MOTM

Well, I'm feeling kinda excited - I ordered a Roland VS-840EX hard disk
recorder a couple of days ago. Now I'll finally have no excuses for failing
to record my "Switched On MOTM" masterpieces<g>. Up until now, I've only had
a stereo cassette deck to record on.

What are YOU using to record your MOTM?

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

Be sure to use a good compressor. I like my RNC (Really Nice Compressor).
It's
about $180 direct from the guy in Ausin that makes them (sound familiar?)

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bradley <daveb@...>
To: MOTM List <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:40 AM
Subject: [motm] OT: Recording your MOTM

>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
>Well, I'm feeling kinda excited - I ordered a Roland VS-840EX hard disk
>recorder a couple of days ago. Now I'll finally have no excuses for failing
>to record my "Switched On MOTM" masterpieces<g>. Up until now, I've only

had

>a stereo cassette deck to record on.
>
>What are YOU using to record your MOTM?
>
>Dave Bradley
>Principal Software Engineer
>Engineering Animation, Inc.
>daveb@...
>
>
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> What are YOU using to record your MOTM?

We (Coaster and friends, http://greycity.cs.uchicago.edu/ - ignore the
picture of my half naked roommate) record with an Event Electronics Gina
soundcard into Soundforge 4. The Gina has only 2 inputs and no MIDI, but
it sounds great; our Windows PC doesn't have enough horsepower to do the
mixing itself anyway, and sequencing comes from a Soundblaster AwwwwwE 32.
(That's the sound you make when you realize that you're using a
Soundblaster.) The Gina is fed by a Mackie 1202vlz, whose channel inserts
double as handy instrument preamps for processing vocals, etc. with the
MOTM system. We are perennially out of channels; my roommate has a couple
of E-mu synth modules which can mix their signal with something fed into
their aux ins, but it doesn't sound that good. Frequently we have cables
plugged into all but five or six of the jacks on the mixer.

In general we have found that computer editing systems offer better
flexibility and ease of use than the standalone digital multitrackers
we've tried. On the other hand, you can't really take them anywhere
(laptop sound chips sound terrible) and you have to have the computer, or
it gets just as expensive as any other recording setup. Plus you have to
use Windows. :(

peace,
Chris

>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
>What are YOU using to record your MOTM?
>

I generally run 1 or 2 outputs from the modular into an ART Dual MP tube
preamp (a great sounding preamp for the $'s) into an RNC (a great sounding
compressor for the $'s) then into the audio ins of a Frontier Designs ZULU
A/D box, from there to the ADAT inputs of a Korg 1212 i/o card in my mac.
Software is either Bias Deck for multitrack, Bias Peak for stereo, or
Opcode Studio Vision if I'm aslo working w/MIDI. If I'm being lazy and just
want to grab something quickly, I'll just use my Mackie 1604 as a front
end.

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Dave Trenkel : improv@... : www.peak.org/~improv/

"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
-Sun Ra
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