will easily be able to tell the difference.
If you’re doing mostly work that will end up highly compressed on a website somewhere, it doesn’t make much of a difference what mixer you use. Compression will kill the sound anyway. If you are doing high quality work that will be seen on TV, I want to start with the best quality I can before the network adds it’s own compression before distribution.
Just my 2 cents.
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Would have been more helpful for Greg if you could have just shared some information with him. That’s what the COW is here for.
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The deck is RS422 control. The computer is RS232. You need an adaptor that will convert RS422 to RS232.
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Though the Mackies are at the lower end of the $ scale, you’d probably be happier with the sound quality of the Soundcraft. The Mackies tend to sound their price (to my ears, at least)
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Did you set the timecode to internal / regen, since I’m assuming you’re trying to do an assemble edit?
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It says very clearly that it has an AGP 4x Pro slot.
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Thanks for getting back to me, Mark. I did 2 things… First I did the Open GL compatibility test, which my card passed. Second, I changed the Open GL setting from ON with MAX texture to ON with some texture. That seems to have gotten rid of the warning.
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Make an appointment at your local dealer and get a thorough demo of the Adrenaline, preferrable hands-on if you can. It’s a solid machine and can handle all of what you are looking to do. Also, make sure all the computers you get are maxed out with ram, best video card and storage. It’ll make render times easier to deal with.
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If you have an audio mixer, make sure you don’t have the faders up for the Avid output when you go into capture. This is where you create feedback loops. You can also really damage any equipment that the feedback goes to, i.e. tape decks and speakers.
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Normally I would agree, but I believe the difference in the codecs between the 2 formats is the culprit here. I don’t think the Sony deck will process the DVCPro material over the firewire port. You might not have a choice about the additional cabeling. Also, you do gain the TBC controls on the analog input – might save you some color correcting as you go. Lastly, if this is the only piece of analog gear, hardwire it in so all they have to do is change the input in the capture settings.