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todd ellis
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scott, i still have one of these in storage ... shipping will be a beeatch, though.
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Bill Campbell
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I've been using AA 1.5 for years. Hard copy CD version. Can put it on a thousand computers if you want. Nothing more solid.
The 1.5 is nice because it supports plug-ins.
Scott, its no step backwards!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| I have been to three studios that have the same reel-to-reel on display! |
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heyguido
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I grew up with those.... and I still have that splicing block. It's in the pencil cup at the back of my desk. 
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todd ellis
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my favorite 1/4" splicer -- still on my shelf for unknown reasons.
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Lee Gordon
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I'm with Don. Nothing like an EditAll splicing block.
But anyone who says doing it that way is better than digital editing is nuts!
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todd ellis
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nothing like throwing away the wrong piece of tape!
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Aw, shi+.... I put it right there.... and now, it's....
Oh... There it is.... must have brushed it with my forearm as I was....
Now.... Wonder which end goes first? 
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Jason Huggins
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| Man...I'm glad I came into this game after the creation of digital audio editing. I started recording music on ProTool LE (1) with very first mBox in 2002, and I had to battle with the analog guys then. At the time, we finally compromised and recorded to tape, then pumped it into the computer for editing. Sure glad I never had to splice tape...though I'm sure you all remember those days fondly |
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Zach Meissner
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| Jason Huggins wrote: | | It's all part of their planned obsolescence anyway! |
+1000
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cyclometh
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Scott, if you need an assist maybe I can help with a remote session. Windows 7 has a "remote assistance" function that would let me drive the desktop and do some investigatin' to see if we can get your situation sorted.
Let me know if you'd like me to take a stab at it; at the very least I wouldn't make anything worse.
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| todd ellis wrote: | nothing like throwing away the wrong piece of tape!
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Or rolling over the right one with your chair. 
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Scott Pollak
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| cyclometh wrote: | Scott, if you need an assist maybe I can help with a remote session. Windows 7 has a "remote assistance" function that would let me drive the desktop and do some investigatin' to see if we can get your situation sorted.
Let me know if you'd like me to take a stab at it; at the very least I wouldn't make anything worse. |
Corey, thanks so much for the offer. I'm going to do a Skype session with Zach tomorrow to troubleshoot, and if that doesn't work, then I'll take you up on your offer. Here's what I know with 100% certainty: It's a Windows issue, NOT Adobe. We tried installing my copy of AA on one of my wife's laptops and it installed with ease.
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Or rolling over the right one with your chair. |
LOL! So true!
Okay so since this thread is now on it's 3rd or 4th derailment, to all you noobs out there who are post-digital editing era, I started out (as many others here did) in the 70's, editing onto 1/4" open reel tape with the aforementioned splicing blocks, razor blades and don't forget those yellow or white grease pencils!
We thought we had hit the big time in the mid '80's when my production department at AT&T got an Otari 8-track (1/2") open reel deck. Talk about editing fun then!
My first exposure to digital was 1996 at a local radio station using the Arrakis TrackStar. Anyone else here ever use that? I forget how many channels it had but I WANT to say it was two... maybe four?
Then in '98, the next station I was at had purchased the Ensoniq PARIS system for a large load of cash, and no one bothered to read the instruction manual, so it sat there collecting dust. When they hired me, my first directive was "Figure out how to use this thing", which I did, and I had a BLAST with it!
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cyclometh
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No worries, Scott. If there's anything I know, it's Windows. For a time during my tenure at Microsoft I worked very closely with the Windows Client teams on bug tracking (I was in the Windows Server org, but worked on various web systems mostly). Somewhere I have a "ship-it" award for two versions of Windows- Vista and 7.
Let me know if I can help out.
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Scott Pollak
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So we're now going on a week or more that I've been 'forced' to use Cool Edit Pro thanks to the Windows update crashing my AA CS5.5.
My observations?
I'm not even going to bother going back to Audition.
Why not?
CE Pro works better.
One thing I had a real issue with in AA was getting regular digital 'hiccups' with long-form narration/audiobooks, which is the bulk of my work. I'd record a 30-minute segment of audio, then, when editing it, would run across a LOT of digital blips where I'd have to re-record small segments and drop them in.
Nary a one with CE Pro.
I personally like the layout of the CE Pro edit window better. The differences are subtle, yes, but I just think the CE Pro edit window is more user-friendly.
I also like that when I highlight a segment of audio and click "copy to new" it keeps it as a 16 bit file and NOT as a 32 bit, the way AA CS5.5 does.
It also does everything that AA CS5.5 did, that I need it to do, such as with noise reduction, time-compression, etc.
I only miss a couple of things about AA CS5.5 and they're minor:
- the floating volume control knob
- and......... uh................ uh.................. give me a minute. I'm thinking............ uh.........
I am so happy stepping back 10 years in time I have actually begun looking at a mid '90s 300ZX as a second car. yeah. Seriously. Sometimes newer isn't necessarily better.
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