I dont want to be insulting to anyone
Please read that again
It never really occured to me before, but now its
biting me in the ass: what are the kind of recording
industry experiences possesed by sonic foundry staff?
Go back to the top and read it again...I dont mean to be a
jerk.
Im just finally realizing, mostly from the posts about
panning, and the 6db gain it causes, that maybe people dont
really know some of the general guidlines about dealing
with an audio signal, so I am gonna spell one out, that has
ALWAYS served me well
*** *** *** *** THE PRIME DIRECTIVE *** *** *** ***
DO NOT alter, modify, molest, change or effect in any way
shape or form, ANY audio signal, unless absolutely necessary
IF audio is altered, BE AWARE OF IT
obviously, audio is altered desirably all the time,
compressors, eq, fx whatever, but that represents a
CONSCIOUS choice
With Vegas, I dont always know if my audio has been
altered...
You may not think its a big deal to turn a signal down by 6
dB after you pan it ( NEVER MIND the fact that you had to
pan it to get it out disctretely in the first
place!!!!!!!!!!!!) But I get very uncomfortable, when my
customers who DO know better, see me messing with faders
and such...when there is NO reason for it...they get
nervous, I get nervous, my wallet gets thin, I dont eat
An internal patch bay would be nice...some kinda assignable
something, because under rule number one, there is an
important sub-rule:
!!! extra gain stages are to be AVOIDED like the plague !!!
many inexperienced engineers will run their mic preamp thru
a channel of their mackie, then assign it to a bus, mess
with the channel fader, then mess with the bus fader then
bus it into their ADAT
This is BAD BAD BAD
now assuming each gain stage on that mackie had only one op-
amp( which in actuality usually has two or three) you have
just added noise, non-linearity, crossover distortion,
headroom reduction, and generation loss from THREE probably
class A/B Integrated circuit chips...NOT GOOD
get a patch bay and use the direct out
How does this apply to vegas? Well, it is disturbing to see
the number of faders, buttons, gain stages and such needed
to output a signal thru a discrete output...
Now I KNOW if you dont mess with the faders, OOPS WRONG cuz
they default to -3dB...ok if set the faders to zero, in a
digital app like vegas, nothing should be changed....its
the "should" that disturbs me
Please read that again
It never really occured to me before, but now its
biting me in the ass: what are the kind of recording
industry experiences possesed by sonic foundry staff?
Go back to the top and read it again...I dont mean to be a
jerk.
Im just finally realizing, mostly from the posts about
panning, and the 6db gain it causes, that maybe people dont
really know some of the general guidlines about dealing
with an audio signal, so I am gonna spell one out, that has
ALWAYS served me well
*** *** *** *** THE PRIME DIRECTIVE *** *** *** ***
DO NOT alter, modify, molest, change or effect in any way
shape or form, ANY audio signal, unless absolutely necessary
IF audio is altered, BE AWARE OF IT
obviously, audio is altered desirably all the time,
compressors, eq, fx whatever, but that represents a
CONSCIOUS choice
With Vegas, I dont always know if my audio has been
altered...
You may not think its a big deal to turn a signal down by 6
dB after you pan it ( NEVER MIND the fact that you had to
pan it to get it out disctretely in the first
place!!!!!!!!!!!!) But I get very uncomfortable, when my
customers who DO know better, see me messing with faders
and such...when there is NO reason for it...they get
nervous, I get nervous, my wallet gets thin, I dont eat
An internal patch bay would be nice...some kinda assignable
something, because under rule number one, there is an
important sub-rule:
!!! extra gain stages are to be AVOIDED like the plague !!!
many inexperienced engineers will run their mic preamp thru
a channel of their mackie, then assign it to a bus, mess
with the channel fader, then mess with the bus fader then
bus it into their ADAT
This is BAD BAD BAD
now assuming each gain stage on that mackie had only one op-
amp( which in actuality usually has two or three) you have
just added noise, non-linearity, crossover distortion,
headroom reduction, and generation loss from THREE probably
class A/B Integrated circuit chips...NOT GOOD
get a patch bay and use the direct out
How does this apply to vegas? Well, it is disturbing to see
the number of faders, buttons, gain stages and such needed
to output a signal thru a discrete output...
Now I KNOW if you dont mess with the faders, OOPS WRONG cuz
they default to -3dB...ok if set the faders to zero, in a
digital app like vegas, nothing should be changed....its
the "should" that disturbs me