Have I mentioned I work here? Well I work here! Life at my new job with GuitarCenter has been fantastic so far, mostly in that I get to be surrounded by music gear while I work. Simply hanging out and being around people talking about their gear, their styles, or their techniques teaches me things that would have taken me a long time to figure out alone. Also, working here gives me easy access to a lot of things I want to improve my composing/recording setup.
Primarily, I teach Voice and Recording as part of GC Studios. If you want to see me in action, you should check out my Saturday morning Recording Made Easy classes, which brings me to the topic of Pro Tools. As I’ve mentioned before, I typically use Logic for my home studio projects, and not for any particular allegiance to apple, but because I was required to use it for school. I do love Logic as it has been an incredibly useful tool in every aspect.
Back in the spring of 2011, I was searching for an internship to try and learn more over the summer months. Many studios simply didn’t have the time/money to have an extra student simply hanging around and a few actually wanted me to pay them for the opportunity. One studio rejected me because I (at the time) didn’t know Pro Tools. By the end of the summer, I had done my internship with Radiostar studios and had picked up a student edition of Pro Tools to teach myself what I could, but with the school year fast approaching, I never got into Pro Tools as deeply as I should. Admittedly, I didn’t even install it for several months.
Fast forward to a few months ago, and I was all set to start working at GuitarCenter, and I was asked to teach the Recording Made Easy class, which used (you guessed it), Pro Tools. I hadn’t used the program in ages, and so the recent months have been very interesting. Ever since I realized my predicament, I’ve used Pro Tools almost exclusively to really train myself in the program. I’ve been going through video tutorials, and thumbing through my Pro Tools 101 courseware. I’m getting pretty good at it, and I’m appreciating the way the program is designed.
This brings me to an age old question amongst audio geeks: Which DAW (digital audio workstation) is better, Pro Tools or Logic? I started writing out an in-depth review and side by side comparison, but I try to keep my blog posts shorter, a more conversational length so as not to bore all my one reader to death. So, I’ve launched a new section of the website helpfully titled, Reviews, and it does what it says on the can, its where I’ll be reviewing stuff.
I hope that with access to more technology (thanks GuitarCenter!) and with time, more experience, I’ll be able to give more professional reviews. For now, my opinions are just that, my opinions and my experience is limited. But, if that doesn’t deter you, head on over to the review section to read my dissection of why there’s so much fuss between Logic and Pro Tools. Well, not now as I haven’t finished dissecting the two side by side yet, but give it time.
So, enough about that. It’s been a while since I posted something, and I haven’t posted any dialogue specific stuff yet, so lets get to posting!
ADR is an acronym which is usually translated to Automatic Dialogue Replacement. No one knows why, or what it actually stands for, as dialogue replacement is never automatic. This is act of removing the dialogue from a certain section of film and re-recording new (usually higher quality) dialogue in its place. This is frequently done when an actor’s line isn’t picked up, or a plane flies overhead, or some other relatively small detail that made the director keep the take but need replacement dialogue.
Using the magic of recording software, one simply records new dialogue and (if necessary) time stretches it to fit with the actor’s lips. This particular project is from my Audio For Video class; we recorded the video and then replaced the actors voices with those in our groups. I had a lot of fun with this project; seeing my fellow recording student Shane speaking with a girls voice never gets old. We recorded in the electronic music studio at CSU, Chico; the script we used was intentionally vague and had been borrowed from a play, though I’m afraid to say I don’t know which one.
Primarily, I teach Voice and Recording as part of GC Studios. If you want to see me in action, you should check out my Saturday morning Recording Made Easy classes, which brings me to the topic of Pro Tools. As I’ve mentioned before, I typically use Logic for my home studio projects, and not for any particular allegiance to apple, but because I was required to use it for school. I do love Logic as it has been an incredibly useful tool in every aspect.
Back in the spring of 2011, I was searching for an internship to try and learn more over the summer months. Many studios simply didn’t have the time/money to have an extra student simply hanging around and a few actually wanted me to pay them for the opportunity. One studio rejected me because I (at the time) didn’t know Pro Tools. By the end of the summer, I had done my internship with Radiostar studios and had picked up a student edition of Pro Tools to teach myself what I could, but with the school year fast approaching, I never got into Pro Tools as deeply as I should. Admittedly, I didn’t even install it for several months.
Fast forward to a few months ago, and I was all set to start working at GuitarCenter, and I was asked to teach the Recording Made Easy class, which used (you guessed it), Pro Tools. I hadn’t used the program in ages, and so the recent months have been very interesting. Ever since I realized my predicament, I’ve used Pro Tools almost exclusively to really train myself in the program. I’ve been going through video tutorials, and thumbing through my Pro Tools 101 courseware. I’m getting pretty good at it, and I’m appreciating the way the program is designed.
This brings me to an age old question amongst audio geeks: Which DAW (digital audio workstation) is better, Pro Tools or Logic? I started writing out an in-depth review and side by side comparison, but I try to keep my blog posts shorter, a more conversational length so as not to bore all my one reader to death. So, I’ve launched a new section of the website helpfully titled, Reviews, and it does what it says on the can, its where I’ll be reviewing stuff.
I hope that with access to more technology (thanks GuitarCenter!) and with time, more experience, I’ll be able to give more professional reviews. For now, my opinions are just that, my opinions and my experience is limited. But, if that doesn’t deter you, head on over to the review section to read my dissection of why there’s so much fuss between Logic and Pro Tools. Well, not now as I haven’t finished dissecting the two side by side yet, but give it time.
So, enough about that. It’s been a while since I posted something, and I haven’t posted any dialogue specific stuff yet, so lets get to posting!
ADR is an acronym which is usually translated to Automatic Dialogue Replacement. No one knows why, or what it actually stands for, as dialogue replacement is never automatic. This is act of removing the dialogue from a certain section of film and re-recording new (usually higher quality) dialogue in its place. This is frequently done when an actor’s line isn’t picked up, or a plane flies overhead, or some other relatively small detail that made the director keep the take but need replacement dialogue.
Using the magic of recording software, one simply records new dialogue and (if necessary) time stretches it to fit with the actor’s lips. This particular project is from my Audio For Video class; we recorded the video and then replaced the actors voices with those in our groups. I had a lot of fun with this project; seeing my fellow recording student Shane speaking with a girls voice never gets old. We recorded in the electronic music studio at CSU, Chico; the script we used was intentionally vague and had been borrowed from a play, though I’m afraid to say I don’t know which one.