VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

[Bill]

I love the sound of the card, and I got it to work my my Avid software but the delta control panel that it uses is driving me nuts. Technically more music related than VO related, but it still relates.

I finally got around to swapping the computers around. man how I hate crawling around underdesks and untangling wires!! remind me to never do this again.

i did a quick sax recording in the office, seems not to bother the family any more than it did when I was in the garage. Space is tight, but this is the bigger, better, faster pc with the better software, so at least it's an option. Heck I didn't even connect everything on the other pc.

I upgraded the soundcard in this a while back to an M-Audio 2496 and while it sounds great, its confusing as all get out. I figured out how to hear what I was playing along with, and the sax signal going in simultaneously, but uncovered a problem that acts like the "what you hear" setting on some cheaper cards. It not only recorded the sax, but the backing tracks as well, all in the same track. ARRRGGHHH... so for now I can do either or- hear the backing track and only hear the sax thru external means, or hear the sax (actually for voice over i can switch the monitoring situation so I hear what is being recorded, so that works which is fine, unless I get a job where I have to match other tracks).

What bugs the heck out of me is this card really funky in this respect. My signal chain in here is Rode NT2>Aphex 107 pre-amp>M-Audio 2496 using Sonar/Audition/Audacity.(another issue with the latter two Audition uses the Fraunhoffer codec and sounds better than the Lame encoder in Audacity, but Audition doesn't allow for writing ID3Tags(at least that I can find) and Audacity does.

the card sounds great!, but its a software thing I think with the routing software and monitor mixer

all in all, with mowing the lawn after missing it once whiel in Disneyworld, crawling around under adn around desks, and dealing with 4 cranky kids who aren't really looking forward to heading back to school, it's been a laborius Labor Day.

[Bill]

got it sorted out.

[Deirdre]

It has been a bit of an odessey for you, it seems.
I feel more than a bit helpless since I'm not hip to the technology you're using~!

It's good to know you're settled.
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[Bill]

yeah I love living on the bleeding edge! It kinda goes with the territory, when you use hardware that purportedly doesn't work with certain software (m-audio and Avid). Its one of the reasons I didnt buy the 2496, but when I won one on a podcast, well heck its free!! But I got that to work and now figured this out, it was a bit of a can't see the forest for the trees.

in short, just in case anyone else has this issue. Ihave to have the HW 1&2 routed to the Monitor mixer and turned up so I can hear the input and the other tracks, but within the recording software there are a plethora of inputs from which to choose. Choose that actual physical input, not monitor mixer.

I do my best thinking while on my daily commute. what say you, I should be concentrating on driving? Bah!



now to get to work on a new demo.

[Hart]

[Bill]

Thanks Man, that worked like a charm.... CTRL P gotta love those shortcuts!