I was looking at AKG's the other day. A pair of Closed back and another pair of Semi-Open backed. Cant remember the names though so ill have to find it out.

I have a pair of AKG271's and they don't sound that great. Thankfully I got them for about 40 bux cause the guy at the store screwed up my bill

I use 990's if I want better sound

They are the ones the guy tried to sell me. He showed me the K240 MKII and the K271 MKII.

What does everyone use to program drums? I have the option of trying to get my bands old drummer to track the drums on his V-Drums into cubase ( 2 stereo xlr's or i buy a midi cable ) and use either bfd or superior drummer. Or im thinking of programming the midi in Cubase myself using bfd or superior drummer.

What do you guys do?

I use superior drummer with a number of EZXs. In fact I swear by them.
I program it all by MIDI in the MIDI window of PT but when I've got my MIDI controller keyboard I'll probably use that if it's actually easier.

Whats it like programming it all in PT? It looks really damn slow doing it in Cubase but i think it may be the only way. I dont fancy spending any more cash on a pre amp/interface which takes a midi cable.

I'm used to it now so I can do it quickly whilst not sacrificing quality of results. I always ensure that all my velocities are realistic as I go through. Plus, I prefer doing it in this 'manual' fashion as I can ensure every note/hit is perfect before moving on.

I'm currently weighing up the SDX Metal Foundry, something I'll probably get if/when the price goes down a bit.

[QUOTE=benfan;18129106]Whats it like programming it all in PT? It looks really damn slow doing it in Cubase but i think it may be the only way. I dont fancy spending any more cash on a pre amp/interface which takes a midi cable.[/QUOTE]

there are midi->usb cables

My interface doesnt have a USB in. I would need to go SP/DIFF into another interface, say and FP10, and then from that firewire into my laptop. The FP10 has a MIDI in so i could set up an input bus into cubase.

but if you're triggering a midi program, that would work wouldn't it

I plug my usb keyboard (of the musical kind) into my usb port at the back of my comp

I was under the impression i had to bus it into cubase and then use something BFD as a VSTi to trigger it.


Anyone on here use Voxengo Boogex? Iv just downloaded it and im having alot of trouble getting Cubase to recognise it. Could someone help me out?

Iv got the zipped file and have tried a couple of things but have no idea how im gonna get Cubase to open it so i can use Recabinet.

use keFIR

keFIR isnt available to download anymore, i guess the site that was hosting the download broke and no-one has fixed it.

So iv copied the file with the .dll application into the VST folder in Cubase and updated my plug ins to scan for it, and it still doesnt work.

Anyone think it may be cause im running 64bit and its only optimised for 32bit OS?

Yeah I have the same problem. They never made a 64bit version. The samples will load into another convolution reverb like the Waves IR1 though...

Just about to buy Izotope Ozone 4 and maybe Alloy on top of that. It's either Alloy, or Spectron or Trash, just trying the demos now. I love Ozone though, cracking plugin

F*ck, this is hard to choose. I might have to get all 4 :-\

How easy is Ozone 4 to use? How does it affect your CPU load/Asio meters?

if you want keFIR I can upload for you

I only downloaded it like 3 months ago hard to believe you can't find it

[QUOTE=Moseph;18121456]The only time you might have issues would be if your headphones have uncommonly high impedance (which happens but you normally know about it).[/QUOTE]

I'm in the market for some new headphones to use with my podxt. I'm worried about the opposite actually. The podxt manual recommend 150-600ohm headphones, but anything under $100 seems to range from 32 ohm to 64 ohm.

[QUOTE=viciouscycle;18135657]if you want keFIR I can upload for you

I only downloaded it like 3 months ago hard to believe you can't find it[/QUOTE]

I managed to find it from a different site. Alot of the first ones the internet threw up were links to the orignial hosting site which has closed. Cheers anyway man.

Benfan:

Ozone4 is unbelievable, I love it. I think it's easy to use, they say it takes time to master (no pun intended) so I guess I'll come across things sooner or later that I'll realise would have made my previous attempts much more successful than I thought they were (if you get me, that was a **** sentence).

I would definitely recommend it, already! Along with a copy of Bob Katz - Mastering Audio, just for a casual read, cover-to-cover, it's a great book apparently, I've just started it after having it for 2 years :-\ priorities.

Nice one, id look into it but the price is abit steep to buy it now after all the other stuff iv bought this month. Iv got someone getting superior drummer on a torrent for me at the minute so i can see if its worth the money or not.

Let me know what you think to SD, I'm sure you'll like it, it's internal plugs are designed by Sonalksis and they've never put a foot wrong plug-wise. I love their stuff.

Gah, i've gotta decide what plugs to get.
I've got a one-off discounted purchase on Izotope gear,so obviously it's best to buy whatever I think I'm definitely gonna end up with from them now (within realistic financial bounds!). 4 plugs to choose from: Ozone4 (a definite), Alloy (the mix equivalent of Ozone), Spectron and Trash.

Alloy has a cool EQ, tbh I think it's better than the native PT EQ purely for the alt+click feature that solos a band centred around the cursors frequency - really helps to find annoying frequencies, better than the standard manner of finding them anyway.
Other than that, the dynamics stuff is pretty ok, probably on par with if not better than the native PT comp/limit and expand/gate plugs. The transient shaper is interesting and something that I'm actually missing, which could be helpful, although from a percussion p.o.v, I do all my drums with Superior Drummer 2.0, which features a Sonalksis transient shaper.

The Trash plug has a lot of potential for more avant-garde guitar tones, something I really want to play around with a lot. It's got quite a few cool features tbh. It made some synth leads I was working with sound much better and dirtier. I've needed a good distorted plug for a loooong time (to give some high mid presence to different things) so this is very tempting as well.

Finally, Spectron is pretty cool and could come in handy for a lot of my electroacoustic music* stuff (as Trash will) but there's nothing that stands out as amazing and I have a app called FScape which does most of the same stuff anyway.


So I'm thinkin Ozone, Alloy and Trash, but that'll be near 300£ :-\


* See [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroacoustic_music[/url]

trash is pretty legit on drums, if you haven't already tried that, you should.

Yeah I tried it on drums, bass, synths and line-in guitars. Sounded pretty fit on everything tbh, great plug.
Think I'm gonna get em all tbh, Spectron will definitely come in handy and it'd be stupid not to get it now considering the discount I can get

agreed, i love what they do to audio :)

What's the latency like on those plugs? Ozone is amazing, but there's no way you can use it in Pro Tools LE on individual tracks cause of the wtf-lag.

Just wondering if it's the same with the rest.

Latency/Delay comp. is an area where I am most naive, at the moment :o
Appallingly, I couldn't give you an educated answer, but I haven't had any experience that was incredibly lagged.

Would definitely recommend downloading the demo though, it's a full-working demo for 10 days.

more than the native digi plugs, it's not THAT big of a deal really, as long as you're not throwing on 6 plugs on here, 1 plug on there and keep it generally the same you'll be allright