Max Arwood

Merry Christmas from Kentucky - oh no - moved back to the outskirts of Dallas Texas. Santa missed me because of the move, but thanks to cclarry and this forum I still had a nice Christmas!

Please read- https://current.org/2015/06/a-top-audio-engineer-explains-nprs-signature-sound/ According to this article Neumann U87 is the most used mike. RE-20 is very popular and is a great VO mike but so is a Shure SM7 or 7b. Shures are also frequently used. Heavy compression is a must but that adds noise between the syllable/sentences, You might be able to gate some of this out but you might have to do a lot by hand (or with RX) I usually use RX and volume envelopes. I also like to add a little saturation to make the voice pop out a little, especially if it is paired with a music bed. Saturation / tube distortion will give the voice a big/full sound.

It sounds like a sample rate issue. See if the Motu has a default sample rate in drivers and hardware. Hope you get this figured out.

craigb - Nice to meet another cowbell expert here. I love your board - it looks a little like mine. OK, well now I see the approximate volume levels, but what about EQ. What mikes and preamp do you use? Do you use any VST3 cowbell or do you use all analogue (free range?)? Oh yes how many cowbell buses will I need? Did you do any side cowbell compression. I really could use some help with parallel cowbell compression. Do you do it on the tracks or is it better on a bus? Do you tune your cowbells with Melodyne or do you think Autotune does a better job? What is your favorite reverb for cowbell? Do I need to record them @24k or 96k So many questions to ask a another cowbell connoisseur!! Thanks for any technical help you could give me.

Thanks I just called waves for the update. Hope it works. Edit - The waves update worked for me too. Thanks again for letting us know it was available!!

I usually teach about 5 lines then the clefs and then the time signatures lol. Just kidding. I hope to be teaching 5+. I am a retired band and choral music director. I will probably start the cowbell classes first. Don’t see much of that around lol!! mad max and thunder cow bell.

Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to post this.

Wow very nice video. Sounds like you got your scales down really good. I could never play jazz. You got to have it in you an I ain’t even close!! Was that a phone recording? The video was very clear. The audio was good too. Thanks for sharing.

You don’t know how much I appreciate your input. Thanks for all the info. Are you teaching or learning? Or both?

I am a music teacher. I was looking at Skype, zoom and MS Teams. Didn’t know which one would be best. I will look at artistworks.com too. Thanks!

Just thinking about remote music lessons / mixing lessons. Don't have a clue which apps would would help implement this business . Any and all recommendations welcome. Thanks, Max Arwood

Never look much at the fl group. I was thinking the same thing you said so that is what I’m going to do. Thanks for your opinion! Max

What is a good upgrade from there? To 2021 - ultra+ audiofile seems like a really big jump in $ Plus pack is this included in other packs? thanks, Max

max@(nospam)arwoods.com would be a nice place for someone to send one ?

Vanished after clicking update.

Yes I forgot about the psp42. It is nice and I do use it on occasion. I never bought the psp85.

My most used delays in order of most used in projects are - Waves Supertap Lexicon delay from The PCM collection I saw this at 1/2 price (it’s just a simple delay) Valhalla Delay Valhalla Supermassive Echoboy I like Timeless but it’s too complicated

The most useful for me 1) Chord track would be able to read midi and audio and figure out the chords. These could be copied to the staff view and shown on the chord track. 2) Being able to change the chord track - then the audio and midi tracks would transpose to match. 3) Everything else - Studio One is a good example of chord tracks.

Call or email MOTU they have great customer service. They might know the conflict that is going on, and have a work around.

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Thanks guys!

Pluginalliance has this - do you think it will be cheaper later? https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/adptr_streamliner.html?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Intro+Offer+Ends+Tomorrow!+⏰&utm_campaign=201114+ADPTR+Audio+Streamliner+-+Intro+Offer+Ends+Tomorrow!+A%2FB&vgo_ee=oemxLIrabrJsFRagxefnAQ%3D%3D I have been wanting thing to on sale for a while - Just never bought it. It does not seen discounted very much. Any Thoughts? Any Coupons?

Guess I missed it again - I did do a search and did not see it. Wonder why?

https://www.spectrasonics.net/products/trilian/index.php

Yes me too. Unplugging the USB cable and plugging it back in usually works for me too.