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Am Fre, 2003-08-22 um 11.13 schrieb Daniel James:

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> > But if you want to take advantage of Jack then you will be doing

> > more than 10 tracks pretty quickly.

>

> That reminds me of a discussion I was having with our guitarist on

> Tuesday. He said he needed 24 tracks for his solo project, so he'd

> have to hire a bigger studio because our desk is only 8 buss. I said

> if four tracks was enough for the Beatles and eight tracks enough for

> Pink Floyd, then eight inputs on the Delta 1010 would be enough for

> him. I could tell he wasn't impressed by that.

> 

I must admit, that there is some truth in that.

At the other hand: the Opportunity of using virtually as much tracks as

you want allows to work faster and to concentrate on the music itself.

I recorded an Album with my former Band on a Fostex 12-Track Tapemachine

and wanted just one Song to be stuffed with dubbed Gits, VoiceFX and

some Extrapercussion. We stopped the Project because to bounce all the

tracks to allow us to do more Overdubs took so much Time that we would

have need twice the Budget we had for the entire Album to do just one

Song.

(In the End we just "polished" a Demo of that Track that i recorded at

home using a simple Mixer and ping-ponging with 2 HIFI-VHS-Recorders...)

To have lots of tracks does not make the impossible happen, it just

helps to smoothen the Workflow.
> One of the things that really dismays me about some people who want to

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> record music is that they think you need a lot of equipment to get

> started. Like 24 inputs, or a minimum of 6 mics on a drumkit. I've

> seen some people spend all their money on a ton of kit, and then fail

> to record even one complete song. Having taken delivery of all the

> equipment and put it all together, they are faced with a creative

> brick wall when they don't know where to start.

>

That is one of the reasons, why i will not touch Steinbergs Nuendo

again. 10 minutes Recording music : 2 houres turning fancy knobs and

trying to get "the best setting".

ARDOUR appeares quite more basic and once you set up the Mixerstrips OK,

you only stop playing to light a cigarrette ;-)

> A friend of mine bought a big 16 channel Soundcraft desk to mix from

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> her keyboard and drum machine. Someone had told her that was the one

> she needed. I helped her set it up, but I think she just took one

> look at the about 200 knobs and faders and her heart was no longer in

> the project. We set up Cubase to control the keyboard, and created a

> drum and bass track. It didn't sound 'professional' like she expected

> it would with all the professional equipment around her, and I don't

> think she ever used any of it again.

>

> Cheers

>

> Daniel