more techy stuff
So this weekend - I decided I wanted to track my CD at higher frequency rate and bit depths.
So I went out to Guitar Center (shudder) in San Francisco to get a MOTU 828mkII. I lucked out and got a parking spot right out front of the store. On Van Ness. In downtown San Francisco. On Saturday. At 3pm. I still can't believe that.
Since I'll be producing the CD on a ProTools HD system that's capable of running 24bit/96kHz - AND I'd really like to send mastering dude Joe Gastwirt 24/96 files to master - I wanted to track at those higer rates and let Joe dither the finals down in his high end studio.
Anyway. So Sat was pretty much wasted setting the whole thing up on my laptop and moving my practice space around to accomidate everything. I hate MOTU software. I'm a ProTools geek. Everything else just seems so . . . uh . . . stupid.
Sunday & Monday I spent messing around with the system, recording tracks and getting and idea about how it works.
After checking the stuff I recorded on a few different speakers I can't say I hear a dramatic difference over tracking at 24/44.1kHz. There's more low end. Or at least - it's a clearer low end. It's a tad more spacious. So I'm not totally sold on it. My Boss unit's reverbs don't record well at those rates. I had been using it's spdif out in the 24/44.1 set up and it sounded fine. But now thru the MOTU converters - the verbs in the Boss GT-6B sound grainy. So I'm going to track everything dry thru the U5 - (I'll use the Boss for my Vanity headphone mix) and I'll put the verbs back in in ProTools in post.
Oh yeah - 1 more thing. Little by little I'm getting better with the tunes. I really like these tunes and I want the performances to do them justice. So I'm not accepting marginal performances.
I'm holding out for great takes.
Comments
Writing songs you can't play or are hard to play?
This has been a life long pursuit of mine. I'm comforted to know I'm not the only one who seemingly likes to tortue oneself.
(LOL)
It's all about the journey right?
Thanks for sharing this.
Edo
Posted by: edo Castro | June 1, 2006 04:20 PM
indeed - the path. sometimes I totally loose perspective of the path.
thanks Edo!
Posted by: Jeff | June 2, 2006 08:54 AM