I recently needed to record 7 inputs
(1,2) stereo mic
(3) vocalist
(4) guitar
(5) bass
(6) piano
(7) synth
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I experimented with two techniques
(A) add 7 audio tracks and assign one input channel (from firepod) to each track
(B) add 4 audio tracks and assign one input channel pair to each track
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Method (B) produced less dasd consumption - I think I read somewhere that a mono track gets rendered as a stereo wav with both channels the same. Is that really true?-
I chose (B).
VEGAS TRACK 1 was the stereo mic
VEGAS TRACK 2 was the vocalist downmix (L) and "nothing" (R)
VEGAS TRACK 3 was Guitar (L) and Bass (R)
VEGAS TRACK 4 was Keyboard (L) and Synth(R)
4 w64 files were produced (3.61 gig each)
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Now I need to take each of those tracks and pan each one separately. I created a new project with 7 tracks, and dragged the appropriate wav file as the only event on the track, and chose whichever "channel" made the most sense.
VEGAS TRACK 1 -- stereo-mic.wav (Channels=BOTH)
VEGAS TRACK 2 -- vocalist-downmix.wav(Channels=LEFT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 3 -- guitar-bass.wav (Channels=LEFT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 4 -- guitar-bass.wav (Channels=RIGHT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 5 -- piano-synth.wav (Channels=LEFT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 6 -- piano-synth.wav (Channels=RIGHT ONLY)
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The track PAN controls do not work as I expected them to! If I pan VEGAS TRACK 6 Hard Left, Master meter shows only Left channel on - if I pan Hard Right, Master meters still show significant output on the Left Channel.
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Also, this configuration leads to a lot of glitches... Like I am taxing the cpu or the HD raid or something.
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For grins I built another project with the same track configuration I used to record, and the playback is quite a bit more relaxed sounding - no glitches whatsoever. But I can't position the synth via fader. I also don't see how to adjust the levels of Piano and Synth independently, when they are two halves of the stereo track.
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I guess I'll edit each wav (maybe in SF?) and split each stereo track into two "mono" wav files and forget about the extra gigs. There's 240 gigs in this raid 0 drive so I have plenty of space. I was just trying to reduce the data rate to dasd by recording the way I did. (7 channels of 24 bit 96 kHz sample rate)
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Was I wrong to attempt recording in this way? How do others approach this sort of thing? I don't see any way to proceed without converting each "channel" to a mono "track" and double my dasd bandwidth and consumption.
Cheers, Marc
(1,2) stereo mic
(3) vocalist
(4) guitar
(5) bass
(6) piano
(7) synth
-
I experimented with two techniques
(A) add 7 audio tracks and assign one input channel (from firepod) to each track
(B) add 4 audio tracks and assign one input channel pair to each track
-
Method (B) produced less dasd consumption - I think I read somewhere that a mono track gets rendered as a stereo wav with both channels the same. Is that really true?-
I chose (B).
VEGAS TRACK 1 was the stereo mic
VEGAS TRACK 2 was the vocalist downmix (L) and "nothing" (R)
VEGAS TRACK 3 was Guitar (L) and Bass (R)
VEGAS TRACK 4 was Keyboard (L) and Synth(R)
4 w64 files were produced (3.61 gig each)
-
Now I need to take each of those tracks and pan each one separately. I created a new project with 7 tracks, and dragged the appropriate wav file as the only event on the track, and chose whichever "channel" made the most sense.
VEGAS TRACK 1 -- stereo-mic.wav (Channels=BOTH)
VEGAS TRACK 2 -- vocalist-downmix.wav(Channels=LEFT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 3 -- guitar-bass.wav (Channels=LEFT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 4 -- guitar-bass.wav (Channels=RIGHT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 5 -- piano-synth.wav (Channels=LEFT ONLY)
VEGAS TRACK 6 -- piano-synth.wav (Channels=RIGHT ONLY)
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The track PAN controls do not work as I expected them to! If I pan VEGAS TRACK 6 Hard Left, Master meter shows only Left channel on - if I pan Hard Right, Master meters still show significant output on the Left Channel.
-
Also, this configuration leads to a lot of glitches... Like I am taxing the cpu or the HD raid or something.
-
For grins I built another project with the same track configuration I used to record, and the playback is quite a bit more relaxed sounding - no glitches whatsoever. But I can't position the synth via fader. I also don't see how to adjust the levels of Piano and Synth independently, when they are two halves of the stereo track.
-
I guess I'll edit each wav (maybe in SF?) and split each stereo track into two "mono" wav files and forget about the extra gigs. There's 240 gigs in this raid 0 drive so I have plenty of space. I was just trying to reduce the data rate to dasd by recording the way I did. (7 channels of 24 bit 96 kHz sample rate)
-
Was I wrong to attempt recording in this way? How do others approach this sort of thing? I don't see any way to proceed without converting each "channel" to a mono "track" and double my dasd bandwidth and consumption.
Cheers, Marc