[ddots-l] Re: New member.
- From: "Dave \"Farfar\" Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:11:39 -0700
Mike,
Hey, I really appreciate your historical perspective and accomplishments
with technology over the years.
I have a brand-new Tascam 414 recorder that I grabbed while they were still
being made. It's a lot of fun for those casual sessions where you can get
the performers to use separate mikes and/or play individually while others
remain quiet. Just hard to find those 30-minute or less tapes with good
quality oxide.
But for the serious recording, I use the Sonar Producer solution.
Dave Carlson
Soon-to-be Oregonian, retired, full-time Farfar, musician, and woodworker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Tyo" <mtyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 9:41 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: New member.
Hi Edward,
Welcome to the list. I've been here for a while, and I find it to be
friendly and helpful as well.
When I first got into recording and mixing, I was manipulating old reel to
reel machines and cassette recorders patched through whatever amps and
little 4-channel mixing units that I had at the time.
My first real "production" facility was a Tascam Portastudio. <Anybody
remember those machines?> Hey - it wasn't pro audio, but it was better than
what I had. For the benefit of those who don't know, it was a 4-track
recorder/mixer that used cassette tape with type II DBX noise reduction. You
didn't have a lot of head room with it because of the fact that you used
cassette tape; quite often you'd get distorted audio even when you'd record
or bounce down tracks at a decent level.
I went from there to a Fostex 8-track reel to reel that used quarter-inch
tape with Dolby C noise reduction; that was patched into a 12-channel mixer
that I had to constantly mess around with to record and hear things back
simultaneously. Even with the tape traveling at 15 inches per second, there
were still problems with getting a decent take on a track or a bounce due to
the fact that each track was the size of one track on a cassette. There was
also the expense of calibrating and/or replacing tape heads so the damn
thing would operate correctly.
When the Alesis Adat machines came out, it was a step towards digital
recording, but you still were using tape - which was super VHS tape. You
also had the usual problems associated with the mechanics of using tape
machines. I had a slightly better mixer, but I really didn't have enough
channel to accommodate the recorder and inputs for mics or instruments.
Then I graduated to a Roland VS-880, which was an 8-track digital recorder
that used a hard drive, and it too had a built-in mixer with an optional
multi-effects board that I had installed. It wasn't a bad machine, but it
too had limitations in that it compressed the audio, so you really weren't
getting what's considered high quality audio nowadays. Another huge obstacle
with that machine was that I was running into accessibility issues -
especially when it came to editing the data and operating features beyond
the pans and sliders on the mixer. I ended up messing up more projects than
getting things done the way I wanted them.
I think I went from the fire into the frying pan when I moved up to a
stand-alone Fostex 24-track recorder and a 32-channel mixing board. The
mixer was analog, and I didn't have too many problems operating it; but the
recorder, well, here again, it was a good machine, but that old
accessibility issue reared its ugly head once more.
When I heard about Dancing Dots and its great accomplishment of developing
the CakeTalking module to allow JAWS to interact with Sonar, I had to take a
good long hard look; and I was extremely impressed with how it all worked -
and how well it worked.
The rest is history. Needless to say, I'm in awe of what I can do with this
stuff using my computer to get done what I should've been able to do all
along; and, I actually enjoy doing it! I was seriously considering not doing
this recording thing any more because of the lack of accessibility to an
awful lot of the hardware out there; but the folks at Dancing Dots saved my
rear-end - to put it bluntly.
I wish you well in getting a system that'll meet your needs; and if you run
into problems and whatnot, the people on this list along with the
well-written CakeTalking tutorials will get you up and running.
Take care.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Alonzo" <ke5kri@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "dancing dots email list" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 12:54
Subject: [ddots-l] New member.
Hello everyone:
I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Edward alonzo, and I have been
playing guitar sense the early 1980's. I recently heard a demo on cake
talking using sonar. and really liked it.
I use a roland GR-33 fx processor as well as an FX-5200 processor for my
guitars.
the roland if you don't know is like a guitar midi processor. it allows you
to be able to make multiple instruments. its pretty cool.
I am looking to get me a DAW from Dancing dots, so I can create music using
these processors, and vocals.¬
I also plan to use a midi controller to create drums for my music as I am
not a drummer, nor a keyboard player, this will take some learning on my
part as I am not familiar with how all that works.
I will have a lot of reading to do.
I am hoping to get some help from this list once I start.
Everyone take care and I would be interested to talk to those of you that
are successfully using the software to create your own productions. my
contact info will be at the bottom of this email.
thanks for reading.
Edward Alonzo
Email: ke5kri@xxxxxxxxx
Tell: 870-324-2334
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