New Digs
I had been recording for awhile using loops on drums until I listened to a recording engineer lay out his dealings with young kids
coming into his studio and wanting to cut every corner there was and expect a quality production for beans.
Now one of his beefs was the kids that didn't have a drummer or would not hire a drummer
and wanted to use Superior Drummer or Fruity Loops and said what's the difference.
To which he gave them the third degree that there is a huge difference.
To which I agree I have recorded with a band and with loops as well as drum machines and there is a huge difference.
So in an effort to make recordings (better) I bought a set of Pearl Roadshow drums reskinned the heads
and decked out with Zildjian S series cymbals including Master Sound hats and started recording.
The last CD I produced had about half the tracks loops and the other half live drums.
The current production is all live drum sounds and it took a little study of recording techniques and mic purchases to get a good groove but am there.
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft rolled out an update for Windows 10 and it took away my DAW.
It would open and appear to play but showed no sound and made no noise.
I contacted PreSonus with a trouble ticket and got a lukewarm response and it sent me into downloading some trial software.
With the trial software everything worked as it should. After going back and forth with PreSouns I finally figured out the issue myself,
I explained the problem and closed the ticket. It seems when Windows updated some of my VST's from (Plugin Alliance)
did not recognize the computer as being the computer they were authorized on so I had to re-authorize.
Not a big deal but it did send a panic as I am in the middle of a production.
But I did like the sound of one of the trial software and having used it before I puchased a copy of the Pro version to see if I could produce a better product in this DAW.
Mixcraft 9 Pro was a much better offering than the first Mixcraft I had which I think was like 3.
It had some killer features like Parametric EQ, 3 band EQ, cOmpression, and Drive on each channel like a console.
I was beginning to think I could move from the PreSonus Studio One to Mixcraft. Had a killer sound and production was moving along as I began to learn the layout and operatinal functions.
But then I hit the roadblock. @ 44.1 kHz the sound was awesome but as soon as you pushed it into higher sampling rates it fell flat.
@96 kHz it was unusable the internal clock could not keep up and the music sounded in slow motion.
Rather than spend a ton of time with customer service trying to get the DAW to respond to higher samples I dropped back into Studio One and it sounded as good as ever.
Even prompted me to upgrade to version 5 which I did. I also upgraded Sound Forge from 11 to 14 Pro which is now under the development of Magix as 11 was under Sony.
I have to say Magix has invested into Sound Forge good and the product is stellar.
I am just wondering where I could have gone if the Mixcraft would have matured to the point of taking on high samples (PreSonus was just introduced a few years back).
But enough of that but it does have me eyeing Cubase and ProTools neither of which are probably viable in my current set up.
But am building some snakes for recording. The DAW is in one room and the drum kit in another and need to connect the mics and not make spaghetti mess all over.

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