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Hello SAE students and alumni

I have released a new book on Live Sound Basics. I wrote this book to help beginners and novices understand the conventional wisdom of professional live sound engineers. It's now available on Amazon. Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Sound-Basics-Volume-1/dp/1475080476/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334002560&sr=8-1

In diesem Tutorial möchte ich dir zeigen, wie man mit dem Einsatz von Ebenenstilen eine Aussparung (Ausstanzung) erreicht. Da die Einstellungen einzelner Stile jederzeit geändert werden können, hat man den Vorteil, dass man im Nachhinein sehr flexibel ist.

Ausgangspunkt ist eine neue Datei.


 

Here is a quick little tip to help those of you who sometime stuggle with "Audio Overload" messages in Apple Logic Pro. In general, reducing CPU load by using the "Freeze Track" function is a very simple and useful way of dealing with the problem, but this doesn't always work in every situation. In particular this tip is useful if one of your CPU meters is peaking while the others are only moderately loaded, or if you often get random CPU spikes. For example:

Gain Structure:
Why You Insert the Main EQ at the L-R Insert Point vs Daisy-Chaining the EQ into the Signal Path After the Console.

Does that sentence make any sense at all to you? If you want to master your Gain Structure, it should. If that statement doesn’t make sense and you mix live music on a regular basis, you need figure it out fast! Improperly routed audio signals will be degraded significantly and therefore your mix will be degraded as well. Here's why:

Have you ever missed a shortcut to open the I/O Setup or to delete selected empty tracks in Pro Tools? Here is the tip of the month for all MacOS X users:

Usually it happens that when you think of Character Designers or Animation Studios your mind goes straight to Hollywood, with no hesitation or delay, in business class, maybe with a quick detour to Weta Digital, New Zeland.

The question I get asked most often is this: "How did you learn what all those buttons do?”

How to use RTAS (Pro Tools) Plugins Inside Logic Pro

The following article describes a way of using Pro Tools RTAS plugins inside another host such as Logic Pro. "Why?" You may ask. Well, because quite simply there are some pretty cool plugins for Pro Tools that you just can't get anywhere else - one of my favourites is the Sansamp PSA-1 distortion plugin. This thing just growls on the bass :)

A quick tip on fades: