14 Dec
2010
14 Dec
'10
10:28 a.m.
2010/12/13 Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Raffaele Morelli
<raffaele.morelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
ah ah ah, yes of course... anyway I can't swear my mixing experience will
never cross the border :-)
I agree about unprofessionality of xruns but what
about our ears?
I trust my ears and bless them, thanks to them I can appreciate music
from
Ella to Jimi and so on... but do they betray me
when I realize I can't
recognize an xrun in a mix? How long is an xrun? Can we hear it when it
occurs only 3,4,5 times in a mix?
if you can't hear the click caused by an xrun, then you probably
should give up mixing :)
more seriously, it is possible for there to be an xrun without any
audible effect (though this is rare). the clicks that they cause are
very similar (most of the time) to those caused by sample clock sync
issues (e.g. a bad word clock cable or connector), and i don't know
anyone who would pay to work in a studio with such a configuration
(until it was fixed).
I should have been more precise. I bought a condenser mic (AKG Perception
120) to record some acoustic stuff at home.
I recorded a session - st james infirmary
blues<http://www.catastocen.apat.it/st_james_infirmary_blues.mp3>
- and used the punch in/out feature for the guitar solo and for parts the
two vocal tracks (I had a cold... and still got it)
Well, there's an xrun every time the recording starts, ie after the locator
passes the punch in marker... can you hear it? I can give you the exact
timing.
I also got other session (with the full band playing) but I deleted the xrun
markers... and now I really can't gues where they occurred
Regards
PS: destroy the mp3 after :)
PSPS: apologize in advance for the bad english in the recording :(
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